Planning routes

[Grumpy Goat]

Ray, when I saw this new this thread on routing from you I immediately thought here comes a plug for Rever.

Thanks to your previous posts about this app I downloaded it on the phone and accessed it from the laptop. I will admit I did not spend too much time playing with it and gave up, but it does look very interesting. When I got my Klim suit it came with an upgrade to Rever Pro (I believe?) but I did not investigate further.

Now that I have a trip to plan maybe I will invest some time looking into Rever - thanks for the reminder. One thing I do like about Furkot.com is that it also has stuff other than just the routing included (hotels, attractions, stops after a specified number of miles / time, etc.) but its twisty road routing is non-existent and is left up to the user to do manually. So they both have their strengths, and it seems that Rever is very strong on picking routes easily.

I used to use MS Streets and Trips up until they stopped making it (and supporting it with new maps). That was also convenient and had the abovementioned features from Furkot but seemed easier to manipulate the route manually.

For me, any program that allows upload of GPX files to my Navigator and is easier and more 21st century than the awful Basecamp is a contender!