12-12-2012, 04:24 AM | #1 | |
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Anyone got BMW Routes online to work recently? Continually get the following when calculating route or sending to car
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The only reason I wanted to use this method over sending individual end points via Google Maps (as I would normally) is to save two routes with multiple waypoints On a side note, does anyone know how to stop Google Maps giving you a noddy drop down rather than a text box when sending a destination to car. You used to get a textbox that you could then change to something sensible. As it stands, the message subject (in BMW Office) is what you see in "Include" which can be useless as an identifier - as below, .
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12-12-2012, 04:54 AM | #2 |
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I’ve found the answer to the Google Maps problem: If you are in directions mode on Google Maps:
1. right click on the map to mark a waypoint/endpoint that you want to send to the car 2. select “Add a destination” 3. left click on the newly added marker and send to car. It then appears with a "Name" textbox rather than an "Include" drop down, so you can now edit it before you send - e.g. I've added a prefix below .
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12-12-2012, 09:52 AM | #3 |
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And in answer to my initial question, the route engine is now working again
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12-12-2012, 01:14 PM | #4 |
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Great tool... I'm in the wrong country though.
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12-13-2012, 01:47 AM | #5 |
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Has anyone ever managed to import a custom route? I've sent one to the car, can see it in the car on iDrive under BMW Routes, then I import it which is successful, and then, ... , where is it? There is nowhere under Navigation to see saved routes.
Anyone know how to get the main menu up which has "Saved Journeys" on it? I only see "Destination Input", "Address Book", "Last Destination", "Points of Interest". No good. May have to revert to plan A which is putting the route together in the car after sending the waypoints from Google Maps - would prefer not to as this is clunky
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When I have some 'spare' time I might look into this again. I was hoping to build an excel macro to alter the xml with custom input.... time is not my friend at the moment Example from XML... </Address> <GeoPosition> <Latitude>51.52278731</Latitude> <Longitude>-0.74266847</Longitude> |
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12-13-2012, 11:50 AM | #7 | |
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https://www.bmw-routes.com/data/rout...ne_both_en.pdf
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Question- what happens if you leave the defined route, does the sat-nav try to get you back to the next waypoint? What happens if you miss a waypoint? |
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12-14-2012, 01:21 AM | #9 | |
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And on your question, the route mapping is all done by iDrive in the same way regardless of how the end points are provided. When you send a route, all you send are a sequence of endpoints that iDrive processes one at a time. If you don't follow the given route it just gets updated in the same way it does normally. My question still remains though: If you save a custom route on the BMW Routes website, how do you access it in Navigation after importing it? I can see and import the routes but I never see the "Saved journeys" option in the pdf. Will try USB later to see if that works
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Doh! You just have to push left on iDrive to go from Map View back to the main menu and now I can see all of my imported routes as "Saved Journeys", photos and all
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12-17-2012, 12:59 AM | #12 |
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See what you're saying but logically it would have no way to know your intent. You may have just got lost.
To speed it up you could program a shortcut key to the go to next stage button. You need to be careful when switching profiles midway too. I've noticed some buggy route calculating after a switch. E.g. When travelling east, the new route goes west for 20 miles and then east for 20 on the same road (so you're back to where you started!) before continuing east. Totally bizarre
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