BTW, I found a possible solution to something that has bother me for a while: how to get turn by turn directions out of a custom made google maps route on my phone. This is taken from another forum, and so far is the only solution I have seen. I don't know how well it works, but I will give it a try once the rain clears up. One needs to buy an app, but it looks like it should work the same if one uses a GPS that accepts external .gpx files.
Javier. -------------------- YO, YO, YO PEOPLE!!! LISTEN UP!!! Some genius has done it!!!! It's a really cheap app called Waypointer (links at bottom of my post) that works in conjunction with good old android Google maps/navigation, which is free of course. You will also need to use Firefox browser on your PC to make the route on google Maps. I just did it (made custom route, stuck it on my phone) and jumped in the car to test it out, and it worked! I really look forward to using it on the motorcycle... it's midnight so I will wait for tomorrow. I have nothing to do with this app. I'm just happy I found it. There is a trial version that is free for 60 days. Then the paid app is $1.29. I can't believe how much other people are charging for android GPS apps that still really don't have this ability. A couple of things: It is not a highly polished or elegant process to create/import/run the custom route. In other words, it isn't automated. But it is pretty simple for anyone with very very basic computer skills. Check out the youtube link below. It goes like this... 1. create a special browser "bookmark" in your firefox browser from this site http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx/ (it's not really a bookmark, its a javascript function) 2. create your route on your PC, with google maps, by right clicking "directions from here""directions to here""add a destination"(repeatedly) until you have your finished route 3. click that special "bookmark" which will create .gpx file code in your browser window 4. copy and paste that code from the browser window into a blank text file 5. save it with a .gpx suffix 6. stick that .gpx file on your phone 7. open the Waypointer app, touch the "Open File" button, and select your .gpx file 8. hit the big green button in the middle of screen (or hit the "Map" button to preview your route and then start navigating from the map preview screen) PROFIT!!! Like I said it's not a super-simple automated process. But it is not bad. While navigating you will hear "you will be at your destination in one quarter of a mile" as you approach every one of your "destinations". So you might think that it will stop navigating, like I did. But it doesn't stop navigating. There is a brief pop-up toast when you get to each "destination" (I couldn't read it...I was driving) and google navigation just keeps on trucking to the next "destination"... and then the next one... Oh man, this is great. I have wanted to ditch my ancient Garmin GPS V (which really is lousy). And I really have wanted to ditch their horrible MapSource software (which I have to run with horrible Windows in a virtual box... but I digress). But I haven't found anything else that really allowed the creation of custom routes then navigated me turn-by-turn as I rode (without spending several hundreds of dollars for newer Garmin stuff). So, I have just kept dealing with the awfulness of it all. I was even prepared to try one of those expensive GPS android apps. Ha! I'm gonna spend $1.29! I love open source computing. Thanks google. Thanks Waypointer dude!!! Spread the word, there are so many android users looking for this! Play store app... https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CCsQFjAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dpozosoft.waypointer&ei=JO14UJ-mH5Ky8QTw_YHgBw&usg=AFQjCNHQKHnwLfmH1ceHzxipK0BT6NbRrQ&sig2=qmR8rvk1742CW2r3PGtDTQ You tube instructions for making it happen... http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&ved=0CEoQtwIwBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4cXM4A5rJtE&ei=JO14UJ-mH5Ky8QTw_YHgBw&usg=AFQjCNENOAHjA6AVsz-voWGdtNyyq8G0uQ&sig2=KqcG4rZbmNugQv-8zQs7SA On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Javier Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember that Allen, I actually regretted not stoping back then to get a > picture. Also, I think something I will start using is this ( > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.maps.mytracks&hl=en), > so I can remember were I ride. > > Javier. > > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Allen Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ** >> It's a 1000. I found this covered bridge with Javier a couple years ago, >> so I went looking for it again. >> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T >> ------------------------------ >> *From: * Kurt Nolte <[email protected]> >> *Sender: * [email protected] >> *Date: *Sat, 25 May 2013 17:31:01 -0400 >> *To: *[email protected]<[email protected] >> > >> *ReplyTo: * [email protected] >> *Subject: *Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Took O'l Blue out for the first time. >> >> Nice bike, but you're obviously not in the US anymore. Must be halfway to >> Kiwiville. :p >> >> That's an 1100? >> >> -Kurt >> >> >> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Allen Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> ** >>> Well it is still lean on the pilot jets and I think I need to raise the >>> needles a notch. But otherwise it is running far better than It should, >>> considering it smoked like a bond car when I got it. Seriously, the top end >>> pull is fantastic, I just hope I don't blow the motor from over revving, I >>> can't seem to stop. >>> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From: * Javier Garcia <[email protected]> >>> *Sender: * [email protected] >>> *Date: *Sat, 25 May 2013 15:04:10 -0400 >>> *To: *nighthawk_lovers<[email protected]> >>> *ReplyTo: * [email protected] >>> *Subject: *Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Took O'l Blue out for the first time. >>> >>> She looks nice. Too bad I didn't have a chance to test ride it. Here is >>> being raining since I arrived :( >>> Javier. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Allen Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Too bad it's so windy but beautiful otherwise. She is purring like a >>>> kitten and pulls really hard. 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