Garmin Hazard Reporting

[Psamathe]

To be fair to Garmin, the hazard reporting did successfully help me to be aware of one mahoosive pothole ... Unfortunately it was on the other side of the road

I do sometimes wonder the degree that we can become dependent on automated warnings and reduce our attendance to eg road surface. I don't know how much of a risk but if we were normally beeped/pop-up warned of potholes would be gradually stop bothering to look out so carefully?

When encountering walkers on road, approaching from behind it can take a lot of noise to alert them to your presence and I wonder if they have become used to approaching vehicles have loud ICE engines to warn them (not yet being used to electric vehicles).

Ian

 

[freiston]

How did you turn it off. It irritates me (and on a couple of occasions has misplaced me on a map when I was close to the Visual Partner indicator). I've done lots of online searching and only ever found endless grips from people bemoaning that you can't turn it off. I only ever use one profile so happy to turn it off in all(one) profiles.

Ian

I can't remember. I've just tried going through the menu options and can't find it either. A web search suggests that it can't be done though in other posts it has been suggested that setting the Virtual Partner average/default speed to really low or high (when creating a new route) in route does the trick.

May be I dreamt the whole thing or just got mixed up.

Another community help page says:

Go to Settings - Activity Profiles. Select the desired profile. Go to Data Screens. - Add New - Add Virtual Partner. Click the Virtual Partner. Set speed to zero. Turn Show on Screen off. That should at least make sure you won't be bothered anymore

EDIT: After thinking about it, I reckon the above is what I did - I checked my data screens and the Virtual Partner screen is there with a crossed out eye next to it, meaning screen is there but can't be seen.

 

[Dogtrousers]

While I was out on my ride yesterday I was menaced by a dog. Looked like a staffie. It ran alongside me making weird growling noises. I'm pretty sure it meant me no good, but never attempted to bite. It managed to up its pace quite impressively before I left it behind with a Pog-like burst of power.

Anyway, I thought I'd report it as a dog hazard on Garmin, for people who use this kind of thing. But the only way you can report a hazard is, it would seem, during a ride. (Unless there's another way apart from this)

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=NH7WCMesvK3XU1gurECewA

It seems what I should have done is tapped my screen and selected report hazard at the time. It would have taken considerable presence of mind, and a rather carefree attitude to whether my legs get gnawed off to have done this.

So here's an old fashioned CC dog alert. About 800m after the turning into Hever Road heading from Edenbridge to Hever

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The pot hole alert beeps, you look down to see why your GPS has beeped, and immediately run into pothole. I have it turned off, and prefer to be looking down the road to see what hazards are coming up.

 

[Dogtrousers]

The pot hole alert beeps, you look down to see why your GPS has beeped, and immediately run into pothole. I have it turned off, and prefer to be looking down the road to see what hazards are coming up.

Not only that but after you've passed the hazard it starts nagging you "Was it still there? Did you see it"? Whereupon you look down to see what it's beeping about and run into another pothole.

Turning it off is the conclusion that most of us in this thread above have come to. I thought I'd be public spirited and put up a warning about the dog to others who haven't made that decision. But Garmin seem to have made adding a hazard quite a tricky thing to do.