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39 chev
Posted 2014-07-27 5:36 PM (#163647)
Subject: Downloading maps to your Zumo 660


Puddle Jumper

Posts: 33
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/ 

Good Luck!

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RedRider
Posted 2014-07-28 4:43 AM (#163666 - in reply to #163647)
Subject: Re: Downloading maps to your Zumo 660


Visionary

Posts: 1350
Thanks. Checking it out now. Google Maps don't let you save anymore and Garmin Base Camp blows bilge water.
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lichla1988
Posted 2014-07-28 3:05 PM (#163683 - in reply to #163647)
Subject: Re: Downloading maps to your Zumo 660


Puddle Jumper

Posts: 6
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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luterdan
Posted 2014-07-28 3:40 PM (#163684 - in reply to #163647)
Subject: Re: Downloading maps to your Zumo 660


Cruiser

Posts: 59
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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ljurgens
Posted 2014-07-28 4:47 PM (#163686 - in reply to #163683)
Subject: Re: Downloading maps to your Zumo 660


Tourer

Posts: 341
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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39 chev
Posted 2014-07-28 6:07 PM (#163691 - in reply to #163684)
Subject: Re: Downloading maps to your Zumo 660


Puddle Jumper

Posts: 33
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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