I couldn't get Basecamp to switch nicely between bicycle routing and car routing. I needed this so I could use a section of a SS road into Matera. So now a third option... RidewithGPS!
The entire ride has now been replotted in RWGPS. Like all route planning software, RWGPS has made the usual range of "interesting" choices... interesting in the "yes of course" category and also in the "you'd have to be crazy" category. No matter which software you use, you have to go over the route carefully to ensure that you agree.
For Part 1, the suggestions were mostly good except some routing via a busy highway that Garmin didn't suggest and which I had to manually correct. RWGPS found some really nice cycle path in the Tiber valley. For Part 2, RWGPS was a little too adventurous in the mountains, choosing some paths that look too rough for a laden bike. But then again it did better routing into Campobasso.
RWGPS seems to frequently make pointless deviations off a main road through town onto back streets. This make navigation more intensive for not much benefit in many cases. All in all though I am happy with the results.
Part 3 was improved by me visualising a flatter route from Biccari to Matera. Slightly further but a much nicer ride.
Part 3 was improved by me visualising a flatter route from Biccari to Matera. Slightly further but a much nicer ride.
Based on this slightly different route I have gone back and changed the route description in the pages of this blog. That is now up to date!
For now I regard the route planning as done unless some intended participant weighs in with suggestions or requests!!!
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