Garmin or rv trip wizard - another gps thread

No, I mean you can save a total area that you designate on your phone. You can pick an entire coast if you want to.

I didn't know that !
I have a garmin 890 has worked great for me . I really like it is it perfect no but like i way better then my phone .
 
I have an rv GPS. It is literally the worst thing I have purchased for the rv. It’s the garmin rv 780. It is always wrong and has never helped me in any capacity. Just use your phone and if you can save the maps to your phone so if you lose data it will still work.

On a related note: If you use RV Trip Wizard and its mobile app, you can view the trips/routes you save online. Then with one click download all related maps to your phone so that you still have maps when you lose coverage. I just downloaded all the related maps that we will pass through on our Alaska trip this summer. It was pretty slick.
 
We use Sygic. Maps are saved to my phone on that. If we opt to go a different route while on the road, Sygic makes the change.

I think I'm going to try this one as they now offer an Apple Car Play compatible version so it'll show up on my center console of the truck and have offline maps.
 
I think I'm going to try this one as they now offer an Apple Car Play compatible version so it'll show up on my center console of the truck and have offline maps.

Even though I did purchase the GPS I would prefer this as well.

Oldcow
 
Garmin RV GPS for navigating, playing with RoadTrippers.com and RVTripWizard.com for planning. I tried the RV Trip Wizard / RV Life app but it can't compare to Garmin. Still a work in progress.
 
Garmin RV GPS for navigating, playing with RoadTrippers.com and RVTripWizard.com for planning. I tried the RV Trip Wizard / RV Life app but it can't compare to Garmin. Still a work in progress.

Our son-in-law tried the RVTripWizard nav app for their Class C - said it was really buggy and problematic He has gone back to using RV Trip Wizard and Google Maps for planning routes, then using Google Maps on his phone for navigation. I've tried talking him into a Garmin RV GPS like we use, but he can't justify the expense since what he's doing works for them and they're not full-timers. (I guess he knows what he's doing... he's a captain for one of the major airlines.)

Rob
 
Even while off line?

Oldcow

Can't say for sure. We've never done an enroute change that hasn't worked, but I'm not sure any of those were during a time when we didn't have a connection.
 
I have successfully imported an RVTW route to my Garmin 895. It is in separate tracks associated with each stop. Is there a way to string them together or the separate tracks need to be picked after each stop? Also, following the RVTW route on Garmin, will Garmin recalculate if a turn is missed?

Oldcow
 
I have successfully imported an RVTW route to my Garmin 895. It is in separate tracks associated with each stop. Is there a way to string them together or the separate tracks need to be picked after each stop? Also, following the RVTW route on Garmin, will Garmin recalculate if a turn is missed?

Oldcow

If you export the route to a file on your computer, then import the route into Garmin Basecamp you can open the imported route, it will show as the separate routes but you can merge them into one route. The Garmin GPS will recalculate on the fly if you get off the original route.
 
If you export the route to a file on your computer, then import the route into Garmin Basecamp you can open the imported route, it will show as the separate routes but you can merge them into one route. The Garmin GPS will recalculate on the fly if you get off the original route.

Merge them in Basecamp ?

Oldcow
 
Merge them in Basecamp ?

Oldcow

You would need to download Garmin Basecamp from their website, if you don’t have it already. The import and merge is not a real simple procedure, but it isn’t bad if you have reasonable computer skills.
 
Our son-in-law tried the RVTripWizard nav app for their Class C - said it was really buggy and problematic He has gone back to using RV Trip Wizard and Google Maps for planning routes, then using Google Maps on his phone for navigation. I've tried talking him into a Garmin RV GPS like we use, but he can't justify the expense since what he's doing works for them and they're not full-timers. (I guess he knows what he's doing... he's a captain for one of the major airlines.)

Rob

I would agree with his assessment. RV trip wizard is a decent planning app on a computer, but the navigation end of it leaves a lot to be desired. Suggest he give CoPilot GPS a try. I tried it on a recent trip and it worked well as a navigation tool. It's phone only, so not as useful as a planning tool as RV trip wizard, but the routing makes more sense than some of the "creative" ways that RV trip wizard has tried to send us. As a navigation tool in the car it's much better than RV trip wizard was. The RV trip wizard app is basically unusable, especially if you go off the planned route.
 
I have now used TW for planning and Garmin 895 for navigation. Other than the windshield space I have lost, I like it and it seems to work well. I plan to get a mount for my truck that will allow me to have it closer to me and lower perhaps more out of the way. I can also mount my RV camera.

Thanks for the input.

Oldcow
 

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