Re: 60CSx - Routing problem?

kyot wrote:
Sure, if a route was just made out of joined up waypoints it would be
hell!
But that is not how it works... and this is the whole point.
A route calculated (or designed) in MapSource or the device are made up
of directions between waypoints.
You don't see these except either in the Directions tab in mapsource
(see the pics in my blog post above) or the navigation pop-ups that
appear when you're riding/driving along.
That is what road route is and they are deleted when the rout goes.
There's no software complexity.
There is, however, a storage issue - maybe there isn't enough internal
storage on the 60CSx?... Hummm, interesting; clearly Garmin aren't
quite in control of the flash card file system yet (given the firmware
upgrades) maybe they'll implement this properly and store the routes to
the card... that would be really great!


Intesting concept .. but not the way it appears to be designed.

And designing it differently than you would is not a "bug".

Phil
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