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Old 10 Jul 2008
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Camping, NP, Embassies, Worldwide - GoogleEarth + GPX

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Please use for download only the latest version on the last page of this thread.

All other versions are no longer available.

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Hello,

I have prepared the following file with campgrounds and/or hotels, resthouses in Africa as GoogleEarth file and as GPX-file.

Camping-Welt.zip, Google-Earth-KML + GPX - ZIP, 32 KB ------------------------>



Following countries are avaiable:

Aegypten - Algerien - Angola - Äthiopien - Botswana - Gambia - Iran - Jordanien - Kenia - Libyen - Malawi - Marokko - Mauretanien - Namibia - Niger - Oman - Senegal - Simbabwe - Sudan - Syrien - Tansania - Tchad - Tunesien - Türkei - Zentralafrikanische Republik - Sambia - Vereinigte Arabische Emirate


The countries are separated in directories.

If someone has coordinates for not included countries and campgrounds, would be great if he sents me an PN or email.

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Ulrich

Such a brilliant thing to have! Thank you so much for all your hard work.

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Hello,

the file now includes also campings etc. of the world.

Camping-Welt.zip, Google-Earth-KML + GPX - ZIP, 32 KB ------------------------>


Following countries are avaiable, the new one's in red color:

Albanien - Aegypten - Algerien - Angola - Äthiopien - Botswana - Gambia - Griechenland - Iran - Jordanien - Kenia - Lettland - Libyen - Litauen - Malawi - Marokko - Mauretanien - Montenegro - Namibia - Niger - Oman - Polen - Senegal - Simbabwe - Sudan - Syrien - Tansania - Tchad - Tunesien - Türkei - Zentralafrikanische Republik - Sambia - Vereinigte Arabische Emirate

The countries are separated in directories.

If someone has coordinates for not included countries and campgrounds, would be great if he sents me an PN or email.

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... und some more countries (now in green):

Albanien - Aegypten - Algerien - Angola - Äthiopien - Botswana - Bulgarien - Burkina Faso - Gambia - Griechenland - Iran - Jordanien - Kenia - Lettland - Libyen - Litauen - Malawi - Marokko - Mauretanien - Montenegro - Mosambik - Namibia - Niger - Oman - Pakistan - Polen - Rumänien - Russland - Sambia - Saudi-Arabien - Senegal - Serbien - Simbabwe - Sudan - Syrien - Tansania - Tchad - Togo - Tunesien - Türkei - Ukraine - Ungarn - Vereinigte Arabische Emirate - Weissrussland - Zentralafrikanische Republik

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Feel free to grab my waypoints and track logs from beddha.free.fr/GPS and incorporate into your list. Note that some camping sites are just camp spots, nothing else there.
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Here is link for one Finnish waypoint page wher you can share POI's.
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thanks

I'm planning Africa over-land trip and want to use your files in my GPS.
I haven't bogth one yet, but planning to.
What is the best solution if I want to have this data together with Africa maps and the ability to navigate not always by roads...

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Sorry for 'polluting' this thread - I just want to say what an awesome job. Thanks for putting it all together, top stuff!!
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foget what i just posted, all sorted now!
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thats gonna be so unbelievable useful, ulrich you are a legend
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Hi,

Since I have found this really useful. Thank You. I have decided I would feed back into it.

I have just been away for three weeks. Travelling thru France, Spain and Portugal.

Along the way I checked my waypoints against yours and updated / added accordingly. I found some new campsites and some with sightly wrong way points. Nothing major.

Attached is the file I saved them in. Just rename it to dot gpx.

I hope that this helps, and again, thanks for your hard work.

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Just starting to play around with google Earth and planning a trip to Morocco next week. This is fantastic. Thanks
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I also have to say THANK YOU for this. It is an excellent resource.. You did a great job this combined with your off line program is just amazing.

Okay but i have a confession to make.I dont actually know how to use it. I know the data is there I just dont know how to get it off the google program and into a formate that i can use like a file for my GPS (garmin) or even haw to extract the coordinates so i can look up on a map. (I dont have earth plus, only jsut downloaded earth today).

Basically is there anyway that you can take the kml files and get them in to mapsource or Smelly bikers maps. I am so very sorry if this is a truely stupid question. I am a bit of a noob when it comes to GPS (maps I am good at but these things.. it is a long climb ahead of me). I have read the etnire google earth "how to use" thing and it has not helped. Is GPX the Garmin formate if so why can i see them any ideas
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EDIT: NEVER MIND_ I sorted it out.. for the ones like me who could not sort it out. It is a simple case of drag and drop the GPX file to the way points tab (window) of the Mapsource program!!!


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Hi All, I am a newbie to GPS/Sat Navs but I have a question. I downloaded Ulrich's POIs and dragged the .gpx file into the waypoints tab in mapsource and then transferred to my up up-to-date nuvi 250. All good at this point.

I checked for the new camping way points and yes they are there but certainly the couple around where I live are in the wrong places. A couple streets for one and one or two miles for another. Have I done something wrong or left out a step. Anybody else found these to be in the wrong spot ? I mean I could move them but I don't know if the campsites in France, spain or others are a little off ?. Plus I don't feel like move thousands of way points.

Any advice ?

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Hello gixxer.rob,

if the places around Your home are wrong, try to found out if they are in Google Earth also on the wrong place. If "yes", sent me corrected coordinates, if "no", I don't know what You make wrong with Your Nüvi.

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