Ride Planning Software?
 

Looking for a good ride/route planning software for a DOS (Windows 7) based computer. Planning a 3 week ride from the Mountain West to travel through at least 19 states to the Southeast area in U.S. and back. Want to stay off Interstates as much as possible. Am currently using a free program sponsored by a leading American-made Motorcycle company...and wondering if there's something better and more user friendly for a senior citizen. Thanks for your help in advance

The are a lot of route planing softwares out there.
Here.com which can also be used on the windows phone.
If you have a Garmin you can use Mapsource/Basecamp. Then transfer the routes to your device.
But even is you don't have a Garmin you could still use Mapsource/Basecamp and get free maps from OSM mapping and use direct from your laptop.
There are a lot of others, have look under the Navigation thread.
Whatever you decide to use you will have to play about with to get used to it

Wayne

I recall seeing the one attributed to HD.

Such software is not the most popular subject matter within the HUBB but there are a few ideas about this in here:
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...hich-one-82808

Well me as an almoast senior (2x jears) im using a simple paper map. Reading other peoples nice travel reports i allways look in the map about wich region they are talking about and write small notices directly on to the papermap...