30 Motorradtouren in den Alpen.... A work in progress

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A copy of this this book has drifted my way.

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It has 30 recommended routes in the Alps, which I will transcribe into Mapsource. When finished they should go together well with the 80 French routes.
 
Well done Richard, looking forward to seeing them :thumb
 
That would be very helpful to me, as I'm thinkng of doing a tour next year.
Will keep an eye on this topic.
 
One done :thumb2

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2483986#post2483986

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GPS devices sometimes have an aversion to running completly circular or figure of eight routes. As the routes in the book appear to sometimes be circular and feature small excursions to what are I think view points, I will try to format them so that they will run smoothly on a GPS device.

To do this I will try to break the small excursions out separately each time, but put them into the same file. Similarly, where the start town or city is off the main route, I will create a separate route for the link road but again put into the main file.

The main route will always be in magenta. The excursions and link routes in green.

Having them all on one file means it should be reasonably easy for anyone to adapt the main route, excursions and link route to suit.

Where the Mapsource file is too big to upload in one go, I will put it into a compressed zip folder.
 
You're a star - it takes a lot of effort and background knowledge to do this sort of thing :thumb2

Is the book available in English or just in the original German?
 
Wapping, You Da Man! :bow

Bookmarked for future reference :thumb2

PS Is there any chance you could post them as TomTom .itn's? Cheers
 
Is the book available in English or just in the original German?

I don't think it is available in English.

I tried a search under its ISBN number but found nothing similar. It seems it is published by a group who do a load of very similar books, catering for walkers, horse riders, bicyclists etc. etc. etc.

I sprekenzie kine Kraut other than DAS IST VERBOTTEN! But the book has maps which - though not large - I can marry up with a proper map to work out what is probably what. Similarly, some of the blurb I can follow simply as it looks like heights, distances between main towns, hotels etc.

I have had a reasonable amount of success buying route books and some good route maps via the German Amazon site. Again, it is in German but by a process of trial and error I have got through it more often than not. Similarly, if I am ever away I often pick up free local maps or route suggestions from hotels or tourist offices, no matter where I am. UKGSer trip reports are often excellent, too. OK, you sometimes have to join the dots up on a map or ask the bods a question, but it just adds to the fun. I often trip over blogs or trip reports slung up on the web by hundreds of nameless fellows or girls. Many are very good, even if they are in some unfathomable language... places are still places and pictures are still pictures, after all. I think it is one of the great things about Google and the whole www. thing. Where I have used some other bod's material and re-published it I always try to remember to put a link in to the original source, particularly if it came from a hotel's route book. I think that it is only polite to do so and, hopefully, they can get some trade (and recognition) as a consequence.

The Germans, Austrians and now the Italians too are publishing some really good material. Of course nobody is ever going to ride ALL the routes but they are often fun just to daydream over and / or snip bits out of. It gets quite easy to join chunks from one bit to another after a while. PC's can hold miles and miles of guff, so I lob the bits and boibs into electronic scrap books, hoping that one day it might come in handy. Mapsouce is excellent too for simply loading several possible routes into one file, each coloured differently in Route Properties. Zooming the map in and out on a decent sized screen and pinpointing towns, makes it easy to see how bits might well join up; but it is no substitute for one or two (or more) good quality maps.
 
PS Is there any chance you could post them as TomTom .itn's? Cheers

If you download Tyre you should be able to import the Mapsource file and then use that.

It will create it as a GPX exchange file, which you should then be able to open up in your TomTom software.

Here is the first route converted, just to see if it works. It is not bad. Not perfect but certainly not junk. You could edit it up a bit, for sure and you will be good to go. See how you get on.
 

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Hi Wapping,

I do, and just in case you cannot make head or tail of any cryptic passage in the book, let me offer to assist you in decoding the important stuff :thumb2.

Bearloe
 
All 30 now completed.

The routes cover the main German speaking parts of the Alps and into the Dolomites. This means that chunks of the French / Swiss Alps are missing.... That is a job for another day :D

Have fun :thumb2
 
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