{"id":3099,"date":"2010-12-12T14:36:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T21:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/gps-hints-and-tricks\/"},"modified":"2010-12-11T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T03:38:16","slug":"gps-hints-and-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/gps-hints-and-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"GPS Hints and Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/gps.png' alt='gps.png' class='right' \/>One of the limitations of my Garmin N&uuml;vi 205W GPS is its inability to select a custom route. Unlike Google Maps&trade; and other popular on-line map resources, the Garmin only allows one waypoint to be programmed in addition to the destination.<\/p>\n<p>When we leave the LA area to go to the new house (something we have been and will be doing a lot), I like to take a different route than the GPS decides. The GPS always wants to send me to Banning via state route 60 through Riverside which is an inferior route to joining up with I-10 via I-15. There is less traffic and construction that way, plus 60 takes us over the winding road east of Moreno Valley. <\/p>\n<p>I searched for some information on setting a custom route on my GPS and found a blog that had tons of information: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~ghayman3\/garmin.gps\/index.html\">Tricks, Tips, Work Arounds, Hints, Secrets and Ideas for Garmin GPS<\/a>. I spent quite a lot of time looking through the many articles there and found out a whole lot I didn&#8217;t already know about my GPS. <\/p>\n<p>I eventually stumbled on a tip that solved 70 percent of my problem. I programmed a precision waypoint on the ramp from northbound I-15 to eastbound I-10. I say 70 percent because it still wants to take me up to I-105 and east. Fortunately, It will recalculate the route as I drive where I want to go and once we&#8217;re east of I-605 it shows the preferred route. Even though the hints and tips website didn&#8217;t solve my exact problem 100 percent, it showed me how to get more out of the GPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the limitations of my Garmin N&uuml;vi 205W GPS is its inability to select a custom route. Unlike Google Maps&trade; and other popular on-line map&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-nerd-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}