Anyone got TomTom or Sat Nav preplanned Euro routes Alps etc

[Far Cough]

Looking at doing a Euro trip and taking in all the obvious great roads through the Alps like the Fuela pass , Oberalp pass , St Bernadino pass , Paso d`izoard , Stevio & Route Napolean etc etc.

I notice some companies run a preplanned route via sat nav. Any one got one or care to share one. I dont want to miss any out and would be a great backup to the normal map route I have plotted.

cheers

[Far Cough]

Anyone want to share their TomTom itinery ( .itn ) files ?

[Zippee]

I have many Alpine and Highland tours however, don't take this the wrong way but the tour comapnies spend a lot of time/money developing these routes and likewise so do their customers who go on the tours. What makes you think we should share those with yourself?
If you contact say, Petrolhead Nirvana, I'm sure they'll be willing to let you purchase some of their pre-planned routes.

[oblio]

Far Cough said:

Looking at doing a Euro trip and taking in all the obvious great roads through the Alps like the Fuela pass , Oberalp pass , St Bernadino pass , Paso d`izoard , Stevio & Route Napolean etc etc.

I notice some companies run a preplanned route via sat nav. Any one got one or care to share one. I dont want to miss any out and would be a great backup to the normal map route I have plotted.

cheers

Hi Chris

I have planned out some roads for our upcoming SoF trip. I haven't got them precisely in TomTom as firm fixed itineraries but if you PM me I'll gladly share what I have. You can then follow these on a good quality map at home and enter your own itinerary if you want. I have started to do that but it will take some work to get them fully itinerised tbh...

NB All I have are road numbers for the R de Napolean plus some nice hairy roads for a few days in the Frence Alps (taking in the Col de la Bonnette).

cheers

Graham

[Far Cough]

Zippee said:

I have many Alpine and Highland tours however, don't take this the wrong way but the tour comapnies spend a lot of time/money developing these routes and likewise so do their customers who go on the tours. What makes you think we should share those with yourself?
If you contact say, Petrolhead Nirvana, I'm sure they'll be willing to let you purchase some of their pre-planned routes.

"Developing routes" - that sounds like management rubbish to me. They are roads and can be driven in one way or the other and I dont think their customers do any " developing" other than increasing the size of PHN`s bank account.

[Far Cough]

oblio said:

Hi Chris

I have planned out some roads for our upcoming SoF trip. I haven't got them precisely in TomTom as firm fixed itineraries but if you PM me I'll gladly share what I have. You can then follow these on a good quality map at home and enter your own itinerary if you want. I have started to do that but it will take some work to get them fully itinerised tbh...

NB All I have are road numbers for the R de Napolean plus some nice hairy roads for a few days in the Frence Alps (taking in the Col de la Bonnette).

cheers

Graham

Thanks Graham for the reply and I`ll fire you a PM. I have, since starting the thread discovered the program TYRE which is superb and acts like google maps but converts the route into a downloadable file making life planning a route a very simple exercise.I think even a monkey could do it !

If you want my route then I`m happy to share as nothing to hide here and I dont plan on trying to make a profit out of threading a couple of roads together !!

[XB70]

Far Cough said:

Thanks Graham for the reply and I`ll fire you a PM. I have, since starting the thread discovered the program TYRE which is superb and acts like google maps but converts the route into a downloadable file making life planning a route a very simple exercise.I think even a monkey could do it !

If you want my route then I`m happy to share as nothing to hide here and I dont plan on trying to make a profit out of threading a couple of roads together !!

I could never get TYRE to work for me, or for downloadable files to the Tom Tom either.

If you are transiting Germany, there is a fantastic stretch of autobahn heading south from Frankfurt through Darmstadt and towards Sinsheim. I will dig up the reference/road name.

[shocks]

Far Cough said:

Looking at doing a Euro trip and taking in all the obvious great roads through the Alps like the Fuela pass , Oberalp pass , St Bernadino pass , Paso d`izoard , Stevio & Route Napolean etc etc.

I notice some companies run a preplanned route via sat nav. Any one got one or care to share one. I dont want to miss any out and would be a great backup to the normal map route I have plotted.

cheers

Ping 6C4GTS - he should have the tyre / .itn's from our route last month - routes are listed in this thread, Fuela, San Bernadino etc, If your doing Roue Napolean, recommend highly fitting in Col de Turini, Col de Tende etc

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Far Cough]

XB70 said:

I could never get TYRE to work for me, or for downloadable files to the Tom Tom either.

If you are transiting Germany, there is a fantastic stretch of autobahn heading south from Frankfurt through Darmstadt and towards Sinsheim. I will dig up the reference/road name.

shocks said:

It took 2 goes for it to install but running a treat now and so easy to work with. We may be heading through Germany so that Road name will be great thanks. I just don`t want to miss any obvious stuff out whilst I`m there.

