Trip planning software....

[Dan_Ashley]

What's a GPS?

GPS= Grandpa's Potty Stop.

[Dan_Ashley]

They don't need Google Maps to do that. They have much better resources. Like tracking your cell phone location and your heat signature...

That's why I only use pay phones, and ALWAYS wear a cooling vest.

[murphybrown]

That's why I only use pay phones, and ALWAYS wear a cooling vest.

Finding a Pay Phone that is???? GPS =s Get Personal Service....and I do love talking to people....so that works realllllly well for me...

[StanProff]

I just hope that they don't wake anybody up, and tell them to keep an eye on you...

Don't worry about the goverment trying to keep an eye on anybody, they would never agree on who to put an eye on so we are all safe

[NancysToy]

Garmin's MapSource has a crude stab at this under Preferences which allows you to select your preferred road-type with a sliding scale, narrow country roads at one end of the scale and inter-state highways at the other. My biggest gripe is being taken off route onto a minor road, or track, in order to save a few yards in total distance traveled. Grrrr!

That's not what I am longing for. I want to designate a certain road by number or name...or just follow the Blue Ridge Parkway from Asheville to Blowing Rock, for instance.

[shelbydave]

As long as we are wishing for things in trip planning software (or GPS's), how about being able to put in a trip from say Chicago to Detroit, and then select a road, like US-12? I can't tell you how many times I have longed for that kind of feature.

The only way I've been able to do something like this is to use waypoints. I pick points along the route I want, then upload them into my Garmin.
Then when I put in my destination, I also enter the "via-points" It's klunky, but it works.

I'd also like a GPS / Mapping software combination where I can plan my trip, upload it to my GPS,and the GPS doesn't reroute me based on the preferences set in it.

Not only does my Garmin think for itself and override what I planned, she gets a tad bit "naggy" when I do my own thing...

[JJW SpyderRider]

The only way I've been able to do something like this is to use waypoints. I pick points along the route I want, then upload them into my Garmin.
Then when I put in my destination, I also enter the "via-points" It's klunky, but it works.

I'd also like a GPS / Mapping software combination where I can plan my trip, upload it to my GPS,and the GPS doesn't reroute me based on the preferences set in it.

Not only does my Garmin think for itself and override what I planned, she gets a tad bit "naggy" when I do my own thing...

The Garmin does like to reroute you if the auto recalculation is not turned off.

Do you know why the voice on the GPS is a women's?
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No guy would every nag you as much as she does.

[shelbydave]

The Garmin does like to reroute you if the auto recalculation is not turned off.

Do you know why the voice on the GPS is a women's?
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No guy would every nag you as much as she does.

I use the British voice, and she keeps getting me lost. I think it's because she's unfamiliar with the American roads... She is also a lot quieter if I drive on the left.

[Harvey]

The Garmin/Zumo GPS that is standard on the 2013 RT Limited has a Fuel Gage Setting under TOOLS then SETTINGS. You can program in your mileage and amount of miles needed to stop.