Hi Iris and Trui!! Good to see you back here.
Did I enjoy the weather??? Yesterday I was racing through the Eastern Alps and Jura. Blue sky, clear roads and all the rest snow white!!!! Incredible. One of the best three days ever on the bike. About 1800km with 30 hard core 'we always ride no matter what the weather is like' bikers! Never had so much fun on a bike.


Back to GPS and Mac.
I got around the map problem, but it isn't ideal.
I use the multimap website. You can click on any location and then get the coordinates. Then I copy these to a exell sheet that I made. It automaticly strips the things I don't need from the info and I end up with very usable data. I then copy this to a sheet to upload the coordinates to the GPS.
This can be done more efficient. For example the last copy-paste action is something that could easely be automated inbetween two sheet in the same exel document.
The good thing about this website is that is goes to street level and often even dirt roads.
I had prepared the last trip like this and it was amazingly precise. A real pleasure. I am really sure now I want to prepare the next big trip on GPS.


Ideally we want to get whole maps scanned in. I am working on that with some folks from the GIS (Geograp. inform. syst.) department of the city. They managed to scan in a map, but did something wrong with the CD-rom. Hope to get it solved and then I hope they are willing to scann in about 10 other maps......????

I am not sure that is going to work out. The guy can't work outside of the regular hours and has other work too... :-(((


I have also been looking around in the regio here for 'copy-shops' who would be able to scan in a complete map. No luck so far.


I comming to the slide show saturday. Maybe we can exchange some more info there?
Ooops: just realised: where is this again? I reserved a place but that is a long time ago. Can I bring one extra person?




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