Streets & Trips Replacement

[rklyon]

With Microsoft Streets and Trips I was able to highlight all of the streets and highways that we drove on while full timing. Does anyone know of a mapping program that will allow me to do that?

[Matt_Colie]

Randy,

You and I are in the same situation. I traded between S&T and SA regularly and finally settled in with SA because it was the last one on sale.

Google Maps can layout a path, but as it web app, changes underway require that you find wire (old term for getting internet access). For us this was a complete stopper until we put a repeater in the coach and even then, if there is no signal, there is nothing to work with....

They say that you can down load the charts (maps) in advance, but that assumes that you know where you are going and we often are not at all sure. GM also will not follow your onboard GPS. This makes it more or less useless as an enroute navigator.

I really liked the way it could be updated enroute, and when you stopped for fuel or the overnight at a different than planned time, the change would wrinkle trough the entire plan.

Someone told me that CoPilot can do most of this, but I have not had the time to learn enough of it to say that for a fact.

Matt

[agesilaus]

We used S&T and Street Atlas software as long as we could mainly SA at the end. The software apps were causing us to get off-route at least once or twice a day. And finding a place to turn around when you are pulling a 30 ft trailer isn't that simple. I estimate they were costing us at least 30 to 45 minutes a day.

I did an extensive search for a replacement. There are none to be found for real time navigation in my opinion. Google maps just does not fill the need. I use RV Trip Wizard for trip planning and it is very capable but it's real time mode is primitive. So I finally broke down and bout an expensive Garmin RV890. The software apps were causing us to get off-route at least once or twice a day. And sending use down inappropriate streets in towns.
For real time nav the 890 is very good with a few glitches in our 4500 miles of use so far. For trip planning it mostly stinks. Thus RVTW which cannot be beat. So the replacement is much more expensive, I got the 890 for $390 and RVTW is $40/yr but my blood pressure has been cut by a fair amount. The Garmin has a lot of other features, it tells you the speed limit, it warns of curves and grades ahead, tells you what the next cross street is and a lot more.

[rklyon]

Thanks dkilley!! I didn't notice the line feature.

[dkilley]

Try “My Google Maps”.