Route Planning through Europe

[cossyrush]

Hi there,

Last year I drove to Dax in the South of France in my Dax Rush, I used my TOM TOM Go to navigate, planning the route on the way, I used 'way points' to force the TT to take me on the roads that I wanted to drive on.
The trip was fantastic and the TT meant that I didn't have to stop every 5 mins to check the map, but planning the route on the small screen was time consuming and difficult.

This year I'm driving to Spain, I will meet my wife there (she will fly down) and we will tour round Northern Spain.
I want to plan the route before I go, I have used the TT Home site so I know you can plan this way, but what I want to do, is plan the route on a full size screen and then download to the TT.

So the questions are:

What is the best software to use to plan the route I want down through France and then onto Spain?

Once I've planned the route can I convert it to work on the TT.


Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers
Ben

[Spokey]

Autoroute can be useful. http://rjdavies.users.btopenworld.com/html/poiconv... will convert the AR itinerary to TomTom.

It's what I do, anyway.

[cossyrush]

Spokey, thanks for the reply
Does Autoroute offer full European mapping? and is the conversion accurate?

Cheers
Ben

[Heebeegeetee]

Can you do it on Tom Tom Home? (Y'know, with your TT Go synched in?) Haven't ben there for yonks so can't remember.

[Globulator]

maps.google.co.uk

Also keep an eye on your TomTom, otherwise it may think that the fastest way around bordeaux is straight through the middle.

Trust me, it isn't.

[cs174]

I use MS Autoroute and then convert it to itn format for the tomtom.

MS Autoroute is really easy to use. The only thing to bear in mind is that Autoroute and TomTom may not take you the same route from A to B so you need plenty of waypoints to go a pre-determined route.

cs174