streets&trips-Mexico

Wish they made street and trips for the I-Pad.

Hopefully you have S&T 2013 as each year improvements are made. We find it to be very useful in Mexico. Don't leave home without it. S&T has a great many useful features but it takes time to learn them all. After using it for about 7 years we are still learning. A few years ago I wrote a tutorial . . .
http://www.rvtechlibrary.com/electronics/gps_streets_trips.htm . . .
which may be of use though somewhat outdated - and about the US and not Mexico. But the basics are the same.

There are POIs in S&T for Mexico so you can find a few Pemex stations and ATM machines and things like that. I think they got their campgrounds locations from Woodalls and they are not very accurate - if you have the Church Guide to Mexican Camping use the Lat Lon numbers in there.

Planning a route in S&T can be very useful but any GPS mapping program can make mistakes and S&T is no exception. Best advice is plan a route but check it carefully to make sure it does what you want it to do. Any route can be corrected by using stops (waypoints) and the Avoid Area function. Never trust any GPS to by 100% correct.

I know a lot of tricks with S&T so if you have specific questions ask here and I may be able to help - or not.

Some Garmin GPS devices can be used with S&T. Plan a route using S&T and then transfer that route to Garmin for use on the road. Depends on the Garmin device. We use the new 7" one that sells for about $220. Much improved over previous versions and also very good in Mexico.

We use it in La Paz and throughout the Baja and it actually has some RV parks as POIs. I can't speak for other parts of Mexico.