I have just downloaded maps.me and don't even know what to download! Do I download the whole map of Spain? How do I find out where the camino routes (in my case the Olvidado) are?
Maps.me (forthwith also Maps-me) will help you download the base maps you need to follow a track. For example, on the app, zoom in very tight on southern Algeria, a place you most likely haven't asked for a map. Eventually it will give you a pop-up asking if you want to download a map of the region. Ignore and instead head up to Bilbao, the start of the Olvidado and do the same. If you have loaded the map before you'll eventually start seeing streets, if not you'll be asked if you want to download the map. This time do it.
Next we get the track and since maps-me only can handle KML and KMZ formats we will not bother with GPX formats (but remember downloads of these can be handy in case you want to swaps apps at some point). Getting the tracks relies pretty much at how good you are at internet searches. I used Google to search for:
where to get camino olvidado "kml" track
I used quotes around
"kml" to have Google use some emphasis in searching for that term. The rayyrosa site came up and I decided to use that (I plan to give my reason later, think Wikiloc).
Here's the webpage where the track can be downloaded from:
Mapa y track del Camino Olvidado. Información completa e historia de éste
Camino de Santiago con descripción de las distancias y descarga del track.
www.rayyrosa.com
or the same as text:
I want to discuss downloading from the internet and uploading to the app but that is for some other time. For now do the searching and downloading on a PC. Email the downloaded file to yourself with a good subject line like
Ray y Rosa complete Olvidado KML
or just "tracks" in place of "KML" if you attach a GPX track in addition. I like to copy the subject line as a header in the email body too; you do you. On the smartphone where the maps-me is installed open that email and click on the desired attached track. You should be asked with what app you want to view the track with. Maps-me should be one; use that (some other time choose Google Maps if the track is in a KM* format and see what it does).
Now, at home, from Bilbao trace the track on maps-me. You will leave the Basque country and enter Castile and León. Maps-me will ask if you want to download a map of the region. Sure you do. Keep following the track to do downloads of any other needed regions. (You may want to navigate to Galicia, Navarra and that region that SJPdP is in that I can never remember the name of).
The reason I chose Ray y Rosa was because they had the complete track on Wikiloc and I found it there first but I figured that you
@laineylainey and others might not have an account there to actually do a download (accounts are free though). I used Wikiloc to filter for tracks labeled as hikes with a distance in excess of 300 kilometers and then entered
Olvidado as the text to search for. Ray y Rosa's complete track came up.