Want to create a cue sheet for your 200 mile ride in <3 minutes?

Triathlon Forum
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Most people by now know that Google Maps allows you to customize a route by dragging the blue line around to select the roads you want to take instead of the roads it has chosen. This makes creating a bike route very fast and easy. Problem is, it’s in Google Maps and you want to get this route out in a printable cue sheet, or into your Garmin, or into bikely or mapmyride so an elevation profile is generated.

Well, here you go.

Step 0 (only done once). Create a favorite/bookmark with the URL exactly as below:
javascript****: (function(){var%20script=document.createElement(‘script’);script.src=‘http://mysite.verizon.net/kyleyost/googlemap_cuesheet.js’;document.getElementsByTagName('head’).appendChild(script);})()

Step 1. Go to Google Maps and make your route. Drag the blue line around to get the roads you want and rt-click to use “Add A Destination here”. Very intuitive and easy.

Step 2. Click your favorite created in Step 0

Step 3. Voila, there’s your cue sheet. Copy/Paste it into a text editor and save it. If you want GPX so you can import into bikely or MapMyRide, complete with cue sheet and elevation profile, select Bikely GPX. If you want to load the route into your Garmin, complete with Right, Left, Straight, U-Turn coursepoints for each turn, select Garmin CRS.

Easy, fast, brainless. Enjoy.

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Awesome! I’ve been looking for a way to create routes for my garmin. Anyone else got ideas?

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Brilliant! Thanks for posting that.

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“Easy, fast, brainless” Just my style! :slight_smile:
Perfect! Thanks!

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Thank you, that is awesome.

Craig.

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OK, why can’t I get this to work? I can get the URL to open that shows this:

http://i26.tinypic.com/2mhsrps.png

But I can’t get it into GTC (using Mac OSX 10.4.11 and GTC 2.0.3 and Forerunner 305).

What am I missing? When I get to the page I showed above, I can’t do anything from there. When I click on “Generate Garmin Course” nothing happens. Nothing to export to the desktop, nothing to import into GTC…

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Bump for some help for a ride I want to go on tomorrow…

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One more try for some help…

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Most people by now know that Google Maps allows you to customize a route by dragging the blue line around to select the roads you want to take instead of the roads it has chosen. This makes creating a bike route very fast and easy. Problem is, it’s in Google Maps and you want to get this route out in a printable cue sheet, or into your Garmin, or into bikely or mapmyride so an elevation profile is generated.

Well, here you go.

Step 0 (only done once). Create a favorite/bookmark with the URL exactly as below:
javascript****: (function(){var%20script=document.createElement(‘script’);script.src=‘http://mysite.verizon.net/kyleyost/googlemap_cuesheet.js’;document.getElementsByTagName('head’).appendChild(script);})()

Step 1. Go to Google Maps and make your route. Drag the blue line around to get the roads you want and rt-click to use “Add A Destination here”. Very intuitive and easy.

Step 2. Click your favorite created in Step 0

Step 3. Voila, there’s your cue sheet. Copy/Paste it into a text editor and save it. If you want GPX so you can import into bikely or MapMyRide, complete with cue sheet and elevation profile, select Bikely GPX. If you want to load the route into your Garmin, complete with Right, Left, Straight, U-Turn coursepoints for each turn, select Garmin CRS.

Easy, fast, brainless. Enjoy.

Humm… while I appriciate the tip, am I the only one that doesn’t see the simplicity in this? Here’s the method I use:

Step 1. Go to Google Maps and make your route. Drag the blue line around to get the roads you want and rt-click to use “Add a Destination here”. Very intuitive and easy.

Step 2. Click the “Print” button at the top-right corner of the onscreen map

Step 3. Click the “Hide Maps” button on the resulting preview if you don’t want them.

Step 4. Take the resulting cue sheet out of your printer.

What am I missing?

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That method makes sense and I don’t think you’re missing anything. But give kny a little credit…I don’t think the ability to customize your routes by dragging points on the map was even available from Google yet when kny posted this script 6 months ago.

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What am I missing?
Problem is now matter how small I fold it and cram it, I can’t get that piece of paper into my GPS. :wink:

-Jot

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Dude, well duh! Buy a bigger GPS!

Too funny.

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OK fair enough. I missed the GPS part and thought we were just talking about generating cue sheets. My apologies to the OP.

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Brandonecpt,

Copy/Paste the text into a text editor, save as a Garmin CRS or TCX file, run Garmin Training Center and Import Courses. The course is now available (you’ll want to rename it from the default timestamp which is given as the name) to be loaded into your Garmin. On your Garmin, choose Training->Courses->Do Course and you now will get turn-by-turn directions on your Garmin, with street name, left/right/straight, distance to next turn, distance to end, etc…

For everybody else who doesn’t quite get what this script does, in addition to generating a Garmin course, you can also generate a printable cue sheet that is better formatted for printing and taping to your stem than if you printed from Google Maps directly, and you can generate a GPX file with turn-by-turn descriptions intended for upload into www.bikely.com. Then you get a route in bikely where it generates an elevation profile for you and also will have cue sheet auto-populated.

A bit more on how to use this at: http://www.the-yosts.com/googlemap_cuesheet.html

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The cue sheet should now be displayed in a large text box.
Select the links for the cue sheet to be formatted as a GPX file for export to bikely
or as a CRS file for export to Garmin GPS units.
Copy/Paste the text into a text editor like Notepad and save as .GPX or .CRS and import appropriately-------------------

ok so first off, this is an INCREDIBLE thing you have done.

Im having trouble importing it though
I get to step 2- i paste it into notepad, and then i save as a text file, with the name test.gpx- then i cant import it as a gpx?

what do i do to actually “save as a .gpx or .crs”? this step mystifies me- notepad doesnt have an option to “save as crs”- so what do i do?

Im sure im being a total moron…

thanks

Noah

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Needless to say, this scriptlet could use some fine-tuning so users don’t have to copy/paste into a text editor to save to disk, but it’s good enough for now.

So, in notepad, paste the text from the large text box. You know whether it’s GPX or CRS depending on which format you’ve chosen to view.

Click Save As… and then in the Save As Type dropdown chose All Files instead of Text Documents (*.txt). Now save your file whatever_you_want.CRS or some_name_here.GPX depending on what you’ve pasted. If you don’t change the Save As Type dropdown your final name will be whatever.CRS.txt because Notepad stupidly gives files the .txt extension.

Now, you have a .crs file that you can import into Garmin Training Center, or a gpx file that you can import into bikely.

Hope this helps. Life would be easier if I just added a Save button to the web script.

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Gotit- i was saving it in the wrong format

KILLER PRODUCT- this is GREAT!