HELP - I have constructed a route to a friends house using the MotoGoLoco site but it will not let me download it to my Garmin Zumo 660. According to Garmin I have installed the Garmin Communicator Plugin but the MotoGoLoco sight does not appear to recognise that the satnav has this and so I cannot export the route to my Garmin - any ideas as this is driving me nuts :bang::bang::bang:
Try using garmin basecamp ....it's technical but very very good ....I'm hoping your friend lives in another country ? You don't need shat navs for a UK address surely. I mean if he / she lived in Portsmouth , for example , you ride south to Portsmouth and your friend meets you somewhere near ...how would you have done it 10 or 15 years ago ?
You see @gingerb , here is a classic example of technology making us lazy and failing to do proper research. This young up start has wadded un to a conversation, gobbing off swear words, clearly not realising who he is addressing. I sure had he realised he would have afford you the respect a lady deserves (until said lady proves otherwise). This is why I use a map.
Ginger i think you might be able to use this application. http://www.tyretotravel.com/ A link on youtube to show how it works. And for those who want motogoloco https://www.motogoloco.com/map
Nice debate here clarkey . I for one love all the gadgets and new tech that arrives , especially when it makes it easier and faster and safer ....the thing with the navs is ,it is too easy to look down at them and take your eyes of where you are going . This makes you slower and lowers your observations , which as you know need to be as high and as far as poss into the distant . When you want to travel by nav , they take you the way they want you go , but I like to ride the way I want to go ! I recall rob j doing a police training exercise in London , he got across London using a pre read map and signs , quicker than he did using a sat nav . I have a £600 bmw mottarrd navigator on my bike , I use it to play bluetooth music in my lid ! It's used as a navigator when I arrive on the outskirts of a large town or city to find the hotel for the night we have booked. Maps are now old school , but I find them better to read than navs and more helpful in planning routes . Most of the oldies will prob agree with me , but most of the young uns won't !
Thanks guys - I use it mainly for music but I have a couple of friends that live in strange places that are easy to get to via motorways but also have some great back roads to get there. The problem being I always get lost on the back roads hence the satnav. That way I can listen to music on the boring motorways and then listen to the directions when I come off motorway and have a fun ride on the back roads. I used to write it out and put on the top of the tank bag but fond that I had to look down so much it was a bit dangerous - and I still managed to get lost last time
Well I predate satnav by many years. I use one when I'm near my destination as it frees my mind up so I can text my mates, update facebook , check NWB etc. I do like maps though. Any recommendations for UK maps/ road atlas.? Best scale for country roads. You know what I mean.
I use the A3 Morrisons jobby in the car and for planning routes at home in conjunction with autoroute express and google maps street view. Once out on the bike I have a 1999 AA glove box atlas and of late "Windows HERE Maps" on Windows phones and google maps again.
One of the best developments in domestic road navigation is Google Street view. Planning a route, to be able to cyber ride the road, seeing land marks just prior to turn off junctions I find really useful. When you arrive there, I feel like I have already been there and concentrate of the junctions rather than where to go.
