Is there an *EASY* way to tell the 4350 to avoid a given road segment?
Say I'm taking I95 south, but want to avoid NYC by going around using
the gardent state parkway (Tapen Zee bridge, for example)? You can
route to intersections but the blasted thing wants to have you drill
down though towns/cities/zipcodes for intersections, and won't tell
you what town/city/zip a given location is!


Or looking the other way, is it possible to specify a given road be
taken if possible? Again, same thing, I could specify the Garden State
Parkway and avoid the GW Bridge!

Yea, reason, I'm pulling a trailer and it is a PITA to do the GW with
it because of traffic.

"Easy" is a relative term.

What I would do is bring up Google Earth and have it show particular "places
of interest". If you pick out ones along your own preferred route and click
on appropriate ones along that route such as hospitals, restaurants, etc.
you will be able to get their addresses.

Using some of these as key way stations would take you in the directions
you want while avoiding roads that you do not want. It may not take very
many such points to achieve what you want.

Another approach might be to use the AAA tour book on the Magellan to find
similar locations.

The caution in all this is to check that any of these intermediate
checkpoints are close to the road you want to be on. Then do not get off
your main route of travel, but just change your destination to the next one
on your list.

Charlie


"PeterD" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Is there an *EASY* way to tell the 4350 to avoid a given road segment?
> Say I'm taking I95 south, but want to avoid NYC by going around using
> the gardent state parkway (Tapen Zee bridge, for example)? You can
> route to intersections but the blasted thing wants to have you drill
> down though towns/cities/zipcodes for intersections, and won't tell
> you what town/city/zip a given location is!
>
>
> Or looking the other way, is it possible to specify a given road be
> taken if possible? Again, same thing, I could specify the Garden State
> Parkway and avoid the GW Bridge!
>
> Yea, reason, I'm pulling a trailer and it is a PITA to do the GW with
> it because of traffic.
>
>

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 07:17:38 -0400, "Charlie" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>"Easy" is a relative term.
>
>What I would do is bring up Google Earth and have it show particular "places
>of interest". If you pick out ones along your own preferred route and click
>on appropriate ones along that route such as hospitals, restaurants, etc.
>you will be able to get their addresses.
>
>Using some of these as key way stations would take you in the directions
>you want while avoiding roads that you do not want. It may not take very
>many such points to achieve what you want.
>
>Another approach might be to use the AAA tour book on the Magellan to find
>similar locations.
>
>The caution in all this is to check that any of these intermediate
>checkpoints are close to the road you want to be on. Then do not get off
>your main route of travel, but just change your destination to the next one
>on your list.
>
>Charlie
>

Thanks Charlie, that was what I figured I'd have to do. I think the
way will be to show points of interest and then pick ones on the
highway exits.