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    Peter Robins "Pilgrim Routes Database"

    http://pilgrim.peterrobins.co.uk/ was the main starting point, under 'modern routes'. This gave links to all the mapping. There aren't any links from the maps subdomain.
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    Peter Robins site closing.

    ok, fixed that meaning https://github.com/pilgrimdb/pilgrimdb.github.io/issues ? I don't see these. Ok, I get it. you're quoting my page.
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    Peter Robins site closing.

    ah, that must be my deliberate mistake :-)
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    Peter Robins site closing.

    hello everyone. All is not yet lost. I've put some more details on my site at http://www.peterrobins.co.uk/futurepilgrim.html I will be in Santiago next week, from Saturday eve, and plan to meet up with Ivar to discuss this further. If anyone else happens to be in Santiago and would like to...
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    GPS accuracy?

    yes, if you want to use non-wgs84 latlon coordinates on paper maps with the gps readings from a phone/tablet, you would use one of the various apps that can display the readings in a different datum. However, as I say, this is not changing the GPS datum per se, but converting the GPS reading...
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    GPS accuracy?

    it's not necessary. GPS, OSM and Google all use WGS84 not sure people aren't confusing different things. The GPS system uses WGS84. GPS devices (and apps) may convert data from one datum/projection to another to be compatible with maps using a different one, but that has nothing to do with GPS...
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    GPS accuracy?

    there is an offline mobile version of all my maps; with the GPS option it fetches all the routes that are in your vicinity. That is online though. See my blog post for more on the issues with this http://blog.peterrobins.co.uk/2012/08/maps-on-mobile-devices-current-status.html In practice, what...
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    GPS accuracy?

    with a smartphone, you have all 3. Takes up considerably less space and weighs less too. Plus you can use it for getting info, booking tickets, email, making notes, listening to music or to the radio, watching tv ... hey, you can even talk with people using it.
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    GPS accuracy?

    no. I would doubt whether any map or gps software includes elevation in distance calculation. Complicates the calculations without providing much benefit. Few walking routes are steep enough to add much to the distance.
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    GPS accuracy?

    see http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2013/07/15/smartphones-tablets-and-gps-accuracy/ for an up-to-date assessment of smartphone accuracy. For me, the key difference is that gps is not a smartphone's primary purpose, so the aim is not accuracy but producing something that's good enough for...
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    The 10% Rule

    but do quote sources :-) I have always understood that the rule of thumb with married couples was that it was the woman who had the man under her thumb . . .
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    la voie lactee

    for those who want to watch Bunuel's film, it is now available in its entirety on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmBPuB6RsIg As it's still under copyright, I'm not so sure of the legality of this, but shh don't tell anyone. :-) I first saw this in the 1970s but don't remember it being...
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    Via Dragonte GPS file

    tends to be a bit warmer than in Scotland, though :-) A Swiss fellow I kept meeting (and who went on the main route) called this my 'Bergtour' - not quite Alpine, but lots of up and down
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    Via Dragonte GPS file

    It's clear from the aerial photos that in several places there are alternative tracks you can take - at least, in open country; aerial photos aren't much use in forests :-) I don't remember the track to Villar at all (well, it was 11 years ago), but I do remember having a rest on the other side...
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    Via Dragonte GPS file

    I've traced this route, at least, as I remember it, on IGN maps/photos at http://maps.peterrobins.co.uk/e/2274.html May not be entirely correct, but should help prevent you going astray. You can get a kml (Google Earth) dump at http://maps.peterrobins.co.uk/cgi-bin/f ... s/2274.kml and then use...
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    Learning Spanish

    this was on BBC2 again last week. Still available on the iplayer for a few more days, but I think only in the UK http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... ommentary/ or see its own special site at http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/ Vale
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    Rick Stein in Santiago and Galicia

    what I liked was his enthusiasm, though part of that may be because nobody on those cookery programmes ever seems to have to do any washing-up
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    la voie lactee

    true, but then they were following the main road across N Spain - hardly difficult to find, even at night. Modern walkers use the yellow arrows to _avoid_ the main road, but they still need to use the road to cross the main obstacles, such as mountain ranges and rivers. Even if the stars always...
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    la voie lactee

    the connection between the two dates at least from the Pseudo-Turpin, according to which Charlemagne had a dream in which the Milky Way showed the way to the resting place of St James. For those who can read French, there's a detailed expose of the subject by an astronomer at...
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    June 25 vs July 25

    where do you get June 25 from? I'm not aware of any church that celebrates St James Day then. Sil posted a summary of the dates at miscellaneous-topics/topic8514.html though there's a couple of errors: I think "29 April" should read "30 April", and the Tridentine calendar also used July 25...

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