Re: Etrex Vista Route Navigation question

From: Alan Adrian (ara___at_SPAMNOT.wanadoo.nl)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:27:28 +0200

Tim Pentreath wrote:

> Is there an easy way of telling it to navigate to the next waypoint
> when you've gone close to the previous waypoint, but not actually over
> the top of it! For instance, this morning I navigated around a route
> which I'd set up for a new cross country run. Even when I went within
> 100' of a waypoint it didn't switch to the next wp, it told me to head
> back! Is there a setting to say how close you have to be to a wp
> before it decides you've been there, or can you easily tell it to goto
> the next one?

Dunno how much you've messed with it, but in my experience, generaly it will
do as you ask... after a delay of a few seconds to half a minute, it will
decide to navigate you to the next waypoint...

But sometimes mine has gotten "wierd" and been insistant on going the wrong
way on the route, or something like what you describe... But it was the
exception rather than the norm for me. I'm quite positive that it was not
operator error on most of the times it was wierd... and stopping navigation,
then restarting it would set it straight.

Al...

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