Alternative routes navigation app

[Arjan de Vries]

Hi all

My navigation app loads my route perfectly.
If navigates well. But at a lot of crossroads he gives alternative routes. Is there an option to turn this off?

[Con Hennekens]

@arjan-de-vries, Which navigation app are you using?

[Nick Carthew]

@arjan-de-vries As far as I know, no navigation device offers alternative routes while navigating.

[Arjan de Vries]

@con-hennekens navigation from mra

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@arjan-de-vries

Can you share a screenshot of those alternative routes?

[Con Hennekens]

@nick-carthew said in Alternative routes navigation app:

@arjan-de-vries As far as I know, no navigation device offers alternative routes while navigating.

I have never seen alternative routes in MRA Navigation.
It would not make any sense, besides A to B navigation.
A screenshot would be nice indeed!

[Nick Carthew]

@con-hennekens My guess is that the app didn’t offer alternative routes. The track lines might have been visible at crossroads because the app was trying to reroute due to inaccurate positioning of route points.

[Arjan de Vries]

@nick-carthew perhaps. but the zumo xt has no problem with the road!

[Arjan de Vries]

we did not see alternative roads but what we often did see was that the Zumo xt followed the route and the navigation app decided to go the other way. See pics.!

[Nick Carthew]

@arjan-de-vries Thanks for the screenshot. The map used in the XT is a different version to the map that MRA Navigation uses. I suspect that adding a few more route points would solve the problem. Can you share your route here please then I or others can give you advice for future route planning.

[Arjan de Vries]

@nick-carthew Good tip!
Here is a link to the route:
https://www.myrouteapp.com/nl/social/route/5945187?mode=share

[Nick Carthew]

@arjan-de-vries Thanks for sharing your route. From what I understand, the Garmin XT is quite particular about the position of route points. You have to place them accurately on the road. Several of the route points are not on the road.

[Nick Carthew]

@arjan-de-vries It is also advisable to not place route point too close to junctions, roundabouts and viaducts. The reason for this is to allow for any inaccuracies while the roads were being mapped and the accuracy of the satellite signal when you use the route. Sometimes it can be 20m out and this could send you up a side road and then tell you to turn around.

[Arjan de Vries]

thank you all