I can't get Apple maps running windows to add a destination/stop/via point. What am I doing wrong?
What's your preferred way of navigation?
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On a route I know well Google Maps offered me an alternative route home which I was stupid enough to take. I ended up in a city, at a junction with hookers and drugs dealers, with all of them trying to sell me their services, at night. That was the last time I will use google maps, and I wrote apps using Google Maps for BlackBerry years ago. Waze is owned by Google. There was a time when Google Maps was the best there was.
Garmin has also sold out and will unnecessarily route people through cities.
Garmin has also sold out and will unnecessarily route people through cities.
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Why are you running Apple Maps with Windows?
Did you take advantage on it, might as well? lol
Pad, pen, and paper maps. Determine the route for the next day the night before and be flexible enough to make changes on the fly if necessary.
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I use a combination of several Android apps:
1. OpenStreetMap (OSMAnd). While this app does not incorporate traffic conditions, it does a great job of interstate routing. I am able to customize it to my needs. It's terrible if you punch in an address such as for a business, but city to city routing is fantastic, and it's time estimates are more or less spot-on for me. One major, major advantage is that on a state-by-state basis it's entirely offline. No connection needed once the map is downloaded.
2. If I'm looking to hit up the backroads, even in areas I'm familiar with, then nothing beats Kurviger. I love it. It's taken me on many adventures even in my backyard.
3. When "in town" and I want traffic conditions or to be able to say something like "Navigate me to the nearest <whatever>" then Google Maps.
There are downsides to this approach. I generally use by phone securely mounted out of the weather, and don't look at it so much as pay attention to the words, but sometimes it's damned handy to have a screen show you which of the 40 lines and exits you need to take that are part of some gnarly intersection on the interstate.
I play with a few others from time to time, but I'd say OSMAnd for state-to-state or city-to-city travel nd Kurviger for backroads scratchin' is where it's at for me.
1. OpenStreetMap (OSMAnd). While this app does not incorporate traffic conditions, it does a great job of interstate routing. I am able to customize it to my needs. It's terrible if you punch in an address such as for a business, but city to city routing is fantastic, and it's time estimates are more or less spot-on for me. One major, major advantage is that on a state-by-state basis it's entirely offline. No connection needed once the map is downloaded.
2. If I'm looking to hit up the backroads, even in areas I'm familiar with, then nothing beats Kurviger. I love it. It's taken me on many adventures even in my backyard.
3. When "in town" and I want traffic conditions or to be able to say something like "Navigate me to the nearest <whatever>" then Google Maps.
There are downsides to this approach. I generally use by phone securely mounted out of the weather, and don't look at it so much as pay attention to the words, but sometimes it's damned handy to have a screen show you which of the 40 lines and exits you need to take that are part of some gnarly intersection on the interstate.
I play with a few others from time to time, but I'd say OSMAnd for state-to-state or city-to-city travel nd Kurviger for backroads scratchin' is where it's at for me.
I just bought a Chigee display that works like an Apple CarPlay/Android Auto display, I have been frustrated by the dim display in sunlight on my Nav 5 since 2014. From what little playing with it I have done it seems to work well. The model I have just plugs into the BMW Nav mount so required no wiring, my helmet worked without having to sync to the unit, the only thing that required syncing was my phone to the display. I am keeping the Nav for now just in case it doesn’t meet my expectations.
But this is not a nav if I understand it right. It just reflects your phone's map app like google map and navigates A to B (or up to 10 map points). For the custom routes you still need an app (like OsmAnd or alike) to navigate a custom route.
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Yeah... but such a "salesman address finder" is so convenient...
For me (and my GF to a big portion) the preparation is a significant part of the trip...
Working out possible routes on paper maps, combining those with places to see, take ferry-schedules/bookings into account, build the appropriate daily stages in Garmin MapSoure, edit, tweak, fine tune and clean those... and put them on the device...
You are right I installed the SCENIC app to allow the creation of routes and importation of GPX files. I have yet to see how it will work in the real world but my hopes are high.
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This is a feature of most navigation apps including Google maps. Things like real time traffic and weather do require an active data source though.
Mostly dead reckoning....if I get lost that way, I usually revert back to a Garmin XT.
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I use google but im guilty of zigging when i should zag a lot! Google does a poor job when its out of cell service.