deborahbennett
Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2022
For 2024 Pilgrims: €50,- donation = 1 year with no ads on the forum + 90% off any 2024 Guide. More here. (Discount code sent to you by Private Message after your donation) |
---|
I got there eventually, but it was like giving a monkey a typewriter and waiting for him to complete a first draft of Hamlet. I used an app called ‘GPX viewer’Thanks so much JensNL for your very kind offer. It is greatly appreciated. This is my first attempt at downloading GPS tracks to my iPhone, and I really have no idea what I'm doing! The Dutch Confraternity website says the Maps.me app (or Google Earth app which I also have on my iPhone) needs to use the KLM files, not the GPX files, so if you are able to send me the KLM files that would be great.
The Confraternity website says Maps.me is easy to use, so that's why I'm trying to open the files with that app, and I'd like to have them on my iPhone rather than on my computer so I can use my iPhone for navigation on the Camino.
I have downloaded the Spain map on Maps.me, and I was trying to download the Spanish Camino KLM tracks in English from the Confraternity. My current plan is to do the Camino del Norte either this fall or next spring. I live in the U.S. The instructions said if you download the tracks to your iPhone you will get a message that will ask what app to open them with, and you can select Maps.me to somehow connect the tracks files with the Spain map.
If you can possibly send the KLM tracks files to me, I can message you my email address. Just let me know. Thanks again for your help!
Deborah
Hi Deborah,Thanks so much JensNL for your very kind offer. It is greatly appreciated. This is my first attempt at downloading GPS tracks to my iPhone, and I really have no idea what I'm doing! The Dutch Confraternity website says the Maps.me app (or Google Earth app which I also have on my iPhone) needs to use the KLM files, not the GPX files, so if you are able to send me the KLM files that would be great.
The Confraternity website says Maps.me is easy to use, so that's why I'm trying to open the files with that app, and I'd like to have them on my iPhone rather than on my computer so I can use my iPhone for navigation on the Camino.
I have downloaded the Spain map on Maps.me, and I was trying to download the Spanish Camino KLM tracks in English from the Confraternity. My current plan is to do the Camino del Norte either this fall or next spring. I live in the U.S. The instructions said if you download the tracks to your iPhone you will get a message that will ask what app to open them with, and you can select Maps.me to somehow connect the tracks files with the Spain map.
If you can possibly send the KLM tracks files to me, I can message you my email address. Just let me know. Thanks again for your help!
Deborah
Thanks for this additional info, JensNL. It's good to have some different options to try.What you can try as well, Deborah and it might be easier than Basecamp is Google ‘my maps’ (google account needed). You can import the KML files in My Maps and delete from there. You can’t edit the files, that why I use Basecamp.
Thanks Deborah for your feedback and suggestions.Hi Thomas1962,
Very kind of you to check in with me to see if everything worked out okay. Thanks so much for putting these files online for all of us to use free of charge, and for offering additional help if I was still unable to access the Norte file.
Jens gave me a great deal of excellent advice, and forum member Jeff Crawley sent me the unzipped file for the Norte along with the file for Finisterre and Muxia which I will be continuing on to once I reach Santiago. So everything has been solved, and I now have access to the files.
A couple of things you might want to consider adding to the Manual:
1) It might be very helpful for people to realize in advance that -- as Jen mentioned and Jeff messaged me -- there are around 120 routes or variants in the file download. Both Jens and Jeff suggested downloading the files onto your computer first and then sorting through them, transferring only the ones you need to your phone to avoid confusion and taking up unnecessary memory.
2) Jens had the excellent advice which might be helpful to add to the manual, that for people using Mac computers if you can't open the files once they are downloaded, to use Garmin Basecamp and openfietsmap in order to open them.
Thanks again for making this excellent and valuable resource available to everyone.
Deborah Bennett
Hi Thomas 1962Just saw this topic. I put the files online and I'm also part of the working group making them. Good to see people using them, and also good to see what are still the difficulties getting them on a phone.
Deborah, did it all work out now with the help of Jens or is there something I can do? If still needed I can send you the unzipped files, also only the Norte file.
The files are indeed open for everyone, not only members of registered persons. We like sharing.
If anyone has any feedback, please let me know. We love to make the files or the manual better.
With Iphones it sometimes is indeed different. It is still not clear with what IPhones it is different.Hi Thomas 1962
I have previously downloaded your CF, CP & Sanabres files to Maps.me but and now trying to download all the Spanish camino files to my iPhone 12 on Organic maps which I have downloaded on the recommendation of your website.
The download occurs, but I get the same blank screen mentioned by the OP above, with no option to open in a particular app. When checking further, it does ask if I would like to zip the files which suggests to me that they have downloaded unzipped.
I would greatly appreciate the possibility of you sending me the files directly if that were still an option. After three years of Covid isolation in Oz I am keen to get back on the trail.
TIA for any support you may be able to offer.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?