Let me start with this: I'm a Mac user. Evidently, the trip planning app community thinks no one with an Apple product ever goes on a more complicated road trip than point to point, with two points. MAYBE a stopover, but that's really pushing it. After this route planning exercise.. which has resulted in aborting the RAWV ride I should have left already on as I write this.... I think I may buy a Windows laptop. Garmin Basecamp downloads onto the Mac, but then it won't recognize my Zumo, and when I attempt to buy a map just so I could have it on my computer, it won't let me buy a map so my Basecamp has no maps.
The planning for this one is... a challenge.
After manually routing GoogleMaps, and Harley-Davidson trip planner, as well as my handheld Garmin Zumo XT, I cannot get the algorithms to stay in West by gosh Virginia because of rivers and ridges.
I added 25 waypoints in GoogleMaps and it cannot scroll down the page any more, which means if I use my trick of adding a + and a / right after the @ symbol in the url window, it won't let me click onto what it finds, so that new waypoint will not load. The page cannot be scrolled. In other words, it hit a hard limit.
I spent literally hours of playing around with GoogleMaps, on Safari and Firefox, I have given up, and have resorted to zooming in closely on GoogleMaps using it like a paper map, and writing my own route in print.
GoogleMaps is the official "lets see if the planned route meets the mileage" standard by IBA.
-however-
I cannot for the life of me get a "Round Robin" route all nice and pretty with a total mileage like I was able to on the Ride Around Virginia. The route is just too complicated with many mountain passes, rivers, lack of interstates, and an absolutely schizophrenic state border.
Question for the IBA is:
-Submit a 'Round Robin' GoogleMap I was able to create, with two areas of leaving the state but makes a pretty outline of WV and the mileage is very close because the deviations are at rivers with the roads on both sides following closely the river,
or
-Break up the GoogleMap planning into the DBR city pairs were I can manually manipulate each leg, and submit the GoogleMap plans leg by leg. The reviewer will have to add each legs miles together for the total. I will do this for them as well?
To be clear: I WILL BE RIDING 100% IN WEST VIRGINIA. If I submit a "round robin" it will not reflect precisely what I ride. If I submit city pairs of DBR cities the GoogleMap planning will be accurate to what I plan to actually ride barring safety concerns or other issues forcing a route change.
I will of course be using Spotwalla with my Zumo XT, SW Tracker on the iPhone, and the Garmin Zumo XT's internal tracking/breadcrumbing feature than can be shared to show the route ridden
Here is a screen shot of the "round robin", which looks good, but the routing is incomplete as it hit a hard limit on waypoints
.
The planning for this one is... a challenge.
After manually routing GoogleMaps, and Harley-Davidson trip planner, as well as my handheld Garmin Zumo XT, I cannot get the algorithms to stay in West by gosh Virginia because of rivers and ridges.
I added 25 waypoints in GoogleMaps and it cannot scroll down the page any more, which means if I use my trick of adding a + and a / right after the @ symbol in the url window, it won't let me click onto what it finds, so that new waypoint will not load. The page cannot be scrolled. In other words, it hit a hard limit.
I spent literally hours of playing around with GoogleMaps, on Safari and Firefox, I have given up, and have resorted to zooming in closely on GoogleMaps using it like a paper map, and writing my own route in print.
GoogleMaps is the official "lets see if the planned route meets the mileage" standard by IBA.
-however-
I cannot for the life of me get a "Round Robin" route all nice and pretty with a total mileage like I was able to on the Ride Around Virginia. The route is just too complicated with many mountain passes, rivers, lack of interstates, and an absolutely schizophrenic state border.
Question for the IBA is:
-Submit a 'Round Robin' GoogleMap I was able to create, with two areas of leaving the state but makes a pretty outline of WV and the mileage is very close because the deviations are at rivers with the roads on both sides following closely the river,
or
-Break up the GoogleMap planning into the DBR city pairs were I can manually manipulate each leg, and submit the GoogleMap plans leg by leg. The reviewer will have to add each legs miles together for the total. I will do this for them as well?
To be clear: I WILL BE RIDING 100% IN WEST VIRGINIA. If I submit a "round robin" it will not reflect precisely what I ride. If I submit city pairs of DBR cities the GoogleMap planning will be accurate to what I plan to actually ride barring safety concerns or other issues forcing a route change.
I will of course be using Spotwalla with my Zumo XT, SW Tracker on the iPhone, and the Garmin Zumo XT's internal tracking/breadcrumbing feature than can be shared to show the route ridden
Here is a screen shot of the "round robin", which looks good, but the routing is incomplete as it hit a hard limit on waypoints
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