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...So whats the problem?....You hit "where to"....type in the address, city, number, street....set to destination. Then what I do is type in another destination and hit "add to something something route" and it adds it along with as a spot along the way.



That is fine for simple routes. Matter of fact that is how I created a route from Woodbridge, VA to Silver Spring MD this past Friday morning. It took a while as I had to drop several via points on the base line route. I road US1 to the George Washington Parkway then crossed the river on 495 and rolled through DC up to Silver Spring. Even this simple route made on the zumo would have been a breeze on a computer. The computer (Google Maps) is so much better than a 2" screen on the gps (zumo).

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When using the gps to route, setting avoidances,i.e, navigation parameters is critical. Shorter Route, Faster Route is one. Avoiding toll roads, dirt roads, interstates highways are others. Using a combination of the above one can create routes on the fly easily. Thing is it is a Garmin route, not my route. My route being me selecting every road for the route. When I crossed the river on 495, I set the gps to avoid interstates and toll roads and then let it pick my route to Silver Spring. I helped it out by looking at the route and simply riding on a road I thought looked better. The gps recalculated the route based on my physical route modifications.

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