Waypoints and Stops
Andrew42
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I use a GO 6100 and am planning a two week trip in Sicily setting up one route per day. I am confused about the difference between waypoints and Stops and would appreciate some guidance. I plan my routes using TomTom Mydrive connect on a windows PC and then download to my GPS. I can see no difference between a waypoint and a stop on my PC, both have the same little flag along side them and both are described as waypoints in the route directions. So far I design a route by having a starting point and then creating an end point. I then save this and go back and edit it. I do this because I found that if I enter a starting point and then more than one additional point my ability to save it a a route disappears! So I go back and add the additional towns/places we intend to visit that day and reorder them. Because I have no idea if these intermediate towns are considered stops, I also add a stop in each particular town which means that I have two numbers on the map superimposed on each intermediate town itemised on the route. I have no idea either if I have added the stop in right place. It all seems somewhat complicated and imprecise to me but I can find nowhere that TomTom actually explains the process and their video doesn't seem to cover this at all.
Any and all assistance to get me pointed in the right direction is very much appreciated.
Any and all assistance to get me pointed in the right direction is very much appreciated.
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When you are planning a route there are two options.
Plan your route to be used as a “Route” or plan your route to be used as a “Track”
On a recent TomTom device, a “Route” is just a collection of Stops (there are no (Soft) Via-points). TomTom will automatically add information to this Stop like the street name and house number. And with this information your Stop becomes also a Waypoint.
Riding a Route you must drive up to every stop in order.
There are two ways to put a route on your device.
1. With MyDrive use the option “Send Destinations”. This way you can send a maximum of 20 stops to your device. (My program SendITNRoute also transfers .GPX or ITN routes this way)
2. Create a .ITN file an save it on your device using the USB cable or micro-SD card. This way you can send a maximum of 255 stops to your device.
With routes you still can use all route options and with Fastest Route it also uses the current Traffic information to find the fastest route.
When you use the “Sync this route as track” option in MyDrive the route becomes a Track.
Now you can also drag the route to different roads to optimize your track in MyDrive.
You can see a Track as the “breadcrumb trail” from Hansel and Gretel. Now your TomTom will exactly follow the selected roads to your destination.
Because it is also possible to load (.GPX) Track that are created with different maps or are recorded using a GPS Tracker TomTom first maps your Track to the roads on the map. During this process small mistakes due to incorrect recording are filtered out. (This way you do not have to turn left every side street and have to make a u turn to go back to your route just because the recording is 50m off.)
This filter is also likely to filter your lunch stop. So, its better to plan separate tracks from stop to stop.
Personally I use Track when I like to ride a nice weekend round trip on the nicest roads and a route when the stops are important.
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When you are planning a route there are two options.
Plan your route to be used as a “Route” or plan your route to be used as a “Track”
On a recent TomTom device, a “Route” is just a collection of Stops (there are no (Soft) Via-points). TomTom will automatically add information to this Stop like the street name and house number. And with this information your Stop becomes also a Waypoint.
Riding a Route you must drive up to every stop in order.
There are two ways to put a route on your device.
1. With MyDrive use the option “Send Destinations”. This way you can send a maximum of 20 stops to your device. (My program SendITNRoute also transfers .GPX or ITN routes this way)
2. Create a .ITN file an save it on your device using the USB cable or micro-SD card. This way you can send a maximum of 255 stops to your device.
With routes you still can use all route options and with Fastest Route it also uses the current Traffic information to find the fastest route.
When you use the “Sync this route as track” option in MyDrive the route becomes a Track.
Now you can also drag the route to different roads to optimize your track in MyDrive.
You can see a Track as the “breadcrumb trail” from Hansel and Gretel. Now your TomTom will exactly follow the selected roads to your destination.
Because it is also possible to load (.GPX) Track that are created with different maps or are recorded using a GPS Tracker TomTom first maps your Track to the roads on the map. During this process small mistakes due to incorrect recording are filtered out. (This way you do not have to turn left every side street and have to make a u turn to go back to your route just because the recording is 50m off.)
This filter is also likely to filter your lunch stop. So, its better to plan separate tracks from stop to stop.
Personally I use Track when I like to ride a nice weekend round trip on the nicest roads and a route when the stops are important.
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Thank you very much for this informative post. I have just returned from Sicily where my TomTom behaved reasonably well. Sicilian maps on TomTom are clearly not up to date as we found many discrepancies particularly the existance of roundabouts of which TomTom was completely ignorant. (My maps are the latest and greatest TT provides). The worst problem we encountered was a parking lot for the Valley of the Temples which TT believes to be over 3kms from its actual location.
Thank you again for your help.0
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