Garmin 800: OSM vs City Navigator-searching on a non pre-defined route

[CovCycle]

Hi

I am about to buy a Garmin800 and deciding or not to pay for the extra city navigator maps or get the openstreetmaps.

Ive done the research and the pros and cons but one thing I can not seem to locate is if your plans deviate from your pre-defined route enroute. Can you punch the postcode/address into the Garmin and it will direct you there. ( I know this is not a usual occurance but Im the kind of person who goes for a ride and then if time thinks "oh ive got a mate who lives nearby, I will go and see him" -im simply not that organised to think about it beforehand in case they start pinning me down for an exact time

I figure that it will do it on the Garmin City Navigator maps but will it do it on Openstreetmaps??

 

[GrumpyGregry]

In my limited experience of using "Where To?" on a Garmin using OpenCycleMaps it can sometimes route me down roads I'd rather not ride on. However, I just blunder on down the minor road and it soon recalculates....

 

[HLaB]

The Talkytoaster map I downloaded said it was a 'routeable map' so I guess you can do postcode navigation but Ive never done it.

 

[Pauln]

I use OSM on my Garmin 605 and decided not to follow my pre-defined route on a recent visit to London and just told it to navigate me back to a saved location, which is where I was staying, and it did it perfectly. I haven't tried postcodes but the pre-saved location worked perfectly.

 

[HLaB]

I use OSM on my Garmin 605 and decided not to follow my pre-defined route on a recent visit to London and just told it to navigate me back to a saved location, which is where I was staying, and it did it perfectly. I haven't tried postcodes but the pre-saved location worked perfectly.

Did it take you by good roads or ones that were a tad busy ?

 

[Pauln]

The roads were fairly busy, although I don't know my way around there and so not sure if there was any other way. I usually just define my routes on Garmin Connect and send them to the device and follow those.