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Old 07-25-2010, 08:54 PM
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Re: TP2 + Garmin XT

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Originally Posted by chong67 View Post
Garmin is OK but here is the problem ...

Say you are in City A now. But you want to plan a route on City B to City C but you cant do it because you are not physically in City B and C!

Isnt that wonderful?
Sure you can! It's easy and I do it all the time.

First: Enter destination info for City C and hit GO
Second: Enter destination info for City B, but instead of hitting go, hit options and "Add as via to current route"

BAM! It takes you to City B, then on to City C!

And for the lag everyone says they have, I got rid of it by switching to an 8GB Class 4. Most of the cheap cards are Class 2 and will lag like crazy. I know the class ratings are for write speed, but a cheap card will read slow. And usually write speeds are relative to read speeds on these cards. Just buy 1 higher end 2GB card (Class 4 or better) and put just Garmin on to test it. I promise you the lag will go away.

As for Igo, I've had strange issues with it: (It IS more feature rich though, that's why I still use it... just not if I'm in a hurry to enter destination and go)

1. It won't switch from portrait to landscape without exiting the program and restarting.
2. It occasionally looses satellite lock. Garmin doesn't seem to have this problem.

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