Mapping routes help

[Deacon51]

Here's what I'm looking for.

A way to draw a line, freehand, on a map. Click a button and have that line follow the nearest roads and create a route with turn by turn directions that can be up loaded to my GPS.

I can't seem to get it in Google Earth or Garmin MapSource.

So where, someone, has to be doing this.

 

[johnny80s]

Here's what I'm looking for.
A way to draw a line, freehand, on a map. Click a button and have that line follow the nearest roads and create a route with turn by turn directions that can be up loaded to my GPS.

I can't seem to get it in Google Earth or Garmin MapSource.

So where, someone, has to be doing this.

Try google maps. You can drag the line (route) where ever you want it and it will print out turn by turn directions.

 

[Deacon51]

Here's what I'm looking for.
A way to draw a line, freehand, on a map. Click a button and have that line follow the nearest roads and create a route with turn by turn directions that can be up loaded to my GPS.

I can't seem to get it in Google Earth or Garmin MapSource.

So where, someone, has to be doing this.

Try google maps. You can drag the line (route) where ever you want it and it will print out turn by turn directions.

I can make a great route in Google Maps, but how do I get that route on to my GPS?

 

[ShawnKing]

I can make a great route in Google Maps, but how do I get that route on to my GPS?

Try this - "Convert Google Maps Data to GPX"

 

[rickcorwn]

In Mapsource, click on the route tool (little icon with 3 dots connected by lines in the tool bar at the top) click on a start location, move curser to the desired end location and click again. Bingo route. But you don't like the roads it has chosen. Click on the slection tool (arrow in tool bar) click on your route, it will highlite yellow, move curser to the desired road, click again. The route will now use that as a via point. You can continue to repeat this as nessary to get the route you want.

 

[iboldguy]

In mapsource you can drag the route line to where you want it. You can also put in a few waypoints and add them to the route. recalc the route. When transfer to GPS make sure you have the include route data box ticked in the lower left under the maps tab.

 

[Deacon51]

I can make a great route in Google Maps, but how do I get that route on to my GPS?

Try this - "Convert Google Maps Data to GPX"

In Mapsource, click on the route tool (little icon with 3 dots connected by lines in the tool bar at the top) click on a start location, move curser to the desired end location and click again. Bingo route. But you don't like the roads it has chosen. Click on the slection tool (arrow in tool bar) click on your route, it will highlite yellow, move curser to the desired road, click again. The route will now use that as a via point. You can continue to repeat this as nessary to get the route you want.

GREAT TIPS... I'm cooking up a nice trip now!

 

[rickcorwn]

In mapsource you can drag the route line to where you want it. You can also put in a few waypoints and add them to the route. recalc the route. When transfer to GPS make sure you have the include route data box ticked in the lower left under the maps tab.

Minor point, you can't actually "drag" the route like you do in say Google Maps. It's a click to highlite then click on the desired via point. This throws a lot of people.

 

[wfooshee]

Even easier than the above link for Google maps is TYRE, made for Tom-Toms but it exports GPX data. Put the Google Maps link into TYRE and save as GPX, then use MapSource to calculate a route from the GPX data and download it into your Garmin GPS.

If interested, I built a thread here on map programs to GPS procedures for Garmin Mapsource, DeLorme Street Atlas, Microsoft Streets and Trips, and Google Maps.

 

[mmurphy]

New Google Map Engine good for planning a route Google Maps great for navigating in a city on a motorcycle to an address ect..

If you save the route in google maps engine you can bring it into your android phone with maps engine for android, when you zoom in and select a point on the route, you are offered to navigate to that point, if you press the nav button google maps opens and off you go to that point with no custom route just nav to that point. Well WTF!!! You have to try and nav in short segments all the while driving defensively your motorcycle!! google will get you KILLED!! WHO was the MORON at GOOGLE that decided to change not following you custom route?

When you have planed a motorcycle route print a copy and don’t waste your time any more with Google!!

Do yourself a favour get Osmand maps download 9 states for free, map your route on your android phone save your route, save your favourite places/addresses ect...

Get back to enjoying your motorcycle trip. And if you have no service Osmand works Off Line

,Mike