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[dapleb]

Good idea Trev oil give that a go.

I have also worked out how to display my routes on Google Earth by saving as .kmz file or summat. Does anyone know how to remove these so Google Earth forgets them again? Google earth has some of my bizarre mishap routes and I cant seem to make it forget them even though they are gone from mapsource. EDIT: sorted. Just point and click in Google Earth, easy as that. Though I would have to delete cache or zummat.

[Rallyist]

Just emailed Studders a hilarious one. Trying to go over a roundeebout and it complained, so I put in a viapoint 20m after roundeebout..instead of doing 20m in a straight lion, it did a 7.6km loop all the way round the outkirts of the town taking in a motorway before arriving nicely pointing the wrong direction 20metres after the roundeebout.

Hang about a bit you are planning a TOUR and you are moaning about the mapping dohickie showing you the local sights.... no pleasing some peeps

Good idea Trev oil give that a go. I have also worked out how to display my routes on Google Earth by saving as .kmz file or summat. Does anyone know how to remove these so Google Earth forgets them again? Google earth has some of my bizarre mishap routes and I cant seem to make it forget them even though they are gone from mapsource. EDIT: sorted. Just point and click in Google Earth, easy as that. Though I would have to delete cache or zummat.

When you close Goofle Earth it normally gives the option save or discard, but as you have already saved them just highlight in the left hand pane and hit your delete key confirm and it is gone.

[dapleb]

Yeah true. You really don't know a place until you have circumnavigated it a few times.

Nearly at the EuroVelo one stage now which is a much easier point and click deal.

The Euromap doesn't have as much detail as my cycle one but from the little bit of testing I have managed to do it seems like the "detour" is at least partially due to the map.

[Pict]

Anybody tried the Garmin Montana, which now comes in a "moto bundle"? Pricey but interesting.

[dapleb]

The first problem I can see is my excellent phone/Google maps combo snot going to be usable due to roaming interweb charges.

Unless they come up with some cunning euro travel thing afore I depart:

O2 Travel for Pay Monthly customers
Relax. From July you can use your mobile in Europe without worrying about huge bills. Talk for longer and use the web without worrying about over spending. Now you're in control.

How does O2 Travel work?

•You'll only be charged £1.99 for the days that you use data in Europe - and you can use up to 25MB a day.
•There's a connection charge of 50p for all calls made and received in Europe. When you make a call you'll be using your UK minutes and calls received are free up to 60 minutes. Terms apply.

Relax they say REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE LAXXXXXXXXXXX .....they made me do all that GPS stuff and now they tell me.

[Studley Ramrod]

That's good/bad timing !

Will the daily 25mb limit be enough to let ya use the google maps ?

[dapleb]

Not really sure SR, but maps is very heavy useage so mayhaps not for a full days mapage but it means that there is now a back up. Google maps is def more use than GPS to find bike shop/phone numbers/cake shops etc and that would defo be less than 25smeggy bites.

[Studley Ramrod]

That's good, now you've got a backup/cake shop locator you can just REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE LAXXXXXXXXXXXXX !

[trevini]

Googlie maps on the mobile lets you cache chunks of it to use offline. You can also sync it with the main online googlie maps and overlay pre planned routes. Can't get it to navigate them, though.

[dapleb]

Thats bloomin clever trev! Don't think me phone would not be up for that, tis ancient.

Still waiting for someone to bring out something of similar robustness to me existing phone so oi can try all these clever things.

[3vd]

Googlie maps on the mobile lets you cache chunks of it to use offline. You can also sync it with the main online googlie maps and overlay pre planned routes. Can't get it to navigate them, though.

Yes you can, well on Android anyway. Mine has just updated Google Maps and Navigation and there seems to be a few new features

[not2fast]

Think I read Google has said offline mapping is going to happen with there navigation....

[trevini]

Yes you can, well on Android anyway. Mine has just updated Google Maps and Navigation and there seems to be a few new features

How please? I've not figured that out yet. Navigation works well, as do the maps, but I haven't figured out how to get the two to talk to each other for a pre planned route. I have the latest maps and nav software (Android on one phone and Nokia Belle on another).

