Re: 60CSx - Routing problem?

kyot wrote:
You make some good points.
I'm holding out for it being a bug - maybe I'm an optimist.

For yet another example of why there is a difference: As you say, the
60CSx can't define regions to be avoided, as you can in mapsource - so
a (re)calculated route on the device wont necessarily be the same.
Then there is the routing tool - the result of auto-routing with 2 or
several waypoints or using the routing tool is that there are a pile of
directions generated. Why not send these to the unit?

I agree that this function could be programed into the software. But, then you would eventually have a ton of additional waypoints in your GPSR - some of which might be associated with other routes on points of interest. I would want a way to delete all those Mapsource generated waypoints, and only those points specific to the deleted route and nothing else. I can see some serious issues with designing this into the GPSR.

And then there is the fact to folks share routes over the net - which
may have no waypoints defined at all! These cannot be used on the CSx
at all, no way.

sure, you can't have it all ways... but what we're looking at is not
really such a big deal. Transfer the directions information from
mapsource to the device. As happens, for example, on the Quest (which
in every almost every other way is identical to the 60CSx so far as
road routing and navigation is concerned give or take City Select /
Navigator etc).

Indeed, the CSx is more complicated, so far as road navigation is
concerned. It does POIs - which garmin say they can't engineer into the
Quest...

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