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Old 08-30-2018, 02:58 PM   #1
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I understand this is really not Model A related although I use my Garmin ONLY in my Model A. I have a Garmin Drive Smart 61 and am unable to plan any of our trips as the Garmin wants me to take the shortest, most direct route which includes driving on Interstate roads. I would prefer using secondary roads to such places as the upcoming New England Meet at Lake George.

Can someone explain how to make this route happen on the Garmin?

Thanks for your time and any help that might be forthcoming.
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Old 08-30-2018, 03:19 PM   #2
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Go to settings : navigation : avoidances : select highways
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Old 08-30-2018, 03:20 PM   #3
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there should be a page where you can select the route you want. try settings and see. i think you can select what you want to avoid. mine works pretty good that way. I avoid freeways.
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Old 08-30-2018, 03:23 PM   #4
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I would use their planning software.
But here is a video on how to change the avoidances.
Just check the highway option

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ-8cFXqeRA
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Old 08-30-2018, 03:26 PM   #5
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Google Maps also has this feature. I use it on my phone all the time.
You could plan it all from your desktop, print the directions as a good back up.
https://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Highwa...aps-on-Android
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Old 08-30-2018, 03:29 PM   #6
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Joe, as mentioned above, there are a couple of options for you. As mentioned, go to the Navigation setting and look under preferences, ...more specifically Avoidances and Custom Avoidances. You want to avoid Toll Roads, Freeways, etc. along with specialized ones in Custom Avoidances.


Also, if you know the route you want to take, begin by routing the roads you wish to take and then saving them to a GPX file which is done with their Trip Planner app. I use BaseCamp when planning Model-T tours. Hope this gets you started.
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Old 08-30-2018, 05:39 PM   #7
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Thanks to ALL Sure am excited about all this info I didn't know anything about!!
Will be working on it right after dinner, because I work better on a full stomach!
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Old 08-30-2018, 06:05 PM   #8
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Thought Model A’s had map pockets on the door panels.
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Old 08-30-2018, 10:57 PM   #9
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Bought a Garmin and asked grandson to set it up. Later I threw it into the glove box on the car. Two or three years went by and I tried to put in an address. No go, no maps. Hooked it up to my computer and it tells me it doesn't have the maps loaded and that I had 90 days to get that done. GS is on active duty, where do I go from here? I plan on taking some trips this fall and would like to have it working.
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Old 08-30-2018, 11:14 PM   #10
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One of the neat things about a GPS is they are a valuable tool to be used on a long distance club tour. Every town in the US has a number of McDonald's in the community. The tour leader can look up on the internet a McDonald's in each city they pass through and make a note of its address.


When organizing the tour a sheet should be passed out to the tour members with the address of each McDonald's in the cities they intend to reorganize in and have a pit stop.


Each member of the tour only has to plug in these addresses in their GPS to allow then to easily hook up at the designated pit stops.


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Old 08-31-2018, 10:30 AM   #11
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Bought a Garmin and asked grandson to set it up. Later I threw it into the glove box on the car. Two or three years went by and I tried to put in an address. No go, no maps. Hooked it up to my computer and it tells me it doesn't have the maps loaded and that I had 90 days to get that done. GS is on active duty, where do I go from here? I plan on taking some trips this fall and would like to have it working.
I log into Garmin Express https://www.garmin.com/en-US/software/express on my computer for map updates. My Garmin has lifetime maps and traffic.
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Old 08-31-2018, 11:06 AM   #12
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How do you get off The Cape without going on a major highway?

Use the tunnel?
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Old 08-31-2018, 11:20 AM   #13
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Traffic is usually moving across the bourne bridge slow enough that I wouldn't think it would be an issue...
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Old 08-31-2018, 11:21 PM   #14
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Y-Blockhead. thanks, I'll give that a shot tomorrow. I thought these things came with USA maps in them when purchased but evidently I was supposed to load maps into it within the first 90 days. I'll try the site you sent and then whine to whoever will listen. Not many real people out there on most of the site I try. Yet sometimes the help is amazinly simple yet thorough. Apple comes to mind.
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Old 09-01-2018, 12:43 AM   #15
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I bought a used AMCOR GPS, and the dumb thing came with a map of some foreign country instead of the U.S.
I hope I can change it to a U.S. map, but I don't know how.
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Old 09-01-2018, 08:46 AM   #16
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All kidding aside, I volunteer in a USFS book store and never fail to be amazed at the number of maps and atlas’ we sell. If you’re in down town Durango and plug my address into a GPS, it will route you two and a half miles out of your way so you go past a ConocoPhillips station. For the past week, several small Ford vans with all kinds of gadgets on the roof and decals saying Apple Mapping.
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Old 09-01-2018, 12:48 PM   #17
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Make sure there is a tick next to the maps on a Garmin

https://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutoria...rmin-gps/#nuvi
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Old 09-02-2018, 04:40 PM   #18
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I use GPS too. A Gasguage Posted Stickynote. Seems to allow me to plan ant route I want. (I’m a brat, sorry)
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