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Hi,

Just a (silly) question...
I don't have any GPS, only paper maps but I'm interested by your file for my next 2015 trip in Russia/stan's(but with my car)
Is it possible to download it to a file to be printed ( Windows 7).

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By the way let suppose it will be a dry summer in 2015 in the old summer road area, would you try it solo with F650Gs Dakar packed up?
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Old Summer Road? Solo? If you have a sat phone or a spot tracker and are feeling confident, then sure. If not, stick to the Kolyma highway. If you break down or have an accident in the abandoned section (Between Kuranakh Sala and the Hunters Camp near Adygalakh), it might be weeks or even months before another vehicle comes thru there.
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just a couple ... updates to Mongolian borders and adding in Adygalakh and Kuranakh Sala to the Old Summer Road waypoints so the abandoned section of road is more clear.
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Thanks downloaded the waypoints POI .

will check if we can use on our route
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Thank you very much for the tremendous work, Colebatch.

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Just a notice, the Hotel Europe in Volgograd is gone, they seemed to build an new house on that place. We took another Hotel, the Astoria, not so cheap but great and comfy rooms.
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Just a notice, the Hotel Europe in Volgograd is gone, they seemed to build an new house on that place. We took another Hotel, the Astoria, not so cheap but great and comfy rooms.
Thx. Will delete it from the next main file update.
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Vanino Road Fuel
G'day Walter, just came over the Vanino road a few days ago and note that there is now no fuel between Vanino and Lidoga.
Also on Sakhalin there's a fantastic new Hostel, the Pervy Sahaliniski in Yuzhno, they are on at N46' 54.640 E142' 44.864 We paid 850 rubles each for a 3 bed dorm room, bigger dorms are cheaper. Secure parking in a compound.
Should be in Tynda tomorrow and will be studying the waypoints to work out the longest distance between fuel on the BAM heading west.
We are 3 riders, two on DRZ400S with 16L tanks and one on a F650GS with standard tank.
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I'm sure I read somewhere that these points had all been uploaded to OSM. Or was I dreaming? Can't seem to find anything that says that now!

I'm using OSM on my Garmin, and don't want to confuse things by duplicating data.

Will let you know of any amendments or additions I find over the next two months. Currently in Georgia, heading to KAZ and MON before the the ROB.

Thanks for all the hard work!
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Even if they are all in OSM, which in my experience they are not, I prefer Walter's curated list over anything else. It's high quality highly biased for bikers. Many of us have contributed.

I usually run his list through a conversion script I wrote that prefixes all his way points with CB. That way I know which way points are his and can decide accordingly.

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Thanks boarder.


How is everyone using loading these - as Waypoints?


Others may disagree, but I think they should be loaded onto the GPS as a Custom POI file (which is different - they won't be listed in Favourites). I've been playing around with this a bit. You can then view them by category, i.e. Lodging, Fuel, Campsite, etc., and possibly sub-category. Just like the maps' inbuilt POI's, except they're listed under 'Extras' on my Zumo 550, under 'Where to'. Also you aren't governed by any max Waypoint limit, and can't accidentally delete them. So many advantages.


But to do this, the Waypoints need separating into individual GPX files (one per category). I started doing this, by sorting them by icon and copying them, but to be honest the icons didn't seem to always be correct. If this were sorted (either icons or preferably separate files) I think I can produce a proper POI file (and post it here). This then simply needs copying to the Gamin\poi folder of the unit. The reason I haven't done this is that I'm not too sure what some of the less obvious ones are. I did start, but didn't feel happy knowing I might be categorising things incorrectly!


What do you think Walter?
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I'm sure I read somewhere that these points had all been uploaded to OSM. Or was I dreaming? Can't seem to find anything that says that now!
Can't comment on Walter's waypoints having been converted to POIs on OSM (although in 2013 they hadn't been), but some tracks (=road/dirt road) like the BAM were on OSM (labelled Sibirsky Extreme Project).

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How is everyone using loading these - as Waypoints?
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I use them as way points. Custom POIs is just way too much work with very little advantage.

I do it from Basecamp these days. I usually delete all the old CB_ prefixed waypoints and just dump the new ones in there for the area I am going to. It's pretty easy.

The Zumo has a lot of limits which I don't really remember now that I use a Montana.

BTW, what bike are you riding on your current trip?

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How is everyone using loading these - as Waypoints?


Others may disagree, but I think they should be loaded onto the GPS as a Custom POI file (which is different - they won't be listed in Favourites). I've been playing around with this a bit. You can then view them by category, i.e. Lodging, Fuel, Campsite, etc., and possibly sub-category. Just like the maps' inbuilt POI's, except they're listed under 'Extras' on my Zumo 550, under 'Where to'. Also you aren't governed by any max Waypoint limit, and can't accidentally delete them. So many advantages.


But to do this, the Waypoints need separating into individual GPX files (one per category). I started doing this, by sorting them by icon and copying them, but to be honest the icons didn't seem to always be correct. If this were sorted (either icons or preferably separate files) I think I can produce a proper POI file (and post it here). This then simply needs copying to the Gamin\poi folder of the unit. The reason I haven't done this is that I'm not too sure what some of the less obvious ones are. I did start, but didn't feel happy knowing I might be categorising things incorrectly!


What do you think Walter?
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I'm on my 1190 R, in Georgia (Kutaisi) tonight, just been over the Zagar Pass, very nice!

I did look into the Montana, there was something I wasn't keen on, but can't remember. Music?
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