Now that I've had my new FLTRUSE for a couple of weeks, I decided to try out some of the GPS functions. First off, I picked my nearest HD dealer and had it take me there. Only it took me to a location where this dealer used to be -- six years ago! Brand new GPS and Harley dealer list is that far out of date? After searching a bit, I found the links to update the list (which at least fixed this particular dealer location).
But back to the subject line... I've been using Mapquest a lot and am used to it, so I built a route of backroads to a restaurant about 35 miles away. I tried to send it to my GPS but got a message stating "Garmin Communicator not installed". So I found that and downloaded it. During installation, it insisted that I close all my browser windows, so I lost all the work I did in Mapquest. After rebuilding the Mapquest route, I sent it to the GPS. It gave me two choices: Send as route or waypoints. I chose, probably mistakenly, the "route" choice. When I went to try it out, the GPS kept trying to reroute me on to the more direct interstate route. It was as if only the start and end points were entered and the GPS was trying to calculate the most direct route.
Would have choosing "waypoints" made a difference? I didn't enter any waypoints in Mapquest, but if you have to drag the route a lot to get on the roads you want, it makes little dots at the drag points. I don't know if those are treated as 'waypoints' or not.
I've built a new test route in Mapsource and that may be a viable way to go, but I'd like to know if there's a way to keep a route intact when built in Mapquest and sending to the Road Tech. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I've read through most of the 'mapping' threads but nothing seemed to directly address this question.
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