Navigating to a Point Which is on a Trail

As you probably know, you can select a destination by going to the Map view, finding the right location, then touching the spot to which you wish to navigate. Fairly reasonable, right?

But what if the point you select as your destination is on a trail---in other words, you've been there before or at least drove past it?

Creating a destination out of a point which is on a trail is still a mystery to me. When/if I figure it out, I'll let you know here.

Or perhaps you already know how! If you do, leave a comment, please!

ETE and ETA Computation

Tonight we went on a short trip to a destination 25 miles from home. When we were ready to come home, I selected my home as the destination while we were still in the parking lot.

After generating the route, it showed that the Estimated Time Enroute (ETE) was xx minutes and the Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) was 8:29:41.

And this was before we had moved one inch! (One centimeter, if there are readers anyplace other than the US.)

How could it know how long it would take if it didn't know how fast we were travelling??? Clearly, it made an estimate. I suspect that it assumed that I would drive at the speed limit, which was indeed my plan. Because we had something in the back of the truck, I drove a couple of mph under the speed limit some of the time.

But I kept watch of the ETA and was amazed at how close it seemed to be to my own estimate. As it turned out, we arrived less than one minute after the time predicted before we had even moved!

You can bet I'll keep my eye on the ETA in the future, to see if I can gather any additional clues as to how it computes ETE. (ETA is just current time plus ETE.)

Any clues from you would be appreciated; leave a comment, please!

Basic But Useful Information

Now that my long trip is finished, all that I do are short trips around town. But even doing those, I learned a couple of things.

1. When in the Navigate mode, there are two lines of text at the top of the screen, centered horizontally. The top one is the name of the street or road on which you are currently traveling.
   
   Want to know where you are but can't read a street sign? Just look at the top line of text!
   
   
2. The second one is the name of your current TO waypoint. Or in the language of the book, the "via" to which you are currently navigating. That's not your ultimate destination if there is more than one leg to your current route.

These lines each hold a limited number of characters. Interestingly, each of the lines listed above appear to deal with "long" information differently.

• If the name of the road on which you are currently located is longer than the system can display on one line, the information wraps to a second line below the first one.
  
  
• If the name of your TO waypoint has more characters than can be displayed at one time, the information will be scrolled back and forth on one line so that the entire info can be read.

It's still a wonderful machine! And with lots more to learn and to use.