Motorcycle riding-mapping

[DaytonaLynn]

I don't use a GPS to ride with. Still a map guy.
I sue Bing or Google to try and layout a ride.
My question is:
Isn't there a program that one could actually click or pin a spot on the map to make a route?

Thanks
Lynn

 

[ClimbnSink]

I'd ask over there advrider.com. I don't much attention to it, but there is tons of GPS route stuff.

 

[steingar]

Yeah, you can do it with Google maps. Guys do it all the time for dirt rides. You should be able to use a map from the gas station for the asphalt stuff.

 

[Bill]

I don't use a GPS to ride with. Still a map guy.
I sue Bing or Google to try and layout a ride.
My question is:
Isn't there a program that one could actually click or pin a spot on the map to make a route?

Thanks
Lynn

Do a little investigation, but I like to use the rubberband capability on Google maps to lay out specific routes. There are some programs you can use (free off the web) that will convert the Google route into GPX, which can then be loaded into Garmin software (basecamp, Mapsource, etc.) and then downloaded to the GPS device.

I love touring by way back roads, and use the above to load these routes into my Garmin GPS.

 

[Bill]

There are some programs you can use (free off the web) that will convert the Google route into GPX

Here is a great place to start:

http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx/

 

[DaytonaLynn]

Do a little investigation, but I like to use the rubberband capability on Google maps to lay out specific routes. There are some programs you can use (free off the web) that will convert the Google route into GPX, which can then be loaded into Garmin software (basecamp, Mapsource, etc.) and then downloaded to the GPS device.

I love touring by way back roads, and use the above to load these routes into my Garmin GPS.

Same here Bill.
So there is a Drop down called rubberband on google to do this?.

Thanks

 

[Bill]

Same here Bill.
So there is a Drop down called rubberband on google to do this?.

No.

Go to google maps and click on get directions. Enter your starting and ending points and let google suggest a route. A blue route will come up highlighting their suggested route. Use the mouse and cursor left click and hold on any section of the route and drag it to another road. Google will then re-route based on where you drag (rubberband) the route.

Try it, it works well. I have a lot of fun planning moto vacations using paper maps like Delorme Gazeteers and then plotting them in Google.

 

[DaytonaLynn]

How do you determine if a road is hardtop or not?

 

[Bill]

How do you determine if a road is hardtop or not?

That you can't tell, but you may be able to switch to satellite view, zoom in, and look.

I've been routed onto dirt roads, but that doesn't bother me much. I've taken even sportbikes across some very intersting seasonal use roads.

 

[DaytonaLynn]

Yea the gold wing doesn't like dirt very well.
I recently moved to Houston area and was trying to find some thing I could click on or drop a pin to create a route.

 

[Bill]

Yea the gold wing doesn't like dirt very well.

I owned a '98 1500 Wing, rode the living tar our of that bike, including lots of dirt roads. At the time I had owned purely all sportbikes, so I RaceTeched the forks, put works performance shocks on the back (1" taller than stock), and Galfer brake lines and pads.

Had waaaay to much fun hunting squids at Deals Gap.

 

[DaytonaLynn]

I owned a '98 1500 Wing, rode the living tar our of that bike, including lots of dirt roads. At the time I had owned purely all sportbikes, so I RaceTeched the forks, put works performance shocks on the back (1" taller than stock), and Galfer brake lines and pads.

Had waaaay to much fun hunting squids at Deals Gap.

So you got rid of the air shock and used two conventional shocks?
What dose that mean, RaceTeched the forks, is that a kit.

I am thinking of going to the braided lines for clutch and brakes.

 

[Bill]

So you got rid of the air shock and used two conventional shocks?
What dose that mean, RaceTeched the forks, is that a kit.

I am thinking of going to the braided lines for clutch and brakes.

Yes, I ditched the air shocks for conventional coil over shocks. The RaceTech kit uses emulator values that allows old style damper rod forks to have the function of a cartridge fork.

http://racetech.com/index.aspx