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Chat with it when I drive to get things done like GPT create the best route for a New Mexico trip (El Paso to Carlsbad to Rosewell to White Sands to Truth & Con

Chat with it when I drive to get things done like GPT create the best route for a New Mexico trip (El Paso to Carlsbad to Rosewell to White Sands to Truth & Consequence to Albuquerque) and create an image of it showing the drive distance between them all. Just like I would have to slog through and use Apple or Google Maps to do this .. GPT should do this for me and much quicker via an image I can then share with travel friends. Some nerd rage today as I discovered it can't do this ATM. Hopefully they are working on integrating Bing Maps so I can use it for travel; use Apple and Google Maps less. Now it can't do that but does some cool things based off of what you try with it like recently in an Icelandic restaurant I took a pic of the menu, uploaded to GPT and asked it to create a mirror image yet show me the menu in English and US dollars (not Icelandic Krona). That was very handy as I then shared it with my travel friends in the restaurant and those in the hotel. Overall love hearing how people are using it uniquely too! Used it to count my calories for a year as I eat out daily at healthy chains (Cava and others) and GPT can easily grab calories from their sites and calculate.

eesmith 1y ago
It should ask if by "Carlsbad" you mean the city or the caverns. And point out that you likely meant Roswell. (There is a Rosewell in Virginia. https://www.geonames.org/4782965/rosewell.html https://www.geonames.org/4782965/rosewell.html ) It should also ask about what interests you have, to optimize what "best route" means since it can mean something different than shortest time/distance. Like, if you are interested in space history then there's a few things to check out in Alamagordo. Or, do you like model trains? On the other hand - are you serious? A 1950s paper map would almost give you what you want. Specifically, this one https://archive.org/details/x998732558805867 https://archive.org/details/x998732558805867 . You just need to add a few numbers in your head. El Paso to Carlsbad = 101 + 46 + 20 = 167 miles. Roswell to White Sands = 58 + 47 + 9 + 3 + 13 = 130 miles. While the road names have changed, and the surfacing improved in 75 years, the routes have not.
- paul7986 1y ago
  If you ever used Google or Apple Maps to create a route for a trip through a state or to wherever ... you can add stop after stop after stop. In doing so both maps show you the distance between stops, but again you have to enter each stop. With both map apps and after you created your route you can take a screenshot and share the route with your travel friends during or pre-trip when planning. Instead of doing all that work in either maps apps GPT should be able to do that and create an image fairly quickly that I share with friends. This is similar idea to sharing the Icelandic menu GPT converted into a US Menu in USD via an image that I then shared with friends. Overall GPT is able now to create quick nice looking visually rich (with info) images that I can share with friends or whomever for whatever topic at hand. Unfortunately and atm not anything to do with maps, but im sure it will in time and then no need to use Apple or Google maps! When asking GPT to create such map with routes (an image of such) with each destination I ensured to affix New Mexico to each NM location I want to go. Albeit, we aren't going as a lightbulb went off in our head last night saying wait White Sand dunes in June and go hot soaking in Truth or Consequences in June is a dumb (Sept or Oct seems better).
  - eesmith 1y ago
    I can understand what you want, but I don't see why. My observation is that the same information is on a 1950s paper map. If you took a picture of it and listed the places on your trip, then your travel friends could figure things out. Why do you need more? The three limitations are 1) the distances are listed piecemeal, rather than the total distance per segment; 2) the major stops on your itinerary are not listed on the map; and 3) the specific route isn't highlighted on the map. If this were a paper map you could mark up the map directly, or put a clear plastic or glass sheet on top of the map and write the annotations on that, or use those paper tab stickers people use to mark places in books. Or I could draw a paper sketch of the distances and locations, to the same scale as the map, and place them side-by-side with the image of the original map. These would handle all cases #1 and #2, and sometimes #3 (I used to use a highlighter to record which distinct routes I traveled on) - except that most people aren't so analog, and getting good paper maps is pretty hard these days. In a digital world, I would take the screenshot, bring it into a graphics package (I use OmniGraffle) and highlight things. That would get #1 and #2, but yes, tracing the route with a mouse is tedious. Then again, for the places you listed there really is only one obvious route. Better would be to use a tablet and stylus which are designed for sketching. A few circles, some lines, and some numbers - done! But you want something different. Why do your travel friends need distances? Why isn't a photo of a sketch good enough? Or is it that you want to do everything on your phone, and can't sketch well using it? I first did that section of New Mexico back in 1993 with a 50-state paper road atlas, so I'm also finding it hard to understand what else you need for your planning. Going back to the affordances lost by the transition from paper maps to digital - it's really easy to affix little arrow stickers to a paper map, to record the places you want to visit. And modern digital maps don't show segment distances like the old ones did, because they assume you'll have the mapping tool figure out the whole distance for you. In October (the third Saturday in October to be precise) you can visit the Trinity Test site. I did that once, but to be honest I didn't find it all that interesting. You could do a trip up north - there's the Bandera Volcano Ice Cave, and the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in the west, then up to Chaco Canyon, over to Jemez Springs, or go further north through Abiquiú to soak at Ojo Caliente, then over to Taos, and down, or further east through Cimarron Canyon State Park, which I thought was very pretty.

