| Nederlanse Versie | Download GPX Route from map | Download GPX Route from list | Draw and Download a GPX route | Find a place |
| Download a Route from map: With this part you can select a Route from the points given on a Google map overview. (==>> The loading of this map overview can take some seconds, depending on your internet speed.) Moving over or click on a red dot of the map will select and show the Route name in a textballoon. You can now make a choise of: - showing the Route on a Google map or - download the Route in GPX- or KML- or HTM-file format (all included in one ZIP-file). The map can be printed:Center and Scale the map so that the whole Route is visible. ==> File ==> Pages Settings ==> to 'Landscape'. ==> File ==> Print Preview ==> to check the printout. ==> File ==> Print ==> the shown map + Route is printed on the System Printer. Go to: Download a GPX Route from map Download a GPX Route from list: You can also Doawnload a Route from the Route-list: Click on the RouteName in one of the two right columns to show the Route on a map or to Download the Route asGPX-, KML- and HTM-files as a Zip-File. Go to: Download a GPX Route from list | Find a Place Includes: Webcams, Photo's, Wikipedia  |
| Draw and Download a GPX Route on a Google map: With this part of this site it is possible to Draw and Download GPXRoutes for HikeTrips and BikeTrips on a 'Google map'. Then you can Paste the Route-data as GPX-File or as KML-File. First you can Center the shown Google map by entering a Location, Place, City or Country... and press 'OK' The map will now center on the given location. Then you should press the 'Start Route' button to begin the drawing of a new Route. Each next click on the map will store the related Coordinates as Latitude and Longitude. Click the 'End Route' button when the drawing of the Route is finished. You can now Save the drawn Route as a 'Route-GPX-file' or a 'Route-KML-file'. (this download is performed by starting a short exe-program.) If this is not working on your Browser then you can make use og the Windows ClipBoard: ==> Push 'Copy GPX Route' or 'Copy KML Route' to put this info into the windows clipboard. ==> Paste now the ClipBoard into a text Editor (f.i. NotePad or Word) ==> Save this info as text-file with extesion '.gpx' or '.kml'. The 'Route-GPX-file' can be used to upload the Route into a GPS-device and navigate the Route. The 'Route-KML-file' can be used to show the Route on the 'Google Earth' program. Go to: Draw and Download a GPX route GoogleEarth can be free downloaded here. | Buienradar CameraPictures Traffic  Rain Forecast |
| Find a Place on a Google map: With this part you can search for a Place, City, Street, Hotel, Restarant, Building, Tourist info, ... etcon a 'Google map'. ==> Enter the Name of the City or Country (and Street) in the upper left Text-box. ==> Click the 'OK' button. ==> The surrounding map is given. ==> Enter the item for specific info, f.i. Hotel, or Garage, or Street, or Castel, etc. ==> the found info is given for the given map. ==> To show Photo's on the given map Click the button "Show Photo's" ==> To show media-info on the given map Click the button "Show Media EN", for Englisch langauge ==> To show media-info on the given map Click the button "Show Media NL", for Dutch langauge ==> To show city-Webcams of the given map Click the button "Webcams" ==> To Cleanup the map with the shown info Click the button 'Clear" Go to: Find a Place | Weather today  |
| Notes on GPS use: The GPX-code is a common protocol to interchange GPS-data between different devices and computers. The GPX-file can contain: Waypoints, Routes, Tracks. Waypoint: A Waypoint is an interresting Point on a map. Each Waypoint is located by a Latitude and a Longitude. Each Waypoint can also more be specified by a Description, a Name, a Number, a Comment, a Date and Time, ..... Route: A Route is a predefined path indicating how a trip must be made. It gives the way to be followed on a map by means of successive Waypoints. A Route can also contain a Name, a Description, a Comment, ... and the successive Waypoints to be followed. Track: A Track is generated by the GPS-Device itself (options to be configured by the GPS-settings). A Track gives the passed Waypoints of a made Hike- or Biketrip. The interval of the Waypoints can be configured as time related or distance related places. A Track can contaisn a Name, a Description, a Comment, a Number, .... and the list of Waypoints where the trip has passed. The specification of WayPoint, Route and Track can be found here. | Weather tomorrow  |
| All used GPX files are tested on the 'Mapsource' program, with the 'Garmin Etrex Venture' GPS and also with the 'Garmin Oregon 300' GPS. All used KML files will load on the 'Google Earth' program ver 4.3. All used HTM files are running on Internet Explorer version 7.0.5730.13. Use of the 'Google map': - Position the map with the arrows on the upper left. - Position the map also with dragging the mouse off target a Red Dot. - Scale the map with the scale-tool on the left. - Scale the map with a double Right or a double Left mouse click. - Change the view with buttons 'map', 'Satellite', 'Both'. | Interesting links: Hikesite: WandelWiki Fietsknooppunten België GPS Biketracks Belgium Bikeroutes België Wheater Forecast World Wheater Forecast Wheater Maps Europe Webcams Worldwide Wheater Warnings Cloudiness Rain and Wheater Rain Forecast Rain from Radar World Stations Temparature How to make maps for GARMIN GPS How to create maps for GARMIN GPS Useful GPS links AirPhoto De Kempen Photo's of België The world in a mouseclick |
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