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Which Rout Planner ?

Hi well it had been decided we are doing Delhi Oncober 10 days

Now we have been give some general guied of places to see my question now is what mapping Program/sofware do you use to plan your route?

I as an ex army guy prefer a good old paper map so i can see & put the route down but would like to use somthing elae so i can put it on my pc to loo at as well & ammend till i am happy with the final route

anyone advice wecome
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How about: GPS Visualizer, using the free hand drawing tool. Not sure you can reopen a gpx and modify it once you built it.

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How about: GPS Visualizer, using the free hand daryl
Thanks will have a look see, as i said b4 usd MapPoint which was a bit like AutoRoute
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I use excel to keep track of distances and maps.bing.com

I think you can lay down tracks in google earth too. Bing will do routing for you in most of the world. They just limit you on number of turns or something. For instance, you can't put in Bogota to Ushuaia, even though there is a continuous road connecting the two cities.
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I use excel to keep track of distances and maps.bing.com
I think you can lay down tracks in google earth too.
Google earth wil do a route from say Dehli to japur but not the whole route

found out commonwelth games are on so may now go to the south instead?
so will have eo have a look
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