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Minor update July 2015

Just removed a few places that have disappeared and added the updates mentioned on the forum above.
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Sorry I'd intended sending you these when I left KAZ. I think they're mostly pretty useful, fuel in sparse areas etc.
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Meant to include this in the file also
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I have also some waypoints for the list.

Some Hotels and gas stations in the stans which do not longer exist and some new ones , spezially gas stations in northern Uzbekistan

But it will take some days
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It's a great resource I have been using for years and I am very grateful for it. Much better than anything else out there. Let's not change it as long as Colebatch is up for it. Not sure why we have this discussion. He is still curating it and passionate about the region. Just contribute and enjoy.

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A few more

G'day again Walter,, I've got a few more for the list.

Almaty - "Freerider" it's a workshop, spare parts, bike sales and hostel all rolled into one. Not a huge selection of spares but at least you can get oil and use the workshop facilities. You can get parts sent there also. I didn't stay at the hostel so can't comment on it. N 43 12.908 E 076 53.885

Almaty - "Five Seasons" Hostel with secure parking and free wifi. Lots of parking and in a nice quiet area with good access to the city. Clean rooms, hot showers and good kitchen facilities. N 43 13.686 E 076 56.031

Bishkek - "Spice Brothers Biker Bar" Open air bar, mechanic, and hostel. Just on the outskirts of the city but with lots of buses passing for city access and on the right side of the city for access to the consulates. Good place to meet with local bikers, get some minor or major maintenance carried out on the bike and get a feed. The hostel is pretty basic at the moment but it's cheap. I had the stator on the DRZ400 sorted here. The mechanic removed it and had the right connections to get it repaired.
N 42 49.593 E 074 38 501 I don't know why this keeps coming up as a skype number???? Bloody computers.

Bishkek to Osh highway - "Tourist Camp" Across a small steel bridge and behind the trees is hidden a really nice little lodge. Spotlessly clean rooms, steaming hot showers and good parking for bikes. Bed in a three bed dorm for 700 som, they even have a swimming pool fed by a mountain stream.
N 42 09.734 E 072 51.854

Biysk - "Help Post - Black African" The man in charge here is Igor AKA Black African, it's the local bike club set up on his own property on the outskirts of Biysk. Igor has a car repair business and can sort out any bike structural problems for those in need, he will also know of any places for spares or tyres if they are to be found and where you can buy bike oil. Some accommodation available in the clubhouse for a nominal cost. If bikers use this they should consider that Igor personally bears much of the cost. He refused payment for some of the work he did for me so I had to work out other ways of compensation like doing big grocery shopping trip and slipping some cash into a place he would discover after I left. N 52 35.305 E 085 15.425

Osh - "Guesthouse" Secure parking and some of the nicest rooms I've seen on this trip, these are more like a 3 to 4 star hotel room with in-room refrigerator, tea and coffee facilities and cable TV . Owner lives on site and speaks good English. Room price includes a cooked breakfast.
N 40 30.951 E 072 47.406

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Thanks. Will incorporate those
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Walter, here's another one for Kyrgyzstan that Kurt and I stayed in: a turbaza on the south side of the big reservoir between Bishkek and Osh, west of Torkent.

The location is: Lat: 41.752928 Lon: 72.925465

The turbaza has a beach on the reservoir, a nice view, a pool, decent rooms, and a very good and cheap cafe on its grounds.
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Hotel Waypoint Wolgograd

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Mini-Hotel Lambert, ulitsa Kachintsev, Wolgograd, Oblast Wolgograd, Russland

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48°44'20.8"N 44°30'40.5"E

A nice Hotel near Custombike, Denis (Dean) Panterof`s partner for tires.
(mine was fixed there Perfectly).
Bike ist locked behind a concrete wall and a solid steel door :-)
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Hi Colebatch - thanks for download of asia waypoints - Im new to the Garmin - can you tell me in which directory I should place this file - the garmin POI seem to be .gpi extensions - will that matter if I drop a .gdp file in it?

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I'm not sure about osmAND. But you can convert the GPX to KMZ easily, and then use Maps.Me, which is very simple and fast, and also uses offline OSM.

I think a lot of these points will not be on OSM, and also these will be generally higher quality and/or more relevant to a lot of what you're doing. I have found using them together is best.
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I just converted this file to .gpx from the internet google search

like google : "gdb to gpx"

then moved the gpx file to my android phone

installed GPX viewer app and loaded the map. FLAWLESS

THANK YOU SO MUCH MAN

once I figure out how to add waypoints, I will if im successful in my plans of travel WILL upload for you guys for waypoints not on the map

such as afghanistan/pakistan
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