I think I figured out a routing design flaw in my Rand device.

You don't even know how your own software works. I will post a video proving it after I shut down for the day.

 

Mr. Kling,

According to you, my TND 730 never displays the distance in road miles to Points of Interest along a predefined route because it never calculates said road miles.

As promised, this video proves you wrong.

At the time of this video, I was in the Sapp Bros truck stop in Columbus, Nebraska.

In order to test the road miles vs. route miles calculations, I chose the Blue Beacon truck wash in Oakley, Kansas as my destination.

As the crow flies, there is a distance of 242 miles between the two locations. I intentionally chose to utilize the highly inefficient ‘prefer freeway’ routing option, which added roughly 350 miles to the trip, for a total of 601 road miles.

Then I did a search along that 601 mile route for truck services, subgroup truck washes.

As the device examines the route, looking for POI’s along the route that match the search criterion, you can see at the top of the TND 730’s screen that it is tracking how many ROAD MILES it has searched along the route.

As it completes the search, the top of the screen indicates that the device searched a 601 mile route and the last truck wash it found is the destination truck wash (Blue Beacon, Oakley, KS) at 242 air miles distant.

Instead of providing a list of matching POI’s sorted by the road miles that it calculated, the device discards all the work it just did in calculating distances along the route, and provides a list of POI’s with air mile distances.

This is UTTERLY HORRIBLE implementation logic for the route search option! In order to generate the mileage progress meter at the top of the screen when searching along a defined route, the device ALREADY DID the road mile distance calculations BUT then DISCARDS the useful road miles data in favor of nearly useless air miles distance data.

TRUCKERS WANT THAT DATA YOU ARE THROWING AWAY. It’s ridiculous that it is being discarded. Even if it’s not precise data, it’s FAR more precise than air miles.

 

I posted your PUBLIC USERNAME from this forum on that video.

BUT, I have altered the video title to remove your public domain username data.

 

I did not know it was your name. I only knew it was your public domain username on this forum.

I've removed the reference on the video.