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labbad

Being a newbie with my first motorhome I could do with some advice/direction in relation to my Sat Nav.
I had a fantastic summer so far having spent 5 weeks in Scandinavia and 10 days in England in my motorhome. I got some experience with my new GPS which I found to be the most fantastic bit of gear, a NUVI 310.
However I think it was designed for working people, company reps etc. as it has two settings the “fastest route or the shortest route” .
For someone like myself meandering in my own time and I have plenty of it now D.G. I would like to be able too design my own route on my PC and download it on to the nuvi which I can’t do with the nuvi 310.
It would be great to be able to do this as my nuvi has sent me down some narrow windy roads (will I ever forget Witchbottom Lane) left some skidmarks in Norway also.
What Sat Nav’s could I do this with?
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autostratus · Moderator

Hi labbad

Sorry I can't answer your questions re. satnav.
I can however offer you a warm welcome to motorhomefacts.com.

There are a number of our contributers who are pretty expert with satnav and I'm sure it won't be long before you get some answers.

Glad you enjoyed your Scandinavian visit, it's a place we've not visited.
Do you think you could put some of your notes together for the benefit of our members. I'm sure it would be appreciated

Grizzly

Fatalhud

Hi
I use a gps reciever connected to laptop running autoroute
that way i can plot my route in advance and not be told where to go

labbad

Thanks for the welcome autostratus and for your advice Grizzly I have a laptop FATALHUD but I would need more info to follow what your doing will check out autoroute
Thanks again

wobby

I have or should I say had a Garmin sold it with the MH. Any how what I use to do was decide on my route on a AA map then set up my sat nav with way points to force it to follow the way I wanted to go. I also stopped the thing from auto recalculating if I wandered of route. The reason being some wee road were not fit to explore, so I would continue on keeping a eye on the mapped route and then find a better road to rejoin it. That way it wasn't nagging me for going of route. Especially usefull in rural France's little villages where it would try and send me up some impossible roads.

Wobby

labbad

Thanks wobby
You hit the nail on the head I finished up on some harrowing roads in England and Norway hair raising efforts one in Norway was a severe downhill with 15/20 hairbends and about the width of the camper.
Brendan