Printing from basecamp or google earth

[Tramp]

No..the topo are yellow the spanish maps are black.....but exactly the same coverage ...

[bond_yzf]

seems better to use the snipping tool to screenshot and crop

[Simon_100]

No..the topo are yellow the spanish maps are black.....but exactly the same coverage ...

Tramp, this started with the problem of getting printed maps of Spain, which for all intents and purposes don't exist - believe me, I know! - as opposed to Catalonia where they are a) available b) cheap and c) amazing (thumbs)

All of the maps are based on the same core data, as we both know :whistle: - but the representation varies considerably some more suited to print, reading, etc. . . .

Regs

Simon

[Simon_100]

seems better to use the snipping tool to screenshot and crop

Or spend a lifetime learning Photoshop - I'm about to ask my friend to cut and paste fifty-odd trais from Wikiloc/Basecamp:

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onto a 'Monster Map' of our own making . . .

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I'll tell you how it goes :whistle:

Regs

Simon

[bond_yzf]

seems better to use the snipping tool to screenshot and crop

Or spend a lifetime learning Photoshop - I'm about to ask my friend to cut and paste fifty-odd trais from Wikiloc/Basecamp:

Screenshot2015-02-23at8.49.55PM.png

onto a 'Monster Map' of our own making . . .

Aragonmapstotal2.pdf

I'll tell you how it goes :whistle:

Regs

Simon

hmy: good luck with that, it would take me a lifetime and then some :laugh:

[Simon_100]

seems better to use the snipping tool to screenshot and crop

Or spend a lifetime learning Photoshop - I'm about to ask my friend to cut and paste fifty-odd trais from Wikiloc/Basecamp:

Screenshot2015-02-23at8.49.55PM.png

onto a 'Monster Map' of our own making . . .

Aragonmapstotal2.pdf

I'll tell you how it goes :whistle:

Regs

Simon

hmy: good luck with that, it would take me a lifetime and then some :laugh:

Cheers, the end product will me 1x1.5 metres, and the text readable at six feet . . . not bad for 3,844 square miles :whistle:

Simon

[bond_yzf]

Big thanks simon

The info you have supplied is great and im actually loving this whole map stuff away from a gps (thumbs)

[Tramp]

Dont mean to gatecrash someone elses thread....

SIMON ...yep a maps a map.be it a topomap or paper jobby, the devils in the detail and being updated regularly...the best ive seen is the portugal topoluista ones...also the RB vibraction stuff is well out of date now...

[bond_yzf]

the vibraction site is updated as trails/routes change, so its a simple print out the link and change in the roadbook

[Simon_100]

the vibraction site is updated as trails/routes change, so its a simple print out the link and change in the roadbook

I agree wit Russ, and this applies to both paper and digital maps.

You're right about the Vibractions updates, highly commendable, but there is a limit. Lat year's horrendous rainfall more or less wiped out lots of trails - or at least made them much more technical than before. So you have to be prepared for what you find . . .

I think the most reliable thing about the Vibractions updates is whether the trails are legal or asphalted over, but I've known some real gaffs - take a look through David Decoster's topic - he found some fairly major changes like new road bridges over railways, etc. that made it quite difficult to get back on the trails etc. but weren't in the updates.

All part of the adventure . . .

When are you planning your trip?

Simon