...... that someone posted a link to some years ago? It's splash screen was a Spanish coat of arms, it was infinitely zoomable, morphed from satellite imagery through to large scale OS style mapping and was in Spanish only. I think it may have been hosted by a university or similar institution
Does anyone remember an online map of Spain ........
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Yes, I know exactly what you're on about - I've used it in the past for plotting trails in the Pyrenees 
......and I'm fecked if I can now find the link!!!! Bugger!!!!!!! I'm on a mission...........
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......and I'm fecked if I can now find the link!!!! Bugger!!!!!!! I'm on a mission...........
Andres
Excellent ..... thank you Wapping
Courtesy of our friends at the Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the Common Agricultural Policy ...... Just knew the EU had to be good for something
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That map looks really interesting but I have to download and install Microsoft 'Silverlight' software to read it, which I've done. But it still won't open, saying I still need the software! Anyone else had the same problem?
Regs
Simon
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Simon
RobK
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Can you not just click on the HTML 5 option? That's what I did and it seems to work ok.
Thanks for this. In fact when I rebooted this afternoon it works fine.
The map looks to be the standard Cartographic institute (IGN) 1: 50 000 series, not the 1 25 000 military version but as soon as you zoom further goes straight to Googleearth, which is useful but can be frustrating.
From a lot if experience these are far from accurate. It's handy to have them on-line here - unlike the IGN which you have to download in enormous files - but I think you're better off with Wikiloc for planning as although you don't get the IGN maps you have lots of others and can pick and choose to double check whether or not a trail really exists - and believe you me that's far from sure!
I've just spent the while of May surveying trails for the Horizons Unlimited HUMM event in southern Aragon - a region I've now well for twenty-odd years - and can reassure you that both physical maps and satnav versions, topoSpainb , etc. lie and lie and lie again ...
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Simon
PS it's a fantastic resource nevertheless given that it's specific purpose is for the agriculture department to 'spy' on land use, so I wonder whether the satellite images are more up to date than standard Googlearth? Must think of a quick way to check ...
PPS it's rather unnerving to think that my work during May is possibly being checked as I write by the environment department using exactly this same mapping!
PPS from the original post,
"It has satellite imagery overlaid with the military maps and you can zoom in to 10 meters. Generally a double lined track will be the width of at least a car and will be pretty easy to ride. Single line tracks can turn into footpaths."
If trail is too narrow for a car to get down it, strictly speaking 4 metres wide, it's totally prohibited to all motori vehicles, no question about it no matter where you are - it's the Ley de Montes which is universal no matter which region you are in ...
PPPS "and will be pretty easy to ride." don't believe that!!!
