Trip Planning

 

Hello all:

I am planning a trip From Toronto Ontario to Sydney Nova Scotia this summer. I was wondering if there is any way to easily locate Gas Stations or Service centers at approximately 200Km intervals along a route. I use Mapsource for speed zones and Alerts but cannot see an easy way to do this besides using the measuring tool (which is linear not route specific).

What I end up doing now is searching for Fuel but it doesn't give me fuel nearest the route so it takes time to drill into the map to find things.

Any assistance is appreciated.

To search your internal pois

To search your internal pois for gas stations.Once you select the destination and touch go.Touch menu,where to,near,my current route,ok,points of interest,fuel and you will get 50 closest to your present location.

If you have custom pois for gas stations.Same process except you select extras and custom pois .

Here is something Turboccc set up with Extra Poi Editor.You can fine tune the distance.

How to include custom pois for a route and save as a GPX file.

1.Using Excel or Notepad make a csv file to include your start, via points and destination point for trip.
2.Open in Extra Poi Editor and save as a Garmin GPX file.
3.Open the GPX file in Mapsource.
4.Select under edit New Route.
5.On left click Insert Waypoint.
6.Go down the waypoints and highlight the first one and click ok.
7.Repeat until all waypoints are now showing. Click ok at top.
8.You will now see your route.
9.Go to file and select save as and select a GPX file.
10.Open the GPX file in Extra Poi Loader http://turboccc.wikispaces.com/Extra_POI_Editor
11.Select Merge Open under file and load the custom poi files you want to include in your route.
12.Once all files have been loaded go to edit and select Find Poi on route.
13.You will get a pop up for how far to search off route. Insert the miles for search and click ok.
14.You can go to view and select View all Pois on Map.
15.Once view is completed select close map at bottom.
16.Go to file and select save as Garmin GPX.

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I would recommend using Microsoft Streets and Trips for locating fuel stops at intervals along a route.

what model is your garmin?

My 855 has routing capability, and on the unit itself, I can select POIs "along the route" which I can then select and add to my route.

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