08-30-2018, 02:58 PM | #1 |
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GPS Help!
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. Joe |
08-30-2018, 03:19 PM | #2 |
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Re: GPS Help!
Go to settings : navigation : avoidances : select highways
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08-30-2018, 03:20 PM | #3 |
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Re: GPS Help!
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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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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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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08-30-2018, 03:29 PM | #6 |
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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. |
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! |
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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08-30-2018, 10:57 PM | #9 |
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Re: GPS Help!
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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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. Tom Endy |
08-31-2018, 10:30 AM | #11 | |
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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? |
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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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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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. |
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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09-01-2018, 12:48 PM | #17 |
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Make sure there is a tick next to the maps on a Garmin
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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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