Satnav: avoid unclassified roads

Please read a previous post I answered to you when you previously tried to be "clever?"

Can you change the routing profiles JVB? e.g. the very basic ones are Quickest, Shortest, Practiacal or even Fastest. Never had a Garmin so don't know how they set up but as advised above don't use shortest. Quickest/Fastest might keep you out of trouble? Co-Pilot uses only two at the top level, Practical or shortest but the next level down allows road preferences to be set as I stated up thread.

peedee

Can't think why you would use it locally / in an area the you know well

One should use a satellite navigation system in an area that you know well so that you can establish just how good or bad it is to get an idea how much it can be trusted in an area that you don't know,

Thankyou,    that I would have any sensible person would do

I tested Mapfactor Navigator on another short route, this time in the Gower in Wales, from Oxwich to Southgate village. My TomTom Go 50 took us on a shortcut up a steep, narrow and rough, barely a road, into a housing estate, luckily we weren't towing. It isn't even marked on my giant scale 2021 AA roadmap.

I tried the route with Google maps which passed the test and avoided the bad road. 

Navigator, with "Small Local Road" turned off, also avoided it.

So, after 3 test routes I can conclude that out of the 3 satnavs I have tested (my TomTom 50 Go, Google Maps and Navigator), Navigator performed best or equally best on all 3 routes.

I am very pleased with Navigator and looking forward to trying it on the road. What I like about it is that it does have the option to avoid unclassified roads, which is what I was looking for. It takes a bit of getting used to at first but I found that when I switched to my TomTom from by previous satnav.

Thanks to peedee for telling me about it.

Interesting…

I took a look at Navigator tonight. I selected a village about 7 miles from me. The direct route would involve using a combination of narrow Cornish lanes and OK B roads. Many satnavs habitually send tourists through the narrow lanes which can be fun in summer! Navigator took the long way around, but the only route suitable for towing. Impressive!

I wonder how the Satnav is programmed to deal with this width restriction? The panel van featuring towards the end of the video is painful to watch - that could be your £60k motorhome.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-59641534

 We have a similar restriction for the same reasons near where I live. While there is plenty of evidence of scuffing of wheels, I have not heard of anyone actually hitting it like in the video. My sat nav warns me of the restriction if I force it to route down that road. Both of these show on my sat nav as width restrictions

peedee

The width restriction in the video is apparently 2.1m (7’) so wider than some, amazing it caused so many problems.

Agree, its shown as 6ft 11 inches on the sat nav while the one near home is shown as 6ft 7 inches.

peedee