Can't get home!

[pikov]

I can navigate from HOME to anywhere but when I return, TT1 dumps me at the front gate of my community!!

How come?

Thanks.

 

[cgigate]

then, walk to home!

 

[Trey]

While sitting in your driveway mark that spot as "Home" using "current GPS position" under the set up for your home location.

When I used my street address it was about 5 houses off....

 

[digital-flex]

Are you using your address?

Trey is right, use the gps location as it is more accurate.

 

[pikov]

Thanks for the suggestions.

1) I could walk home from the gate but then I'd have to rely on my memory to get me there!!

2) I don't think it's a matter of locating HOME. When I start out, it shows HOME pretty accurately and then navigates me through two turns and about 0.5 miles to get to the gate when I leave.

But on the way home, it stops at the gate.

Do you think it somehow knows about the gate????

 

[thaJack]

When I set my home by address, it puts it in front of the house. We are on a corner and I don't always come that way home. So I changed it to use the GPS position at the end of my driveway as home as opposed to the actual address. Worked a treat.

 

[cgigate]

the map sometime is not accurate! (I input my home address, it is 200m away).
so using "browser the map" feature, add the real location of your gate to your favorite, next time , you will never forget your home again!

 

[Trey]

2) I don't think it's a matter of locating HOME. When I start out, it shows HOME pretty accurately and then navigates me through two turns and about 0.5 miles to get to the gate when I leave.

Do the roads show as a dotted line in your neighborhood? Sometimes mine won't navigate me through "private" roads like at the Air Force Base until I actually get on the roads. Maybe on the map they are private roads or something similar is happening......

 

[pikov]

Do the roads show as a dotted line in your neighborhood? Sometimes mine won't navigate me through "private" roads like at the Air Force Base until I actually get on the roads. Maybe on the map they are private roads or something similar is happening......

Maybe that's it. Because we aregated, the roads might be considered to be private.

However, it knows the roads -- it shows them as I pass through the gate and it knows where my HOME is -- so its behavior is somewhat weird!

 

[Pedro2NR]

pikov, did cgigate's suggestion work?

 

[The Spook]

Do you think it somehow knows about the gate????

Yes. Well, it knows that the road beyond that is a private road (that's why you have a gate right? to keep out members of the public). Private roads are marked as closed to public traffic (because they are), hence it will not be able to navigate you to a destination on a private road. It gets as close as it can (the gate) on the public road.

the map sometime is not accurate! (I input my home address, it is 200m away).

This has been discussed ad infinitum. In your case, the map is accurate, it just does not contain your house number. If you input your house address (which is not an accurate locational reference), you get guided to the house number range (beginning or end) for that address. The basic problem is postal addresses. They are designed only as an aid for postal delivery, they are not, and never will be, accurate.

This is why (thank Ra) the army don't use postal addresses to guide precision munitions to their targets! If you want accuracy, you need coordinates. If you want a imprecision and vagueness, use a postal address!!

 

[pikov]

pikov, did cgigate's suggestion work?

Which one, to walk home from the gate?

I don't think he understands what I was asking.

 

[pikov]

Yes. Well, it knows that the road beyond that is a private road (that's why you have a gate right? to keep out members of the public). Private roads are marked as closed to public traffic (because they are), hence it will not be able to navigate you to a destination on a private road. It gets as close as it can (the gate) on the public road.

On the other hand, since I programmed the location of HOME, and I requested that it plan a route to HOME, it should accept that I can get past the gate.

Visitors to my home using a TT would program a route to my address and that would differentiate them from me.

So what if TT gave the route on private roads it knows about? If you can't get past the gate, you can't get there. However, if you can get past the gate, it should navigate you to your final destination, no matter who you are.

 

[pikov]

the map sometime is not accurate! (I input my home address, it is 200m away).
so using "browser the map" feature, add the real location of your gate to your favorite, next time , you will never forget your home again!

I used "Change HOME Location" and "point on map" -- I didn't see "browse the map" -- but I don't now how to move that point around.

And it's not forgetting my home. Where did you get that idea?