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Originally Posted by Paul_Heery
Our PCA region uses the Ridewith GPS app for our coffee runs. This may be what you are looking for. That link also provides the details on how it is used. |
I'm going to have to check that out. I find myself planning a lot of group drives, and I have been nothing but frustrated with Google Maps. Sometimes it is simply "too smart", or "too active".
An example of "too smart" that I run up against the most is the fact that it "knows" current road conditions, construction, etc. Which is all well and good, unless I'm planning a summer drive, and I'm doing the route planning in January. A couple of our favorite, most scenic mountain passes get closed seasonally, so the damn Google Maps program will not allow me to plan a route over them when they are closed. I cannot find a way to tell it I won't be driving until, say, June, so it will allow me to show a route on a road that will be open by then.
I have found a way to assign a date, but then it shuts down other features, like adding way points. Being that I'm planning car club or motorcycle routes, I'm not interested in the shortest, most efficient way to get there. I want the "long way", the "scenic route". Assigning a date and adding way points appear to be mutually exclusive, or at least I cannot figure out how to do this.
I have found I can "cheat" it by telling it I'm on a bicycle, or that I'm on foot. Which is kind of o.k. - the route and mileage are not affected, but the travel times get all screwed up. It gets frustrating. I'll have to try this other program.