stephen.stallebrass
Registered user
Hi all:
I'm heading into Europe for a bit and will be touring some of the battlefields along the way. Consequently, I have created a bunch of WW1 & WW2 battlefield POIs that I thought I'd share with you lot as I thought you might be interested too. I have gone through the following battlefield guide books and taken out a selection of the sites that I intend to visit, they're pretty exhaustive.
The WW1 file includes 147 sites and the Arnhem file includes 135 sites. The Arnhem POIs include almost the entire books worth of sites whereas the WW1 POIs include 'most of the sites, probably about 75% from the two books. They're are only so many cemeteries one man can visit, LOL.
They are in OV2 format (TomTom) but you can download software to convert them or I can re-save them for you as another format. I can re-save as .itn (TomTom), .gpx (Garmin), .kml, .klz (Google Earth), .rte, .rt2 (OziExplorer & Navigon), .csv (Excel), .freshroute (Navigon)) and .tar.gz (BMW). Let me know if you want/need me to do this.
If you're interested, the software I used was something called Tyre, it's excellent and it's FREE!
NB: The way points include Map reference No.s and page numbers from the corresponding books above (references are from the guide book maps not the typical 6 figure grid references). Those title that have a 'Y' preceding the page No. for example:
The 'Y' indicates that it is from the 'Ypres' battlefield guide book. If it does not have a 'Y' preceding the page No. it is from the 'Somme' battlefield guide book.
Hope this is going to be of some use to somebody.
xXx
I'm heading into Europe for a bit and will be touring some of the battlefields along the way. Consequently, I have created a bunch of WW1 & WW2 battlefield POIs that I thought I'd share with you lot as I thought you might be interested too. I have gone through the following battlefield guide books and taken out a selection of the sites that I intend to visit, they're pretty exhaustive.
The WW1 file includes 147 sites and the Arnhem file includes 135 sites. The Arnhem POIs include almost the entire books worth of sites whereas the WW1 POIs include 'most of the sites, probably about 75% from the two books. They're are only so many cemeteries one man can visit, LOL.
They are in OV2 format (TomTom) but you can download software to convert them or I can re-save them for you as another format. I can re-save as .itn (TomTom), .gpx (Garmin), .kml, .klz (Google Earth), .rte, .rt2 (OziExplorer & Navigon), .csv (Excel), .freshroute (Navigon)) and .tar.gz (BMW). Let me know if you want/need me to do this.
If you're interested, the software I used was something called Tyre, it's excellent and it's FREE!
NB: The way points include Map reference No.s and page numbers from the corresponding books above (references are from the guide book maps not the typical 6 figure grid references). Those title that have a 'Y' preceding the page No. for example:
The 'Y' indicates that it is from the 'Ypres' battlefield guide book. If it does not have a 'Y' preceding the page No. it is from the 'Somme' battlefield guide book.
Hope this is going to be of some use to somebody.
xXx
