Best GPS App for finding back roads...
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Have you tried Google Maps ?
Waze is pretty good as well.
Good question. I'm getting into motorcycling and have the same question myself. From what little research I have done, lots of guys like to use a waterproof smart phone (no need to activate service) with downloaded maps and apps.
Check out the mapping and navigation sub forum of advrider forum's. Lots of good info.
http://advrider.com/index.php?forums/mapping-navigation.37
Check out the mapping and navigation sub forum of advrider forum's. Lots of good info.
http://advrider.com/index.php?forums/mapping-navigation.37
Waze is good (but the new version you have to go in and change a setting to give you those back-street routes).
If you reconfigure Google Maps for bicycle mode it could give you, uh, challenging routes. Be careful of pedestrian mode though, because that can put you the wrong way on one-way roads. After all, you're a pedestrian.
If you reconfigure Google Maps for bicycle mode it could give you, uh, challenging routes. Be careful of pedestrian mode though, because that can put you the wrong way on one-way roads. After all, you're a pedestrian.
Here Maps - been user for years. It can be used offline (You can't do that with Google Maps).
I went back to Garmin.
Google Maps stock likes to do this to me, I don't even have to go looking for them. When I was driving up through CO and WY, it took me on a muddy clay road to cross over into WY.
Waze is great.
Google Maps is good.
Try Waze.
Check off avoid toll roads under Settings (the cog wheel icon,) then Navigation.
Google Maps is good.
Try Waze.
Check off avoid toll roads under Settings (the cog wheel icon,) then Navigation.
Just dont try it out west here afterOctober 31st, maybe sooner if a storms rolled thyough, unless you like long term winter camping.
So I tried Waze... didabled highways, enabled gravel roads, and selected "shortest distance" and it still didn't take me all the back roads that I kind of know in my head that are shorter and more direct. If I use MapQuest on my computer it will find all of these obscure roads, but even their own app doesn't pick them up.
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