I do as gwellis describes on a Mac and have no problems.

One thing I notice is HD Ride Planner allows lots of "locations" but only twenty "waypoints". As some of my rides are 500+ miles those routes have lots of waypoints. Ride Planner simply starts removing waypoints leaving the route as plotted. Not a big deal just interesting. My software is all up to date, both Boom and Naviextras.

ETA I use two "locations", one at the start and one at the end, with waypoints at strategic places between those two locations.

I'm going to try Tyre and see how it compares.

 

For a Mac, to save your route, click save, then choose manually save if you're copying to the thumb drive. Save as gpx file. It will be in your down loads file. Drag and drop onto your thumb drive.

I really like Ride Planner now. It just take a little trial and error to figure it all out.

 

I figured out that you have to have a separate log in for Ride Planner. So I worked through it and created 11 separate day trips to make up my 15 day journey. I save, or thought I'd saved each segment naming them by day 01 through 15. After I was all finished, or so I thought, on 05 and 15 were saved under "saved roads" I hate to go back and recreate all the other segments, but if I'm gonna use the Ride Planner for this trip, I have no choice.

 

You might want to try TYRE. It's a free down load. The video I posted above explains it well. Just be sure you save your files in GPX then save them on your hard drive.
Good Luck

 

Thanks for the tip....I'm ready to try it out. H-D Ride Planner will only let me save 3 "roads" then it starts over writing each subsequent to the previous save. It doesn't give me an option to save anywhere else. I can email them to myself I suppose, but this seems like too much hassle just to get Best Western Hotel locations.

 

When mapping out using Tyre, do you still have to zoom in on each WP to verify its exact location and move if not, like HD Planner?

 

bigwave95 - what do you mean - Ride Planner will only let you save 3 roads? I usually do all of my ride plans in HD Ride Planner. Can save all of my trips - and I usually use waypoints and locations to make my plans.

How are you saving "roads"

 

You can also use "GPS Sync" in Ride Planner to export the .gpx file. Save as directed then use GPS Sync to export to flash memory or whatever.

 

When I tried to save a segment of my trip, then start the next segment with final stop of the previous segment, it was over writing the one I saved. Clearing the map of start/ stop and all way points and starting over cured that problem.

Upper right on the screen has "saved roads" that's what I mean. It took me a while but I was able to save 5 segments and accomplish what I was trying to do. I don't want to go back and make the effort to save one for each day of the trip.

 

Because whenever these threads come up, everyone recomends them, I have done my damn'dest to try using both BaseCamp and Tyre, both of which made me feel like a mental midget, even though I generally consider myself to be an above average computer user.
In between my bouts with BaseCamp and Tyre, I have been a successful Ride Planner user for 5 years or so, and even at that I just realized/learned something that I may have been doing wrong from this thread.

I had been using standard automotive Garmin units up until trading into an Infotainment system this year, which requires re-learning a few tricks.