On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:29:13 -0700, drksky <drksky1056@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>On Jun 25, 10:51 am, Dick <w...@k7yca.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:50:18 -0700, drksky1...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> >I have an 07 Civic with the built-in nav system that has an annoying
>> >"feature". When I go on long trips for vacations, I like to take back
>> >roads, state highways and such, and I used to do this with just a
>> >pocket atlas at hand. I'm planning a trip and if I put in a
>> >destination anywhere over 60 or so miles away, I don't get the option
>> >to minimize freeways. Is there any way around this? I'd like to put
>> >in my final destination, about 900 miles away and minimize freeways,
>> >but the thing just won't let me do it. Any ideas?
>>
>> >Thanks!
>>
>> Are you saying that you can turn off the maximize freeways for routes
>> up to about 60 miles, but over that the option is not there? My nav
>> is in an Accord so may be a little different, but I have had the
>> freeways turned off for routes up to 300 miles. Haven't tried it
>> further than that.
>>
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>That's exactly it. Say I put in a route to go from Chicago to St.
>Louis, but I don't want to take I-55, so I try to change the routing
>options, but the only ones available are Direct, East and Maximize
>Freeways. But if I were to put in Chicao go Kankakee, I have those
>three routing options, plus Minimize Freeways and one other (I don't
>remember what the 5th option was). It's quite annoying.
>
>On a related note, has anyone tried to go to the hondanavi.com site?
>There's a link from the main Honda site that there is an updated DVD
>available, but taking that link results in Mozilla saying, "Waiting
>for hondanavi.com" which just eventually yields a blank page.
>
I just tried it and went right to the order page. Of course it was
for the Accord and not the Civic. Didn't try that one. Try this one
and maybe you can use it to get to the Civic DVD.
http://automobiles.honda.com/models/...=Accord+Sedan#
Sometimes these sites are very hard to access if you have pop-ups
blocked, cookies screwed down, etc. Might check that with your
browser.
Dick
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