bigwave95 - Ahhhhh, now I think I understand what you are saying.

The notation of "saved Roads" is misleading in that it is not really a saved road (segment) but, rather a saved trip. My file shows that i currently have 8 saved trips.

To keep the segments going and save the entire trip, all you have to do is add the next address on ride planner.

Try this - open ride planner (make sure you log in). Start with your home address - type that in the box and click add. A new box comes up - type in the next location and click add. When you do, a new box will come up and you can keep adding parts to your trip.

When you are done, then click save and all of the segments you put in will make up your trip - and this will now show as a saved road.

Now, after you save that ride, let's say you want to put in some more waypoints. Waypoints are just stop bys and don't end the trip. Open your saved road.... go to the map and put your mouse on the place you want to stop by. Right click on the mouse and add a waypoint. This means you will ride by - and keep moving.

Now, suppose you want this place to be a stopover (end of the trip or segment). Put the mouse on that location, right click and click, change to location. What happens now is when you get to this place, the trip segment will end.

By this I mean - for example - if you put Detroit, Michigan in the first box and Richmond, Virginia in the second box, you will get one long trip with no stops. So, when you load this into the bike, you will see just one trip. Try that by plotting Detroit and Richmond on ride planner.

Now, if you go back to that map, you can add locations or waypoints. Remember, waypoints are stop bys and locations add segments to your trip.

Just for the heck of it, go back to the map and put your mouse on Youngstown, OH. Right click and then hit add location. OK - Youngstown has now become number 3. But, you want to hit Youngstown before Richmond, so go over to the left side of the screen and you will see the locations. Look at number three - you can see what is in the box. Next to that is a red x..and faintly next to that is an up/down indicator. Click that and move this location to number 2.

You should now see the changes on the map.

Here is what just happened. If you now save this - send it to the file for your bike. You will get the entire trip - broken down into segments. In other words, when you start out, you will see a trip from Detroit, MI to Youngstown (or wherever you plotted) When you get there, the ride/segment will stop. To continue, you will see a ride/segment from Youngstown to Richmond.

You can add waypoints or locations while planning the trip...or you can always come back and add then after you plot your original start and end point. Depending of where I am going and what I want to do, I use both methods. When going to Sturgis, I start out in Michigan and put in Sturgis. Them I go back and look for hotels - adding those as locations. By doing this, I can then find out how far I ride for the day.

Hopes this helps. Let me know if you need further - but I think if you just plot it like I mentioned, you will see the screen changes and better understand

 

Not sure if anyone helped you, but did you try renaming the file to remove the .xml?

 

I do zoom in and make sure it's on the road and in the lane but I don't know if it's necessary. One thing I like about Tyre is you can name the waypoints as you make them.

 

Joltergeist,

I did but no joy. On the thumb drive, I renamed it as .gpx file but when inserting the thumb drive on the bike, it comes up on the 6.5GT screen as .gpx.xml and I do not get the prompts to transfer to the NAV system.

Update: The MacBook Pro I am using is older with the following s/w: OS X Version 10.8.5. I have not updated the s/w due to the slower processor on this 4 plus year old laptop and really do not want to take the performance hit if I do upgrade it. Other than this file format save issue, the laptop does everything I need it to. Since I did get the maps to save on an old (and extremely slow) Windows XP platform laptop, I tried it on my wife's business MacBook Pro (a year old) with the following s/w: OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.5 and it worked as advertised.

The way forward for me is to put my XP laptop back on the shelf, continue to create / update my rides on my old MacBook which works just fine, and when I need to transfer the files to the bike, borrow my wife's computer for 2 minutes to save the files from Ride Planner to the thumb drive in .gpx format. I know I probably need to upgrade my operating system but really do not want to slow down my computer with the more powerful operating system just for this.

Thanks for the follow-up and I really like the Ride Planner. I am currently planning out a 10 day summer trip and taking a lot of the suggestions from the previous posts in the trip section of the forum. The first 5 days of the trip are already uploaded to the bike!

 

Yep, you got it, and thanks for taking the time to walk through all of this. I spent a good deal of time on the ride planner yesterday, at least 5 hours, and I ended up with a 4 day trip from NC to ID as one "saved road" 3 individual day trips (ID, WA, OR) as "saved roads" and a 5 day trip from OR back to NC as a 5th "saved road"

Now I need to go back into my files and change some of the locations to waypoints using your instructions. I have added locations to manage my routes instead of waypoints.

I really appreciate your help on this.

 

2015UL, is your flash drive formatted FAT32?

ETA some folks have luck using a Mac for everything Boom but Naviextras REQUIRES Windows for updates (see Owner's Manual). The same may apply to using Ride Planner. I format all flash drives FAT32 when working with the Infotainment system.

 

Sierra997,

It is. I even reformatted it with FAT32 when I was having issues. The size is 2GB. Since my original question, the Ride Planner file saves as the correct format utilizing Win XP and newer Mac OS but just not on my older Mac OS which is okay now that I know the work around. Very odd with the .xml addition to the .gpx for the older Mac though.

 

I wish there was a trip planner specific to bikes...so you can say set up a mileage for each leg and it sets up a given way point....so you do not have to guess as much...
That would be cool

 

RoadblochNM - HD Ride planner does that. Plan your trip and make your waypoints.

Then, click on the map, change the waypoint to location and it will show up on your map - with the miles.

 

Yea, I guess maybe I was not quite clear.

Say as an example....go from Duluth to Dallas...

I would like to put in start and end, distance between fuel stops and click create. Then go back and edit as necessary for maybe better options or areas you can stretch it a little...hope that is a bit more clear??

Right now, you go in and set way points for each stop...

By having a mileage limit, you can maximize each tank of gas...or so my brain tells me