What About Ride With GPS?
10-20-19, 06:19 AM
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Hi all. Full disclosure, I work at Ride with GPS. Just wanted to chime in to say that we released our mobile route planner on Android a few weeks ago, and we’re nearing the finish line on iOS, should be available around Thanksgiving next month. We should have done it a long time ago, but are excited for it to be here now, and it’s great! AND, for folks with devices, after you plan or edit a route on your phone, you can sync it wirelessly to your Garmin with our Connect IQ app, or sync it up with your Wahoo device.
I can’t post a URL into this thread, but if you visit our website, down in the footer you will see a Mobile Route Planner link where you can check it out. And folks on Android can use it right now.
Cheers!
I can’t post a URL into this thread, but if you visit our website, down in the footer you will see a Mobile Route Planner link where you can check it out. And folks on Android can use it right now.
Cheers!
10-20-19, 06:53 AM
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Last summer, I coughed up the $6 per month for turn-by-turn directions. Being in a new area, it's been great for solo road rides (I use a tiny bike computer, and haven't upgraded to one with mapping capabilities yet.) I've even used it for driving, since Google Maps always wants me to get on the freeway to go like two miles and I don't find that necessary.
10-20-19, 08:48 AM
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RWGPS is user friendly, and works great with Garmin. I started using it several years ago with my cycling club.
10-20-19, 12:12 PM
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Hi all. Full disclosure, I work at Ride with GPS. Just wanted to chime in to say that we released our mobile route planner on Android a few weeks ago, and we’re nearing the finish line on iOS, should be available around Thanksgiving next month. We should have done it a long time ago, but are excited for it to be here now, and it’s great! AND, for folks with devices, after you plan or edit a route on your phone, you can sync it wirelessly to your Garmin with our Connect IQ app, or sync it up with your Wahoo device.
I can’t post a URL into this thread, but if you visit our website, down in the footer you will see a Mobile Route Planner link where you can check it out. And folks on Android can use it right now.
Cheers!
I can’t post a URL into this thread, but if you visit our website, down in the footer you will see a Mobile Route Planner link where you can check it out. And folks on Android can use it right now.
Cheers!
Thanks for visiting and updating us.
I think this is the link you were alluding to: https://ridewithgps.com/app/mobile_route_planner
10-20-19, 01:00 PM
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10 year RWGPS user here. I've started using Strava this year in parallel, as I am tired of telling others in my ride group that RPGPS is better overall. They're already on Strava, and their friends are already on Strava, and there's no incentive to change.
10-20-19, 04:37 PM
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As noted by just about everyone else, I use RWGPS for making routes and sending them to my Wahoo Bolt which works great. I'm a paid subscriber to Strava and over the years I find the social aspect and chasing segment rankings less and less appealing. One thing that I would miss from Strava is all of my maintenance records but I see that RWGPS has that option for their paid subscription. I may start clean in 2020, migrate to RWGPS and be done with Strava.
10-20-19, 08:30 PM
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I use RWGPS on iPhone exclusively. Planning tools are solid, searchable routes are really useful, stats are solid. Paid version, I desire to support their work. Not interested in segments or other competitive features.
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10-20-19, 08:35 PM
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Hi all. Full disclosure, I work at Ride with GPS. Just wanted to chime in to say that we released our mobile route planner on Android a few weeks ago, and we’re nearing the finish line on iOS, should be available around Thanksgiving next month. We should have done it a long time ago, but are excited for it to be here now, and it’s great! AND, for folks with devices, after you plan or edit a route on your phone, you can sync it wirelessly to your Garmin with our Connect IQ app, or sync it up with your Wahoo device.
I can’t post a URL into this thread, but if you visit our website, down in the footer you will see a Mobile Route Planner link where you can check it out. And folks on Android can use it right now.
Cheers!
I can’t post a URL into this thread, but if you visit our website, down in the footer you will see a Mobile Route Planner link where you can check it out. And folks on Android can use it right now.
Cheers!
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10-20-19, 11:39 PM
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Strava will stop allowing sensors (heart rate, power) in about a week. Sounds like RWGPS has that feature. There might be an incentive very soon.
10-21-19, 05:32 AM
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I was thinking the use-case where you're somewhere, and you just want to go to somewhere else (eg. home) -- requiring to pick a start location (where you are) and one other waypoint (eg. home).. with the most popular cycling route chosen for you from point A to B.
Garmin Connect has this apparently, with upload to device option as well, so I guess I'll use that in these instances since I'd prefer to use the head unit anyway.
Garmin Connect has this apparently, with upload to device option as well, so I guess I'll use that in these instances since I'd prefer to use the head unit anyway.
Also, when routing this way, I found the distance to turns is not nearly as precise as when using turn by turn from uploaded rwgps route.This means warnings about next turn come way early or, worse, after you passed the turn
10-21-19, 05:35 AM
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Most everyone I ride with uses strava primarily for ride tracking but rwgps for planning and route sharing. They kind of have to use rwgps for route sharing because just a couple of us do most of the route planning for the group and we use rwgps for that.
10-21-19, 07:36 AM
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How do you access the Planning Tools on the mobile app ?. I presume that would allow you to create a route ?. Not seeing this on my iPhone
10-21-19, 07:43 AM
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Sorry, that wasn't clear. I do route planning on a PC and probably will continue to when it's released for iOS, but I expect it to be useful for re-routing on the road.
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10-21-19, 09:57 AM
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Thx, I thought I was stupid as usual. KPrentice indicted it's a coming feature. I like RWGPS and find it worthwhile to pay for the subscription.
