How would you figure out time along a route?

Former Member over 14 years ago

This isn't a software problem. As a matter of fact, I'm very pleased with basecamp, it's working quite nicely. I'm curious how others would do this. (Seeing if there's better ideas than my old pencil-n-paper approach.)

I know that if you want to go from "here" to "there", you can drag the start and end waypoints into a route creation dialog and the software magically plots the route for you. Works quite nicely too.

But what if, you wanted to be able to mark off on the route where a relative time location is. You are going from "Boston" to "Orlando", how would you figure out where "every two hours of travel" would be?

I know that doing it by hand isn't rocket science but I thought I'd ask how _other_ folks do it.

Thanks for everyone's time!

0 PSEABOLT over 14 years ago

If you compare between Garmin, MapQuest, Google Maps, and others on a long trip, they will vary by an hour or more. This is to be expected because the calculation much assume your driving speed, Estimate how much urban traffic, small towns, red lights, stop signs, etc. will slow you down if your route it not on the interstate and even then, traffic and other factors can Slow you down.

If I wanted to have waypoints at approximate 2 hours intervals, I would use 50 MPH and the ruler to make the waypoint 200 miles down the route. If your routes have the same traffic conditions, red lights, etc. you should be able to refine the 50 MPH to your driving habits and be as close as the estimates you get from the mapping program.