Strega Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) There are lots of ways to plan a trip and everyone has an opinion on the best way. I'm not here to discuss the best way, just different ways of doing it. I'm sure there are lots of places to create tracks including Google Earth, but here are some that I feel are some of the best for doing so. It's always great to have real maps handy when planning and not just relying on the internet for everything Use these links at your own risk, use good judgement, ATGATT, carry paper maps, and be safe. Mapsource: http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=209 If you wanna just do it old school, by hand, you can do it with Mapsource and save it as a .gpx or .gdb file if you are going to put it on your Garmin device. You probably need Topo or City Navigator installed to make this original trip planning method effective. Once created, easy download to your Garmin device. Riding Social: http://ridingsocial.com/ Riding Social was created by the boys at Butler Maps. They have an app for your phone (Android and IOS) where your tracks online get synced with your mobile device. You create your trip online in a very intuitive manner. They have extra features that cost a little money. The only downside currently, is you can't have a 'collection' of tracks for a single ride. You need to plan your entire trip as 1 single track. This is a work in progress and it's actually somewhat easy to get around. Once your trip is done, you can import it into MapSource, and just cut it into the pieces you need. Currently this is my method of track creation and chop it up with MapSource. Furkot: https://trips.furkot.com/ui This is another very cool trip planner which is easy to use but I have very little experience with. I'm currently spending some time with this to get well versed in its features and trip creation abilities. Map My Ride: http://www.mapmyride.com/ A map planning website suggested by another user that I don't have any experience with, but worth a look. Dual Sport Maps: http://dualsportmaps.com/ Currently in a state of limbo, and hopefully Josh has time to work on it this year. Dual Sport Maps lets you create an account, upload & download tracks. It is currently in limbo as Google changed from the v2 API to v3 which killed some features. You cannot create or edit tracks on the site currently, but hopefully that feature gets fixed. It's just a huge time consuming project and I know Josh is very busy with his MotoBrain project. If you have gps track file and need to convert it to a different file type, here are some good resources. Converting file types: http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ http://kml2gpx.com/ If others have methods of trip creation, I will gladly add them here. Edited January 13, 2015 by Strega 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werx Posted January 22, 2015 My Ride Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 www.gpsvisualizer.com works great to convert Google Maps data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragos Stefan Posted July 17, 2016 My Rides (2) Report Share Posted July 17, 2016 Furkot: https://trips.furkot.com/ui This is another very cool trip planner which is easy to use but I have very little experience with. I'm currently spending some time with this to get well versed in its features and trip creation abilities. I use Furkot a lot and keep discovering features. It does have a learning curve, but it's very good and offers lots of options (it's really useful to spend some time with the help). Not only great for planning in itself, but also for booking stays and finding nice routes form great sources (BBR etc) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strega Posted July 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 http://dualsportmaps.com/ It's back up, better, faster, give it a look. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Hall Posted July 28, 2016 Administrators My Rides (3) Report Share Posted July 28, 2016 finally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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