mcatrophy
Privileged to ride a 2018 FJR1300AS
For some years I've used Google Maps to plan a route, putting in my start and end points, then dragging the route to follow the roads I want to take. I've then "knife-and-forked" this into my Tomtom as an itinerary. This can be a bit tedious, even using the Tomtom with their Home application on a computer.
When I found out that the URL that is in the address bar after creating the Google route contains all the points of the route, I decided this conversion process could be automated, so I had a go at writing a web page that would do this.
Although somewhat experimental, it works and seems to do the job pretty well.
If anyone's interested, it's here.
Caveats:
Hope someone finds this useful.
When I found out that the URL that is in the address bar after creating the Google route contains all the points of the route, I decided this conversion process could be automated, so I had a go at writing a web page that would do this.
Although somewhat experimental, it works and seems to do the job pretty well.
If anyone's interested, it's here.
Caveats:
- I've only tried this in my Tomtom Rider Pro, it will probably work across the range.
- Google Maps allows a limited number of way-points, if you want more, you'll have to create more than one itinerary (you can easily merge them with an editor or load them as separate itineraries).
- The start and end points must be dragged, Tomtom won't understand addresses plugged into its itinerary file, only lat-longs (which dragging will give).
- You need sufficient computer savvy to save the resultant file into the itn directory in your Tomtom.
- You may need to check the route since it works by lat-longs, roads on Google Maps may be more up to date than those on your Tomtom (particularly if you're a cheap-skate like me and don't pay for updates).
- If Google change the way they do things, all bets are off.
Hope someone finds this useful.
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