daveshan
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Bringing the rig home I laid out a route I liked in Mapquest. It allows drag and drop routing and it has a "send to Garmin GPS" function.
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daveshan wrote:Bringing the rig home I laid out a route I liked in Mapquest. It allows drag and drop routing and it has a "send to Garmin GPS" function. It still doesn't work. Going from TN to Philly, the GPS will always either route me through DC or Baltimore even though I try to make it stay on 78 and down 476. No matter how many waypoints, etc. that I put in, the GPS defeats all of my specific routing attempts. Now, I know my route ahead of time so I can ignore GPS. I would love to be able to just plug my routes in like the OP wants and then use GPS to "aid" in navigation, but I dont' think it exists.
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Delorme earth gives you the ability to route with I beleive nearly unlimited waypoints and you you can save your routes. You can also save all of your destinations for those places that my not be on regular routes. Additionally this will give you the rise and fall on your route, so you can plan around overly steep routes.
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Streets & Trip can do all you ask. Just input the stops you want and it will run the shortest or fastest or preferred route (your choice) then you can drag-n-drop whatever changes you prefer. After the route is established it will not change unless you get off of the route then it will redirect you back to the route. My Garmin will self change the route as you travel which I don’t like.
You can also ask it to find points of interest along the route at your pre-determined maximum distance from the route. The only problem is that they only sort and list those points of interest in either alphabetical or shortest to longest distance from the established route (I wish it listed them in trip sequence). You can also add other POIs. It’s a program for PC (less than $60), has a GPS puck that works quite well and provides voice directions as you travel.
It does an over all very nice job if you have space on your dash for a PC where you can see it or if you have a navigator that can use otherwise you might check on CoPilot.
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Unless they have really dumbed down the latest GPS's for the "Clueless", you always had that feature with the Garmin GPS's. The route was ploted out on your laptop, or home computer, and then transferred to the GPS. I still use my E-Map that way. I include some alternative routing for the same trip in case I change the route on the way.
If you really understand how your GPS works, changing the route along the way does not matter much since the GPS can still point back to the nearest marker on the route you are following.
I would not even consider replacing my current GPS with anything that still did not have all regular functions for a GPS.
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Streets and Trips! I set up the trip via the route I want on S&T and transfer the route to my Garmin GPS.
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Not sure they can fix it without more extensive data bases and processors. Our Garmin insist on taking us to the nearest Interstate, up logging roads, old Indian Fiords, stage coach roads and goat paths. In Missouri it took us about 20 miles out of the way, around Springfield, to bring us out a mile from the beginning on the road we wanted to go to before hand. Seems Magellan and Rand McNally are similar. Our old Rand McNally program on home computer makes a map like we want it. Unfortunately it isn't updateable.
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Hi,
I use a DeLorme program that has a USB input GPS receiver, and can use the 15" screen of my laptop as the GPS map!
I can pick exactly the route I want to take, and by adding more points of interest I can add any place I want to go. Then if using the Topo program, I can click on something to show the feet elevation change during the route. Steepest sections of the route, and even put in two routes to the same location, and compare the elevation changes.
The GPS receiver plugs into my computer, and I can set it up on the dash, near the driver's seat, and look at it from a distance to see where I need to go or what time I need to change lanes, ect. I can find point of interests, such as fuel stops, and other things along the way.
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bluebarry1964b wrote:
If I can't find a gps that does this, then I guess that I will actually have to use a paper map and pencil in the specific roads that I want to take. The problem with doing that is it will be much harder to re-route if I miss a turn, and I won't necessarily know what lane to be in in order to take an exit on an interstate, for example.
I tried a GPS for one season and encountered that and other problems.
I don't use one anymore...
I find the paper atlases I'm now (again!) using far easier to use this way- and the signs on the interstates out here on the west coast are pretty good for giving lots of warning as to which lane one needs to be in for exits!
A lot depends on the quality of the maps/atlases, though...the Benchmark atlases are the most detailed I've ever found, but they're strictly a western states item...wouldn't know what to recommend for back east.
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daveshan
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Pirate wrote:daveshan wrote:Bringing the rig home I laid out a route I liked in Mapquest. It allows drag and drop routing and it has a "send to Garmin GPS" function.
It still doesn't work. Going from TN to Philly, the GPS will always either route me through DC or Baltimore even though I try to make it stay on 78 and down 476. No matter how many waypoints, etc. that I put in, the GPS defeats all of my specific routing attempts. Now, I know my route ahead of time so I can ignore GPS. I would love to be able to just plug my routes in like the OP wants and then use GPS to "aid" in navigation, but I dont' think it exists.
So what you're saying is you tried it and the GPS changes the route you downloaded from Mapquest???
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