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Garmin Route Planner - Disagrees with everyone else

ankles · 2012-06-18 21:04:33

Driving Roscoff to Vendee coast in the summer. Banged in the route into my Nuvi 1440. It gave me a route sort of straight down and to the coast, and gives it under 4 hours. However, everything else, (Tom Tom, Google Maps, Viamichelin) all send me towards Rennes and Nantes, and rate this at just over 4 hours. They put the…

18-06-2012 10:04PM

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ankles

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Driving Roscoff to Vendee coast in the summer. Banged in the route into my Nuvi 1440. It gave me a route sort of straight down and to the coast, and gives it under 4 hours.

However, everything else, (Tom Tom, Google Maps, Viamichelin) all send me towards Rennes and Nantes, and rate this at just over 4 hours. They put the Garmin route at nearer 6 hours! Is Garmin off the plot here? Can I change it to make it give me what appears to be the better route?

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#2 19-06-2012 10:25AM

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Check your routing options on the nuvi, i.e. shortest vs. fastest, and any avoidances you might have selected, esp. toll roads.

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