Routing problems. Unwanted U-turns, side roads, etc.
I also got those "loops" as you call it when starting the route in CarPlay (for me). However I did see it more on roads that had many side roads (not 4 way intersections) or parallel roads. In my case no via points, but still the loops....
In this screenshot from the very beginning of my ride Saturday, between 2 and 3 I was getting hit with many turn right, turn left, then uturn and continue straight, when in CarPlay.
So I am on my Mac and planning a route. Using Curvy. You can see in the screenshot that just asking to place a waypoint from start to another place ends up doing all these little dips off the main road and back on again...this is what I was seeing when riding the route this past weekend.
However this is the first time I have seen it when planning. I am on my mac using the planning.
Quote from Guido on 04.03.2025, 08:37@marts. Was this also with Curvy routing?
I don't know. Is that a setting? If so, I can't seem to find it. Note, I'm looking at it on the Mac, not the iPhone.
Anyway, here's a couple of screen shots of the route in question from that day.
The arrow in one shot points to where Scenic wanted me to go then it corrected itself shortly after. As you can see, there is no possible way to drive or ride that way (you'd slam into a bridge and trying to cross a railway line).
If you go to google maps (or even look at it in Scenic) and type in "Morwell, Australia", then zoom around to view this road which is between Morwell and Traralgon where I live you can see how the Princes Highway veers off to the left and becomes the M1 Princes Freeway and the road heading into Morwell becomes Princes Drive.
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Route going from Traralgon to Morwell[/caption]
Yesterday I entered "home" for my destination from a rest stop on a bike ride. For the most part it was good until close to home.
I was taking a back road to town. When I was getting to about 8km from home Scenic wanted me to go off-route to the main highway which runs parallel to the road that I was on.
There are 4 major roads that connect the back road and the highway along the route and Scenic wanted me to go down each one as I passed them, or instructed me to do a U-turn to go back, then recalculated to turn right at the next turn. This occured up until I turned onto my street then it navigated correctly.
It did this the last time that I rode this route a month or so ago and I posted that in here, but cannot find the post.
Attached is the screen shot of the route and I've written in where it wanted me to turn.
Detour behavior iss set to "guide me to the first unreached via point".
What other settings do I need to look at?
I just planned the route on the Mac, starting with the place where we stopped and my house as the destination. It wanted me to head to the highway at the closest point to my departure. I then added in via points along the way to tell it to continue on the back roads. Each time after each via it recalculated the route to take me back to the highway, that is, turning right onto the roads that lead to the highway.
The red arrows show where the navigator wanted to take me. The orange is the actual recorded route to home.
See where it says "Newborough". That's where it wanted me to head to to get into the freeway to go home.
I tried it in Google Maps. It offered me the highway route and an alternative route down the back roads.
Interestingly, when I altered the destination address (my house is close to the highway) to the other end closer to the back road, Google changed the route, but Scenic didn't.
Thing is, yesterday's ride wasn't an issue as I know the area quite well. But it could be a problem when I'm navigating somewhere unfamiliar, such as an inner Melbourne suburb. But to date, it's been good in that respect.
