Making a route in Delorme SA2003 or Topo4

Both maps allows for Routable road and trails to be drawn on the map. This is an overlay and need to be added to any new map file.
"Open the map program, click on: Route, Advance, Road Type. Choices of roads appears in the next box"
"Choices are Avoid, Standard and Preferred. Use pulldown menu to show Road type. Click Avoid for Toll and"
"Limited Access Highways. Set the speed of these to 8 mph, both Regular and Urban."
"There are seven other types of road listed. Depending on the area that you plan to ride, you could set all but Local Roads to Avoid"
"I set these at 8 mph. Local road, set to Preferred and the speed to your average speed. I use 12mph"
"Center the map at your Start area, while still on the Route tab, click on Advance, then New/Edit, Right Click on a road for your start"
"then choose Create Route, then Start, from the pulldown menu. (the colored button on the bottom center can aslo be used)"
"Center the map at your Finish area, right click on the road that is the finish. Repeat the above for Finish"
"Click Calculate, if the Auto Calc isn't checked. In the best of world, you will be done with a route using local roads."
"You may see the case that Spring Garden is avoided because it is Rt 13 and a national highway, so  a parallel street is used. "
"When the National highway is changed to Standard or preferred, miles away busy Rt 1 Is used instead of a parallel local road. "
"When ready to print a cue sheet from this route, There is no limit to the miles to turns permitted with this method:"
"While still in Route, Advance, The route name should be place in the name window. On the left side. "
The total miles and the time base on the average speed you choose. The right box has the list of waypoints. There are symbols
"to use for waypoints to be moved up, down, deleted and reversed. If you have a U-turn in the route, rearranging the waypoints"
"can correct your route. Other corrections are made with the mouse pointer, deleting, inserting or adding Via and or Stops."
"In general, on a route that is linear, Insert Via or Stop works for me, If not then I use Add Via or Stops. "
"I uses Add Via or Stops on a circular route. However, if a lower number is assign as I move away from the start, I use Insert Via,"
"Remember that on a completed route, Via and Stops can be rearranged."
TOPO4 has a option for Trails. The defult is trail so select Roads in two places when starting to make a route.
"In TOPO4, all other interfaces for routing are the same. Once a route is completed in Topo,  you can see the profile of the route. "
"As you move the mouse pointer, you will see movement on the map that corresponds with the profile and the box on the right"
shows the actual elevation reading. Move the point to find a lower reading and make a waypoint for your route.

"To make a cue sheet, click the Print tab, click Save to File, Click Route on the right, click Direction box only. Click Save To File,"
Place a name in the box and Click Save. This file is saved as a text file in DelormeDocs\Navigation
"Open Excel or any text program. Open this file. In Excel. Follow steps to convert to Excel. Used cut, paste and insert column to"
 setup a basic cue sheet.
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Making a route in Mapsource
"On the Menu bar Select Edit Preferences. Choose the routing tab.Vehicle type Bicycle, Choose Avoids on all of the choices below."
Choose Autorouting and Shortest distance. Set road speed as low as possible for all but Residential street. 
None of the other can get below 25mph. Set Residential street to your average speed.
"Zoom in to start and place Start on a road using the Route Tool. Move to a Finished Road,  by changing tools, if the that road isn't"
 in view. Use Hand or Zoom to get to the end of the route. Find the road that you want to finish on: Select the Route tool;
Right click to end route. Right click on route line and choose Route Property from pull down menu choose Directions. 
You will see each turn of the route. There is a print tab for this route on this menu.
You can go back to the Map and add waypoints on the roads that you rather use. Left click on the route line near a way point and 
you Rubberband the route to include that waypoint.


Uploading route to a gps
Your manual tell you how many waypoints a route can have is your GPS
Usually a waypoint is a turn. The mapping program can consider a bend in the road as a turn.
"The Garmin eMap accept 50 waypoints per route, about 50 miles or less. For a typical bicycle route. "
My Garmin II+ is limited to 20 waypoints 
"If when uploading a route and you get the message that the upload truncated, reverse the route in the map program"
 and upload as a new route with another name. Reverse the second route in the GPS to use as a continuation of the planned route.

Simulation mode 
Set GPS and Map to NMEA/NMEA For computer interface as in moving Map With Garnim II+
eMap interface will work with either GARMIN/GARMIN or NMEA/NMEA interface Follow steps below.
"1) Go to the Main Menu, select 'Setup' then change the Mode to Off."
"2) From the Main Menu select 'GPS Info', then press up on the keypad"
to increment the speed by 10 units for each push.  You can also change
the heading by pressing right or left on the keypad.
"3) If you want to simulate following a route or trackback, then activate"
navigation as usual.

Web pages
http://users.cwnet.com/dalede/
http://gpsinformation.net/
http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/gps-exercises.html
htttp://garmin.com
http://www.delorme.com/software.htm
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