{"id":93,"date":"2009-04-27T19:11:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T23:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2010-03-16T17:43:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:43:21","slug":"mapsource-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/mapsource-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"MapSource for US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to plan for the US. I would like to hit the national parks in New England particularly the Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park area so I found a list of the best campgrounds in the New England states and added waypoints for the best of those.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Francois mentioned an interest in following the Appalachian Trail and sent me a link to a forum thread that discussed a MapSource route. I found the route on it has so many waypoints it&#8217;s hard to visualize.\u00a0 I used the strip map provided on the National Park Service website (http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/appa\/planyourvisit\/upload\/APPA%20Map.pdf) to add waypoints and then in Topo mapped a route that was cross country (not on roads). I then switched over to City Navigator and found the roads closest to the cross country trail. You can download my Appalchian Trail MapSource file at http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/current\/routes_maps\/routes_maps.html<\/p>\n<p>I have the National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways &amp; Byways so I map a route in MapSource for each of their recommended routes in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The MapSource file for the New England scenic routes and camping spots is also at http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/current\/routes_maps\/routes_maps.html.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to plan for the US. I would like to hit the national parks in New England particularly the Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park area so I found a list of the best campgrounds in the New England states and added waypoints for the best of those. Jean-Francois mentioned an interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,3],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-links-available","category-trip_planning","tag-trip-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}