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Originally Posted by dasilvarsa
OK, maybe my brief comment 'Trip planner is a waste of space, but genuine routes is handy for some' was a little harsh without further explanation (i'm usually in strife for over-explaining things). I'm not a Trip Planner hater. My comment was in regard to it's questionable usefulness in advance planning and dasilvarsa's comment about MS and BC giving upredictable (read 'mostly useless' imo) results for actual planning before firing up the 'Trip Planner equipped Nuvi' is what i mean, because 'trips' does not equal 'routes'. I don't use these tools on a daily basis, but i agree that what davilvarsa uses 'trips' for is fine for those purposes and his great tip to use waypoints as shaping points is the way to do it imo. I think it's relative in that provided you haven't used Routes before then experiencing Trip Planner would be a revelation and most acceptable as Greekislandlover found. I agree with him that it should stay but if by a fw update it was removed and replaced with Routes i would applaude. Frankly, Garmin doing it the other way around was one step forward and two steps back imo. There's also Garmin's [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] which is worth looking at.
ALG is far more useful on a dezl for truckies than JCV for sure. This feature is on advanced and prestige 2113 nuvi line as well but maybe not as useful for car drivers. LA/ALG (even without JCV) is a better combination than just LA/JCV and more available anyway. A thumbs up from me. Of course if you're Giomen in his Maserati stuck in the leftmost lane and need to get into the far right lane in 1 Klick, you probably don't need it. Here's a video showing firstly LA & AGL and then the 3 working together on a 2797:
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Lifetime map updates
30 73.17% -
3D terrain view
13 31.71% -
3-D buildings and landmarks view
13 31.71% -
Routes (real ones) from pc
21 51.22% -
Trip Planner
15 36.59% -
Voice-activated navigation
12 29.27% -
Lane assist
35 85.37% -
Junction view
29 70.73% -
myTrends&trafficTrends
13 31.71% -
ecoRoute
7 17.07% -
Route avoidance
11 26.83% -
Garmin nüLink! services
3 7.32% -
Enhanced pedestrian navigation
9 21.95% -
Where Am I?
14 34.15% -
Photo navigation
8 19.51% -
Garmin Lock
6 14.63% -
Custom POIs
25 60.98% -
Exit services
9 21.95% -
MP3 player,Video Player,Audio book player
5 12.20% -
Smartphone Link services
12 29.27%
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