I think if you turn the roadmap off it makes it unavailable for autorouting. Since you probably turn it off for hiking, you have to turn it back on if you want to autoroute on the way home.MichaelJ said:
If you can get a copy of Metroguide v4 (discontinued, from Ebay perhaps), it has no locking and will autoroute on the GPS. The road maps are a bit old, but they often have better coverage of rural roads than the current mapping products. The v4 data is from TeleAtlas, the newer road maps use data from NavTeq.Mongoose said:
Except, of course, that wasn't Mongoose's problem.MichaelJ said:
I think it will work out well for hiking. Marking waypoints is going to make me feel like a little kid again.. "Am I there yet? Am I there now?..."
It is nice when hiking with kids to have the GPS along. You can tell them how long it will take to get to the next waypoint. They seem to accept it a whole lot better when you can show them a digital readout, rather than just saying "about twenty minutes" all the time"Mongoose said:
I actually find a version of this helpful on long drives (with a manually generated point-to-point route activated). I focus on the distance to the next waypoint rather than the distance (or time) to the destination. It feels less laborious to focus on a sequence of intermediate goals rather then the final goal.Mongoose said:
