Something of a labour of love in the hope of answering the question: "Where's the Passo de Lost and how can I get there on great roads from home?'.
I have put together all of the routes I have assembled, ripped, borrowed, and stolen over the years. Some I have even ridden.
GO TO POST 43 FOR THE VERSION CREATED AND UPDATED JANUARY 2016
How to use the file:
(1) It is in BASECAMP, hosted on Dropbox. It is a BIG .gbd file which, depending on your connection speed, may take a while to download. It may take a while to open in BaseCamp or Mapsource, too. Be patient.
(2) There are more than 250 routes, so the map will seem very cluttered. Do not panic. Zoom in and out, play around, you can't break it. If you do somehow manage to cock-it up, don't worry you can just download it again from Dropbox. Or, better still make a copy and tinker around.
(3) When faced with such a large 'blotch' of flags and labels it may be a bit daunting. Map source and BaseCamp can help you. Most bods know near enough where they want to go, let's say Dijon. Hit the 'Find places' button. Type Dijon into the city box. Hit the 'Find' button. Click on one. Is it the right place? Yes? Good. Now zoom in and out to see the routes just around that area. Make it into a waypoint perhaps? That way you'll be able to go back to it very quickly.
(4) Not many bods will ever want to use ALL the routes on one trip. I suggest people simply highlight and copy the routes or waypoints you need, just as if you were copying something in Word. Play around. Joining routes up, chop bits out, use the 'Selection tool'. Go into an individual route's 'via points' tab. Copy bits, add bits. Add a waypoint perhaps? Recalculate. Copy other routes' segments in. Recalculate (check your 'Preferences'). Watch what happens as the line zig-zags around and then re-forms. Change the colours of routes. Lay one route on top of another, to see if the changes you made did what you expected.Trace over routes. Try changing the colour, so the route you are tracing in stands out.
In short, have fun. I learned a lot about how BaseCamp and originally Mapsource worked when I created or copied the routes; BaseCamp in particular is now a very powerful tool when you get the hang of mucking about in it.
(5) Are ALL the routes there? Obviously no. One day it will be finished.
(6) Are all the routes 'Great roads'? On the whole pretty good and amongst the best. Are they perfect? No. By-and-large they all came from good quality sources, so I guess they are about as good as it gets for a decent holiday.
(7) Are there any glitches? In 100's of thousands (maybe millions) of road miles transcribed, probably yes. DO CHECK THEM and don't moan if you go up a goat track.
(8) Any suggestions, hints, mistakes and general piss-taking..... ping 'em up, please.
Richard
I have put together all of the routes I have assembled, ripped, borrowed, and stolen over the years. Some I have even ridden.
GO TO POST 43 FOR THE VERSION CREATED AND UPDATED JANUARY 2016
How to use the file:
(1) It is in BASECAMP, hosted on Dropbox. It is a BIG .gbd file which, depending on your connection speed, may take a while to download. It may take a while to open in BaseCamp or Mapsource, too. Be patient.
(2) There are more than 250 routes, so the map will seem very cluttered. Do not panic. Zoom in and out, play around, you can't break it. If you do somehow manage to cock-it up, don't worry you can just download it again from Dropbox. Or, better still make a copy and tinker around.
(3) When faced with such a large 'blotch' of flags and labels it may be a bit daunting. Map source and BaseCamp can help you. Most bods know near enough where they want to go, let's say Dijon. Hit the 'Find places' button. Type Dijon into the city box. Hit the 'Find' button. Click on one. Is it the right place? Yes? Good. Now zoom in and out to see the routes just around that area. Make it into a waypoint perhaps? That way you'll be able to go back to it very quickly.
(4) Not many bods will ever want to use ALL the routes on one trip. I suggest people simply highlight and copy the routes or waypoints you need, just as if you were copying something in Word. Play around. Joining routes up, chop bits out, use the 'Selection tool'. Go into an individual route's 'via points' tab. Copy bits, add bits. Add a waypoint perhaps? Recalculate. Copy other routes' segments in. Recalculate (check your 'Preferences'). Watch what happens as the line zig-zags around and then re-forms. Change the colours of routes. Lay one route on top of another, to see if the changes you made did what you expected.Trace over routes. Try changing the colour, so the route you are tracing in stands out.
In short, have fun. I learned a lot about how BaseCamp and originally Mapsource worked when I created or copied the routes; BaseCamp in particular is now a very powerful tool when you get the hang of mucking about in it.
(5) Are ALL the routes there? Obviously no. One day it will be finished.
(6) Are all the routes 'Great roads'? On the whole pretty good and amongst the best. Are they perfect? No. By-and-large they all came from good quality sources, so I guess they are about as good as it gets for a decent holiday.
(7) Are there any glitches? In 100's of thousands (maybe millions) of road miles transcribed, probably yes. DO CHECK THEM and don't moan if you go up a goat track.
(8) Any suggestions, hints, mistakes and general piss-taking..... ping 'em up, please.
Richard
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