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Puddle Jumper
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Pillager, MN | I posted this over on another Victory forum, but I thought I'd post it here. It works great for even an old guy like me! I was looking hard to find an easy way to download a map with MY choice of route (usally NOT the shortest or fastest one) and somewhere I read that this website worked well. As you probably know, Harley also uses a re-branded Zumo 660 as their factory GPS. I hate to say it, but Harley-Davidson's route planning website is the answer to download a custom map to your Zumo 660.
I'm not very "techy", converting files to other formats, etc. to download them to my Garmin 660, so I was searching for another way to import trips to my 660. This works effortlessly. You might have to sign up (I don't remember if I had to), but you just do your route just like Google maps and then click "sync with GPS" and it does it all for you. Just took a trip over to the U.P. and Wisc. and it worked for the whole trip. Each time you add a destination, it loads to your GPS as a individual trip (I saved mine as "UP Trip", so the GPS showed "UP Trip 1, UP Trip 2, etc.")
Website: http://rideplanner.harley-davidson.com/
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Visionary
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| Thanks. Checking it out now. Google Maps don't let you save anymore and Garmin Base Camp blows bilge water. | |
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Puddle Jumper
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| I use this one from Honda. I can map the entire route out and follow it using this http://tripplanner.honda.com/ I generally map out my route and put a pin at each turn so my garmin will not change the route. | |
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Cruiser
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Marietta, GA | I agree Base Camp isn't ideal, but if you spend enough time with it, you can get it to do what you want - spend time to learn and watch the videos, and plan out a few routes. "we have come to an understanding of how to work together in semi-harmony". I tried the harley planner, and having every waypoint be a different destination, just made entering a route too complex. | |
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Tourer
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West Salem, WI United States | lichla1988 - 2014-07-28 3:05 PM I use this one from Honda. I can map the entire route out and follow it using this http://tripplanner.honda.com/ I generally map out my route and put a pin at each turn so my garmin will not change the route. I was expecting this to be the same as the harley one, but it seems to be better. I just downloaded a gpx file, I'm going to go check it on the bike... | |
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Puddle Jumper
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Pillager, MN | luterdan - 2014-07-28 3:40 PM I agree Base Camp isn't ideal, but if you spend enough time with it, you can get it to do what you want - spend time to learn and watch the videos, and plan out a few routes. "we have come to an understanding of how to work together in semi-harmony". I tried the harley planner, and having every waypoint be a different destination, just made entering a route too complex. Every waypoint does not make a different destination, only if you add a destination in the left column do you get an different destination. So, in my case, I was on a 5 day trip with 5 different destinations, so my it created 5 individual maps. I had many waypoints in each route. I'm not trying to talk anyone into using this site, I just wanted riders to know that it worked great for me (and I'm not technical at all). | |
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Downloading maps to your Zumo 660