Trip Planning and GPS Software
I have used DeLorme Street Atlas and Topo software for 10 years. Now that Garmin bought DeLorme--these products are not available. Has anyone found another software program runs on laptop for trip p...
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I'm another one that is completely disappointed with the Garmin/Delorme thing. I had been doing the *.gpx to get the plan to the drivers GPS, but that does suck. Basecamp sucks for a planning app even on a big screen. With Delorme SA, I could lay out a plan months ahead and include the End of Day, fuel stops and include the expected time for attractions along the planned route.
There is nothing I have found to replace SA. What I do now is plan on SA. Sometimes I do the *.gpx to pass to the Drivers little GPS (the person sitting in the right seat gets to be navigator) and has the laptop and the smartphone watching for traffic as the Garmin traffic receiver proved worthless even before it died and stopped the GPS from working. (The traffic receiver got disconnected and now the GPS works as well as it ever did.
It would be so simple for either Garmin or Google to make up a package to do what we would like, but I guess the market for a real traveler's navigation and planning package just does not have any appeal to marketing. I really wish Google would grab this ball. Their maps are more up to date and the traffic note on my phone seem to be pretty good. I can't even imagine the other features that they could incorporate.
Matt
There is nothing I have found to replace SA. What I do now is plan on SA. Sometimes I do the *.gpx to pass to the Drivers little GPS (the person sitting in the right seat gets to be navigator) and has the laptop and the smartphone watching for traffic as the Garmin traffic receiver proved worthless even before it died and stopped the GPS from working. (The traffic receiver got disconnected and now the GPS works as well as it ever did.
It would be so simple for either Garmin or Google to make up a package to do what we would like, but I guess the market for a real traveler's navigation and planning package just does not have any appeal to marketing. I really wish Google would grab this ball. Their maps are more up to date and the traffic note on my phone seem to be pretty good. I can't even imagine the other features that they could incorporate.
Matt
