GPX - Vosges - St Dié des Vosges, Gérardmer, Belfort, Colmar

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I created this post, chiefly to show how well the magazine’s routes (they cost just a couple of euro each) will download into MyRoute / Google’s My Maps applications, giving bods instant holidays. They’ll download just as well into BaseCamp / MapSource or into TomTom. Do though check them, before you leave home.


The Vosges remains a popular enough destination, either as an alternative to the Black Forest across the border or as an addition to.

Tourenfahrer magazine 2/2023 has a suggestion on two broadly circular jaunts, one of 650 kms, the other of 550 kms. Though either or both could be adapted or stitched together, without too much difficulty.

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The routes will download well from the magazine’s website, as always.

https://www.tourenfahrer.de/tour-datenbank/tour/zwei-in-eins-route-forestiere-1211/detail/

https://www.tourenfahrer.de/tour-datenbank/tour/zwei-in-eins-klassische-vogesen-1210/detail/

The routes loaded into MyRoute:

<iframe style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="600" height="287" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="https://www.myrouteapp.com//embed/route/7014642?lang=en"></iframe>

<iframe style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="600" height="287" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="https://www.myrouteapp.com//embed/route/7014643?lang=en"></iframe>

And loaded into Google’s My Maps, colour coded in the the same way as the magazine article:

<iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1GHthJO6pAF7SXeTcPVtpOxwAlplP8ak&ehbc=2E312F" width="640" height="480"></iframe>

Both websites translate well into English, via Google or some other tool.

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Nice area to visit, I have been to the area in the campervan and stayed at Lac de Longemer near Gerardmer, the road that passes the lakes is very popular with bikes & performance cars early morning & evenings before and after the tourists like me have had their coffee & cake and gone home, great views and big drops on some of the higher routes.

Al.
 
Khulu said:
the French Venice they call it
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Oh my god, that sounds like a very toxic combination. :D

Jokes apart: it is lovely. I stop there relatively often.
Thanks for the route suggestion Waps. Something to do in March.
 
The trouble with touring there on the bike is that there isn't a boot to fill with cases of their excellent wines!
 
Evening Wapping, wonder if you can help. When attempting tp import the 2nd track, labelled Forestiere something, MRA tells me it's got over 200 route points and goes no further.

I imported into Basecamp, which worked fine, and created a track from the route - but MRA doesn't import tracks. I cunningly then created a route from the track, which display fine in Basecamp but not in MRA, which thinks it has only 2 waypoints right next to each other.

I split the route into 2 parts and tried again - same 200 route points message and not joy.

Yet I see above you did without problems?

The first route, "Klassiches Vosges" works fine
 
I can’t now recall how I did it.

Very possibly it is a track, which I imported into MyRoute through this button:

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Muchos Gracias Senor Wapping!

I was trying to upload via the new route screen, which didn’t work, but the method you showed worked fine.


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Bueno.

Sometimes, when uploading what I think are routes from third parties, they do not load. Using the alternative tab does work well, as does MRA’s ability to turn a track into a route.

On the latter, the things to watch out for are:

a. The number of waypoints the conversion creates. Gold members can use the reduce feature, to reduce the number. When reducing, do watch out that the route does not alter.

b. MRA can sometimes take road closures into account, which will alter the route it offers up. These can be checked by switching to say, TomTom from Here.

Always check any route, before you set sail.
 
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