Best RV trip planner
I am looking for the best RV trip planner that would show mileage, estimated travel time, fuel stops and campgrounds (good sam and private). I'm having to do this since the new Good Sam trip planne...
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Trip Wizard looks real nice but I only really something like that once a year and the price for infrequent use turns me off.
Street Atlas and I parted ways after buying several updates to keep current and being unable to find changes to highways around home over 10 years old had never been incorporated in them. One was a 10 lane wide bridge over the Missouri river - had to miss but not worthy of being included. I raised that point to DeLorme in there booth at a FMCA rally. That must have been the last time they bought a booth.
To me (as much as I dislike Microsoft) Streets and Trips was much more intuitive than Street Atlas and I'm very sad to see MS pulled the plug on future development.
I guess with proliferation of cell phones with GPS capability, the market for these standalone programs.
I'm surprised the convoluted GPS devices by Garmin, Magellan and Rand McNally have survived. Their interface is much harder to use and cumbersome. I own several and some aren't bad but the ones dedicated to RVers seem to be the worst out there.
I'll keep doing as I have done for years and plan my trips on my PC with MS Streets and Trips 2013 (the last year is was updated I believe) and then put the day's destination in my phone's GPS (WAZE) to find my way.
Can't remember how I ever found my way to a campground in a distant city I'd never been to before using paper maps back in the day.
Street Atlas and I parted ways after buying several updates to keep current and being unable to find changes to highways around home over 10 years old had never been incorporated in them. One was a 10 lane wide bridge over the Missouri river - had to miss but not worthy of being included. I raised that point to DeLorme in there booth at a FMCA rally. That must have been the last time they bought a booth.
To me (as much as I dislike Microsoft) Streets and Trips was much more intuitive than Street Atlas and I'm very sad to see MS pulled the plug on future development.
I guess with proliferation of cell phones with GPS capability, the market for these standalone programs.
I'm surprised the convoluted GPS devices by Garmin, Magellan and Rand McNally have survived. Their interface is much harder to use and cumbersome. I own several and some aren't bad but the ones dedicated to RVers seem to be the worst out there.
I'll keep doing as I have done for years and plan my trips on my PC with MS Streets and Trips 2013 (the last year is was updated I believe) and then put the day's destination in my phone's GPS (WAZE) to find my way.
Can't remember how I ever found my way to a campground in a distant city I'd never been to before using paper maps back in the day.
