Route Planning

[r10crw]

Hi folks

Just after some advice on long distance route planning, Have a friend visiting from overseas and wants to see Scotland. Ive got five days and he loved the idea of a west coast tour in the car.

Any thoughts on the best way to plan? I was thinking a cap of 250 miles per day? I tried Google and AA but both always want to give the quickest or not enough waypoints. Ideally I want to drag and drop my route if you know what I mean. Anyone done similar I can copy...

Nothing in particular to do, well Fingals cave using boat service from Oban and a castle so Eilan Donan but I thought clockwise so usual thing down spittal then maybe down to the trossachs and work up west then over the top.

Thoughts?

[campbell]

I just use Google Maps with way points to help divert off shortest route.

And sometimes an old atlas too

Cap by time not distance. Assume 45-50 average on trunk roads and 35 on others. That'll get you close.

[r10crw]

Thanks Campbell, yeah GM is fine for daily planning. It was when trying to have the whole five days overview it was difficult to determine how far we should actually aim to travel as it limits you to a set number of way points.

[Victor Meldrew]

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Maybe pull some inspiration from the routes on here. As far as planning, I use Tomtom and plug the routes into that. I have found the times to be more accurate. It depends on what system you have, can make things very easy.

[campbell]

I think Apple Maps uses Tom Tom data

[istoo]

wrong ode of transport but bikehike.co.uk is useful and saves of GPX files.