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The fastest route from Skipton to Inverness is to take motorways and major roads - which can be seen on the map as the only blue roads heading north. The 9 Shaping Points are all that it takes to make the route take the much more enjoyable scenic route. These are positioned to prevent the route from sneaking back onto the motorway.

There is no way to recognise a Saved Waypoint from the map. As far as the Zumo XT is concerned, all that matters is whether a point is a Via Point or a Shaping Point. When first placed, Waypoints will default to being Via Points, but you can change any point from one to the other in Basecamp and on the XT screen.

If you create the Trip on the Zumo XT, then the route is calculated by the XT by using the Navigation Route Preferences and the Calculation Mode. These settings are saved separately in the XT for a motorcycle and for a car.

I find that routing is much more predictable if the Calculation Mode is set to Faster Time, with no avoidances.

If you create the Trip using Basecamp, then the route is calculated by Basecamp. When it is loaded into the XT, the XT does not need to re-calculate it and it will (should) display the identical route. If it does recalculate the route then something is wrong with the maps, the settings, or the routing preferences.

Garmin have special invisible route points to ensure that the XT gets the identical route that Basecamp created - but the route will be forced to recalculate if any of the above are not correct.

When riding, the XT will only calculate a new route if it needs to - like if your map on the XT is different from the one that created the route, or if you deviate from the original route. However your settings for features such as Traffic Information or points that are not accurately placed may cause apparently random recalculations.

Again, it is advisable to use Faster Time with no avoidances set, because that is how the Zumo XT is set if you follow my earlier suggestion. The Zumo will not necessarily calculate the identical route that Basecamp would have done, but with a few suitably placed Shaping Points, it will be pretty close.

There are lots of settings that can be played around with that change this behaviour - but that is for a little later.