Changing Your Active Route; Adding A Location To Your Route; Shaping Your Route; Taking A Detour - Garmin DRIVE 55 Owner's Manual

Changing Your Active Route

Adding a location to your route

Before you can add a location to your route, you must be navigating a route
You can add locations to the middle or end of your route. For example, you can add a petrol station as the next
destination in your route.
TIP: to create complex routes with multiple destinations or scheduled stops, you can use the trip planner to
plan, schedule, and save a trip
1 From the map, select
2 Search for a location (Finding and saving locations, page
3 Select a location.
4 Select Go!.
5 Select an option:
• To add the location as the next destination in your route, select Add As Next Stop.
• To add the location to the end of your route, select Add As Last Stop.
• To add the location and edit the order of destinations in your route, select Add to Active Route.
The device re-calculates the route to include the added location and guides you to the destinations in order.

Shaping your route

Before you can shape your route, you must start a route
You can manually shape your route to change its course. This allows you to direct the route to use a certain
road or go through a certain area without adding a destination to the route.
1 Touch anywhere on the map.
2 Select .
The device enters route shaping mode.
3 Select a location on the map.
TIP: you can select
The device recalculates the route to travel through the selected location.
4 If necessary, select an option:
• To add more shaping points to the route, select additional locations on the map.
• To remove a shaping point, select
5 When you are finished shaping the route, select Go!.

Taking a Detour

You can take a detour for a specified distance along your route or detour around specific roads. This is useful if
you encounter construction zones, closed roads or poor road conditions.
1 From the map, select > Edit Route.
TIP: if the Edit Route tool is not in the map tools menu, you can add it.
2 Select an option:
• To re-route for a specific distance, select Detour by Distance.
• To detour around a specific road on the route, select Detour by Road.
• To find a new route, select Detour.
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(Planning a trip, page
> Where To?.
to zoom in on the map and select a more precise location.
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(Starting a route, page
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(Starting a route, page
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Navigating to your destination