Shortest Route Question?

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bus_ter

Original Poster:

248 posts

227 months

Thursday 23rd February 2006
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If you choose the shortest route on a satnav, will it select the shortest route no matter what..

i.e take you on some farm track for 10 miles just to save you half a mile from the adjacent running motorway? I'm assuming this is the case..

Therefore is there a way to select 'shortest route within reason', i.e the shortest route without doing something silly like the above example? or do satnav units tend to keep you on reasonable roads anyway?

agent006

12,058 posts

271 months

Thursday 23rd February 2006
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My navman has a slider with 5 graduations between quickest and shortest.

Dino D

1,953 posts

228 months

Thursday 23rd February 2006
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No you see I happen to think hoooning down a narrow farm road is very reasonable...

Apart from that I do not have an answer to your question...I still use a map to find my nice driving roads!

CombeMarshal

2,030 posts

233 months

Friday 24th February 2006
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It does take speed limits into acount, BUT it can take you off down slip road, over the round-a-bout and then rejoin the motorway if it is shorter, I just have a quick glance first and ignore it if I know better!!!

What it does do different over faster route is, say you in a city with a ring road it will normally take you back onto the ring road rather than going direct through the city, which can be loads quicker!
In practice, I use fastest route for long distances and shortest for short journeys