With the Garmin Street Pilot and MapSource that I used before NavPro, there was the ability to control the route by inserting and forcing waypoints. NavPro gives two main choices, highways or shortest. Both seem to miss some of my favorite routes. I know that we can ignore them and go our merry way and the software quickly recovers. That works fine in familiar territory, but also may lead us awry in strange territory.

Have I missed something in the software that would solve this problem for me?

 

JDN, I haven't found a way to add waypoints yet. I've played with the Nav quite a bit, and like it, but it's not nearly as 'useful' (and gulp, I hate to say that!) as the one on my 2001 lexus GS.

I've also not found a way to stop the guidance unless you reach the destination or select a new destination. In the past, I've used it to select a destination, then check mileage (or just play), then cancel guidance. Haven't figured out how to do that either.

The Map Data is far superior to the Map Data in the 2004 Expedition that my wife has. I've also noticed that when you drive close to the airport you can actually see the runways (being a pilot, that is just darn cool!)

I do always keep the Map up though. Sometimes the split screen is on radio, and the little screen on map.

Sorry I couldn't help more.

James

 

The way to stop the guidance is to go back to the destination list. The current destination will be listed along with an arrow (something like ->*) next to it. If you select it and press the controller, you can then deselect "Start Guidance" by pressing the controller when you've selected the 'start guidance" item (it will have a check mark in the box, when you press the controller, the checkmark goes away).

It took me a while to figure this out as it's not called out in the manual very well, and it's certainly not intuitive.

-Rob

 

The way to pause or stop navigation is to click on the name of the destination you are currently navigating to (it should still be visible in the menu and I think it has a little symbol to the left of the name).

A window will pop up and there will be a check box that says something like "start guidance". Clear the check box and it'll stop everything right away. You can re-check the box to begin again from wherever you are.

I'm sure I'm not exact at describing the actual wording, etc. If you have trouble finding things, I'll go out to the car and get more specifics.

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Rob beat me to the punch. Good luck!

 

To cancel navigation to a selected destination you'll have to go back to the input screen that lists the current destination (and older destinations) and click on the selected destination, this will show you a new window with some options, you'll also see a checked checkbox saying guidenance, uncheck it and voila!

EDIT - And both of you beated me.

 

Setting manual waypoints (e.g. a temporary destination) then changing to the final destination BEFORE you get near the temporary destination normally works well...

 

So what you are saying is that there is no possibility to navigate with a waypoint in between starting point and destination.

If that?s so, I wouldn?t call it a Professional Navigation! Do you?

 

Can you not set via points (my street pilot would do this) or can you only navigate from adress to adress?

DD

 

You got it, DD. Point to point as Navtech sees it, at that. Navtech has a poor perception of fastest. Sometimes, I doubt shortest, too. OTOH, it does a fabulous job of guiding you when you stray from the Navtech chosen route.

 

This isn't a Navteq (new name) issue... navteq simply provides the layers of data. The system (in this case BMW and their suppliers) has to have support to route via waypoints.

Manually adding a known midway point as the inital destination (and changing enroute to the final destination) will allow this. It's a pain but it does work.

Making a sw change to allow waypoints wouldn't be too difficult considering how the nav pro system is developed, however I'm sure the software team has other priorities/tasks.

If any BMW AG lurkers are reading this... how about it?