A question about roadworks

[raesewell]

Good morning Peeps
A question about roadworks and the XT's behaviour. I have just got back from a trip to France, on one of the routes there was a road closure.
The XT did not recognise that the road was closed and wanted me to go through the closed road. In contrast a couple of friends had the Tomtom Rider 550 which showed the closed road as a red and white stripe and routed around the closed road and re-joined the route further on.

Am I missing something or does the XT just not do roadworks?

PS: I was using a route and not a track.

[MotoToph]

Are you using live traffic? Are traffic avoidances on?

[raesewell]

Live traffic, Yes, traffic avoidances, not sure, where do I find that?

[raesewell]

I have checked, it was set to On Request, however when I encountered the closed road it did not give me an option to avoid. I have now changed it to Automatic.
Any other advice will be gratefully received.

[danham]

Make sure Garmin Drive is running (even in the background) on your phone.

-dan

[raesewell]

Garmin Drive is always running on my phone and was running at the time of this incident

[Peobody]

FWIW, my experience with Garmin traffic has been terrible here in the U.S. Like you, I have encountered closed roads without the XT identifying it. It is bad in other ways too (open roads have been detected as closed, traffic warnings when there was no slowdown, stopped traffic without any warning). I don't have any confidence in its accuracy. I don't know of a way to improve it.

I keep mine set to On Request to prevent automatic reroutes. I prefer having the opportunity to access what I am seeing and then making the decision about a reroute. It is all useless though when it doesn't detect a traffic situation.

[raesewell]

I suppose the only other option would be that when you come to a closed road would be to stop and edit route to avoid the next 1 mile 2 miles etc.
But that seems a bit of a faff. Especially as Tomtom just gets on with it, routes you around the road closure and gets you back on route. Apart from this major niggle I think the XT is good.

[Peobody]

A fair job is done here with warning signage detour signs, but not always. When that happens I don't attempt to revise the route, I just manually navigate around it and return to the route as soon as practical. This is usually easy in urban areas but can be a challenge in rural areas because of the quick loss of detail when zooming out the XT.

[sussamb]

Live traffic, Yes, traffic avoidances, not sure, where do I find that?

Did your XT simply not warn you or was the road not shown as closed? I live in France and am often diverted away from road closures, although more often than not local road closures are badly signed and not ever reported to the sites that broadcast details on road closures. I don't use a XT though.