Fastest route? I don't think so.....

[k24a]

Hi everyone,

I've been playing around with my Tomtom since I bought it yesterday. For the most part, I'm quite happy with it. It usually gives me the fastest route or the most logical route within the city. However, I was testing a route out to Vancouver, BC from Calgary, Alberta, and it says that the quickest route would take 16 hrs. I drive it every year and it takes 10 hrs at the most. The Tomtom route heads north for 5 hours then comes south. I did a test on Google map, and it maps it perfectly.

Does anyone else have this problem, with the TT not always plotting the route correctly? What happens if I map a route where I've never been to? Should I trust that the TT plots the quickest and most logical route?

Thanks.

 

[Nextourer]

Did you try "Find Alternative"?

 

[k24a]

Alternative....

Yes, I've tried many times but it comes up with barely any effect.

Any ideas? I don't want to bother setting my own waypoints, that's why I bought the TT so I would have to figure out my own routes....

Thanks.

 

[huygens21]

I have the same problem with my 720. My feeling is that it is a software bug that will get fixed soon.

I was using it a few hours ago and the TT 720 said it would take 55 minutes to travel 28 miles on a straight stretch of highway marked as 55 MPH. I have seen this on several other occasions as well.

 

[Nextourer]

hmmm... he's right. I used my ONE and did a route from downtown Calgary to downtown Vancouver. For some reason, it takes us up north to nearly Jasper before heading back down and it takes 16:58 hours and 1206km according to my ONE.

 

[jimj]

I have used the Travel Via icon to good results on a 2200 mike round trip this past week to make returning a different route. Worked great and only surprise was a Shell alert that startled me when I wasn't expecting it.

 

[46jimbo]

I just tried plotting the Calgary-Vancouver route on my v6.50 map and it's done correctly - 972 km.

 

[Nextourer]

I just tried plotting the Calgary-Vancouver route on my v6.50 map and it's done correctly - 972 km.

lol.. and I just switched to v665 NA.. great.

 

[s2ksimon]

this may be a stupid question/comment but coming from a garmin 2610, i've experienced your similar situation. Why am I chiming in here ? Because I am going to be picking up a GO 720 in few short weeks.

From PC:
to get around it , I create my "personal route" from point A to B, chart the waypoints and drag all the lines and let the software create it and give it a name. I then upload the route to my garmin et voila.

From Garmin:
Menu > Routes > choose the route I created and Go To
It normally starts routing to my specific created route.

So are you saying , I won't have this ability with the TomTom ?

 

[lec510]

Hi S2K.
Use Tyre/Google Earth to do that for TomTom.

 

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Are you saying I can plan out a route in Google maps and then load that route into the TomTom? That's great! How do you do it?

 

[digital-flex]

Are you saying I can plan out a route in Google maps and then load that route into the TomTom? That's great! How do you do it?

Well Tyre uses Google Earth, if you want to use Google maps you can use this - http://houghi.org/tomtom/

 

[JimT]

Hi everyone,

I've been playing around with my Tomtom since I bought it yesterday. For the most part, I'm quite happy with it. It usually gives me the fastest route or the most logical route within the city. However, I was testing a route out to Vancouver, BC from Calgary, Alberta, and it says that the quickest route would take 16 hrs. I drive it every year and it takes 10 hrs at the most. The Tomtom route heads north for 5 hours then comes south. I did a test on Google map, and it maps it perfectly.

Does anyone else have this problem, with the TT not always plotting the route correctly? What happens if I map a route where I've never been to? Should I trust that the TT plots the quickest and most logical route?

Thanks.

I do not take the routes seriously as far as the amount of time predicyed to cover a route. They are using speed limits set for the road-yeah, sure. It also is detemined whether you pick the fastest route or the shortest route. The fastest is not always the shortest. I took a trip one time which I thought I knew the fastest way. My 510 said to go a different way- which I did. It knocked about an hour off of the trip beacuse I missed the usual traffic. If you go the way that you know-as I have in the past- the TT will redirect you correctly.