Garmin GPS - Crossing The Channel

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Crossing The Channel

Kevin Weller

2007-08-27, 3:33 pm

I'm sure it must be me but I can't figure out a way to persuade
Mapsource to take us over The Channel on a ferry rather than The
Tunnel.

We live just outside Dover so the ferries are just down the road but
Mapsource insists on taking us up the M20 to the trains. Even if I put
the Dover and Calais ferry terminals in as waypoints the route it plans
takes us into the Dover port, out again and up to the trains, over the
channel then into the Calais terminal.

There must be a way of telling it to use the ferry...isn't there?

(Ferries aren't on my avoid list. I checked that :)

Kevin

Edwin Pawlowski

2007-08-27, 10:33 pm

"Kevin Weller" <Spam_Not@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:VA.00000183.0babefed@nospam.invalid...
> I'm sure it must be me but I can't figure out a way to persuade
> Mapsource to take us over The Channel on a ferry rather than The
> Tunnel.
>
> We live just outside Dover so the ferries are just down the road but
> Mapsource insists on taking us up the M20 to the trains. Even if I put
> the Dover and Calais ferry terminals in as waypoints the route it plans
> takes us into the Dover port, out again and up to the trains, over the
> channel then into the Calais terminal.
>
> There must be a way of telling it to use the ferry...isn't there?
>
> (Ferries aren't on my avoid list. I checked that :)
>
> Kevin

Can you break it down to two separate trips, one to the Dover side ferry,
the other from the ferry terminal to destination?

Alan Raskin

2007-08-27, 10:33 pm

Kevin Weller wrote:
> I'm sure it must be me but I can't figure out a way to persuade
> Mapsource to take us over The Channel on a ferry rather than The
> Tunnel.
>
> We live just outside Dover so the ferries are just down the road but
> Mapsource insists on taking us up the M20 to the trains. Even if I put
> the Dover and Calais ferry terminals in as waypoints the route it plans
> takes us into the Dover port, out again and up to the trains, over the
> channel then into the Calais terminal.
>
> There must be a way of telling it to use the ferry...isn't there?
>
> (Ferries aren't on my avoid list. I checked that :)
>
> Kevin
>

Strange. I asked for a Paris-to-London route with MapSource 6.10.2 and
MetroGuide Europe 8, and it used the Dover-Calais ferry without any
prompting. Same for Dover-to-Paris. My Auto-Routing settings are:
Car/Motorcycle, Avoid U-Turns and Carpool Lanes, Faster Time, No Road
Preference.

- Alan

Earl J

2007-08-27, 10:33 pm

I had the same problem with my 60CSx here in Puget Sound, WA. USA. It
refused to take a ferry unless that was the only option. Customer service
told me to try putting a waypoint halfway between the two towns on the ferry
route. I tried that and it then wanted the ferry to turn around at that
waypoint and go back to the overland route. After a lot of experimentation I
found that if I go directly to my waypoint on the ferry route without
putting the town the ferry leaves from on the route it works, here at
least. Don't know how the Nuvi works but if your can do that it's worth a
try.
"Kevin Weller" <Spam_Not@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:VA.00000183.0babefed@nospam.invalid...
> I'm sure it must be me but I can't figure out a way to persuade
> Mapsource to take us over The Channel on a ferry rather than The
> Tunnel.
>
> We live just outside Dover so the ferries are just down the road but
> Mapsource insists on taking us up the M20 to the trains. Even if I put
> the Dover and Calais ferry terminals in as waypoints the route it plans
> takes us into the Dover port, out again and up to the trains, over the
> channel then into the Calais terminal.
>
> There must be a way of telling it to use the ferry...isn't there?
>
> (Ferries aren't on my avoid list. I checked that :)
>
> Kevin
>

Kevin Weller

2007-08-28, 4:33 am

Hi Edwin,

In article <_TIAi.379$Sd4.176@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com>, Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> Can you break it down to two separate trips, one to the Dover side ferry,_
> the other from the ferry terminal to destination?_

That may work (although I don't need the route UK-side as it's only three
miles) so thanks for the suggestion but, as you'll see from my response to
Earl, his suggestion resolved it.

This route seems to be completely screwed-up on my Mapsource as starting any
continental route using the Garmin-supplied waypoints for the Calais ferry
terminal results in crossing back over the channel on the ferry then back
again on the train! Someone suggested this was because both the Garmin
waypoints for this terminal are on the exit-to-UK side of the dock.

Ah well, I do now have a solution.

Kevin

Kevin Weller

2007-08-28, 4:33 am

In article < 4cednQpj0edc8E7bnZ2d
nUVZ_o6knZ2d@comcast
.com>, Earl J wrote:
> After a lot of experimentation I_
> found that if I go directly to my waypoint on the ferry route without_
> putting _the town the ferry leaves from on the route it works, here at_
> least

Thanks Earl, that sorted it for me. I put a point halfway on the
Dover-Calais ferry crossing route and Mapsource obligingly plotted a
route using the ferry :).

Kevin

Kevin Weller

2007-08-28, 4:33 am

Hi Alan,

In article <21KAi.257491$5y.171668@newsfe18.lga>, Alan Raskin wrote:
> Strange. I asked for a Paris-to-London route with MapSource 6.10.2 and
> MetroGuide Europe 8, and it used the Dover-Calais ferry without any
> prompting. Same for Dover-to-Paris. My Auto-Routing settings are:
> Car/Motorcycle, Avoid U-Turns and Carpool Lanes, Faster Time, No Road
> Preference.

My preferences are the same (I assume by "no road preferences" you have
the slider at midpoint?) but using the first Paris and London waypoints
on my Mapsource 6.13.1 as the route starting and end points results in a
Channel Tunnel crossing on the suggested route.

Kevin

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