nutella

Help!

I thought my navigation (US) was previously displaying the arrow, and the highlighted path from current position, to the destination. Howevery today, it highlights the entire path from the location where I turned on my navigation, to the destination. This makes it a little confusing on which direction to go after doing some detour turns.

Is this controlled by some option, or was I imagining the previous behavior?

nutella

anyone?

santiago fonseca

It should have the entire trip highlighted but there should be a triangle in a circle that indicates your position on the road - wherever you are at the time between when you started to where you want to go. Your whole trip will be highlighted - it doesn't just highlight AHEAD of you or in your travel direction.

Refujeet

My navigation highlights from where I started too.

I guess it can get confusing, but if you are making several stops, why don't you turn it off and start it when you are ready to go since you are obviously not using the navigation?

I always setup the navigation on the big scren and arrow display on the amall screen, gives me the most information, keeps it less confusing, and looks cool.

santiago fonseca

Unless you have the HUD and the arrow display shows up "on top" of the hood in front of you. You can have a trip computer on the small screen. Now THAT'S cool.

As far as way points, you can set different stops within a longer trip and use it like that. I always have it on, even if I'm not actively navigating somewhere. It's nice to see where you are and can zoom out and see the general direction where you want to go in case you get lost. I always have a good set of maps in the car as well just in case I want to see a large area with detail.

But that works for me. It may be different for you.

jchuan8338

I have never been able to find way points in the navigation in the E60 - although it was a feature in just about every other car I have had navigation in. How do you set way points for multiple stops with the E60 navigation?

nutella

thank you all,
I guess I WAS imagining highlight from current to destinations only

dlevi67

No, you weren't. My Apr-05 E61 (AFAIK not updated since) highlights from current position to destination.

nutella

For real? then my oct 05 car is having issues deciding which way to go. Anyone else seeing this behavior?

dlevi67

I re-checked it this evening. What it actually does is update the route whenever it recalculates it (e.g. if you miss a turn, the one-way systems have changed since the DVD came out - or, like this evening, if you get told by the wife to go back to the supermarket), and then it highlights from the recalculation point to destination.

In other words, if you always follow the instructions, the whole path is highlighted. If you deviate or re-start, it will highlight from the deviation (i.e. most likely "current position" when you are focusing on it) onwards. Haven't had the opportunity to test what happens when TMC changes and you get prompted for a re-routing, but I feel pretty confident it would show the route from the diversion point.

Apologies for the wrong info before