SETTINGS / ROUTE PARAMETERS - Set your vehicle type & the type of roads you want to travel

Setting the right route parameters to suit how you want to travel is critical. Your GPS calculates your route based on what settings you have told it to use.

The slider sets the speed at which the navigation software will perform your route calculation. Logic Gear Navigators calculate routes very quickly, and the position of this slider only affects calculation of long routes eg Brisbane to Melbourne. Short routes are always calculated to give you the optimal result independent of the slider position.

In the left most position, the route calculation speed will be very fast. Sliding it to the right will result in a more accurate routing but will take a couple of seconds longer.

Route

Select one from three choices:

Short:  your route will be calculated based on the shortest total distance (of all the possible routes) between the given points. it's usually preferred by pedestrians, cyclists or slow vehicles.

Be careful if you're in the country and you've set your vehicle mode as ‘ car' and turned on ‘unpaved roads'  - your final route may include some dirt roads that you'd rather not travel on if you're in the family car.

Fast:     this calculates the quickest route possible, assuming that you can travel on or near the speed limits on all included road. so in urban areas, if you have motorways and tollways turned on, you'll normally be directed onto them as much as possible. it's ideal if your vehicle choice is set to car

Economical:  this setting combines the best of the previous two. it basically goes for the fastest solution. But if there is another route that takes a bit longer but you travel a lot less distance, Logic Gear Navigation will choose this one to save fuel.

Vehicle
You set the type of vehicle depending on what you're driving, riding etc - and this will also affect the Road Types you can select:
•   Car
•   Taxi
•   Bus (assumes high average speeds cannot be achieved)
•   Truck (assumes high average speeds cannot be achieved)
•   Emergency Vehicle (can go on any roads - no restrictions)
•   Pedestrian (excluded from Motorways & Tollways)
•   Bicycle (excluded from Motorways & Tollways

Most will be selecting Car - but particularly when you're on holidays, you can always change to pedestrian when sight-seeing and be guided around.

Road types to include/exclude

Set the road types to be included or be excluded from the route (if possible). The ones you include will have a white line in the middle of the box beside the road type - if the centre of the box is red, they're excluded.

•  Unpaved Roads ie gravel and dirt roads are excluded by default because they're often rough, can be in poor condition and you often can't reach the speed limit when driving on them.
•  Motorways (Freeways) - if you're driving a slow car or towing another vehicle, you may prefer not to take motorways.
•  Ferries - temporary ferry accessibility is not usually included in the map data. Plus you'll probably have to pay a fee if you use one.
•  U-turns - if turned off, your GPS will guide you through a few normal left and/or right hand turns in the next few junctions to get you back to some distance behind you.

If you're happy to make u-turns - tap to turn on. If you leave them on, and add a distance penalty under Advanced Settings / Route Options, your GPS will automatically adjust your projected destination arrival times etc.

Turning back on a dual carriageway is not considered a u-turn

Note: Via points are handled as stop-overs. So even if you have u-turns turned off, you can pull into your Via point, then leave it travelling in the direction from which you just arrived if your next destination is back that way.