Can you program a route? I often don't like the routes the GPS gives me. I like to put in my own route and turns and use the GPS to tell me when turns
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No, you can not program routes, however you can recalculate as you're driving and it will provide an alternate route.
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As far as I remember you can follow your reverse course. It doesn't have "maps" as such, but plots your course and gives you your current location. I used it for a backup on my sailboat and just logged the lat/Lon on my charts along with my DR plotting. Since there are no maps but only plotted waypoints, you can use this anywhere you have GPS sat. coverage.
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It has done this for me on multiple occasions. I won't say it does so every time, but it usually does. Even if it doesn't, if you make a U-turn on your own, it will figure this out, and get you back on a route to your destination.
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I believe you can opt to have street names spoken. Haven't use mine lately since my Lexus has the GPS system!
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It only shows you what road you are on when it is NOT navigating to a destination you put in. When you are navigating to a destination the unit is "working" and shows you what it thinks you NEED and that is the NEXT turn and NOT the street you are on. This makes perfect sense. If you are in an area you don't know you don't need the road you are on but rather the road you turn on next and the distance to this road and turn. After all, it already gave you the road you are on when you turned on it. If it just said, "turn on Elm St." then you are on Elm St. :) Make sense?
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When you enter the route you want, the unit will show you one route. You can only change the route by adding way points. I wish it would give you at least one more option to choose from, but this unit doesn't.
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I do add waypoints on the PC (MapSource) software and then download to the GPS device. I have not tried adding routes. I remember trying it once and found it difficult. You can add waypoints right on the device ahead of time but as I remember it was not very intuitive. That said, nothing about the software and maps was very intuitive. However, adding waypoints while hiking is easy. I can download quite a bit of the map onto my 60CSx but it takes a very long time so I limit it to the areas I am most interested in.
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It will give you some indications of how you vary from the path, but it does not show a path. At least it hasn't the way I have used it. I think you need a charting type of GPS for that.
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Hello Derick. I am sorry I have not responded before.Yes you can. The GPS is programmed to use Lat and Long and UTM co-ordinates.
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Not sure, my gps does not work right. It gives directions in reverse. Don't buy this gps....not worth it.
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As a genral GPS unit. It does give you a way back by reversing the route. I've never used it that way.
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it will recalculate the route just as all the other TomTom navigation does. but it won`t tell you you had missed a direction. once you drive pass the direction, it will start re-calculating.
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This is my husband's GPS and he said that the screen 'occasionally' goes to a split screen, showing a map and a picture of the road that you're currently on. I hope this helps!
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Yes, it will recalculate and give you the shortest route to your designated location if you miss a turn or choose to take another route. It will adjust based on your gps location.
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If you are looking for turn by turn directions then you will be disappointed. The GPS and map will pinpoint your pinpoint your position on a very high level map. It will tell you town to town.
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The BT is a GPS, not a navigation system, as such it just sends data. If you wish to do the things in your question you will need a navigation program to use the BT. BTW it is an awesome GPS!
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I find the 1450 frustrating to set up routes the way I want them. They should at least include MapSource with it. Hopefully I will find a solution...