Vehicle GPS's

I use S&T for route panning then enter the destination in Garmin. I always use any route with a degree of intelligence. I like the Garmin map display, lane changes and time of arrival. Sometimes there are to many voice prompts but they just get ignored.

Bumpyroad wrote:

PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
I don't find any GPS very useful for trip planning. They are all too focused on a point to point trip. It is very hard to customize routes to avoid certain things, to work out multiple stops, etc.

You cannot really work out multi-day trips easily.
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I could map out a trip weeks long on my computer and down load them to my gps. very easy. and easy to tweak a trip.
bumpy

Exactly so.

Matt_Colie wrote:
... if you try to do planning on Google Maps and upload it that will be OK for a single or maybe two-day excursion. ...

Not necessarily, I planned a 2 week, 4,000 mile trip thru 8 western states on Google maps then was able to bring that route up on my phone to use for navigation. My son and I alternated driving and he was also able to use the planned route from Google Maps on his phone as well.

I should have mentioned that in my previous post. More and more I am using Google Maps on my phone for directions, especially in my car (since some thug stole my car Garmin!). The information is MUCH more up-to-date than any GPS database could ever be and the directions are just as good. I even played with WAZE when I needed an alternate route for the RV when the Interstate was shut down ahead and it did an awesome job of routing me to a side road just far enough to by-pass the traffic and then right back onto the Interstate. Very cool.

I use free software named Tyre to plan my trips. It uses Google Maps as a base. Any trip planned can be uploaded from the software through a PC into either Garmin or TomTom. Once in the GPS it is important to review the trip and make sure the GPS's programming did not change the route in any way. A quick addition into Tyre of more waypoints to force the route (I do this to avoid known low clearances) to go how you want it to go and re-upload. It is free and simple to use. I do extended trips with different routings stored on the GPS as pre-planned routes so that I can start and stop with different planned stops on the trip.