Avoidance of Bridges

[Paul Winter]

Hi

I use an Ipaq 2210 and Navman 4110 system to help me get a lorry from A to
B. I feel the software is primarily aimed at car drivers as I can't find a
way of avoiding low bridges, weak bridges (weight limit), width restrictions
and country lanes. I understand that SmartST 3 is now out. Is this what I'm
looking for or should I be looking at something totally different?

Cheers

Paul

[Alan Morris]

Post by Paul Winter
Hi
I use an Ipaq 2210 and Navman 4110 system to help me get a lorry from A to
B. I feel the software is primarily aimed at car drivers as I can't find a
way of avoiding low bridges, weak bridges (weight limit), width restrictions
and country lanes. I understand that SmartST 3 is now out. Is this what I'm
looking for or should I be looking at something totally different?
Cheers
Paul

The Garmin 2610 can be set to different types of vehicle. Look on Garmin's
website and download the User manual PDF.

Alan

[Ivor Jones]

Post by Alan Morris

Post by Paul Winter
Hi
I use an Ipaq 2210 and Navman 4110 system to help me get a lorry
from A to B. I feel the software is primarily aimed at car drivers
as I can't find a way of avoiding low bridges, weak bridges
(weight limit), width restrictions and country lanes. I understand
that SmartST 3 is now out. Is this what I'm looking for or should
I be looking at something totally different?
Cheers
Paul

The Garmin 2610 can be set to different types of vehicle. Look on
Garmin's website and download the User manual PDF.

This assumes the map data knows the height of low bridges. The signs on
them aren't always accurate either. I'm a bus driver and know of several
low bridges that you can *just* get a double decker underneath, despite
the markings on the bridges themselves showing 3 to 6 inches *lower* than
the actual height of the bus ;-)

Ivor

[Alan Morris]

Post by Ivor Jones

Post by Alan Morris

Post by Paul Winter
Hi
I use an Ipaq 2210 and Navman 4110 system to help me get a lorry
from A to B. I feel the software is primarily aimed at car drivers
as I can't find a way of avoiding low bridges, weak bridges
(weight limit), width restrictions and country lanes. I understand
that SmartST 3 is now out. Is this what I'm looking for or should
I be looking at something totally different?

The Garmin 2610 can be set to different types of vehicle. Look on
Garmin's website and download the User manual PDF.

This assumes the map data knows the height of low bridges. The signs on
them aren't always accurate either. I'm a bus driver and know of several
low bridges that you can *just* get a double decker underneath, despite
the markings on the bridges themselves showing 3 to 6 inches *lower* than
the actual height of the bus ;-)

Ivor I've also got a full Cat D licence and the height date is claimed to be
in the map database of the 2610. But probably there are lots of gaps.

There is a UK paper map (1/4 scale) that shows all low bridges and their
heights. It's a bit expencive and I thought about buying it.

The best solution is to get setup a waypoint (POI) overlay file on one of
the websites and get folk to add to the file.

Alan

[davek]

Post by Paul Winter
Hi
I use an Ipaq 2210 and Navman 4110 system to help me get a lorry from A to
B. I feel the software is primarily aimed at car drivers as I can't find a
way of avoiding low bridges,

Towing a caravan through France, Garmin SP3 using MapSource directed me off
a roundabout at Castres onto a road with a railway bridge, 2.4 metre
headroom. Quite a difficult reverse back to the roundabout, what with the
local Sunday drivers choosing that moment to go cruising.
Mentioned it to Garmin who stated that the 'truck' setting will calculate
routes on which trucks are allowed, but heights of bridges are not included
in the mapping.
I just set routing for 'car and motorcycle' now.
DaveK.