The road has dissapeared

[Spanish Bob]

I´m sitting here putting into Mapsource a cracking new local route t go out for a thrash this afternoon. Pick up a cracking road goes to avillage and then stops. But the road is there! Its not even a track its a road. I have witnesses, and its doesn´t appear at any scale.

These "upgrades" from Mapsource are pretty cool eh they up and you get to pay for the correction!

 

[Howard Millichap]

As, of course, you're aware, living in Spain, they are tarmacing all sorts of road throughout Spain. Your road may be tarmac now BUT when the mapping was done it was probably a dirt track.
I remember, a few years ago, I was in the N.W. of spain. I looked at my map and saw some tracks marked (single black line). So I was looking forward to a bit of "off road" riding. When I got there they had bloody surfaced them!
Things change.

 

[graham]

all paid for with our tax!!!according to top gear,and then they make you pay to ride on it!!!!GOOD luck to them

 

[gazza]

Dirt Track

Couple of years ago travelling from northern spain to portugal my gps indicated that I needed to turn left off of this superb bit of winding tarmac. Odd no tarmac where the gps was indicating so just carried on. 10km later realised we were going west when should have been going south west. Turn around and back to where the gps told me to turn off. No road but a dirt track leading over a hill. Well seemed a bit of an adventure, you have to be a little cautious riding a two up on a fully loaded pan. Anyway just over the hill is a new road with a welcome to portugal sign. Seems the border between these two countries can still represent no mans land in some regions.

 

[Dave Hall]

I hope you`ll post your mapsource routes....I`ll be in your area in May

 

[PanEuropean]

Spanish Bob:

If your GPSR has a European basemap in it, try removing the data chip (or deselecting the mapset on the data chip), and then see if the road you are looking for shows up as part of the basemap data.

There is a more detailed description of this procedure in another post I made today on the topic called "To use a North American 2610 over here..."

PanEuropean

 

[Spanish Bob]

Howard - good idea, but its been there longer than I´ve been living in Spain (8 years).

Graham - yer bollocks!

Gazza - When you come from say Italy into France you notice how much better the orad has become. the same happens when you go from Spain to Portugal

Dave - no probs. tell me where exactly and if I have routes I´ll send them, if not I´l make some suggestions (not not that type)

Pan - thanks for that I´ll have a look into it.

 

[gazza]

B&B

SB if we dont meet before, I am off to Gib at the end of Sept then following the coast to Benidorm, meet all my mates who are flying there for the week. Spending a couple or three nights there then up to Barcelona before heading back to Santander so hope to meet up with you then for a night, Will contact you before then, perhaps you can send me a couple of B&B's in Barcelona as waypoints.

 

[Dave Hall]

Dave - no probs. tell me where exactly and if I have routes I´ll send them, if not I´l make some suggestions (not not that type)

From the ferry I`m heading through Pamplona then up the hill over the pass towards Navarranx. Then towards Bagnares du Luchon - Ax en therme then back into Spain at Bourg Madame. I`m then hoping to wind my way back on the Spanish side of the Pyranees although no definite route.

Any top tips n waypoints appreciated

 

[Dave Hall]

Re: Dirt Track

Anyway just over the hill is a new road with a welcome to portugal sign. Seems the border between these two countries can still represent no mans land in some regions.

I`ve found that even between regions in Spain, you travel along a dirt track then suddenly you`re on fabulous tarmac (and vice versa).
Later when you check the map to try and explain it you find you crossed from one region to another.