Avoid highways between some waypoints

[Ricky Farrow]

I have some routes that require interstate part of the trip and back roads other parts of the same trip. Other than going to avoid highways and creating a ton of waypoints, can the app make those adjustments?

[Nick Carthew]

@Ricky-Farrow Unfortunately not, the avoid highways tool is either on or off. You shouldn’t need to add that many route points to create your intended route.

[Drabslab]

@Ricky-Farrow

If you count on the MRA "avoid highway" option (or any other option for that matter) then it can go wrong because a GPS device with different settings can still interprete the resulting GPX file completely different.

In my humble opinion, the best way to make a route is to put sufficient waypoints on the whole route and that can include putting some waypoints on a highway. The options in the routeplanner toolbox do not influence the settings of a GPS device.

[John Chaves]

@Nick-Carthew How do I turn "avoid highways" on? I can't find it anywhere...

[Lars Jensen]

In a route (Upper right) Click on Toolkit - Avoid and Highways


[Nick Carthew]

@John-Chaves As @Lars-Jensen said, but this is only available for gold accounts using either the Here or TomTom planning maps.

[John Chaves]

@Nick-Carthew Thank you! I do have Gold but I was using the Default OpenStreet map.

[Lisi Mayr]

this would be a nice feature

[Nick Carthew]

@Lisi-Mayr It might be a nice feature, but I would guess it would be almost impossible to create the algorithm for it.
If you want a mixed route, it’s not difficult to drag route points onto or off of a highway.