Jason Boggs
I think it's a good idea to start a thread about dirt roads that show up as paved on Delorme Road Atlas. I've been thinking about this for a while and now is as good a time as ever to do it. We can all contribute to posting the roads we KNOW are dirt that show up as paved. Then we can go and edit our Atlas for GPS to show the results such as this:
OK, so here is an example of a road that starts out as paved but eventually turns to dirt.
RANCH ROAD 1260 SE of Clarendon, TX starts out paved for about 3 or 4 miles but turns into dirt all the way to Alanreed.
It's a good road when dry but don't even attempt it if it's raining or been raining. It is a very windy road and very slick when wet! I made the mistake of doing this and had to put my truck in 4 LOW to get out of that mess. I still barely made it.
N1980 ROAD East of Buffalo, OK that goes South off of US 64 starts off as paved but eventually turns into dirt.
For those that have Delorme Street Atlas USA 2006. Here is how to label the road as dirt like I did in the graphic above. Find the road that you want to label as a dirt road. Click the DRAW tab on the lower left part of the screen. Then click on the red flag on the tools section in the extreme lower left part of the screen. It will then bring up whatever little icon you want to use. I used the red X in the example above. Click the icon you want to use and click on the map where you want to the icon to be placed. Then a little text box shows up. Write whatever text you want to use. I used DIRT ROAD in the example above.
OK, so here is an example of a road that starts out as paved but eventually turns to dirt.
RANCH ROAD 1260 SE of Clarendon, TX starts out paved for about 3 or 4 miles but turns into dirt all the way to Alanreed.
It's a good road when dry but don't even attempt it if it's raining or been raining. It is a very windy road and very slick when wet! I made the mistake of doing this and had to put my truck in 4 LOW to get out of that mess. I still barely made it.
N1980 ROAD East of Buffalo, OK that goes South off of US 64 starts off as paved but eventually turns into dirt.
For those that have Delorme Street Atlas USA 2006. Here is how to label the road as dirt like I did in the graphic above. Find the road that you want to label as a dirt road. Click the DRAW tab on the lower left part of the screen. Then click on the red flag on the tools section in the extreme lower left part of the screen. It will then bring up whatever little icon you want to use. I used the red X in the example above. Click the icon you want to use and click on the map where you want to the icon to be placed. Then a little text box shows up. Write whatever text you want to use. I used DIRT ROAD in the example above.
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