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With a "to/from" the algorithm Ride Planner uses to show the route is not the same as the algorithm in the BoomBox NAV system. I think Ride Planner defaults to fastest time while the Boom Box uses your preferences and avoidances to shape the route.
I'm pretty sure this will be the problem. The ride planner uses the fastest time option, so you have to make sure your nav unit is set the same way. Also, make sure "avoid highways" isnt checked on the ride planner... and make sure on your nav unit that you dont have it set to find twisty/scenic/avoid highways anything like that. Its kind of a pain using all of the extra waypoints to avoid highways manually and what not, but it's what I've found to work.
I second setting it to fastest route and removing all avoidance's. I always run my routes through Tyre to verify them if I am on a long multi-day trip. I have never had an issue doing this and have caught some mis-information coming from the ride planner.
Thanks everyone for the help on this and I understand now better about how waypoints work. I guess my last question is around the preference portion on the boombox navigation. For one- I don't do Interstates, so I have checked avoid highways on both the ride planner and my navigation. I've setup my custom route and with many waypoints. To prompt the navigation to try and stay on route with my imported ride- what preference should I select? Fastest, Shortest, etc?
Thanks everyone for the help on this and I understand now better about how waypoints work. I guess my last question is around the preference portion on the boombox navigation. For one- I don't do Interstates, so I have checked avoid highways on both the ride planner and my navigation. I've setup my custom route and with many waypoints. To prompt the navigation to try and stay on route with my imported ride- what preference should I select? Fastest, Shortest, etc?
If you set waypoints near every turn in order to lock in road choices, the route calculation for the bike should be set to shortest route.
Routing avoidance's should be deselected for any road type you've included in your route planning.
Also it's very important to zoom in as close as possible to view your waypoints placement; if the bike does not pass through a waypoint (because the waypoint is say 10 feet off the road), it will begin adding u-turns and/or routing changes to force travel through that missed waypoint. Getting locked into this rerouting loop requires deleting all newly added waypoints & the errant waypoint it's trying to route you back to; a royal PITA.
I've given up on Ride Planner. I use Route Converter. It's a downloadable shareware exe file that uses the Google Maps db, which seems to be the most up to date free mapping db available. Works well for me.
Additionally - I just helped another rider that purchased a new SGS to understand how to convert her many Garmin Basecamp prepared GPX files to work properly on the 6.5GT's gps. Some of the Basecamp GPX files were huge & bogging down the 6.5GT to the point they didn't appear to work. I was able to use Route Converter to trim down a 1.2+ Mb file Basecamp file to a 27Kb file that contained all her waypoints, start & end locations, which ran fine on the 6.5GT. I've found Garmin routes have a bunch of extra information that can be deleted in order to simplify & improve performance on the H-D 6.5GT gps.
If you set waypoints near every turn in order to lock in road choices, the route calculation for the bike should be set to shortest route.
Routing avoidance's should be deselected for any road type you've included in your route planning.
Also it's very important to zoom in as close as possible to view your waypoints placement; if the bike does not pass through a waypoint (because the waypoint is say 10 feet off the road), it will begin adding u-turns and/or routing changes to force travel through that missed waypoint. Getting locked into this rerouting loop requires deleting all newly added waypoints & the errant waypoint it's trying to route you back to; a royal PITA.
I've given up on Ride Planner. I use Route Converter. It's a downloadable shareware exe file that uses the Google Maps db, which seems to be the most up to date free mapping db available. Works well for me.
Additionally - I just helped another rider that purchased a new SGS to understand how to convert her many Garmin Basecamp prepared GPX files to work properly on the 6.5GT's gps. Some of the Basecamp GPX files were huge & bogging down the 6.5GT to the point they didn't appear to work. I was able to use Route Converter to trim down a 1.2+ Mb file Basecamp file to a 27Kb file that contained all her waypoints, start & end locations, which ran fine on the 6.5GT. I've found Garmin routes have a bunch of extra information that can be deleted in order to simplify & improve performance on the H-D 6.5GT gps.
Speaking of Ride Planner, has anyone else had problems using the website lately? I log in and plan a route, when i save it asks me to log in again, then my route is gone.
I've used it several times and am familiar with how it works but having problems lately.
Last week a couple of us in our group had problems with RP, it was a site thing. Started working again the next day, I haven't checked since. Hopefully they're upgrading the site and eliminating some of the quirks...
Just one of many reasons I prefer "My Route" https://www.myrouteapp.com/en/user/login
You just click near the road and the waypoint is placed on it instead of 100 yds out in the bushes. However, it is possible to place the point going the wrong direction on the Interstate. Another good reason to stay off the Interstate.
I've tried at least 4 different route planners, and I like My Route the best, too.
Originally Posted by dh_meyer
I create my routes on my PC and load to Boom. I especially like being able to review my route on my phone while sitting at a restaurant or wherever.
Yep, and I haven't tried it yet but you can actually modify the route on your phone or ipad. Of course, you still can't export the modified route to the Boom. I gave up and got a laptop to take with me on trips.
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