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Garmin Etrex Legend CX Routing Problem.
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| ben99s@gmail.com 2007-02-23, 4:33 am |
| I bought an Etrex Legend Cx last week on the recommendation of many
people. I like the unit except for one problem.....Navigation.
It works great on the highway, but not so much on normal roads.
Whenever i try navigating in the city it just tells me to "Go
<direction> to interstate whatever", then arrive at destination.
I have the city maps loaded and it can see what street i'm on and
what
streets are coming up. I have tried reloading the maps, still no
luck.
I'm hoping I just have something setup incorrectly. Any help is
appreciated. Going to try using this for geocaching once i do some
research.
Thanks!
Ben.
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| ben99s@gmail.com wrote:
> I bought an Etrex Legend Cx last week on the recommendation of many
> people. I like the unit except for one problem.....Navigation.
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> It works great on the highway, but not so much on normal roads.
> Whenever i try navigating in the city it just tells me to "Go
> <direction> to interstate whatever", then arrive at destination.
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> I have the city maps loaded and it can see what street i'm on and
> what
> streets are coming up. I have tried reloading the maps, still no
> luck
It would help to know exactly which "city maps" you have loaded. The
proper ones to use to have the auto-routing feature are the
CityNavigator ones (current version is 8 in the US/Canada and 9 in
Europe). If instead you have the current MetroGuide maps (for either
N. America or Europe) then they aren't designed to support auto-
routing on your GPS and therefore it's just using the coarse basemap
instead of directing you on appropriate city streets.
If you do a Google search you should be able to find work-arounds for
loading the MetroGuide maps in a way that will enable auto-routing,
but exchanging them for the CityNavigator product would be preferable
if that's an option for you.
If you already are using CityNavigator maps, then make sure the little
box is checked to 'include routing data' when you download the maps to
your GPS.
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| ben99s@gmail.com 2007-02-23, 7:33 am |
| Thanks. Yes, i had metroguide loaded
On Feb 23, 2:23 am, "peter" <prath...@comcast.net> wrote:
> ben...@gmail.com wrote:
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> It would help to know exactly which "city maps" you have loaded. The
> proper ones to use to have the auto-routing feature are the
> CityNavigator ones (current version is 8 in the US/Canada and 9 in
> Europe). If instead you have the current MetroGuide maps (for either
> N. America or Europe) then they aren't designed to support auto-
> routing on your GPS and therefore it's just using the coarse basemap
> instead of directing you on appropriate city streets.
>
> If you do a Google search you should be able to find work-arounds for
> loading the MetroGuide maps in a way that will enable auto-routing,
> but exchanging them for the CityNavigator product would be preferable
> if that's an option for you.
>
> If you already are using CityNavigator maps, then make sure the little
> box is checked to 'include routing data' when you download the maps to
> your GPS.
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| ben99s@gmail.com 2007-02-24, 12:33 pm |
| If anyone is interested....do a google search on metrowizzz
On Feb 23, 7:57 am, ben...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks. Yes, i had metroguide loaded
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