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The handheld device supports these file types: Files from Garmin Explore™. GPX route, track, and waypoint files. GPX geocache files (Downloading Geocaches Using a Computer). Death by Gravel (Huge Ride. 102+ miles 7000ft climbing, food stops at 22, 50, and 75 miles) GPX File HERE. Serious Injury by Gravel (50 miles with some hard climbs, food stop around mile 30) GPX File HERE. The Waterfall Ride (Easy and close to town) GPX File HERE. Firecracker Five-O GPX File HERE. Big Paddy 50 GPX File HERE.
You found this side because you are looking for gps data to do route 66.Well you are correct. I drove route 66 two times on a motor cycle. And I made the files my selves for a TomTom Urban Rider and a Garmin Zumo 660.
All TomTom files can be used on a TomTom that can handle ITN files. So called itinerary planning that TomTom use with a maximum of 49 point to visit. I uses them also in a TomTom 930 in our car in 2010.
The files for garmin are in GPX format. Many gps systems can use this format. I used them in the Garmin Zumo and also in the Garmin Nuvi 3790.
First how to get the files. The TomTom and Garmin files I used in 2013 you can find by just on click on route 66 2013 files
The files for Garmin I updated with every point I wanted to visit in 2015 and there after until October 2016. These files you can also have with one click on route 66 2016 files
How to transfer the files to a GPS system is a question I had several times. Well there are two ways of working. First if the system can be used as a usb drive like my TomTom Rider or my Garmin Zumo then you can make it easy.
Copy for a TomTom the files to the map ITN in the Rider like you see in the picture. These are the current files on my TomTom Urban Rider.
After putting the files the you have to go into the menu of the TomTom to load the file into the route planning and you can drive the route. Every time a point it reached the planner will mark it as visited. So you do not have to load every day a new file. Just continue to the end and then load the next one.
Question, just asked them.
This you can also do with a Garmin. But the you have to place the files in the GPS directory of the garmin. Like you see on the picture of my Garmin Zumo.
Here also you have to load the files in the Garmin. My Zumo 660 always sees that new files are in the map GPX and will automatic go to the import function of the Zumo. You have to import the route files. Do that one by one to avoid import problems.
Route 66 Maps Free Download
Also a Garmin can drive the Route 66 without any problem. You do not have to load a file every day. Just continu the route you were doing to the end. If the question is asked should the system go to the starting point answer no and the system will continue the route.Route 66 Gpx File
Route 66 Gps Download
I am now working also a route files day by day as I drove them. This because not all people are that good in how to use a GPS system. They will be available soonRoute 66 Kml
For those people that have not the insight of how to handle files there is a very good help in TyreToTravel from Michel Hagen. Or use MyRouteApp also from Michel Hagen. Both programs will do the job to show you the Route 66 files in Google Maps or if you are member of MyrouteApp in Garmin or TomTom or even Michelin Maps.Yes, I use this program to make my files, check my files, compare my files in maps and I am very fond of both of them. So use them as member!
Google Earth Route 66 Overlay
With this program you can edit the route and copy them to every connected GPS system that can handle working with routeplanning. I say this because the are system that can not do this like the TomTom One XL serie ( I own a TomTom One XL550 bought in the USA too). Only very well informed people can make this system do ITN files.
Route 66 Gps Route
Route 66 Gpx Files
Look at the picture of TyreToTravel. You see the first part of the route 66 file in gpx format. I connected my new TomTom Rider410 to the system. And yes, this GPS system has world maps and free live time updates for my motorcycle. And Tyre can handle this one too. And also a car TomTom like a Go60 can work now with TyreToTravel in coordination with Mydrive from TomTom.I was flipping through the big list of rides and found some really neat ones. There's the lighthouse series, the national parks, the pressed pennies, Mississippi river rides, Eggsanity, Why? Why not!, Heaven to Hell, Earth to Moon, and so many more. What there isn't, or at least I can't find, is a Route 66 ride. That seems strange to me. Route 66 was used for so long, by so many people, and is an iconic American drive with plenty of history behind it. Some of it has been overlaid by the interstate system, but it's still there. It's about 2400 miles with speed limits between 55 and 75 which seems perfect for a multi day ride. It would likely be a slow average speed ride, but it definitely seems feasible. There are also tons of attractions to stop and check out. I could even see having a very tight time limit, but giving half an hour credit for each attraction you can prove you visited. That way it kinda forces you to check things out while riding just to get extra time.
I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud. But really, why no Route 66 ride?
I don't know, I'm just thinking out loud. But really, why no Route 66 ride?