With the Internet how do you plan you trip?
In the old days, you could break out you Rand McNally or you AAA maps and plan a trip. Obviously, this is still an option. Years ago I had a Microsoft application, Trips and Streets, that was a pr...
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garmp1 wrote:jmcgsd wrote:
What I don't believe Google maps can do is to allow me to input conditions, I.e. Avoid Interstates. That was one of the features I loved in Trips & Streets. It's also easy with a paper planner.
I used Google maps this morning to plot a route from San Diego to Big Bend N.P. Sure it worked, and if I wanted to get there using the quickest route I'm certain the route would do that, but I can't easily see the alternates, and as I said, allow conditions to be set. I was hoping there was an app that supported that.
Guess not.
Have you tried clicking on OPTIONS, directly under the destination input area? When I tried it, a route from St. Louis, MO to Elkhart, IN. I took me on some interstate but mainly on secondary highways.
Just a thought.
Yep, that's one of the options in the directions window. I just did a trial from my home to Cody WY, and it did a squiggly route that never did a mile on a freeway, even though the normal route included both I-25 and I-80.
