gps routes

I prepare my trips by using Mapsource (assisted by Google Maps) to create all the Waypoints of interest, export them as a GPX file, convert it to an OV2 file, using a program called PoiEdit - then copy it into my TomTom. That will appear as a Point of Interest Category that helps me move around during a vacation. The GPX version is loaded into my Garmin 60Csx so it can guide me when I do the walking.

Thanks everyone . I haven't used one of the newer units guess I'll have to check them out.
Happy traveling!

To answer your question none I know of.

You have to program by placing way points on a highway and then follow the way points.

Thank You !

GoPackGo wrote:
Daboose - Which online planning tool do you use for your RVND 7725 ? Do you then download to the GPS ?

The trip planner is found at the Good Sam Club web site:

Trip Planner

Need to install the Dock Software from the Rand McNally site. This will interface with your RVND 7725.

Dock Software


(The following is also footnoted: "Supports the Good Sam GPS and all Rand McNally RVND devices. Importing trips to the Rand McNally RVND 7710 or RVND 5510 requires purchase of Lifetime Maps."

Daboose - Which online planning tool do you use for your RVND 7725 ? Do you then download to the GPS ?

1Milehigh wrote:
I always fount it difficult to go the way I wanted instead of the programs way

A GPS is an advisory tool. It isn't the law. Personally, I usually turn off Auto-Recalculation so that if I choose to turn a different way - the GPS doesn't think I'm stupid.

A GPS or a mapping program like Streets & Trips works from waypoint to waypoint. If you use S&T or a GPS to set a route - it will route from point to point - not via roadway XXX.

Another big problem for routing via a specific highway - the original source data from the various states breaks what should be a continuous highway into many small segments.

As an example - US-82 across Texas from Arkansas to New Mexico has no interstate sections except for a few miles in Wichita Falls - I have to set 5 waypoints near Texarkana where US-82 parallels closely with I-30 to force the route off I-30. S&T then draws the rest of the route very well.

However when you look at the detail driving directions - the contiguous highway is actually broken down into dozens of small segments. The longest actual Hwy-82 segment is only 128 miles for the 567 mile route.

The source data, and the S&T program, and any GPS sees each segment as a separate highway - not a continuation of the same highway.

I once mapped US-2 from west coast to east coast - it took close to 250 waypoints to force the route.

I use the Good Sam's RVND 7725 along with the online planning tool to define the route I want, not the GPS's route.

(This comes in handy, especially when a preferred routing is defined by a camp site and to avoid certain roads etc.)

To force a particular route, the trip has to be defined online at the Good Sam web site by inserting way-points between the two cities.

Defining way-points along the route will force the routing process. (It's a drag feature to change your route, similar to Yahoo maps et al.)

The trip routing can then be imported into the GPS unit.

Note: The waypoint(s) are defined as a "Stop" (checkered flag) along the way to the final destination. So if you have several imported waypoints, you will see several "Stops" before the final destination.

If you have a Garmin you can download Basecamp. The software allows to create routes that you send to your GPS.

Basecamp Link

You can use geo-cordornates. Or you can use Streets and Trips. You right click on an interesection and it asks which road. Pick one and then "Set as Stop" under route. It will append the point, you then go to the proper (Routing pane) and put it where you want it in the list so you do not go

<-------> on the same road all day :).