Anthony R. Gold wrote
> John (E-Mail Removed) wrote
>> I have a Garmin Nuvi 200W as my first satnav.
>> I have been very pleased with it.
>> Last week I acquired a TomTom One and decided to give it a try for
>> the sake of making a comparison. I was surprised that the TomTom
>> wanted me to stay on the defined route - even when I arrived at my
>> destination after straying - it was telling me to turn around. Is
>> this normal with TomTom - or is it just a feature of that model.
> TomTom does recalculate routes, but when it's preference
> setting - fastest journey time or shortest distance - requires
> a U-turn then that's what it will demand.
I've never ever seen my TomTom 710 request a U turn
except where I have deliberately ignored it and gone past
the turnoff it has advised, usually when doing a yard sale run
and I havent bothered to reset the next waypoint on the TomTom
because I know how to get to a particular waypoint myself.
And where the route isnt what I would normally use myself, thats
usually due to local knowledge that a particular route is better
because there is less traffic on that route, something that isnt
even possible for the previous engine to know anything about.
Even with the latest engine that does allow users to enter the
actual times taken over particular routes, its unlikely that there
are many in my 20K town that will bother to do that in my town.
> AFAIK all models use the same navigation engine although later versions
> of the software may not always be released to update all the older models.
Correct.
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