gps routes

You may need to expand on this a bit. Are you talking about entering two cities and letting the GPS determine the route between them?

When I set up a route I use "waypoints" which are independent of cities or highway numbers.

No, I mean if I want to go from tulsa to san Francisco I can enter the highway numbers I want to travel. There are some highway intersections not located in cities.

You still need to use something to specify what stretch of highway you need. For example, Highway 70 runs the full length of the U.S., and runs concurrent with Highway 64 for a good distance. If you said you wanted to take 70 to 64, there would be a LOT of possible choices for it to pick from.

I agree with the poster who uses waypoints. I find the intersection I need on the map, drop a waypoint, and have the exact position I am looking for. One time I was even able to pick the westbound lane vs the eastbound lane on the interstate.

Most mapping programs will allow you to click on and drag specific points of the proposed route to your desired route.

I don't know of any programs that will allow you to specify exact route numbers to travel. There may be some out there, but I've not used any.

with my tomtom I can allow it to assign a route and I can change it by several means (include XXX in route or EXCLUDE XXX in route) Of course there is seldom any big advantage to using GPS on open highways if you already know how you want to go. Mine is strictly for use in metropolitan areas :)

What we do is... map the route in Streets and Trips, changing the route to suit our needs and then export it to the Garmin. Custom made route!

Jim

Thanks for all the replies, I used to have streets and trips and it would send me down dirt roads and inconvienient routes. I always fount it difficult to go the way I wanted instead of the programs way, same with garmin and Magellan.

1Milehigh wrote:
Thanks for all the replies, I used to have streets and trips and it would send me down dirt roads and inconvienient routes. I always fount it difficult to go the way I wanted instead of the programs way, same with garmin and Magellan.

But the good thing is if you don't want to use the route, simply move the routing to where you DO want to go.

Jim

Yeah, just grab a paper map an go!