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How does it work? Optimize Order vs manual change gives much better distance -20 kilometers?

It focuses on the Via Points and finds a route that visits all of them in an 'optimal' way (eg faster/shorter - I don't know).

It strips out any shaping points that you may have plotted. I think that it keeps the start and end point as they are and shuufles any remaing Via points around. I fiddled with it a long time ago and decided that it wasn't something I would ever find a use for.

This is actually a big problem.
I hate this device, but I also love it

blahooma wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 10:49 pm I hate this device, but I also love it

Me too. The hardware is pretty darn good. The thinking behind the software that drives is it impressive too, but its implementation is quirky enough to be downright maddening.

blahooma wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 10:49 pm This is actually a big problem.

What is the problem ?

Peobody wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:04 am
............. its implementation is quirky enough to be downright maddening.

Seems I'm not alone, thankfully.
I was putting it down to my old age.....

Are Garmin employees idiots? Before it worked poorly, but now it doesn't even work poorly.

This is the classic "traveling salesman" problem (finding the most efficient route to visit all stops). GPSes have been trying to solve it for many years. If Garmin is to be faulted here, it's for pretending they have solved it.

-dan

It is sad to read this The most important and it is broken.

I don't understand why you say it is broken. It's algorithm produces what it determined to be the most efficient (optimal) way to visit all of the Via points. You may not agree with the results but that doesn't mean it is broken. What is your expectation?