eesmith 1y ago

It should ask if by "Carlsbad" you mean the city or the caverns. And point out that you likely meant Roswell. (There is a Rosewell in Virginia. https://www.geonames.org/4782965/rosewell.html https://www.geonames.org/4782965/rosewell.html ) It should also ask about what interests you have, to optimize what "best route" means since it can mean something different than shortest time/distance. Like, if you are interested in space history then there's a few things to check out in Alamagordo. Or, do you like model trains? On the other hand - are you serious? A 1950s paper map would almost give you what you want. Specifically, this one https://archive.org/details/x998732558805867 https://archive.org/details/x998732558805867 . You just need to add a few numbers in your head. El Paso to Carlsbad = 101 + 46 + 20 = 167 miles. Roswell to White Sands = 58 + 47 + 9 + 3 + 13 = 130 miles. While the road names have changed, and the surfacing improved in 75 years, the routes have not.

paul7986 1y ago
If you ever used Google or Apple Maps to create a route for a trip through a state or to wherever ... you can add stop after stop after stop. In doing so both maps show you the distance between stops, but again you have to enter each stop. With both map apps and after you created your route you can take a screenshot and share the route with your travel friends during or pre-trip when planning. Instead of doing all that work in either maps apps GPT should be able to do that and create an image fairly quickly that I share with friends. This is similar idea to sharing the Icelandic menu GPT converted into a US Menu in USD via an image that I then shared with friends. Overall GPT is able now to create quick nice looking visually rich (with info) images that I can share with friends or whomever for whatever topic at hand. Unfortunately and atm not anything to do with maps, but im sure it will in time and then no need to use Apple or Google maps! When asking GPT to create such map with routes (an image of such) with each destination I ensured to affix New Mexico to each NM location I want to go. Albeit, we aren't going as a lightbulb went off in our head last night saying wait White Sand dunes in June and go hot soaking in Truth or Consequences in June is a dumb (Sept or Oct seems better).
- eesmith 1y ago
  I can understand what you want, but I don't see why. My observation is that the same information is on a 1950s paper map. If you took a picture of it and listed the places on your trip, then your travel friends could figure things out. Why do you need more? The three limitations are 1) the distances are listed piecemeal, rather than the total distance per segment; 2) the major stops on your itinerary are not listed on the map; and 3) the specific route isn't highlighted on the map. If this were a paper map you could mark up the map directly, or put a clear plastic or glass sheet on top of the map and write the annotations on that, or use those paper tab stickers people use to mark places in books. Or I could draw a paper sketch of the distances and locations, to the same scale as the map, and place them side-by-side with the image of the original map. These would handle all cases #1 and #2, and sometimes #3 (I used to use a highlighter to record which distinct routes I traveled on) - except that most people aren't so analog, and getting good paper maps is pretty hard these days. In a digital world, I would take the screenshot, bring it into a graphics package (I use OmniGraffle) and highlight things. That would get #1 and #2, but yes, tracing the route with a mouse is tedious. Then again, for the places you listed there really is only one obvious route. Better would be to use a tablet and stylus which are designed for sketching. A few circles, some lines, and some numbers - done! But you want something different. Why do your travel friends need distances? Why isn't a photo of a sketch good enough? Or is it that you want to do everything on your phone, and can't sketch well using it? I first did that section of New Mexico back in 1993 with a 50-state paper road atlas, so I'm also finding it hard to understand what else you need for your planning. Going back to the affordances lost by the transition from paper maps to digital - it's really easy to affix little arrow stickers to a paper map, to record the places you want to visit. And modern digital maps don't show segment distances like the old ones did, because they assume you'll have the mapping tool figure out the whole distance for you. In October (the third Saturday in October to be precise) you can visit the Trinity Test site. I did that once, but to be honest I didn't find it all that interesting. You could do a trip up north - there's the Bandera Volcano Ice Cave, and the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary in the west, then up to Chaco Canyon, over to Jemez Springs, or go further north through Abiquiú to soak at Ojo Caliente, then over to Taos, and down, or further east through Cimarron Canyon State Park, which I thought was very pretty.