Set up account, traced route, saved it. Now I have to figure out how to log in to my (gag me with a spoon) App Store account. More later.
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 5:52 PM Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many thanks all; the unanimous and very quick agreement on Ridewithgps > speaks well of it and I'lll check it out. > > On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 11:56 AM Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks to the car-centric development of this our Southwestern city we >> often have destinations only a few miles away that you can't ride to on >> direct, paved routes. OTOH, thanks to our extensive dirt trails, there are >> often off-road workarounds that, if they add 50% or more to the total >> distance are pleasant to ride -- and after all, one rides for pleasure; or >> I hope one does. >> >> I have to take a computer in to a shop tomorrow. By 6-lane boulevard and >> resulting horrible intersections it's 3.3 miles, but per Google maps there >> is apparently a combined residential street-cum-dirt trail route that can >> get me there. >> >> The trouble is that it's complicated enough that I have a hard time >> following it on my 42" professional screen. Also, I am rather "spatially >> dyslexic:" I don't easily comprehend spatial directions, relations, and >> distances -- generally I painstakingly work out complicated routes on a >> verbal instruction sheet. >> >> I cannot use Google Maps or on a 2" iPhone screen. >> >> But: is there some miracle phone app that will, say, let you pick out >> such a route on a big screen and transfer it to a phone where the app will >> walk you through the turns and distances? >> >> Otherwise, I'll stick to writing out route marker lists. >> >> Aside: When I drive with my daughter, she gauged routes using Siri to >> operate a direction app that would nag you to turn in "100 yards" or what >> have you. But (1) I will *not* talk to a ddogamned machine, and (2) the >> routes in question involve paths that I expect are not inside Google or >> Apple systems. >> >> Patrick Moore, who from time to time revisits Robin Williams very funny >> Siri putdown on Ellen DeGeneres. >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvh9pOoh%3DBA5gRDBQZafypYaSbEDz002Je8rBC12w8-3g%40mail.gmail.com.