[3vd]

I just tried it today after update. I opened Google maps, saw the test trips I have pre-planned and selected one. I then selected Navigate and off it went.

[Limbo]

Incredible that using all Garmin Software it is NOT POSSIBLE to create a route on the PC and then make the GPS follow that exact route. I find that bizarre in the extreme. They have decided not to reply to my email about it but Googling told me all I needed to know, along with a huge number of similarly baffled individuals and Garmin saying they are thinking of rectumfrying this slight glitch.....dated 2010.

Luckily the clever peeps who fixed Garmin's via point editing glitch for them also fixed their not able to follow a route made with their own software glitch. In the very same program in fact (see above). It means you can then save as a track, so you lose any direction info but at least you get to use your own route and if you have a decent interweb connection then the direction info can also be saved by eliminating the Garmin software and plotting the route on BikeRouteToaster or similar.

Choose car / motorcycle and "fastest route".
Do not use evasions.
Set a waypoint on the start and finish.
Perhaps also add WPs on mountain passes or streets in beautiful forests.
Select the arrow as a tool.
Choose the route with the arrow and drag the line to the streets, drive want to get. Pull the line out of the streets, which you want to avoid.
The most pleasant road I choose to support a paper map or Online Map http://www.viamichelin.de/web/map
Where you have 80% of your fuel consumption will, to zoom the map to 700m at the highest level of detail and looking for a gas station along the way. Mark a waypoint for each two stations in this area.
If you're hungry, or want to drink coffee, you will always find a guest house that you like.
I also use bakery or discount stores with bakeries.

Limbo

Edited by Limbo, 12 June 2012 - 12:33 pm.

[ChrisG]

How does O2 Travel work?
•You'll only be charged £1.99 for the days that you use data in Europe - and you can use up to 25MB a day.

Lucky you. I just recieved a similar text from Vodaphone, they're changing from £1.67+VAT per day to £0.58+VAT per MB. I can't see that being cheaper for many people Though apparently I can opt to pay £2.50+VAT per day to use my existing price plan (ie inclusive minutes, texts and internet) on Vodaphone Europe, which would work out at £45 for a 2 week holiday. Still seems bloody expensive to me.


On google maps on my Android phone, if I go Menu-Settings-Labs I get the option to pre chache areas of the map. It seems to store preplanned routes as layers on the map dunno how to then get that in Navigate mode though.

[dapleb]

Where you have 80% of your fuel consumption

That will be beeeeeeeeeeeeeer.

Though apparently I can opt to pay £2.50+VAT per day to use my existing price plan (ie inclusive minutes, texts and internet) on Vodaphone Europe, which would work out at £45 for a 2 week holiday. Still seems bloody expensive to me.

Aggrozzle. Would defo not be using this but nice to have a backup for emergencies....like not seen a cake shop for 24 hours or summat.

Seems that the standalone GPS has limited pluses over the phones these days. The main one seems to be data roaming charges. Without those I would def use the phone over GPS.

[trevini]

It seems to store preplanned routes as layers on the map dunno how to then get that in Navigate mode though.

Same here - I must be doing something wrong! As soon as I hit the navigate icon it asks for destinations etc and the layer has gone.

[dapleb]

Googlie maps on the mobile lets you cache chunks of it to use offline. You can also sync it with the main online googlie maps and overlay pre planned routes. Can't get it to navigate them, though.

Ahhh clever clever stuff. Now have new phone and lots of areas with no signal....it switches to GPS and still shows you as the little arrow thingy . This is a great help for work.

Does anyone know how I go about cacheing maperoonies to my phone please and spank you? Just Espain and France is all.

If cacherising is possible then oil look at overlapping my route but wondering since it was plotted on the velomap maps if this will work on the Googlies.

[dapleb]

Ahh, there is an option to cache maps only when wifi available which is handy. About 10miles radius cached at a time but will do as a back up. Also read that it caches to memory card but doesnt tell you that what its doing, so might be possible to get maps cached before going.

This was useful: http://www.bikeradar.......&t=12843478