Route planning software and or Apps

[terryd]

My brothers and I are planning a two week trip in June through the north west to the west coast and then back to the mid west. Does anyone know of a good route planning app or Windows based software that you can literally trace your desired route, save it and share it? Something that you could use on a PC and then transfer the maps to an Android device would be ideal. There are plenty of route planners out there but they all want to plan the trip for me and are not intuitive to use and or edit.

[Jared]

I'm confused why something as simple as Google Maps wouldn't work for you?

[terryd]

Originally Posted by Jared

I'm confused why something as simple as Google Maps wouldn't work for you?

It does to a point but it's tricky to get it to stick to the route I'm trying to trace and tends to jump around unpredictably. Plus, the further out you go from your start point it stops allowing the addition of way points. I'd like to have something I can follow live on my android phone without the need for a connection, which gets very spotty in the mountains.

[schoeney]

HD Ride planner.

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[JD Hog]

I'm still old fashioned with using a Garmin Zumo 660. I use Garmin Basecamp for routing all my rides and saving them in separate folders. I have a micro chip in the Zumo with over 50 rides loaded all the time. The GPS allows up to 20 trips loaded to its hard drive for quick access.

Basecamp was a little complicated at first but once you understand the program you can do a lot with it very fast and easily. There is a good forum for learning Basecamp that I use to look up questions about the program

http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mai...gid=2029214251

[tonik]

I love this topic!!

For your phone you want Sygic. It lets you download maps for each State so you don't even need a data connection.

Then you make your route in Google Maps. Be sure to put in lots of waypoints/stops to 'force' the route you want. Only the waypoints/stops are going to get transferred to Sygic and then Sygic will create it's own route.

Longer days with tons of turns may need to be broken up into a couple of parts.

Then you copy the Google URL into the program below and it will export it to Sygic and many other GPS apps.

http://www.benichou-software.com/ind...emid=3&lang=en

This system will NOT work on iPhones. Sygic does not allow imported routes on iPhones.

I have been on this system for years for 10's of thousands of miles. Once you get the hang of it, it rocks. I have a good number of fellow rides I roll with using it too.

[Top Cat]

Originally Posted by JD Hog

I'm still old fashioned with using a Garmin Zumo 660. I use Garmin Basecamp for routing all my rides and saving them in separate folders. I have a micro chip in the Zumo with over 50 rides loaded all the time. The GPS allows up to 20 trips loaded to its hard drive for quick access.

Basecamp was a little complicated at first but once you understand the program you can do a lot with it very fast and easily.

I still use the Garmin Zumo 550 and Mapsource but other than that it does the same as the above post.

[plumber63]

I'm with JD. I use base camp with a garmin. It doesn't have to be a Zumo model either, just has to be compatible with base camp. I have a nuvi 2599lmthd in a waterproof case.
This way you have a back up(your phone) if something happens. Also you're working off satellite gps so works when your phone doesn't.
I personally have tried to use Goggle maps on my phone its limited and not as user friendly.
One thing on base camp mapping is you want to put in a lot of waypoints, or once you go to use it, your garmin will want to change the route to how you have your preferences set.
With my garmin I have also made routes on it without base camp, and seems to work fine also. Just a little harder to do on a small touch screen.

[Vulcan-al]

there are two that I use, one being in route planner &gps, the other is greatest road motorcycle rider gps navigation route planner