how to avoid a problematic road in the route?

[chinna_n]

Hi Guys,

 

As I mentioned in other threads, the Blue-tooth freezing episodes are gone after the Europe firmware updates( or with new US firmware updates), and I started "NOT TO HATE" this unit.

 

Few times I tried to use Navigation, I am having problems in getting into show the correct route or rather avoid specific route.

 

Example, I am trying to go a specific place, which has some local roads, 405 Hwy, then I-90 HWY, I-80, then I-82 etc and some local roads. I know 405 has some closures, and want to avoid only 405 because of some construction going on and get on to I-90 using local roads.

 

The options I only see are avoid Highways, Toll-roads, ferrys etc, and there is no options anywhere to route review( turn by turn route review) to unselect specific portion of route to avoid, which is there on my 2-3 years Omnitech, as well Garmin I used.

 

I can not simply avoid HWYs, as I would not be driving 500miles trip without HWYs, and how do we solve this problem?

IMHO it very lame that basic route editing is not there, and any work around would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

[VBLUE42]

Unfortunately you cant edit any route parameters unless you replan the route and select an alternate route.

[chinna_n]

Unfortunately you cant edit any route parameters unless you replan the route and select an alternate route.

 

How do I select an alternative route?

 

This problem is not just for highways, even for local roads routing. You know specific road is closed, but you may not know the alternative route to go around it, and this Nav can not do anything for it.

 

This is basic requirements, and I think this is lamest attempt by Pioneer.

[VBLUE42]

The map shortcut button on the right side of the screen has a route info button on it. Here you can select OPTIONS, select ROUTE CONDITIONS, change the setting here and it will give you the option to select MULTIPLE ROUTES. The reason the, "avoid road" is not a feature in most nav systems is because usually if your using a nav system you probably don't know how to get where your going. If you don't know how to get where your going, what good is a feature to avoid a road if you don't know what other road to take sense you don't know how to get where your going in the first place. It would probably be a useful feature at times but you cant have it all. No navi has all the features a person could dream up. All you have to do if you want to avoid a road is deviate from the route and the navi will re-route for you. Seriously, its really not that hard.

[AVIC-U310BT]

Few times I tried to use Navigation, I am having problems in getting into show the correct route or rather avoid specific route.

 

Hi chinna_n. I have two potential workarounds for you.

 

If I just want to avoid a small segment of a road (where there's a detour), what I do is set a waypoint along the detour route (accept the route and then you can add one or more waypoint by going to the menu again). Admittedly it's a chore to set every time, but at least you can add to "favorites" the spot along your detour route -- that makes it somewhat easier to just set the waypoint every time. It's crude, but it works well enough for avoiding a small stretch of road.

 

For avoiding a single road entirely, you might want to try something different. If you are avoiding a stretch of highway, one thing I have done that works is to turn on "avoid highways," let it recalculate my route, and follow that until I got past the area I wanted to detour, and then switched back to "allow highways." This worked really well in my situation; don't know if it will help in yours, but I hope so.

 

As I see it, a poential problem with VBLUE42's suggestion is that more often than not the navi just tells you to turn around and get back on the road you are taking a detour from, at least until you are far enough away, rendering the navi not terribly useful. Although it is a good option if you have a general idea of the route you'll be taking and what the best detour is.

[chinna_n]

Few times I tried to use Navigation, I am having problems in getting into show the correct route or rather avoid specific route.

 

Hi chinna_n. I have two potential workarounds for you.

 

If I just want to avoid a small segment of a road (where there's a detour), what I do is set a waypoint along the detour route (accept the route and then you can add one or more waypoint by going to the menu again). Admittedly it's a chore to set every time, but at least you can add to "favorites" the spot along your detour route -- that makes it somewhat easier to just set the waypoint every time. It's crude, but it works well enough for avoiding a small stretch of road.

 

For avoiding a single road entirely, you might want to try something different. If you are avoiding a stretch of highway, one thing I have done that works is to turn on "avoid highways," let it recalculate my route, and follow that until I got past the area I wanted to detour, and then switched back to "allow highways." This worked really well in my situation; don't know if it will help in yours, but I hope so.

 

As I see it, a poential problem with VBLUE42's suggestion is that more often than not the navi just tells you to turn around and get back on the road you are taking a detour from, at least until you are far enough away, rendering the navi not terribly useful. Although it is a good option if you have a general idea of the route you'll be taking and what the best detour is.

 

I thought about your suggestion, and also VBLUE42's suggestion. Yes I see the problem with VBLUE42's suggestion as you said.

 

Setting a way point is an option if you know the area reasonably. Actually I faced this problem 3 times recently, once I was driving back from friends home weekend night and one of the road was closed that weekend night for some construction work, so did a route review I did not see any options( all local roads), I thought I will take detour(some other unknown roads) and GPS will correct me. Yes, it kept correcting me to back to same road, I ignored and ended up in a dead-end after 2 miles. So I drove back 8 miles, and took known longer route, which total added 20 miles for local trip. May be I should have parked somewhere, and started browsing map to find an alternative route there. I find alternative route in google maps next days when looked up.

 

But my Omnitech clearly has this option, even Garmin C350 series I used few years ago has this option to review the route and select each road(line item in the Route review) to avoid and it automatically finds the alternative for that road( some time it may suggest altogether different route).