Almost

I finally got my Garmin 705, and it is almost awesome. I also signed up over at map my ride, and it, too, is almost awesome. I'll start with the Garmin.

BAD

-Map sucks. Only shows major roads.

-"User friendly" was not in the design philosophy.

-Saving rides is not nearly as easy as advertised. I'm still not sure how to do it or where to find the saves.

-Makes unnecessary "laps" saved if you start it and then stop it, without going anywhere.

-"Go to" feature is fucking useless. I can go on the highway or a direct route to the location. and by direct, I mean a straight line from I.E. Bridgeport to Wayne.

GOOD

-Gives me grade and elevation, real time. Fucking awesome.

-Screen is bright, even in direct sunlight.

-Even though there are no roads or bike paths, the recorded map of my ride today was spot on to the turn.

-Once I figure out how to save my maps, I'll be able to download them onto my computer for analysis, and upload them to map my ride.

Now for Map My Ride

BAD

-Can only do roads from what I can tell. I can't map routes on the bike path, even though it shows up on the map.

-The part that drives me crazy about this site is that the Step by step directions are wrong, every single time. For the way I go to work by myself, it was spot on until it got half way through my 7 mile ride and then it just skipped to the last 2 turns I have to make. If I just printed out the step by step directions for someone (like for cue sheets) they would be completely fucked.

GOOD

-You can share rides with other people.

-You can map your own routes to anywhere... as long as it follows a road.

I know I have a lot of playing to do with both of these things, and the fact that they can kind of work together is awesome, but given their short comings, it would be fantastic if they worked together in the opposite way. My going on a ride with a device that doesn't have an accurate map, and can then load it to the site that has the accurate map is okay, but I would like to be able to go to the site with the accurate map, and save a file that I can put on my inaccurate device. From what I can tell, I can't do that, but if any of you know how to make it happen, please let me know.