Fun drive out from West London - heading south
Discussion
I'm pretty sure that I uploaded a few routes that start around Newlands corner ( a25 just west of Shere ) and Ockham common a3 near the m25 onto our club site....southernkitcars.com. The routes are available to download free as tomtom itn files, have had an issue with some browsers trying to open the files - which obviously they can't, so if that happens try a different browser and just 'save' the route. To preview you'll need to download TYRE - 'trace your route everywhere' - which is a freebie.
The routes were made with the idea of mainly B roads for our little cars. If you do look, there's i think 1-2 that finish at a Fisheries Cafe nr Beare Green, just south of Dorking - pleasant setting for a brekkie after an early blast, or up at Newlands corner if you do a round robin there's a cafe - but no inside seating.
Will try and find time to add some more routes to the various sections over the coming weeks......
The routes were made with the idea of mainly B roads for our little cars. If you do look, there's i think 1-2 that finish at a Fisheries Cafe nr Beare Green, just south of Dorking - pleasant setting for a brekkie after an early blast, or up at Newlands corner if you do a round robin there's a cafe - but no inside seating.
Will try and find time to add some more routes to the various sections over the coming weeks......
Freddie, do you have a TTom that has the itinerary planning feature? if so, its worth downloading TYRE as mentioned in teh 1st reply, its a safe/freebie and is excellent for plotting routes - you plot them on a version of gmaps via TYRE....essentially you add waypoints to the map and save the file. It gets saved as an ITN file ( whioch is teh format for all those routes on the site )....you drag/drop the file into a folder on your ttom via the pc ( takes a few secs)...and hey presto....the TTom will then when the route is selected take you via each waypoint that you selected...basically you force the sat nav to plot a route to wp1-wp2-wp3, which takes away its natural inclination to take the fastest/shortest route, and allows the user to travel some cracking back roads.....
personally i'd suggest that you need to be south of the a25 to find some decent roads, if you can endure the boredom, worth getting farther down teh a24 to the junction with the a272, there's a mc'ds there for an early coffee/refuel and then west of there are tons of great roads that you can sticth together ending up perhaps back at Newlands/Beare Green area for a Cafe stop and then a simple if uninspiring drive home.....
personally i'd suggest that you need to be south of the a25 to find some decent roads, if you can endure the boredom, worth getting farther down teh a24 to the junction with the a272, there's a mc'ds there for an early coffee/refuel and then west of there are tons of great roads that you can sticth together ending up perhaps back at Newlands/Beare Green area for a Cafe stop and then a simple if uninspiring drive home.....
Thanks a lot and yes a TomTom is on the xmas list with this feature. Especially after I planned an awesome route around North Wales only to set off and everything starts reverting back normal/fastest route..
Will try and add your routes to the TTom and have a fiddle as they say. Cheers for the info!
Will try and add your routes to the TTom and have a fiddle as they say. Cheers for the info!
Something like this. http://goo.gl/maps/LIXVF
Although saying to my girlfriend "I'm just popping out" might be stretching it a bit far that time
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Although saying to my girlfriend "I'm just popping out" might be stretching it a bit far that time
) Depends whether you like main roads Freddie - personally i don't, too tempting to stray above the limit.....plus there's a ton of cracking smaller roads around the same patch....have done teh one below a few times or variations thereon....
http://goo.gl/maps/blbSU
http://goo.gl/maps/blbSU
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