Lowrance electronic 500C manual Route Via Waypoints

Route Via Waypoints

Although the iWAY is designed to generate your route from your start location all the way to your destination, sometimes you’ll want a little bit of control over the path it makes. The Route Via Waypoints menu allows you to add intermediate locations along your route. When you use this command, the iWAY will make sure to send you to each loca- tion in the list, in order, before it sends you to the final destination.

Use the Route Via Waypoints menu to control your route. Image at left shows an empty route, image at right shows all of the routing controls and options available when navigating.

Here’s an example. Imagine you want to visit the nearest gas station before heading out of town on a road trip. First, make sure the first waypoint in the list is a nearby gas station (we’ll describe how to search for one in Sec. 5), and the second item is your final destination.

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The easiest way to set up a route with a multiple waypoints is to perform a search for one location in your route and choose GO TO to begin navigating to it, then search for another location and choose GO TO for that one. The iWAY will provide you with an option of de- touring to that waypoint (adding it to the beginning of the route) or setting it as a new final destination (adding it to the end of the route). We’ll discuss these options in more detail in Sec. 5.

Choose Generate Route and the iWAY will begin giving directions to the gas station. Once you arrive at the gas station, the iWAY will switch to the next waypoint in the list, and start giving directions to your final destination.

You can add as many items to the list as you want, just remember that the iWAY will send you through this list in order. To expand on our earlier example, let’s say you need to pick up a friend who’s traveling with you. Put in the friend's house as the first stop on the trip, then stop by a nearby gas station, then add all of the places you want to go

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