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I am using Google Maps to plan a French trail riding and sightseeing holiday but am struggling with the way Google treats locations.

I have marked our definite stop overs and stays as Favourites so they show on the map as a gold star. However, when you click on them they only show the address which, to someone with my limited memory span, isn't that useful when looking at them a few weeks later disbelief 

Is there any way to give these places a meaningful name e.g. Ride Limousin rather than 1 Les Hommes?

Google also seems to have altered the way you get directions so that it is no longer easy to swap locations back and forth and to add "vias". I guess everything has been "simplified" to work on mobiles confuse



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Have you tried 'Tyre' a dutch mapping system for motorbike touring that overlays onto Google Maps.

You plot a route using 'waypoints' which you can 'rename' to whatever you want. 

Then export to a tablet or whatever. 

Only slight downside is that it assumes you are using known roads, but you can go offroad with a bit of extra work.

I use it for plotting LDT' routes in the UK, but as it's on Google maps it works world wide!

Web site is http://www.tyretotravel.com/

They also have a big library of free bike routes across Europe if you are looking for some ideas.

Nick



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Should have added that it's free....

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Bri, Have used viewranger to do the same sort of thing as Nick suggests, it can export a final route in different file types and does have some off road tracks when you view in the 'cycle map' view.

Its easily switched between satellite view and cycle map to check routes 'on the ground'. I used it to quite good effect when we traversed the Pyrenees via mainly 'off road' routes.
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Thanks for the replies guys! I will have a look over the weekend.



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