The ideal GPS route

holstein13 wrote:
I love modern technology, but I'm not always thrilled with the routing suggestions from my Rand McNally GPS. Ideally, here's what I'd change:

1) When I'm heading to a destination, I'd like to use Major Interstate Highways first to get as close as possible, followed by State limited access highways, then state highways with medians, progressing down to trunk roads, and finally streets. I don't want to be routed along every back alley and side street just to save a couple hundred yards off the trip.

2) When I'm looking at a long trip on a highway that looks like it's 300 miles long, I don't want the GPS telling me there's a merge or change every 20 miles or so. My GPS makes it look like I'm traveling on 10 different highways when in reality, it's only one long one.

Anyone have any ideas how to configure my unit to fix these two problems? Or is there a better way. I find similar problems on my IPad with Google Maps and several other products.

This is why we run the stand alone GPS & MS Streets & Trips with its own GPS & not internet based mapping. Internet based mapping is useless without a phone connection & there are plenty of areas worth visiting which do not have cell service.

The desired route for the day is plotted beforehand on MS S&Ts. The destination for the day is put into the stand alone GPS. The windshield GPS does its thing but the MS S&Ts route is the one followed, unless there is some reason to deviate on the fly.

You never know where those windshield GPSs will take you & you don't want to be fiddling with it while on the move. They will put you on a dirt road to save a half mile in a flash.