GPS Help: Not routing correctly
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GPS Help: Not routing correctly
I used the HD Ride Planner for a trip to the Texas Hill Country yesterday. I had no problem saving the trip and importing the file to the GPS system.
I checked avoid highways and moved/dragged the road once which I believe created one way point between the start and destination. When I got on the road, the GPS wants to take me to the highway. I always carry a map and was able to make my destination yesterday. Is there any reason why the GPS is not following my saved Ride Planner trip?
In addition, I am only seeing one white dot on the Ride Planner map between the start and destination.
I checked avoid highways and moved/dragged the road once which I believe created one way point between the start and destination. When I got on the road, the GPS wants to take me to the highway. I always carry a map and was able to make my destination yesterday. Is there any reason why the GPS is not following my saved Ride Planner trip?
In addition, I am only seeing one white dot on the Ride Planner map between the start and destination.
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It's mainly for those that like touring various MoCo dealerships by interstate or four lane divided U S highways. I use google maps on my cell phone when need be. Otherwise I rely on a printed map
I used the HD Ride Planner for a trip to the Texas Hill Country yesterday. I had no problem saving the trip and importing the file to the GPS system.
I checked avoid highways and moved/dragged the road once which I believe created one way point between the start and destination. When I got on the road, the GPS wants to take me to the highway. I always carry a map and was able to make my destination yesterday. Is there any reason why the GPS is not following my saved Ride Planner trip?
In addition, I am only seeing one white dot on the Ride Planner map between the start and destination.
I checked avoid highways and moved/dragged the road once which I believe created one way point between the start and destination. When I got on the road, the GPS wants to take me to the highway. I always carry a map and was able to make my destination yesterday. Is there any reason why the GPS is not following my saved Ride Planner trip?
In addition, I am only seeing one white dot on the Ride Planner map between the start and destination.
What a cool feature would be in the 6.5 HD Bike GPS was a route preview/ride, so you can confirm that your route modifications were accounted for on the export/import. I know you can see an overview if you back the bikes GPS map view to the neg and widen out to see the route.
I will do a quick test and see if the WP's are even being recognized from the HD RP.
Back in a few with my findings.
Ok I just did the test...
I had a point A to point B. The HD RidePlanner for this route chose to take the toll road between these 2 points, so I used 2 waypoint to take another straight route on a hwy instead.
I then saved the ride to my Desktop. Called it Test1.GPX. Copied that to my USB drive.
Turned on 6.5, went to the import screen, select the file you just created, it shows me a list; the route name trip and of course my starting place and ending place, so three things in the list.
Select the route ONLY, and import.
Now you go to your destination set on the Nav system, where to, more, select trips - you will then be shown another list which has start, Point A, waypoint1, waypoint2, Point B...
SELECT START - and it will calculate the route with your waypoints.
My GPS settings were: avoid/use hwys, avoid/use tolls, fastest, shortest, scenic, etc. - I tried them all.
But my map held true to the route designed using my 2 waypoints to change the course it would try and do by default.
I think what most people make the mistake is when after you select the "trips" button, which then takes you to where your stored routes are, and you select your trip, some have selected the last end point and then set as new destination so the bike's GPS is just calculating to that final destination on it's own thereby ignoring your entire route.
So make sure you use the start button and it should work.
Also at this point where you see the start button and the list of places, you can verify right then and there if your waypoints are in that route. Just make sure you scroll back to the start button and select start. :-)
HTH
I had a point A to point B. The HD RidePlanner for this route chose to take the toll road between these 2 points, so I used 2 waypoint to take another straight route on a hwy instead.
I then saved the ride to my Desktop. Called it Test1.GPX. Copied that to my USB drive.
Turned on 6.5, went to the import screen, select the file you just created, it shows me a list; the route name trip and of course my starting place and ending place, so three things in the list.
Select the route ONLY, and import.
Now you go to your destination set on the Nav system, where to, more, select trips - you will then be shown another list which has start, Point A, waypoint1, waypoint2, Point B...
SELECT START - and it will calculate the route with your waypoints.
My GPS settings were: avoid/use hwys, avoid/use tolls, fastest, shortest, scenic, etc. - I tried them all.
But my map held true to the route designed using my 2 waypoints to change the course it would try and do by default.
I think what most people make the mistake is when after you select the "trips" button, which then takes you to where your stored routes are, and you select your trip, some have selected the last end point and then set as new destination so the bike's GPS is just calculating to that final destination on it's own thereby ignoring your entire route.
So make sure you use the start button and it should work.
Also at this point where you see the start button and the list of places, you can verify right then and there if your waypoints are in that route. Just make sure you scroll back to the start button and select start. :-)
HTH
Last edited by ChristoHD; Apr 5, 2014 at 02:54 AM.
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I think what most people make the mistake of is when after you select the "trips" button, which then takes you to where your stored routes are, and you select your trip, some have selected the end point B and then set as new destination so the bike's GPS is just calculating to that final destination on it's own thereby ignoring your entire route.
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FWI, according to a very reliable source, the 9 waypoint limit and a few other things (don't want to spoil the suprise) will be updated in the near future. As with just about any software/firmware on the planet Earth, never fully functional out of the gate....takes revisions to get it to mature. Show m3 any software that stay at version 1.0/build 1
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Bingo...as I forgot to do this very thing some time ago....
FWI, according to a very reliable source, the 9 waypoint limit and a few other things (don't want to spoil the suprise) will be updated in the near future. As with just about any software/firmware on the planet Earth, never fully functional out of the gate....takes revisions to get it to mature. Show m3 any software that stay at version 1.0/build 1
FWI, according to a very reliable source, the 9 waypoint limit and a few other things (don't want to spoil the suprise) will be updated in the near future. As with just about any software/firmware on the planet Earth, never fully functional out of the gate....takes revisions to get it to mature. Show m3 any software that stay at version 1.0/build 1
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