Re: 60CSx - Routing problem?



Phil Wheeler wrote:
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.


This clearly is the difference. Garmin, probably for marketing reasons rather than technical ones, has chosen to limit the capability of this unit to only using autoroute calculations that are done on the unit itself. Perhaps, with the other features, they were tight on rom space but there is no other technical reason for it. The is a handheld and Garmin likely didn't want it to compete to closely to the car units. In addition they are likely trying to preserve the differentiation of routing done on a PC with mapsource using metroguide with routing using city navigator on the device itself. For whatever reason it is the way they designed it.

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

Exactly true

Dale

Phil

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