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SteveSmith
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PostPosted: 12:17 - 26 Mar 2018    Post subject: Satnav app to follow a specific route Reply with quote
If I want to get somewhere by the quickest route I use Google Maps, which is great.

If I want to take the long way home via some random twisty roads I use Calimoto, which is good most of the time.

Very occasionally, I want to define my own very specific route and follow it without an algorithm deciding that there's a better way. I'm looking for an app that allows me to create a route on my PC, then follow it using my phone. I know it is possible to export a kml from Google My Maps, change it into something else and import it into my phone, but frankly that's a bit of a faff and not always reliable.

Does anyone know of an easier way that just works?
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owl
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PostPosted: 13:00 - 26 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
you can create your own routes in google maps and save them under my maps

https://www.google.com/maps/d/

https://support.google.com/mymaps/answer/3502610?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

unless I'm missing something obvious, just use google maps?
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weasley
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PostPosted: 13:46 - 26 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Google Maps on the PC has a "send to phone" option. Create your route on the PC, dragging it about to follow whatever roads you want then send it to your phone.
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Powderhead
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PostPosted: 14:26 - 26 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
weasley wrote:
Create your route on the PC, dragging it about to follow whatever roads you want then send it to your phone.


This doesn't really work, because...

Google wrote:
Dragging does not affect sent route.


If you plan a route from A to B and drag the route to travel via C, when you send it to your phone it will ignore C and you'll just get the same fastest route from A to B that you started with. You could define the route using multiple destinations to include point C and then send it to your phone, but that would be a pain in the cock for more complex routes.

+1 for using My Maps - I don't know of a simpler way of doing it. Build the map on your PC and open it in the Google Maps app on your phone.

In other news, I use the motorcycle mode on Waze rather than Google Maps for day-to-day navigation. It's far better in my opinion, especially in cities.
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Powderhead
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PostPosted: 15:58 - 26 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
Can you not just add a "travel via" or a few way points?


You can - it's easy to define a really complicated route in Google Maps on a PC. However, the "send directions to phone" just results in it reverting to the fastest A -> B route.

There are only two options I know of:

1) Define the route with multiple waypoints and then "send directions to phone" - although if you've got more than a couple of waypoints it's going to be a ballache, or;

2) Use the aforementioned "My Maps" in Google and open your newly-created map in the app on your phone.
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Loui5D
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PostPosted: 16:19 - 26 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Myroute?
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Copycat73
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PostPosted: 17:44 - 26 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
buy a garmin and stop havin to mess around with phones that are not up to the job.... Penny Coin Penny Coin
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TbirdX
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PostPosted: 17:47 - 26 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Viewranger can do this. It's the green laners goto software and app.
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Dave V4
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PostPosted: 22:22 - 26 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
as Loui5D says, myrouteapp now have there own navigation app, this will allow you to create a route, including way points etc that are then sent to the app to follow. it wont rewrite to use the quickest route either
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PostPosted: 03:41 - 27 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Copycat73 wrote:
buy a garmin and stop havin to mess around with phones that are not up to the job.... Penny Coin Penny Coin


This.
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davebike
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PostPosted: 11:14 - 28 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
I use Tyre to plan google drive to store /move to phone and copilot as sat nav which happy follows routes planned in tyre !
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owl
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PostPosted: 11:32 - 28 Mar 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote
Copycat73 wrote:
buy a garmin and stop havin to mess around with phones that are not up to the job.... Penny Coin Penny Coin


Got a garmin that sits in a draw and barely ever gets used, ocassionally on longer journeys but to be honest I regret buying it Confused
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