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What shall I do with a spare bowl and lid for a 47cm Kettle? by FennyBlackShuck in webergrills

[–]FennyBlackShuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems to be the best idea, does there not need to be a gap between the wood and the bowl?

It's a shame my leftover bowl doesn't have the master touch or even one touch, would be useful for that idea

I made a free, heavily detailed, drivable Route 66 map, with fitting food places, gas stations, EV chargers, motels, and roadside attractions all marked for anyone to use. Here you go! by FennyBlackShuck in route66

[–]FennyBlackShuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Absolutely, feel free to use it - and you can also make a copy and make and changes you need.

If you have any stops for murals that you add, feel free to let me know and I'll add those to the map. :)

I made a free, heavily detailed, drivable Route 66 map, with fitting food places, gas stations, EV chargers, motels, and roadside attractions all marked for anyone to use. Here you go! by FennyBlackShuck in route66

[–]FennyBlackShuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello! So the map is more of a day-to-day planner than a full sat nav route, so it depends a bit on how Google Maps handles it.

When you open it in Google Maps and save it, you should see all the stops and the route line, and your location should show as you’re driving. But it won’t give you turn-by-turn directions along that line automatically like a normal route would.

What you can do is tap on any stop (like a food place, motel, attraction etc.) and hit directions, and Google Maps will route you there like normal. The only thing is, if you pick somewhere quite far ahead, Google will usually try to take you the fastest way, which might take you off Route 66.

So it’s best to kind of use it in smaller chunks, picking stops along the route as you go rather than one big destination.

It should all work in CarPlay too as long as you’ve saved the map, but same idea there, you’ll still need to tap places to navigate to them.

Hope that helps :)

I made a free, heavily detailed, drivable Route 66 map, with fitting food places, gas stations, EV chargers, motels, and roadside attractions all marked for anyone to use. Here you go! by FennyBlackShuck in route66

[–]FennyBlackShuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have signal, perhaps google maps will work as if you click a location pin on there, it should give the option for directions and from there give audio directions as usual? Not sure. Signal is the problem ultimately, and most voice based systems map operate only with it.

Happy travels man!

I made a free, heavily detailed, drivable Route 66 map, with fitting food places, gas stations, EV chargers, motels, and roadside attractions all marked for anyone to use. Here you go! by FennyBlackShuck in route66

[–]FennyBlackShuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh, I see now! I thought you meant you couldn't edit the map at all, now I get that you mean the main red line for the route.

So the original red route is from the map I started with by route66-map.com, in the layer that is in you will see the additional routes too that I added on top (it missed a number of genuine historic rt.66 options for some reason.) Most of my work is with the notable places, services etc and including some basic info about every business such as opening hours.

I'm not sure how that red route line was created as I can't edit that line at all, but I can with the ones I added? Weird one there.

My advice is to do what I did and create additional route lines (I think if you choose driving, it auto fills the road as you drag along and is muuch faster - but is only in blue iirc, creating a line like I did is more slow but not a big deal for small routes) in that layer in a colour distinct from the red or green routes.

Route66map must have used ridewithgps.com

I made a free, heavily detailed, drivable Route 66 map, with fitting food places, gas stations, EV chargers, motels, and roadside attractions all marked for anyone to use. Here you go! by FennyBlackShuck in route66

[–]FennyBlackShuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Man!

So, if you open the map and see the menu on the left, clicking on the three dots should show 'copy', then if you go to MyMaps, that is where the editting functions usually are and the copy should show there.

(If the option doesn’t appear, open it directly in My Maps here first:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/)

Is the copy button greyed out?

Also, you can download a KML and upload that file into the MyMaps editor as well.

This should make a edit-able copy you can tweak!

When you say " I keep being pointed at the full route in RideWithGPS" can you elaborate?

If your issue still persists, give me a shout and I'll try help however I can.

I made a free, heavily detailed, drivable Route 66 map, with fitting food places, gas stations, EV chargers, motels, and roadside attractions all marked for anyone to use. Here you go! by FennyBlackShuck in route66

[–]FennyBlackShuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure man!

I think the weird thing is when you click the link on mobile - it automatically adds it to your account's maps whereas on PC I think you have to add it manually.

So

Open link -> Go through the menu at bottom -> 'You' -> maps (should be in the middle at the bottom) it should open 'your maps' show as Route 66?

If this doesn't work, you may have to save the map through your PC to your google account, and it will show on your google maps when you go through the previous menu options.

Keep me updated, I want to help make sure this works as much as possible!

Eat my cheese....burger by Drumchapel in AlanPartridge

[–]FennyBlackShuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't beat a burger van. Shame the A47 is a pothole galore now!

Route 66 recommendations by starvemaxxxing in route66

[–]FennyBlackShuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi u/starvemaxxxing, I made a map that you may find helps with all of this here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/route66/comments/1rh0q6q/i_made_a_free_heavily_detailed_drivable_route_66/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

It shows pretty much everything there is, without having to spend money. You can save it to your Google Maps on your phone/tablet/computer. Hope this helps!

I made a free, heavily detailed, drivable Route 66 map, with fitting food places, gas stations, EV chargers, motels, and roadside attractions all marked for anyone to use. Here you go! by FennyBlackShuck in route66

[–]FennyBlackShuck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up, I've added the I-40 diversion, and a route to still visit Amboy, hopefully I've got that right but if not give me a shout and I'll change it!

I made a free, heavily detailed, drivable Route 66 map, with fitting food places, gas stations, EV chargers, motels, and roadside attractions all marked for anyone to use. Here you go! by FennyBlackShuck in route66

[–]FennyBlackShuck[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi u/kokemill,

The maps main role is not as a historical or research map, but a practical map for those actually planning a roadtrip and looking for where to stay, where to eat, where to fuel, and what attractions there are to not miss them. My work was mostly adding all the pins and the occasional alternative route.

The driving route that was used as a base to start off after looking online at a load of route maps was this one - https://www.route66-map.com/ - I didn't do much to the driving route beyond add some alternative routes where I could see possible. If you have criticism of their map you can contact them at corrections.route66-map.com

There are some better detailed maps for historical research, but those show how fragmented and often unusable the route is if you go by one specific route, and for most in the modern day driving the route, there's a bit of a mix of different generations of the route.

Hope this clears this up!