Garmin and bad roads
Garmin doesn't seem to know the difference between a good dirt road and a two-track.
On a recent trip to western Colorado and Wyoming, my Garmin Nuvi frequently directed me down bad roads. It tried to sent me past signs "not recommended for passenger cars", "impassable when wet" and "end of county winter maintenance". It tried to send me down two-tracks, private gated roads across someone's ranch, and one turn where I could kinda see that there used to be a two-track once.
This is a car model not an RV model. I am set to shortest time, with highways alowed.
If I turn on "avoid dirt roads", that solves the problem, but does too much. I'm quite happy to drive a good dirt road, but I don't want to do a 4wd track unless I know where it goes.
I would expect Garmin to have a way of marking some roads as "don't choose this unless there is no other way", but apparently they don't.
On a recent trip to western Colorado and Wyoming, my Garmin Nuvi frequently directed me down bad roads. It tried to sent me past signs "not recommended for passenger cars", "impassable when wet" and "end of county winter maintenance". It tried to send me down two-tracks, private gated roads across someone's ranch, and one turn where I could kinda see that there used to be a two-track once.
This is a car model not an RV model. I am set to shortest time, with highways alowed.
If I turn on "avoid dirt roads", that solves the problem, but does too much. I'm quite happy to drive a good dirt road, but I don't want to do a 4wd track unless I know where it goes.
I would expect Garmin to have a way of marking some roads as "don't choose this unless there is no other way", but apparently they don't.
