Navigating "direct" to intermediate waypoints in a route (Oregon 750)
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:29 pm
I've put up with this annoyance for some time but now have the time to see if its fixable (or if I'm missing something obvious)...
I mainly use my Oregon 750 for multi-day backcountry hikes. I have a route, usually created by studying the relevant maps or converting the track of someone I trust (basecamp and/or mapsource). I navigate this route using "direct" routing as there are generally no trails recognized by any maps I have (true in many parts of Canada). My route then consists of a number of viapoints simply telling me when I change direction and waypoints which I use to mark possible camping spots, river crossings etc. If I make a single route of the whole trip, I am able to tell the distance to destination (which is the end of the trip and could be several days in the future) and the distance to the next via-/way-point (which seem to be treated in exactly the same way) which could be in only 20 metres. Interesting to know but often I really want to be able to choose to know the distance/eta etc. to the planned camping spot for tonight or the river crossing and hence show progress towards that waypoint.
If I go into "current route" and navigate to an intermediate waypoint, instead of navigating via the current route, the device simply gives me a direct bearing to the wapoint which could be directly across an impassable obstacle and certainly not along the trail/route I will be following.
The way that I have got around this up to now is to split the route into what I think will be daily segments so that I can navigate towards the destination for the day but if there are actually multiple points of interest along the way or we have a great day and want to go further this is quite cumbersome.
The easiest solution would be to be able to simply set a particular intermediate waypoint as the temporary "destination" and navigate along the route to that point. Is this possible when using "direct" routing with a lot of viapoints?
A related nice feature to have would be to be able to set data fields in the trip computer (map, compass) to distance to a chosen waypoint. Is this possible (perhaps someone has written an app to do this?)?
If it's relevant I use classic mode.
Any ideas/help much appreciated. Apologies for the long post.
I mainly use my Oregon 750 for multi-day backcountry hikes. I have a route, usually created by studying the relevant maps or converting the track of someone I trust (basecamp and/or mapsource). I navigate this route using "direct" routing as there are generally no trails recognized by any maps I have (true in many parts of Canada). My route then consists of a number of viapoints simply telling me when I change direction and waypoints which I use to mark possible camping spots, river crossings etc. If I make a single route of the whole trip, I am able to tell the distance to destination (which is the end of the trip and could be several days in the future) and the distance to the next via-/way-point (which seem to be treated in exactly the same way) which could be in only 20 metres. Interesting to know but often I really want to be able to choose to know the distance/eta etc. to the planned camping spot for tonight or the river crossing and hence show progress towards that waypoint.
If I go into "current route" and navigate to an intermediate waypoint, instead of navigating via the current route, the device simply gives me a direct bearing to the wapoint which could be directly across an impassable obstacle and certainly not along the trail/route I will be following.
The way that I have got around this up to now is to split the route into what I think will be daily segments so that I can navigate towards the destination for the day but if there are actually multiple points of interest along the way or we have a great day and want to go further this is quite cumbersome.
The easiest solution would be to be able to simply set a particular intermediate waypoint as the temporary "destination" and navigate along the route to that point. Is this possible when using "direct" routing with a lot of viapoints?
A related nice feature to have would be to be able to set data fields in the trip computer (map, compass) to distance to a chosen waypoint. Is this possible (perhaps someone has written an app to do this?)?
If it's relevant I use classic mode.
Any ideas/help much appreciated. Apologies for the long post.