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It seems to me that there is too much focus placed on 'turn-by-turn' routing.
Unless you have half decent mapping, (and most are flawed to different levels), it is a great deal more enjoyable to:
Create waypoints at strategic places,
Set your sat nav to 'direct routing'
Display the compass page set to CDI

And ensure that you have data fields showing:
'Distance to next'
'Heading'
'To course'
'Trip odometer'

This not only frees your ears from daft instructions but lets you enjoy the scenery around you and the riding which is what you went there for!
Happy trails.
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I can honestly say I have only had 1 problem in 4 trips with OSM Routing when it sent us down a 1 way street in El Jadida, otherwise for turn-by-turn routing OSM has been fine in Morocco

I've also had some pretty decent turn bu turn routing on piste via OSM. However for off road routes I don't generally use the routing as I find it automatically re routes and takes me away from where I want to go (this maybe down to my ability). For off road routes I convert the route I've planned in Mapsource into a track. That way my chosen route doesnt change from my plan and no annoying directions
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I don't remember which Garmin map I had, but whatever it was, it was completely and utterly useless once I was away from the coast. I've used Garmin and OSM maps in plenty of other places with no problem, but in Morocco I ended up just turning the GPS off altogether.

Depending on where you're going, you don't really need a GPS as long as you have a paper map, most of the roads are pretty well signed.
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Just back from our first trip to Morocco, and took both Garmin with Olaf and OSM in my cheap tablet. Didn't use either very much when on tarmac, but of the 2 we found OSM far better for pistes and general off-road stuff. The detail was greater, most of the visible tracks (on the ground) were in the database and made detailed navigation very easy. The downside of this is that you have to be zoomed in quite a bit to get the track displayed, so it's easy to lose the "big picture" and focus too close to the vehicle. Our technique was to rely on the (old fashioned) compass and odometer for general progress and check the electronics when we reached critical points or had to divert because of washouts or other barriers. Like Tim and Bertrand above, we went for the views and the ability to go where we liked, so knowing where we were all the time wasn't a priority.
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It seems to me that there is too much focus placed on 'turn-by-turn' routing.
Unless you have half decent mapping, (and most are flawed to different levels), it is a great deal more enjoyable to:
Create waypoints at strategic places,
Set your sat nav to 'direct routing'
Display the compass page set to CDI

And ensure that you have data fields showing:
'Distance to next'
'Heading'
'To course'
'Trip odometer'

This not only frees your ears from daft instructions but lets you enjoy the scenery around you and the riding which is what you went there for!
Happy trails.
Works well flying an aircraft, but not so useful on the ground unless roads are straight and few in number.
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It seems to me that there is too much focus placed on 'turn-by-turn' routing... it is a great deal more enjoyable to:
Create waypoints at strategic places,
Set your sat nav to 'direct routing'
Display the compass page set to CDI
Couldn't agree more. I just need to know I'm headed in roughly the right direction and more often than not I use the position of the sun as an indication.

But not in the UK—not enough sun

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