Easy Rider
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No it doesn't. Not on any brand or model.
In the GPS world, it means no Interstates or limited access Freeways.
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Zumo 660 can't be trusted in my opinion
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No it doesn't. Not on any brand or model.
In the GPS world, it means no Interstates or limited access Freeways.
johnsimion
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I agree with everything Peter Aawen and the others said, but I have one comment and that is, "How much have you used the Zumo before?" I ask that not to be snarky but because of my own experience. I installed an aftermarket GPS into one of my cars and programmed it for "home" (just on the other side of the city) and it gave me a ridiculous result -- in which I actually had only to exit the highway and make a left turn, but the GPS told me to exit, turn right, turn left and turn left again, all in the same intersection. It was very irritating but I ignored it since I knew where to go anyway. When I contacted the manufacturer about this weird glitch, they told me it was common when the GPS is brand new and just to keep using it -- sure enough, the next time I went through the intersection, it got it right. These things are never foolproof, anyway.
John, I have NEVER been able to get my gps to give me the right directions in and through Las Vegas. There's just something about the constant road construction there that confuses the hell out of Garmin (and me).:roflblack:
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INfox
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That was my experience and similar by our other club member. I assume the "learning" memory got somehow cleared at the time of the new map being updated and new experiences are being recorded from scratch. That would be a programmer error, not a user error if the Zumo is showing a route to a different address and driving left, right... ending up somewhere else instead of straight to a known address .
When that happens we use Google Maps, they never failed us and if there is an accident or a road block as a result of high traffic, Google Maps will find a very nice back road we can depend on.
DGoebel
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+1 for PurpleGuy's process, I use the MyRoute-App plotting features for advance planned trips, which allows you to select lots of motorcycle beneficial routing, then export it into the Grmin format to create a route. BUT, all that doesn't help when you're out on the Spyder and just pick Go Home as the OP stated. Though if I'm within 200 miles of home I likely already know the way and the GPS is just clarification isn't it?
Easy Rider
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I think some things just will never really get fixed.
Going through downtown Atlanta on 75/85 my Ford still tells me to "keep right".......when that is obviously wrong, since the right lane is EXIT.....about 7 times. I think the map display shows it right though.
I have a BMW Navigator V
which I think is equivalent to Zumo 660 or 665. It has worked really well for me. I keep it up to date with Garmin Express. I use the setting "No highways" sometimes and have noticed that the distance and time can increase significantly.
I don't think your unit uses a different set of maps as any other Garmin units so it is properly your unit that has an issue. Maybe your HOME setting is not what you think it is or it wasn't picking up your current location correctly. Have you tried an update?
Good luck
which I think is equivalent to Zumo 660 or 665. It has worked really well for me. I keep it up to date with Garmin Express. I use the setting "No highways" sometimes and have noticed that the distance and time can increase significantly.
I don't think your unit uses a different set of maps as any other Garmin units so it is properly your unit that has an issue. Maybe your HOME setting is not what you think it is or it wasn't picking up your current location correctly. Have you tried an update?
Good luck
DGoebel
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I was using my phone and Google Maps in my F-150 going through Dallas earlier this year and it was doing the same, until i realized that due to the traffic jam we were in, exiting on the off ramp, and re entering on the corresponding on ramp bypassed many other vehicles stuck in the grid lock... we moved ahead 40 or more vehicles every time we followed the Maps instructions. Though at that time I think it would have been better just getting off the interstate and taking surface roads.....:sour:
ARtraveler
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I am still so old school that I have never owned or used a GPS device on any of my vehicles. If I need a route, I go to my Rand McNally map book.
I am told that Alaska can be interesting with GPS units. They may suggest a road that turns out to be a logging road or a road that now leads to nowhere.
Back to the subject at hand...:yes:
I am told that Alaska can be interesting with GPS units. They may suggest a road that turns out to be a logging road or a road that now leads to nowhere.
Back to the subject at hand...:yes:
Easy Rider
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Oh great. A machine with an attitude.
Should have know that "artificial stupidity" would develop faster than "artificial intelligence" though. :banghead:
They drive me buggy
and IMO take away from the seriousness of what ur trying to say. Eckhard
IdahoMtnSpyder
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That's nothing compared to what I experience once in awhile. I use Sygic on my Samsung tablet. There's a bug in the program and every once in awhile when I start the app, then leave a parking lot, the lady tells me, "Please follow the route for 1,255,493 miles!" A few hundred feet down the road and all is well then. It must have something to do with picking up two satellite points and dividing some number by zero, or something of the sort.
Another bug I've seen is if I program in a route that is all non-Interstate two lane the distance to the destination is double the real distance. I'll have to check to see if that's been fixed.
Whose maps does Garmin use? Sygic uses Tom-Tom maps.
AeroPilot
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Try running with a Nuvi on one bike and a Zumo 660 on the other
Just got back from Deadwood 3WR and taking turns leading 4 Spydees. My old Nuvi is usually okay, but occasionally we can get into "discussions" about
the route comparing over our Senas the next turn.. You just have to be flexible and forgiving when you find yourself having to turn around or taking an
"old route". Its all part of the fun. As others have said "Trust but verify!" I love the "direct distance estimate" or as I tell my wife, As the crow flys!
She gets so tired of me saying that :spyder::roflblack:
Just got back from Deadwood 3WR and taking turns leading 4 Spydees. My old Nuvi is usually okay, but occasionally we can get into "discussions" about
the route comparing over our Senas the next turn.. You just have to be flexible and forgiving when you find yourself having to turn around or taking an
"old route". Its all part of the fun. As others have said "Trust but verify!" I love the "direct distance estimate" or as I tell my wife, As the crow flys!
She gets so tired of me saying that :spyder::roflblack:
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Easy Rider
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Maybe you need to explain that you are not talking about HER when you say that !! :shocked:
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blitzkreig
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I always laugh when my Garmin has me do a u-turn for no particular good reason only to re-route me back onto the very same road just a mile or so down the way ... LOL
Yeah, but how techie do you need to be with only two paved roads in the entire state? :yes:
Fat Baxter
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What all these GPS systems need is an "avoid ghetto" option.
Huh? :hun:
PistonBlown
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Not sure if this trick will work in the US but worked well here for my Zumo 590. I assume the 660 has similar settings.
Using Basecamp I selected Options from the Edit menu and selected the Active Profile, then clicked on the Routing tab.
I set the Route Preference to Faster Time (it was on Curvy Roads). I left the Road Type Avoidances settings unticked - other than Unpaved Roads.
Under Speed I clicked the Customize button and altered the Interstate, Major Highway and Other Highway speed averages so they were closer together. I think Garmin set them too far apart for motorbike/Spyder riding. Sync'd my GPS with Basecamp to save the profile changes.
It took a bit of trial and error to get the speeds right but I've now got it so it will avoid highways if there is a good local road alternative but will use them when required. Doing this I've also got it to be very accurate on the journey times as well, in fact its spookily accurate.
Using Basecamp I selected Options from the Edit menu and selected the Active Profile, then clicked on the Routing tab.
I set the Route Preference to Faster Time (it was on Curvy Roads). I left the Road Type Avoidances settings unticked - other than Unpaved Roads.
Under Speed I clicked the Customize button and altered the Interstate, Major Highway and Other Highway speed averages so they were closer together. I think Garmin set them too far apart for motorbike/Spyder riding. Sync'd my GPS with Basecamp to save the profile changes.
It took a bit of trial and error to get the speeds right but I've now got it so it will avoid highways if there is a good local road alternative but will use them when required. Doing this I've also got it to be very accurate on the journey times as well, in fact its spookily accurate.
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