You know how complicated it can be sometimes dealing with freeway on-ramps and off-ramps? If you are only going a few miles, dealing with a highway, especially if there is traffic, is something to be avoided.
Last night, I was navigating from our hotel in Burlingame to Il Fornaio, about 1 mile away. Since the hotel is smack next to highway 101, the normal route creation put us on the highway. We actually had to go two miles on 101 to get to the first exit. We missed that exit so when we got off, 3 miles down the road, I suddenly thought of the new feature of version 2010 to calculate a route avoiding highways. Hard to teach an old dog new tricks so to speak.
We were at the restaurant in no time.On our way back, I used this new feature and we were back at the hotel in 5 minutes. Not only was it shorter, it was much simpler on surface streets versus all those highway ramps.
The default vehicle route uses highways because the route is looking for the fastest route based on the speed rating of the various roads. It knows nothing about traffic and commute hours.
There are a number of new route creation options in 2010 and this avoid highway option sure has and will come in handy.
Mike Mike Michael G. May CEO Sendero GroupFeaturing Sendero GPS on 4 platforms, BrailleNotes, Sense Nav for Braille Sense products, Mobile Geo on Windows phones and StreetTalk VIP for the Pac Mate. Distributing Trekker Breeze and Wayfinder for Symbian phones. Also distributing Victor Stream, KNFB Mobile Reader, Talks, Mobile Speak, Tiger embossers, Miniguide and ID Mate
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