The ideal GPS route
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.
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.
