Rand McNally intelliRoute TND 500

Musicmaker - Are you talking about the PC-Miler or the TND 500? I do not mind other units being compaired on this thread to the TND, but it gets a little confusing if I think I am responding to an TND issue and it is really another unit.

Any issues I would like to be kept to the RM TND on this thread. It is a support and knowledge thread.

Thanks for allowing this,
Mark

 

..Well stated Mark. The only thing I would comment on that the OP stated was a "pause" button. I certainly know this is not appropriate, but he did make some sense as it recalculates post fuel/rest stop activity...We can't always pre-program our rest/fuel stops as we either might not know them or take them as needed... My one issue was that sometimes, it was quite a bit of travel, after leaving a T/A (for example) - that the TND finally finished recalculating.
It sure doesn't like it when you take it 'off route'...

Honestly though, I don't know how anyone can 'fix' that, since it's not a DEFECT. You go off route, it needs to recalculate. Common sense there.

 

A pause button would work if it was coded and used correctly. If you pause it before you leave the route and return to the route before unpausing, it wouldn't recalculate. If it was set up to, instead of pausing the route, it set the current position the same way "set origin" does, it would just wait for you to reach the route and continue without having to unpause it. A combination of that might work.

 

Starting point was Pasadena, TX and destination was Morrow, GA. I looked in the navi folder then the logs folder. Logs folder was empty. Maybe cuz I updated the TND first? I took a picture of the tnd screen with my cell phone . Its kinda blurry but you can make it out. I can txt it you if you wanna PM me ur cell #.

Thanks

 

This is a GPS driven device. Unless you returned to the exact spot of where you hit the pause button it will re-calculate. From the beginning of the off-ramp to the end of the on-ramp is more than 15 feet. The GPS will sense location change. It will re-calculate. What if you hit the pause button and forgot it? 400 miles later you remembered it. Do you expect the GPS to go back to the position it was paused or expect it to seek your current location?

The whole point being - Nuudge suspects each time it re-calculates that they have to stop and get out the MCRA and then recheck the entire route. This has been his theory all along.

Nuudge has posted several long posts in regards to his theory and without actually having one or probably never been in a truck much less driven one, then they have no idea how the TND operates.

Any Navigation device is location driven by GPS. If you chose to take an exit, then the GPS will think that you are going off route and try to get you back on your current route. This will happen with any GPS driven device.

The Truck Navigation Device (TND) is also location driven by GPS, but now with more restrictions on where it can go on any road by STAA rules. The TND will not route you on a road if it does not have STAA in the mapping database. Are their errors - yes. Can they be corrected - Yes. Does RM have the personal to look at each road in the USA and Canada to verify if STAA - No. Do 3 million drivers drive on these roads daily - Yes. If that driver has an TND will it benefit them and other drivers if they find an error to send in a correction - Yes.

Can you use a Via button instead as the Pause button? - yes. In the current version - No. In the upcoming version - yes.

Thanks,
Mark

 

send you a PM.

Thanks,
Mark

 

I see it,,, database error... if you click on it, it shows Vinton, LA... but shows on I-70/55 x 4

I send it up to RM....

Thanks,
Mark

 

Nope, the garmin doesn't. You put it to sleep before you hit the ramp, and wake it up as you're pulling onto the highway and it will not recalculate. It will continue the route like you never left it. The key is not letting it notice you've left the route. If the pause button just didn't let it recalculate until you returned to route, it wouldn't recalculate because when it unpaused itself, it'd be because you returned to the route and you'd be on it so no need to recalculate.

Granted having the via points would solve all this since it wouldn't mess with the route beyond the next via point.

 

YOU HAVE INSULTED ME AGAIN. . .

When posted inititially you attacked me personally and have done it again here. DO NOT DO IT AGAIN!

Routing is everything and the only thing that matters really. OOR cost lots of money if I don't catch it. The average wrong turn results in 25 miles. Are you willing to pay? Restricted road you or Rand going to pay the fine?

As for the mapping. . . isn't that their business? Hasn't that been their business for a while? ? ?

 

Oh and about the pause button, turn off giving directions in the program, would stop all recalculation. Works great on Streets and Trips, never recalculates when I resume the route. Only recalculates a route when off route and giving directions. So the technology is possible.