https://www.motorradstrassen.de/touren/motorradstrasse-deutschland
In several threads and posts I have pointed bods in the direction of the German 'Motorcycle route' which (as its name suggests) is a dedicated set of suggested joined routes, covering the four quarters of Germany, north, south, east and west. Whilst the host website has several very good maps of each of the four cardinal points and separate downloadable files comprising of small contiguous segments of each of the routes for each quadrant, I couldn't find anywhere where someone had joined each segment up, nor combined the four parts together. So, I thought I'd have a go.
Here is a screen shot the north segment, which is the first I have created in BaseCamp. It's looking OK, with a total circular length of 1,747 miles, starting and ending just to the east of Goslar:
And here's the map of the same route as provided by the website:
For anyone that is interested, here is how I did it, using Basecamp, installed on an iMac:
a. I created a folder called, 'German motorcycle route'
b. Within this I created a sub-folder, called 'North' and within this a separate sub-folder called, 'Separate segments'
c. On the website, I clicked on the first of the gpx files, 'Schotten to Bad Sooden-Allendorf'
d. This opens automatically in Kurviger
e. In Kurviger, I selected to export it as a GPX track. I chose a track export as it (usually) contains less potential errors when being exported into Garmin based software
f. I opened the downloaded track in BaseCamp, filing it into the 'Separate segments' sub-folder. I also gave the file a slightly new name, by adding the letter 'A' in front. This was only so that it followed the same naming convention as the website and would help me to more easily identify which ones I had done and which ones I hadn't. I also renamed the track itself, the same way. Renaming the tracks sequentially A, B, C etc etc also came to help me when I came to join the tracks together in the correct sequence A to B to C.... thro' to R, as described below
g. I then repeated stages c, d, e and f for each of the sub-routes on the website, until I finished with R
h. I now had 18 sub-files A thro' R, giving me all the track segments
i. I then coloured each of the tracks red, as opposed to Garmin's default track colour of dark grey, which is sometimes hard to see
j. As I am using a large screen iMac, it is very easy to display all the separate track segments together in one view but I wanted to have them all joined into one continuous track
k. I created a fresh sub-folder called (somewhat unimaginatively) 'North-Joined tracks', copying all of the 18 tracks into it
l. I then highlighted all of the separate track segment and asked BaseCamp to join them together into one continuous track. This is where a bit of careful sequential naming comes in handy. If you get a track out of sequence, the software will still join them all up, as that (it being a very dumb, but really quite clever bit of software) is what it has been told to do. If you list them in the wrong sequence, you will end up with a real dog's dinner. Get it right from the start and it's perfect. Exactly the same simple rule can be used to join route segments together.
The end result, as in the file I can share on Dropbox, I am happy with.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4v8omw53qpzodkq/german motorcycle route.gpx?dl=0
Now to do the next three sections. I will colour each of the four segments' tracks differently, just so they stand out distinctly when viewed as one.
Richard
In several threads and posts I have pointed bods in the direction of the German 'Motorcycle route' which (as its name suggests) is a dedicated set of suggested joined routes, covering the four quarters of Germany, north, south, east and west. Whilst the host website has several very good maps of each of the four cardinal points and separate downloadable files comprising of small contiguous segments of each of the routes for each quadrant, I couldn't find anywhere where someone had joined each segment up, nor combined the four parts together. So, I thought I'd have a go.
Here is a screen shot the north segment, which is the first I have created in BaseCamp. It's looking OK, with a total circular length of 1,747 miles, starting and ending just to the east of Goslar:
And here's the map of the same route as provided by the website:
For anyone that is interested, here is how I did it, using Basecamp, installed on an iMac:
a. I created a folder called, 'German motorcycle route'
b. Within this I created a sub-folder, called 'North' and within this a separate sub-folder called, 'Separate segments'
c. On the website, I clicked on the first of the gpx files, 'Schotten to Bad Sooden-Allendorf'
d. This opens automatically in Kurviger
e. In Kurviger, I selected to export it as a GPX track. I chose a track export as it (usually) contains less potential errors when being exported into Garmin based software
f. I opened the downloaded track in BaseCamp, filing it into the 'Separate segments' sub-folder. I also gave the file a slightly new name, by adding the letter 'A' in front. This was only so that it followed the same naming convention as the website and would help me to more easily identify which ones I had done and which ones I hadn't. I also renamed the track itself, the same way. Renaming the tracks sequentially A, B, C etc etc also came to help me when I came to join the tracks together in the correct sequence A to B to C.... thro' to R, as described below
g. I then repeated stages c, d, e and f for each of the sub-routes on the website, until I finished with R
h. I now had 18 sub-files A thro' R, giving me all the track segments
i. I then coloured each of the tracks red, as opposed to Garmin's default track colour of dark grey, which is sometimes hard to see
j. As I am using a large screen iMac, it is very easy to display all the separate track segments together in one view but I wanted to have them all joined into one continuous track
k. I created a fresh sub-folder called (somewhat unimaginatively) 'North-Joined tracks', copying all of the 18 tracks into it
l. I then highlighted all of the separate track segment and asked BaseCamp to join them together into one continuous track. This is where a bit of careful sequential naming comes in handy. If you get a track out of sequence, the software will still join them all up, as that (it being a very dumb, but really quite clever bit of software) is what it has been told to do. If you list them in the wrong sequence, you will end up with a real dog's dinner. Get it right from the start and it's perfect. Exactly the same simple rule can be used to join route segments together.
The end result, as in the file I can share on Dropbox, I am happy with.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4v8omw53qpzodkq/german motorcycle route.gpx?dl=0
Now to do the next three sections. I will colour each of the four segments' tracks differently, just so they stand out distinctly when viewed as one.
Richard