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mapRoute - Free, the way it should be
By: SidAndBob Date: November 12, 2013, 3:24 pm
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How do you prepare your hiking/geocaching trip now? I used to
maintain a GSAK database, export data to Memory Map, plot my
route, send the route to my GPSr then export cache listings from
GSAK to my GPSr.
mapRoute makes the whole process so much easier, cheaper and
better.
mapRoute uses the latest 1:25K Ordnance Survey maps and being an
official Geocaching Live partner app means that geocaching data
is up to the second to, so no databases to maintain or
potentially out of date PQs to mess about with. Geocaches appear
at the press of a button. Once you've created your route(s) you
save them on the server ready to export as a gpx file whenever
you want, but here's the smart part. You can also download all
geocaches within the area that route covers (and waypoints,
hills, trigpoints too). You can share routes with other users
and there are even interactive elevation graphs. There are loads
of other features too, and they are being added to on a daily
basis.
While I have created a couple of tutorials on YouTube the
application is developing so fast that they soon become out of
date, though the basic route and geocache concept remains the
same.
This app was written purely to benefit the walking and
geocaching communities. There is no profit from my perspective,
only cost, not to mention hundreds of hours of work.
Being developed by an active walker and geocacher I hope I know
what users want, but if there's a feature that you want that
mapRoute doesn't currently provide I would love to hear about
it.
Also remember that tools like the OS Get-a-map provide less
functionality and cost £20 per year. Please take a look. I hope
you find it useful.
HTML http://map-route.co.uk
HTML http://map-route.co.uk
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Re: mapRoute - Free, the way it should be
By: SidAndBob Date: November 12, 2013, 4:39 pm
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Here's a screenshot to give you an idea of how it looks.
HTML http://map-route.co.uk/images/other/mapRoute.png
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Re: mapRoute - Free, the way it should be
By: walktall Date: November 12, 2013, 5:06 pm
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Looks interesting, can you use custom geocaching icons ?
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Re: mapRoute - Free, the way it should be
By: SidAndBob Date: November 12, 2013, 5:46 pm
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The icons are Geocaching.com's official icons which I embellish
with symbols to show micros/nanos, favourites, TBs, owned, found
and disabled. Found and owned can also be hidden.
My "to do" list includes creating alternative icon sets. Are
there particular icons you would be interested in? I would need
to get permission to use them of course. It would help me if I
understood what you want from a different icon set. Is it so
that they show up on the OS map better for instance?
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Re: mapRoute - Free, the way it should be
By: Griff Grof Date: November 13, 2013, 2:00 am
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Wow this is just what I've been looking for! ;D Thank you so
much for telling us about it here!
Just one question: you mentioned app, which platforms is the app
available on?
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Re: mapRoute - Free, the way it should be
By: SidAndBob Date: November 13, 2013, 2:14 am
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It's a web app, so it runs in your browser. You don't need to
download or install anything and it will run on any Internet
connected PC. Just click the link at the bottom of my first
post, sign up and you're away. ;D
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Re: mapRoute - Free, the way it should be
By: Griff Grof Date: November 13, 2013, 10:09 am
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And for free?! Wow that's great! ;D
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