Dakota 20 Help

[stevenmcco]

Hi I know a few people on here have Dakota 20s and wondered if anyone could explain to me how I set it up to do the following

I used to use a forerunner 305 and made routes for it. It would just show a plain line and no map but it would beep and tell me when I had gone off route.

Now got a Dakota with OS maps (thanks to the bargain map link from this site) and that all works fine and all I want it to do is when I plan a route/track using a program like bikehike it shows me the route on the map (which it does) and beep and tell me when I am off track (which I cant get it to do).

I have tried putting my route on as a track and a gpx route both times it shows it on the map but doesn’t tell me when I am off route and it never seems to understand that I am doing the route….

How do I make it tell me I have gone wrong? I am sure it is something easy that I am missing. Thanks for any help
Steve

[Taylor]

My Garmin Oregon will only beep at me when I reach the next waypoint telling me to turn.
I would suspect the Dakota will only do this too.

[jamiep]

i've one but have not heard of it having such a function

[Bearbonesnorm]

I've never really found the need for gps to do this. Just keeping the arrow on the line seems to do the trick ... if the arrow and line part company it's easy to see where I went wrong and backtrack, it's a matter of metres rather than miles.

[Pyro]

I've just never found the need for GPS. Learn.to navigate!

[Lughnasadh]

I just use mine to follow a pre determined track by following the purple line.

I did make the mistake once, when fatigued, of following the line when the view was zoomed way out which resulted in me being a fair bit out of my way before I realised I had taken the wrong fork.

So always keep in mind the scale of the map you are looking at.

I dont use routes on it as the number of points are limited so I dont know about real navigation or bleeps etc, sorry.