Map Tool With Distance Slider

[georgeofthedesert]

Hello,
I'm planning a trip from Raleigh, NC to the Big Bend National Park area in West Texas. My plan is to be in the BBNP area for 2 weeks and I plan on taking the fastest route available to get there. Using Apple Maps or Google Maps makes it easy enough. However what I'm having a hard time finding is something that can do a fastest route like AMaps or GMaps, but I can hover along the route and it will give the travel time and distance to that point I am hovering on the route. I also have a Gaia and OnX subscription and I'm not seeing that feature there either, I generally use those most often for route planning when I'm trying to link obscure routes together manually and I don't see that "distance slider" on there as well. For this I'm looking to see quick views of distance for stop planning along a fastest route. I can use the Travel Time Map website, however it's clunky and I'm hoping there is something that can just so me quickly with a hover duration to that point, so I can sort through all of the places I can stop overnight. Basically answering the question of do we push or cut short a certain day. Generally it's "about the journey" but my wife and I are working while in transit on this trip so we can't just play it by ear to see how far we get each day. We do need to plan a bit around working vs travel to get there. So I'm hoping I'm just missing something and one of those four map tools has that option, or there is some other tool that folks have found that does exactly that.

Before moving back east we lived in Central Texas for a long time and would do BB trips at least every other month, so I'm really really excited to get back out there. Hopefully both parks are still there (open) when we get there......

 

[dstefan]

Well Gaia’s route feature can do a clunky version of that. Its’s not as easy as just hovering, but you can get a relatively quick distance. For highway travel, the National Map seems to show the best main roads.

 

[Mickey Bitsko]

onX , has that and many other features.

 

[BobPeanut]

I like Furkot for route planning. It shows time to each point, you can list time at the stop, and you can hover over the route to see time and distance. It’ll also automatically adds overnight stops depending on your time parameters. It works best on a computer. This is the best trip planning tool I found for a simple and modifiable route.

 

[georgeofthedesert]

I like Furkot for route planning. It shows time to each point, you can list time at the stop, and you can hover over the route to see time and distance. It’ll also automatically adds overnight stops depending on your time parameters. It works best on a computer. This is the best trip planning tool I found for a simple and modifiable route.

I've never heard of this one and I'm digging it.

onX , has that and many other features.

So I'm having a hard time getting OnX to do a route from a start point to an end point. Generally (both the phone app and computer browser) I just get a as the crow flies straight line. On the laptop if I click on the line just right in certain parts it appears to snap to a set of roads, but that is just in a tiny leg. For example I could only get it to do that from Raleigh to just south of Charlotte, from that point just south of Charlotte it was as the crow flies. I see if I hover along that line it gives distance, but I'm hoping that would do that along the route. I feel like I'm doing something wrong, generally I manually create a route by selecting every single road I want to take on the route and that works great (I like doing that in Gaia better, but OnX works OK). If you know off the top of your head where I'm going wrong let me know. I want to use OnX more, I generally just use it to find public routes and details on certain roads for terrain since they have some pretty good descriptions. So normally when I make a route I make it in Gaia, but I use both Gaia and OnX to determine how I should get somewhere. With that Gaia I generally have to pick each road I want to go on like I do in OnX, but for this cross country trip trying to get there as fast as possible it's way too daunting to do it that way picking each road manually to add to a route. So if you have suggestions on OnX let me know.

 

[Mickey Bitsko]

I've never heard of this one and I'm digging it.



So I'm having a hard time getting OnX to do a route from a start point to an end point. Generally (both the phone app and computer browser) I just get a as the crow flies straight line. On the laptop if I click on the line just right in certain parts it appears to snap to a set of roads, but that is just in a tiny leg. For example I could only get it to do that from Raleigh to just south of Charlotte, from that point just south of Charlotte it was as the crow flies. I see if I hover along that line it gives distance, but I'm hoping that would do that along the route. I feel like I'm doing something wrong, generally I manually create a route by selecting every single road I want to take on the route and that works great (I like doing that in Gaia better, but OnX works OK). If you know off the top of your head where I'm going wrong let me know. I want to use OnX more, I generally just use it to find public routes and details on certain roads for terrain since they have some pretty good descriptions. So normally when I make a route I make it in Gaia, but I use both Gaia and OnX to determine how I should get somewhere. With that Gaia I generally have to pick each road I want to go on like I do in OnX, but for this cross country trip trying to get there as fast as possible it's way too daunting to do it that way picking each road manually to add to a route. So if you have suggestions on OnX let me know.

Early on, I was calling tech support daily, however, I don't use or know if that feature is available. When I'm plotting a course I generally use Google maps, when I get to an interesting area or county for camping or a primitive area I use onX.
Hope that helps.