TomTom Mobile routing

[Canalsman]

I use this Android app and it is my preferred satnav solution.

Yesterday, not for the first time, it suggested using a minor road rather than continuing on an A-road.

This has been an irritant for a while.

I had a look in the app settings, specifically at routing options, and I've found that changing from the default 'quickest' option to the 'eco-friendly' option avoided the minor road diversion.

This may well be a better choice for motorhome users ...

 

[antiquesam]

I use this Android app and it is my preferred satnav solution.

Yesterday, not for the first time, it suggested using a minor road rather than continuing on an A-road.

This has been an irritant for a while.

I had a look in the app settings, specifically at routing options, and I've found that changing from the default 'quickest' option to the 'eco-friendly' option avoided the minor road diversion.

This may well be a better choice for motorhome users ...

Strangely I had the opposite effect when I attempted a trip up the Welsh border on eco friendly and got directed up every single track road available. I trimmed miles of hedgerow without getting a penny from the farmers.

 

[QFour]

I have an Android Version of CoPilot Truck. That has similar problems even with the truck settings. It took us up the A1 then took us off the A1 through Gateshead and Newcastle which was busy and then back onto the A1 again :lol-053: Must have been a shorter route by a few inches. Certainly did not save any time.

The old version of IGO Primo I had used to take us off the motorway near Southampton and then get lost in a housing estate. These SatNav Systems are only as good as the information thats programmed in them.

Mind you we have had some fun and seen places we would never have visited.

Dashboard Doris likes this route near Corfe Castle. Its not bad but we are 7.5m long and 3.2m wide :scared:

 

[Canalsman]

I'm going to test it over the next few trips and see how it goes ...

 

[mossypossy]

I have TomTom Trucker and would never use anything but "quickest" for motorhome routing.

"Shortest" can be bonkers even in a car.

Not sure what "eco" would entail in the algorithm.

Official definitions:
Fastest route - the fastest route to your destination. Your route is constantly checked taking into account the traffic conditions.
Shortest route - the shortest route to your destination. This may take much longer than the fastest route.
Most eco-friendly route - the most fuel-efficient route.

 

[REC]

Our Garmin is also a challenge at times...I have it on fastest and often when I check the route after setting, discover it was taking us an illogical way. Change it to shortest which goes the way we wanted and this also made it fastest:mad1::mad1: It regularly tries to get us to turn off the M25 4.9 miles before the QE2 bridge go round roundabout and come back on M25....we ignore that one after first puzzled diversion! Keep hoping the upgrade will improve it but I think it is beyond hope . Just don't ever believe blindly that it is perfect.
On the way this time I set Google maps on my tablet to compare , and that seemed a better choice. On one occasion the time between them when taking the same route was an hour difference...what actually happened was that Garmin arrived 30 mins early and Google 30 mins later than it said!