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Planning our first trip to Mexico this Fall, probably Laredo to Chapala. We will be traveling in a 40' coach with toad. We do have the Church book. On Google Earth it looks like virtually the whole tr...
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adapt to Google Maps
Is there now a way to download Google Maps? I can't find a way. I am not interested in having to do maps online. I want offline maps stored completely in my computer. Online maps are useless if I can't get online. I think Google Maps also gets their maps from Open Street Maps but not sure. Many of today's maps come from Open Street Maps. Is there really a difference?
I just looked at the website for your Google maps link - I assume this means you can plan a route and then others can somehow pick up that same route from the link? But still requires going online and using Google Maps online? Is that what you are asking me to do? Not sure.
We do not have a landline or way to access internet other than Verizon - WiFi is way to inconsistent to count on. We pay for our data so we do not waste data. Going online unnecessarily costs money. We are already using over a GB per day without spending more time online and using more data. I see no reason to use online maps when I can do it offline.
I just fooled around with the Microsoft maps a little and there is a way to share routes but I can't figure out how to do it - requires programs/apps I don't have and don't use. It is easy enough to look at the maps I post to figure out the routes and then create your own routes.
I used to be able to create a route in Streets & Trips and email it to anyone else who has S&T but since they quit making it and updating it after 2013 it seems there are getting to be too many new roads not on there anymore so S&T is slowly fading away to the point of not being very useful in that way these days. I still use it but need to use other maps to find where new roads are. I can't find any mapping that does what S&T once did. Such a shame they gave up on it. Too many free maps out in the world these days. Problem is they all have limited functionality. S&T was/is capable of doing so much more. But it costs money and with all the free maps no one buys it so MS dropped it. Oh well.....
