Is there a car sat-nav out there that will caclulate a minimum distance route rather than the quickest?
A bit like using google maps directions function, then seting it to "walk" rather than car.
I need to get from Derby to Reading without the motorways, google directions takes about 80 steps which would mean stoping to read them every 2 minutes and the trip meter doesn't work!
they all do
yes, but my PC wont fit in the car, or give turn by turn directions
Edit: you eddited your nonsensical answer and put something sensible in there making me look stupid!
I tried a Google maps walk/drive swap the other day, was actually looking for a better cycle route than the main roads option it gave for the car. The route was 8.6 miles by car (via a bridge), the walking option went right the way round the estuary (even though the bridge has a pedestrian path) and came in at 47.8 miles!
Google FAIL.
Yea, mines for driving the MG, don't think it (or my nerves) will apreciate the motorways, so A and B roads are the order of the day.
Some of the sat navs allow you to avoid certain roads - I think the TomTom ones do.
My Garmins software lets me select which roads on the PC, but not on the sat nav, but it's a basic model. I would have thought the more up to date ones would give you the choice.
My Garmin has many options and often leads differently to a TomTom. Speak to uplink, he's into sat nav big time.
Speak to uplink, he's into sat nav big time
I don't know about big time but I use them a lot
You can set it as an itinerary in Tomtom using certain places you need to go through & then select shortest route
You can pre-configure it to not use motorways
My TomTom lets you calculate quickest, shortest, avoiding motorways etc.
I'm guessing google must pick the shortest route that isn't a motorway, so I guess if its set to no motorways and shortest route it'll do fine.
90% of my driving will be "i could ride the bike there, but can't/don't want to" kind of distances. And in the MG anything longer gets broken up into segments anyway as its more fun to drive on b-roads for a whole day than the motorway for 4 hours.
Do any of them have a particulalry good battery life? Then again it can't be too hard to wire in a 12v socket so maybe it's not such an issue.