goufgators
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Recently, I bought a Garmin 2595 and when programming routes, the unit almost always routes directly through a city. In most cases, I prefer to take the 'truck route' around the city but cannot figure out how to make the unit accept the route I want. My older Garmin Street Pilot 2620 was easy to make such route adjustments. But not this new one! There must be a way to force this 2595 to accept the route I want but after reading the Manual several times, I can't figure out how to do it. Any advise, help, assistance will be appreciated.
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donn0128
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Setup/preferences should get you to where you need to make the settings change.
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cpmath
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Contact Garmin support, that's what they are there for.
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huffmeister
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What are you using to program the route? You should have gotten a copy of Garnin's "MapSource" which works quite well also.
I would recommend you get MS S&T (or another mapping program) and do the routing in that. Then you can set waypoints to force a route.
Very easy to do that way.
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RicJones
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You should be able to add waypoints to force the new route. You might try something like adding a waypoint that's an intersection like the highway you want to take and one of it's off ramps.
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vermilye
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Also check that you don't have it set on "shortest route." The shortest rather than the fastest route can sometimes get interesting...
As huffmeister noted, using Mapsource on your computer to plan your route then transferring it to the GPS usually works. In Mapsource you can change the route by dragging a it to the roads you wish to travel. As long as your GPS doesn't recalculate the route when you transfer it, that's the best way to force it on the route of your choice.
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An easy way to do it is simply get on the truck route and let the GPS catch up with you. Simple and effective.
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bobfinch
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I used Mapsource last year and once I loaded it to the new gps it recalculated it. I haven't gotten any deeper into the new GPS but man I miss my streetpilot it was a non-issue?
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vermilye
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bobfinch wrote:I used Mapsource last year and once I loaded it to the new gps it recalculated it. I haven't gotten any deeper into the new GPS but man I miss my streetpilot it was a non-issue? Yea, some models of Garmin's GPSs insist on recalculating each time you load a route from Mapsource to them. My 855 had that problem...
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