GPS Routing I likey

[Stromper]

GPS Routeing Primer

This is because I think this is so great I want to make sure everybody knows about it

Here is New England there are MANY great old roads that went from micro town to mico town when animals pulled your wagon. They happily go over the terrain as God laid it out which is fun for a motorcycle. These roads are poorly identified as to whether they connect etc.

Hurray for GPS routing. Now looking at your computer you can see the pattern of these threads on the screen as the original web. I now use the current version of tyre software (free download). I lay out a route and 1 touch it is in my garmin. Select where to and routes and the saved new route and it guides you through the maze. My Garmin treats the 1st route point as a destination and will route you to it and then your on your programmed route. If you screw up and notice immediately it will direct you back on track of if you pass near a future point on your route you can be back on track and continue.

Lastly if hopelessly lost just poke in a where to the nearest town or gas etc. And pulled from confusion.

I use a Garmin Oregon 300 and soon there will be a reasonably priced Tomtom Rider 4.3 <$400. You must make sure it is routeable as cheap GPS's are not.

You will discover many fun roads with little traffic and few LEO's.

[nhbubba]

So you are done with the HD routing software?

[nt650hawk]

GPS is set to less fuel and no highways when i'm on the bike. it puts me on every 45 mph road out there.

[lord1234]

nt650 what GPS do you use?

[nt650hawk]

garmin nuvi . pretty much all the Garmin's have these options

[fineout]

Youre saying this software?
http://www.tyretotravel.com/ ?
and what it uploads onto your tomtom/garmin and gives you routes?

[SteveM]

garmin nuvi . pretty much all the Garmin's have these options

Gino,

How does the Nuvi compare to the Zumo I lent you for your northwest trip? Ruggedness, features, screen clarity, etc.

[SVenpointsixtwo]

I've heard Tyre is great, but for us non-PC users, there's not a download option sadly.

[nhbubba]

There is HUGE variance in the Nuvi lineup. Some of the cheaper ones are not even capable of doing routes. Yet some of the mid to upper level ones are. You totally need to look at the specs.

Although I don't think any of them are waterproof anymore. Nor do any act as BT devices (instead they act as handsfree BT speakers for other devices). Basically they are targeted to be used inside an automobile where the Zumos are meant for the MC environment.

That said, I ran a route capable Nuvi for a while before I broke the screen. My rain plan involved a sandwich bag and a zip-tie.. or just chucking it in my side case.
Now I have an older non-route capable Nuvi mounted up.

[Rockhead]

Anyone else use the Copilot GPS app for iPhone? It does allow for route planning and basic navigation functions. Not entirely sold on it just yet as I've had difficulty joining a planned route from somewhere along the route (app wants to direct you first to the route's defined starting point), but it was free so...

[Garandman]

garmin nuvi . pretty much all the Garmin's have these options

You have to be careful about that. Some inexpensive Garmins do not support importing custom routes, and some do not support routes with multiple waypoints.

I also learned long ago that even though Ms. Garmin says you can take Tunnel Road in Rowe back South over a bridge back to Route 2, this:


turned to this:


And then this:


...before going steeply downhill to a place where there used to be a bridge.....

[nt650hawk]

You have to be careful about that. Some inexpensive Garmins do not support importing custom routes, and some do not support routes with multiple waypoints.

I also learned long ago that even though Ms. Garmin says you can take Tunnel Road in Rowe back South over a bridge back to Route 2, this:


turned to this:


And then this:


...before going steeply downhill to a place where there used to be a bridge.....

this is why I turn off dirt roads....

[B440]

lol ^

[RandyO]

I don't have any problem finding and staying on good roads without a GPS, but I like GPS cause it keeps track of where I've been, after the ride, I sometimes plot the route out and help plan future rides, my # 1 use of GPS is the mp3 player

[Stromper]

I believe this will be under $300 after Xmas


http://www.tomtom.com/en_us/products...ider/index.jsp


Not to be confused with older rip off and Zumo rip offs

[nhbubba]

I've never seen a tomtom I've liked.

[G21forme]

I've never seen a tomtom I've liked.

Really? We have them in our work trucks and they at no additional cost came with the added feature of licking balls. My boss had to go to Boston last week and I was laughing all day at how frustrated I knew he was getting with that pos.

[Stromper]

I like my cheap tomtom better than cheap old Garmin

The problem with going to Boston is the going to Boston part

[rpete]

I've got a cheapo Peaklife unit, can get it from Chinavision when they're in stock or ebay such as http://www.ebay.com/itm/cheap-Free-s...602029&vxp=mtr

Takes a bit of software setup, but I've got iGo Primo running on it, working great so far.