Option Nº2
This Time Using Apple Maps.
Let’s dream up a scenario here.......
It is a beautiful, sunny Sunday Morning and you fancy a ride on you modded hipster scrambler, bobber or what ever it might be and a hipster breakfast wouldn’t go a miss too, perhaps even a hipster tash or a hair trim, while you at it...
So you pull out your iPad/iPhone and look up “The Bike Shed Motorcycle Club” you find it, but you faced with two options, pull out your Garmin Sat Nav device and type in the postcode, street name, building number..... or you plonk your phone into your Quad Lock/SP Connect case and mound it on the bike, tap go and you on your way.
The Latter obviously quicker, but, follow my lead here...
...using my iPad, while sat drinking my morning coffee and admiring the glistening machine in the morning sun (I am imagining here) I start by searching the said place, once satisfied that it is what I am looking for, I tap on “share” icon bellow the photos on the right......
(on iPad)
...clearly as I am using an iPad, it is a tad to big to mount on the bike, especially a 12” Pro model, but same principal applies to iPhone, just screen arrangement is a bit different...
(on iPhone)
..on iPhone you must scroll up to see the “Share” button, just like this...
...once tapped, you will see this window, and tap on “Drive”...
...next you’ll see this window, tap on “Send”
...from here, there’s are simply no other steps required, the Apple Maps app, sends a file straight to your device, ready to navigate, without having to do much else. Mount it on your bike and you are are literally ready to go.
The benefit of this method, is that you do not have to have an added faffery of what you would get if you used BBR or My Route Apps, by having to go into Trip Planner, select desired route, etc. etc....
The negative here is and this is fault of Apple Maps app in it self (one hopes it will get resolved in the next update), that you do not get to add waypoints, or your own avoidances to the route, this even applies if you use your iPhone as a Navigation device.
However, if you are in the rush, and want to get from A-B, without having to use your phone as a nav (in addition, having to buy rather cumbersome and expensive brackets & cases), merely as “address directory”, then this is an ideal way to do it.
Sadly, Google being T**ts, they no longer support route sharing to other devices, other than one within it’s own app. I.e. iPad/Mac to iPhone using data they have about you or Airdrop method.
Shame really, as on Google Maps App, you can add your own waypoints and up to I believe 15 of them, certainly enough for a descent day trip.
I will have ganders with some other apps...
I think this method will prove to be useful for many users, but remember, you must have downloaded Garmin Drive App and have your Nav and iDevice synced over Bluetooth, for this to work.
There are other benefits of GD, you get weather, live traffic reports, etc, and it doesn’t cost anything to have it downloaded.
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