Here is a simple guide and suggestions as to how to make this new initiative work for everyones’ benefit.
1. Post your GPS route suggestion(s) in the appropriate country / region sub-section, please.
2. Use your common sense as to which sub-section you chose. Don’t though forget that you can always cross-post into more than one section at once. For instance, if you have a cracking GPX route from say, Calais to the Belgium Ardenne and then all around the Ardenne, to come home back via Calais….. then consider cross-posting it into the France AND Benelux sections.
3. Please take a few seconds giving your post a clear title.
GPX - Then, in the title, add only enough detail to allow a bod to know if it’s say, a route near Calais or Marseille, giving (if possible) the nearest decent sized town / towns, as opposed to some obscure village, that nobody has ever heard of.
Example, in the French section: GPX - Provence, Apt, Sault, Roussillon, Mt. Ventoux - Day out
That way bods should be able to find it via a search, at least stand a reasonable chance of spotting it and know that it wasn’t around Normandy.
4. Add just enough detail to make the post interesting and helpful to others. For example, you might think of saying / telling:
This route is X miles / kilometres long.
This route took us three days or…. This route took us, two hours, with a lunch stop and several breaks.
The waterfall at XYZ, is awesome. There is a great cafe, on the square in ABC. If possible, add the site(s) as a waypoint or even just a link / photograph.
We stayed in this hotel(s), adding a simple link to each.
5. If possible, recognise that not everyone uses BaseCamp, not everyone uses MyRoute and not everyone uses Google. In other words, if you have the time, inclination and ability to add alternative versions, do it, please.
If there then follows sufficient posts and a decent library builds up, we can then consider moving the posts into a dedicated new section.
Thank you.
Richard.
1. Post your GPS route suggestion(s) in the appropriate country / region sub-section, please.
2. Use your common sense as to which sub-section you chose. Don’t though forget that you can always cross-post into more than one section at once. For instance, if you have a cracking GPX route from say, Calais to the Belgium Ardenne and then all around the Ardenne, to come home back via Calais….. then consider cross-posting it into the France AND Benelux sections.
3. Please take a few seconds giving your post a clear title.
GPX - Then, in the title, add only enough detail to allow a bod to know if it’s say, a route near Calais or Marseille, giving (if possible) the nearest decent sized town / towns, as opposed to some obscure village, that nobody has ever heard of.
Example, in the French section: GPX - Provence, Apt, Sault, Roussillon, Mt. Ventoux - Day out
That way bods should be able to find it via a search, at least stand a reasonable chance of spotting it and know that it wasn’t around Normandy.
4. Add just enough detail to make the post interesting and helpful to others. For example, you might think of saying / telling:
This route is X miles / kilometres long.
This route took us three days or…. This route took us, two hours, with a lunch stop and several breaks.
The waterfall at XYZ, is awesome. There is a great cafe, on the square in ABC. If possible, add the site(s) as a waypoint or even just a link / photograph.
We stayed in this hotel(s), adding a simple link to each.
5. If possible, recognise that not everyone uses BaseCamp, not everyone uses MyRoute and not everyone uses Google. In other words, if you have the time, inclination and ability to add alternative versions, do it, please.
If there then follows sufficient posts and a decent library builds up, we can then consider moving the posts into a dedicated new section.
Thank you.
Richard.
