Rider 450: How to avoid a closed/blocked road
Yesterday I had not a very nice experience with my TT Rider 450. The main road was closed for couple of kilometers and GPS let me knew about that, thats nice BUT it still was showing the route through the blocked road abd even after I've tried to find a way around it still continue to drag me into main blocked road.
Is it me that should read manual better or this simple functional is not available in TT Rider 450?
How to avoid traffic jams, blocked roads etc.?
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Superuser
Looks like you have to do something positive for your rider to change route.
See pages 48 and 49 of the manual
:flag_gb:http://download.tomtom.com/open/manuals/rider_400_40/refman/TomTom-Rider-EU-RG-en-gb.pdf
:flag_dk:http://download.tomtom.com/open/manuals/rider_400_40/refman/TomTom-Rider-EU-RG-da-dk.pdf
Superuser
And: Changing your route in general. (I guess the same pages that Niall suggested...)
As you'll see it will not offer to replan your route automatically unlike TomTom Traffic... It needs your feedback.
Funny enough, if I plan that road from my home w/o telephone connection (telephone to airplane mode) - GPS creates a road using that blocked road (thats fine as it doesn't know that road is blocked), then I connect it to telephone - and gps recreates route to avoid blocked road self. Now I'm puzzled why it haven't worked yesterday.
So here my problem:
#1 I've created a route and you could see that my destination points are far away from the closed road
#2 I've sent this road to my TT Rider 450 and started driving
#3 When I've reached closed road it showed to me that road is closed but I couldn't get the menu with options, see screenshot
Whatever I did I couldn't get the menu out.
So I think that If I'm following track, it can't avoid a blocked road. I've cleared my track, and create a new route directly to my final destination and tomtom have built a route around that blocked road.
Superuser
@speedster.max, definitely you’are using a track. It’s dummy as it should be, and ignores all of the routing settings, and live road traffic data...
Is there a way to upload a route from TomTom my Drive then? It's so silly that I use tomtom's software (not third party) and having this problems.
The route with T or Track is the GPX format the other can be transferred to the unit as an ITN file. Click on the route and a box will pop up click on finish route and from there you can "Send To Device". I leave the route in this state without actually finishing the route, if you continue to finish the route it becomes a GPX.
I hope this helps.
But if I'm sending a route to my device seems it is not saved in my routes by default, I should explicitly save it.