Laptop mapping software

fj12ryder wrote:

strollin wrote:

OutdoorPhotographer wrote:
I'm another who never found a replacement for Streets and Trips for planning. I wouldn't use my laptop for navigation anymore. CoPilot offers downloadable maps for areas with poor connectivity. But when I planned our last cross country trip in 2013, nothing was as good as S&T. I pulled out an old laptop just for that purpose.

Items I want in a planner:
1. Ability to set start and end time of driving for the day and apply automatically to entire trip.
2. Ability to override start/end for a particular day without altering the other days.
3. Ability to set planned rest stops (i.e. 20 minutes every 3 hours).
4. Ability to set the time for a specific stop in route (4 hours at siteseeing stop or 3 days in Chicago).

S&T's could do all of this. I haven't tired Good Sam recently to see if it does. I'm fine using CoPilot, Google, etc. to navigate between stops but those are useless for planning a four week trip with many varied stops from hours to days.

I guess we're all different. I would never use the features you listed as mandatory simply because I don't want to be on some kind of fixed time schedule when I'm on a trip. I start in the morning when I feel like it and do rest and site seeing stops along the way whenever I need/want to. How can you set a schedule for rest stops?

I'd have to agree with that. I have a stopping area for the day usually, and that's about it. Everything else is pretty freeform. If we are headed to a busy area, like the Outer Banks, then we might make reservations ahead of time, but no way could I adhere to such lockstep travel plans.

Sounds more like a job than a vacation. :)