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5 GPS Route Planning Tools

I’m a self admitted GPS nut and certifyable map-aholic, and I hate to admit how may GPS units I own, for my motorcycle (BMW R1200RT), road bike, mountain bike, kayak… not to speak of iPhone GPS apps…

But I seldom use a GPS unit to plan a route, since it auto-calculates the quickest route. Instead I plan a route on the computer, checking out the google maps or google earth satellite images in detail to see how I can plan riding through farmland, avoid crowded areas and highways.

Click here to read about 5 cool utilities, and a screencast how-to on converting google map directions into downloadable GPS files, on my “BMW Motorrad Rides blog”

Garmin gets support for KML overlays – implications (ogleearth.com)
Here comes the spin from the GPS guys about Google Maps Navigation (fakesteve.net)
Google Earth adds custom map-viewing to iPhone app (venturebeat.com)

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