Is the CAMC UK Route Planner fine to use?

[Hutch]

Saxo, how long was your tow, .? Was it easy ? And which route did you use.
And enjoy you holiday.

 

[Saxo Appeal]

Managed to successfully drive down to England.

We travelled down the road from Whitby to Pickering then West Ayton

 

[GUMPY]

I've just put in a route that 95% of satnavs for other than cars get wrong.
No surprise it gets it wrong and directs down a very small road with a 6'6" width limit.
Anyone want to try it, it's to Gear Farm near Helford coming from somewhere not on the lizard. If it takes you round Mawgan creek and up Gear Hill it's wrong. It has to be approached in he opposite direction from St Martin

 

[Saxo Appeal]

Don’t know why Sat Nav’s ask for your dimensions when it clearly doesn’t take them into consideration..

 

[Hutch]

Don’t know why Sat Nav’s ask for your dimensions when it clearly doesn’t take them into consideration..

The satNavs when you put in 2 metre wide, will take you down a road 2 meter wide.
My Snooper truck and Caravan SatNav, I set it to 3 metres wide, so no narrow roads, might be a longer route but check on Google maps.

 

[jimmyg352]

Ignore Google. We just drove from Barnstaple in Devon to New Milton in Hampshire using Google. It was a right laugh.
Went along this road & did Zig Zag Hill, then further on met a tractor & trailer with about 8 tons of bales on the back & had to reverse…
Ive absolutely no idea why I didn’t just plan my own route using OS maps which I have on my phone.
I’m a dafty.

 

[ProfJohnL]

Ignore Google. We just drove from Barnstaple in Devon to New Milton in Hampshire using Google. It was a right laugh.
Went along this road & did Zig Zag Hill, then further on met a tractor & trailer with about 8 tons of bales on the back & had to reverse…
Ive absolutely no idea why I didn’t just plan my own route using OS maps which I have on my phone.
I’m a dafty.

I don't think you can justify blaming Google for encountering a tractor! When you use Google and indeed most routing systems, you can select certain options such as avoiding toll's, motorways, and ferries, but also more generic issues such as fastest, shortest etc.

I suggest you check your options.

 

[otherclive]

I don't think you can justify blaming Google for encountering a tractor! When you use Google and indeed most routing systems, you can select certain options such as avoiding toll's, motorways, and ferries, but also more generic issues such as fastest, shortest etc.

I suggest you check your options.

I used to programme my Garmin via my PC for the required route, ensuring that near the site I used the sites own directions. These days it’s even easier with Streetview and Google earth. But we always carried a map book in the car, and rarely if ever did I follow a satnav diversion whether it be car,Garmin or Google. To most satnav devices a 2 metre country lane at national speed limit is treated no differently to a A road at national speed limit. So if you have shortest or fastest set it will route you whichever meets the settings. It’s only a dumb calculator when alls said and done.

Can’t believe at 17 myself and with my then to be wife I drove my Dad’s car to Interlaken with only maps and route cards to navigate by 😱

 

[Jcloughie]

On our European trips, as well as those at home. Pre, any decent satnav, I spent hours on route planning using AA and Via Michelin., as well as local site instructions. A typical trip would be about 20 pages long identifying every stop. I would print two copies, one for our friends. And it worked very well nearly all of the time.

Prior to that, we would order our routes from the AA. Which was a good service at that time.

John

 

[otherclive]

On our European trips, as well as those at home. Pre, any decent satnav, I spent hours on route planning using AA and Via Michelin., as well as local site instructions. A typical trip would be about 20 pages long identifying every stop. I would print two copies, one for our friends. And it worked very well nearly all of the time.

Prior to that, we would order our routes from the AA. Which was a good service at that time.

John

Heavens, mention of the AA route planning service takes me back too many years.

The main problem with the pre satnav approach was if my Co pilot fell asleep and lost track of which of the 20 pages we were on 😂

 

[RogerL]

On our European trips, as well as those at home. Pre, any decent satnav, I spent hours on route planning using AA and Via Michelin., as well as local site instructions. A typical trip would be about 20 pages long identifying every stop. I would print two copies, one for our friends. And it worked very well nearly all of the time.

Prior to that, we would order our routes from the AA. Which was a good service at that time.

John

I can't speak of European trips as I've never toured abroad - but for UK touring I used to find 1/4 inch OS maps ideal in the olden days - easy to see the main routes but also possible to pick out short cuts - more recently I use an atlas at 3 miles/inch which stays in the car as backup to satnav failure.

I remember planning my route from Shrewsbury to Peterhead for an interview in 1971 - essentially stick to main roads and fork right at Glasgow - but compounded by the M73 still being built and the resulting roadworks on local roads causing some issues.

 

[Dustydog]

I can't speak of European trips as I've never toured abroad - but for UK touring I used to find 1/4 inch OS maps ideal in the olden days - easy to see the main routes but also possible to pick out short cuts - more recently I use an atlas at 3 miles/inch which stays in the car as backup to satnav failure.

I remember planning my route from Shrewsbury to Peterhead for an interview in 1971 - essentially stick to main roads and fork right at Glasgow - but compounded by the M73 still being built and the resulting roadworks on local roads causing some issues.

Did you get the job?

 

[RogerL]

Did you get the job?

Yes! Took a while to come to terms with the Doric dialect but look back fondly on my time there - probably shouldn't have left when I did but that's the benefit of hindsight

 

[Jcloughie]

When we went to Australia in 2006, I took a Personal Organiser, with a bootleg nav system on it. It took us around Melbourne and Adelaide fine, and the routes in between, The Great Ocean Road, was not possible to go wrong. But, we were running late, so decided to take a short cut inland. I pulled over to start the SatNav just to make sure we were on the right road.

(I remember a friend of mine took a wrong turning and went 5 hours before he realised and the only way back was the way he had gone, plus floods).

We were on the right road. But the SatNav simply said. ‘In 102 miles, vier left’. After that 101 miles it changed to a similar instruction. And that was a short cut!

John