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Garmin has a program called Basecamp that is free to install on your computer. I plan my route on that and then upload it to the GPS. All GPS systems will route you to city center if you say you want to travel to "Cleveland". Using basecamp I can actually pick the road intersection or whatever I want as a waypoint. Does take a bit of getting used to but worth the effort. Even has a way you can select a waypoint and then view it in Google Earth to "recon" it ahead of time.
If you absolutely don't want to mess with that, you can also do this. Let's say you set up a trip from El Paso, TX to Texarkana on your GPS. You don't want the system to take you through downtown Dallas so you need to input a waypoint to force the system to route you to the south of the city. With the route on your GPS, select Find, then search for Dallas. When it presents you with the option to select Dallas, click on the Map button. When the map comes up you can scroll around until you see the road you want to take. Touch the map on that road and then click to go to that point. (Don't have my GPS with me right now, so you I may not have the exact wording). When you tell the GPS to go to that point, it will ask you if it is for a new destination or a via point. Just select via and it will route you to Texarkana with your chose waypoint in between.
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 Originally Posted by Gray Ghost
Garmin has a program called Basecamp that is free to install on your computer. I plan my route on that and then upload it to the GPS. All GPS systems will route you to city center if you say you want to travel to "Cleveland". Using basecamp I can actually pick the road intersection or whatever I want as a waypoint. Does take a bit of getting used to but worth the effort. Even has a way you can select a waypoint and then view it in Google Earth to "recon" it ahead of time.
If you absolutely don't want to mess with that, you can also do this. Let's say you set up a trip from El Paso, TX to Texarkana on your GPS. You don't want the system to take you through downtown Dallas so you need to input a waypoint to force the system to route you to the south of the city. With the route on your GPS, select Find, then search for Dallas. When it presents you with the option to select Dallas, click on the Map button. When the map comes up you can scroll around until you see the road you want to take. Touch the map on that road and then click to go to that point. (Don't have my GPS with me right now, so you I may not have the exact wording). When you tell the GPS to go to that point, it will ask you if it is for a new destination or a via point. Just select via and it will route you to Texarkana with your chose waypoint in between.
Thanks very much for the info. I will try this suggestion and see if that makes my life on the road any easier.Again thanks and safe riding to you!!
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MadMac, depending on where in the West you are going I would suggest that you use the satellite picture on your computer's map program to be sure that there is a gas station available where you plan to stop. Unlike the midwest and the east, gas stations can be few and far between out here. There is nothing that will make a trip worse then riding 50 miles worried about running out of gas. I know the Garmin's have a setting for gas stops but I would verify it before you leave.
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(trying to install my west coast trip when it thaws out here) Thanks for the help!!
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