Routes up ahead

[Peobody]

This is the way I do it while a route is active. One, as mentioned, it's dynamic. It updates as I'm moving. Two, if I touch the one I want to stop at, the XT gives me the choice to add it as a point in my route so no leaving the route and no recalculating.

Russ, are you sure about the "no recalculating"? I had stopped adding them to my routes but I don't remember why. The only reason I can think of is because of a resulting recalc.

[rbentnail]

This is the way I do it while a route is active. One, as mentioned, it's dynamic. It updates as I'm moving. Two, if I touch the one I want to stop at, the XT gives me the choice to add it as a point in my route so no leaving the route and no recalculating.

Russ, are you sure about the "no recalculating"? I had stopped adding them to my routes but I don't remember why. The only reason I can think of is because of a resulting recalc.

I think technically it recalcs but nothing changes. I touch the location, and then add as next stop. Route changes accordingly to and from that point, the rest of route remains the same.

[mad-dawg]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned...
Its a brave person that relies on the Garmin database being up to date (not really their fault), a few times I have followed the route to a petrol station to find a derelict site. Sometimes its an empty field or a housing estate!
Now I wait till 1/2 or 1/3 of a tank and start looking for the next fuel.

[Peobody]

Its a brave person that relies on the Garmin database being up to date (not really their fault), a few times I have followed the route to a petrol station to find a derelict site. Sometimes its an empty field or a housing estate!

Yup, must view with skepticism. It is not uncommon to find the business permanently closed, sometime obviously so for a long time. More rare is my last experience when I exited a highway following directions to a supposed diner. There was nothing within view except wooded areas and farm fields so I should have known better but I foolishly followed the directions to a decrepit 2-bay garage building that might have stored farm equipment decades ago. There is no way there was ever a restaurant at that location, or even close by. It is one thing to find signs that the business once existed but is quite another to reach a location where the business never could have existed.