Route planning, what's best to use ?

[Fluffmeister]

Another vote for MyRoute from me, Kurviger is pretty good to I must admit, never tried Calimoto. I like planning with MyRoute and the integration with Streetview is great, I've often looked at what appears to be a lovely twisty road in some foreign land, just to check it out in Streetview to find it's a camel track, so I can quickly switch out of Streetview to planning and select alternatives. It is a great bit of software, and when I had an XT I didn't have problems porting routes over from MRA to the Garmin. Now I have Chigee Carplay unit's on the Toerag and the Mandello so use the MyRouteApp for custom routes, or sometimes drop them into TomTom mydrive and sync them up to the TomTom Go App.

 

[theoneandonly]

i'm a luddite , i still use mapsource.

 

[Wapping]

Thank you for the update.

 

[JonnyBravo]

I started an MRA subscription on my pc to make some routes up for recent trip into Slovenia. Ive given up wiht Basecamp.
I find it incredibly easy and intuitive to use (the polar opposite of Basecamp!)
Using guidance on this site and the many, many helpful posts by Wapping, regarding shaping and lots of waypoints etc I have found that I can drop them onto my XT and it does exactly as hoped.
I get on to the roads I wanted and all is well.
If however, you need to deviate whilst riding or amend the route etc, then you ar f**ked.
You can lose hours at the side of the road trying to get the Garmin go where you want back onto the roads you want.
When this happened on my recent trip I ended up just using google maps one day on my phone. The XT couldnt even seem to manage to get from A to B easily without faffing around on road types, avoidances etc.
My mates bike had a BMW Nav 6 (?) which was an utter shambles with the same routes and that made my XT look good though.
Of course, this could all be because of my inability to use it properly !

I'm heading over to the Ardennes tomorrow and have now also added the MRA app onto my phone in conjunction with plotting the routes on MRA pc and loading them to my XT.
Lets see how it goes.
I can see me taking out a lifetime sub on MRA rather than monthly, across both pc and the phone App
Sometimes, on my older analogue bike, I think the main adavatage of using the Garmin XT now is easily seeing how fast I am going !

 

[Wapping]

Of course, this could all be because of my inability to use it properly…

Turn off auto-recalculate on your XT, perhaps? Or set it to prompted, and then say “no”. Then use the screen to navigate yourself back to the magenta line, just as you’d do with a paper map.

You should though find the MyRoute app on your phone is very stable and quick to provide yiu with very good re-routing of routes, should you venture off the route’s blue line. Do though, as usual, check the app’s navigation preference settings, as it might sometimes re-route you down the odd goat track or two. As with any dumb device, it is only doing its best with what you have told it to do.

The app has recently been improved further, with all sorts of other great features. But, one thing at a time…..

 

[Flintlock]

Another Luddite here. I find Google maps with the terrain layer turned on a good starting point to plan a route. You can easily seek out roads through mountains, valleys, gorges etc & pop down on street view for a look around.

 

[GrinningGSer]

I’m loving Treads and XT2 , after initially struggling with it. I also love Basecamp, which is now almost redundant.
Both need some understanding.