So I'm trying to make a route from two waypoints, home to Rim of the World Dr in Big Bear. I make the route and coming back home it takes what I would consider the proper route, freeways. If I use the invert function it doesn't just invert it want s me to take another "freeway" basicically a street for many miles instead of just truly reversing the route.

What gives?

 

What routing preference are you using (faster/shorter) and what map set are you running? I find the Roads/Rec maps are pretty bad with routing. Try adding an intermediate way point to see if that helps.

 

That's what I ended up doing was adding a couple waypoints to "guide" it along.

I'm using MapSource version 6.3. I tried all the options for the route, fastest, shortest and it wanted me to take a highway that's just a road with a ton of stop lights going through three cities!

Adding the waypoints to the better choice got it to do what I wanted though.

 

Sounds about right. I think the routing is based upon some sort of road classification and if a road is flagged as a sort of "highway" even if it is a city street w/ stop lights (El Camino Real - CA82 - in many California cities comes to mind) it'll try to take you there not knowing its not the fastest way.

 

This road didn't happen to be Highway 30 by any chance? If so it is the fastest and shortest route, but does take you onto the regular streets. The freeways in that area get quite crowded and I always found that route the be the quickest.

 

No, this was highway 76 down here by me.