Ping 6C4GTS - he should have the tyre / .itn's from our route last month - routes are listed in this thread, Fuela, San Bernadino etc, If your doing Roue Napolean, recommend highly fitting in Col de Turini, Col de Tende etc

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Cracking will do . I did have a look at his thread and have viewed a couple of his vids. Cant wait to go now. All the usual suspects like Furka , grimsell , susten fluela etc etc are on there

[Sortie 10]

I appreciate that you are looking for a route to put on sat nav. I would strongly recommend that you obtain a copy of the IGN (French Ordnance Survey) map of the Route des Grandes Alpes - a cracking drive from Lake Geneva to Menton on the Med (a few km east of Monaco). The map can be obtained in the UK from Stanfords (a small-ish chain of map/travel bookshops).
Once you are on the Route it is fantastically well signposted so you only need to use your GPS for spotting overtaking opportunities and checking out the hairpins ahead. Let's face it when you are on a mountain, there is only one route - over the top & down the other side!
The Route is a sensational drive across some beautiful passes, including the Izoard (and also the Col de la Bonette, claimed to be the highest road in western Europe.

Finally, if you are in "press on" mode on a mountain bear in mind the advice of a French friend & unclip your seat belt. This sounds bizarre, but the logic is impeccable: if you leave the road with a 2000 ft drop, would you prefer to be belted in? or stand a chance of being thrown clear (particularly if you are in a soft top)

Enjoy the drive.

[rsv gone!]

You'll have to program your own satnav but knock yourself out;

http://goo.gl/maps/cN1Q

[Far Cough]

Sortie 10 said:

Let's face it when you are on a mountain, there is only one route - over the top & down the other side!

Exactly ... Its just the order you do them in to make the journey flow.

rsv gone! said:

You'll have to program your own satnav but knock yourself out;

http://goo.gl/maps/cN1Q

Top man ... have saved it to compare it to my route.

[Far Cough]

Thanks for all the PM`s and responses. Very generous of some to share the knowledge. I now have a large selection of itineries including a lot of the Alpine Passes saved as .itn files. If you want them just shout or Pm

Sharing the love

[XB70]

Hi

The road is the E451 that runs south from Darmstadt (when you look on google maps)

The section is between Eschollbrukken at the top and Viernheim at the bottom - on the map you will see that is runs through forest.

There is a long stretch with very slight bend and so depending on what car you are in, interesting speeds can be attained in safety.

At night, the extremly tall hedges in the middle split the four lanes (two each way) so you will not see oncoming headlights in the others lanes and them not see you.

I recall someone also posting this:

"The A2 (E30) between Magdeburg and Berlin is fantastic! It is pretty quiet most of the time and there are loads of good stretches where you can boot it"

and

"For really really fast top speed runs you need far longer than 2 miles, more like 4-5, hence why the tuners use Ehra-Lessien, Papenberg and Nardo. The problem is that Ehra-Lessien is private to VW and Nardo is 1000miles+ away. Papenburg is a long drive, but doable, (I've done it once and you get to use the A31 North of Bottrup which is a great empty de-restricted autobahn, where you can hold sustained high speeds)"


If you are near Sinsheim or Speyer, I could not recommend the two museums there enough:

http://speyer.technik-museum.de/en

and

http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en

they are 25 mins from each other.

A full day at each to do them justice and a million "legend" points to whoever decided that the best way for a visitor to leave aircraft mounted on plinths was to install polished metal tunnels and give them a hessian mat to slide down on!

[XB70]

Far Cough said:

Thanks for all the PM`s and responses. Very generous of some to share the knowledge. I now have a large selection of itineries including a lot of the Alpine Passes saved as .itn files. If you want them just shout or Pm

Sharing the love

I would be grateful if I could have a copy. Cheers

[oblio]

XB70 said:

I could never get TYRE to work for me...

Ditto

[Far Cough]

For those who have requested the files I'll send them out later and for those struggling to get "TYRE" to work try reinstalling it as this is what I had to do due to the 1st time it wouldn't see the Internet connection.

Cheers

[oblio]

Far Cough said:

...and for those struggling to get "TYRE" to work try reinstalling it as this is what I had to do due to the 1st time it wouldn't see the Internet connection.

Cheers

Tried that...and all I get is a toolbar and a page full of what look like TomTom directions/program for a dutch bloke (judging by the www address on there!)

Did anyone get asked to download another program called 'Livid'?

Epic Fail

[Far Cough]

All the files downloadable from here : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ktayi0029y8ae1g/lZ5Laxh...

Enjoy

[Far Cough]

I`ve deleted the files to save bandwidth after a suitable length of time. If you need them reinstating just shoot me a pm.