2019 Grand Tour

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(02-07-2019 12:37 PM)Willie Wrote:  TY TY TY What a big time saver

Willie

No problem - I have the excel formulas saved from previous years, so it's just a matter of pulling an update from the USGS databases, and updating the formula for this year's list of names. Although, given the larger number of search terms, it did crash Excel if I tried to do the whole list at once, so I had to chunk it up a bit.

There's actually a lot more towns than I expected, but with words like LEAD and TIN, there's a lot of town names that qualify.

If anyone is looking for a good routing application for your phone, GPS CoPilot is a low cost app I use that has an "offline" map feature. I find this very useful, because a lot of times I have no cell signal riding in the mountains. I usually do the overall plan for rides on Google Earth and then create the route in CoPilot, but my new bike has a nice GPS, so I'll be using Harley's "Ride Planner" app (https://maps.harley-davidson.com/map/create) to create my routes this year. It's actually a pretty decent route planner, and gives you a GPX file that you can load on another device or directly onto the bike.

Anyways, enough from the map geek!