Discovered Another Navi Feature...

[hip]

Whenever I drive to LA from Phoenix, as I did recently, I usually gas up along the Arizona / California border. Ehrenberg, AZ is literally the last town before crossing into California and it doesn't show up on the Navi map even though it has been there for many years.

On long trips like this I like to input short term destinations to help break up the monotony. If you add each one to "today's destinations" it sorts them according to nearest distance.

The feature I discovered by accident allows you to capture a location and save it for future use. When you reach a undocumented location, simply press the circled icon displayed on the map with your finger. A new screen pops up with the coordinates that allows you to save it. You can then go to the "setup" menu and save it as a user defined destination.

Naturally, this only works after you physically drive to the specific location, but it is rather useful. Has anyone else used this feature?

[TSX 'R' US]

Sweeet!! Now if I only have navi to try this on...

[pocketkiller]

Good work, I was hoping there was a feature like this, I just didn't know how to use it. I'll attempt to input new data and report back.

[larchmont]

I use it all the time. But even so, I don't use it enough, because again and again I kick myself for not having set it up (i.e. not having "saved" a particular location).

Two things it's particularly useful for:

(1) My commute is a lovely and quick jaunt across a few parkways -- traffic permitting. Which often it doesn't. When one of them is jammed, you want to get off and do sort of a diagonal end-run to some point on the next parkway. Which isn't easy around here, because it's impossible to know all those side streets and alternate roads. They aren't laid out in any kind of easy grid and a lot of them are blind alleys. It's really kind of a maze. (Pretty cool, eh?) What I've done is, I've "saved" some of the key spots in each next parkway, so wherever I get off, I can plug one of those spots into the Nav, then tell it to find a "Minimize Freeways" route, and it finds the best "end-run."
(Sheesh, it's a lot easier to do than to describe.)

(2) Forget it, I don't have it in me to explain the other one.

[vp911]

it is indeed an excellent feature.... for example (not that it matters because i know the local area) but the navi has my house address down the street about 1 mile...so in my driveway i saved the address thats associated with my house... lol