JustOneGuy
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Aug 2024: GR130, Apr 25: Camino Primitivo?
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I have been using Komoot for many years. Excellent for suggesting and following new routes. I use it because the majority of hikers here are German and Komoot is very popular in Germany.Komoot: Offers routes for walking and hiking on the GR-130, including easy, intermediate, and expert routes
I think I understand what you are looking for, so ...Hello walkers,
Do you know of any app that "follows" a route by its name?
For example: instead of telling it "walk me from A to B" or to manually set the whole route, allow me to "follow the GR130" (in my specific case) but then however allow me to record the route and edit it slightly?
It should not be an app designed specifically for the Camino de Santiago.
Thanks!
Thanks again for your detailed advice, but unfortunately this doesn't solve my problem.I think I understand what you are looking for, so ...
Have you tried AllTrails? I just used it for the Tour de Mt Blanc. On the app, search GR130 and you'll get the trail for the entire GR130. You use it to 'navigate' the route but at end of your hike you put the app on Pause or turn it off. Otherwise your phone would be on for the entire 95.6 miles?? You can record your daily route and save it (saved hikes are in My Profile). You can edit the route but you have to download the trail first. There is an option to follow individual segments of the GR130 by name/number. I did this for TdMB. I would download each segment the night before and use offline so as not to use data, battery power, etc.
I hope this is useful.
The problem is that I want to follow the GR130 and not the main route or some alternative tracks. This is, AFAIU, not easy by manually modifying the track to match the original one. Editing the original overall GR130 for each stage makes this possible, at least using Komoot. Alltrails doesn't allow me to do that. I still have to try WikiLoc.So, say, your trip from A to B is pretty much a straight line with the start and end sections on roads but the mid-section going up and down a very steep and rocky trail. In-between you can enter the coordinates of a place (C) on a road on the side of the mountain. If this were marked as a track in the GPX file you would end up with two connecting straight lines at an angle. But the beauty is if it were marked as a route the app could analyze the map data and show a highlighting line over roads and trails connecting A to C to B. Think driving directions with Google Maps. Or that video I posted earlier.
Have equally found Komoot very valuableI have been using Komoot for many years. Excellent for suggesting and following new routes. I use it because the majority of hikers here are German and Komoot is very popular in Germany.
But when it comes to "follow a track" it does not work. You cannot set it, AFAIU, to follow a route with a given name like GR130. And that's my problem: I have to edit it manually or create it by copying from a map.
Also, most of the free versions of the apps I tried have limited capability to edit tracks or some other limits.
That's why I was looking for an application that could do this. I will check the other ones you suggested. Thanks for your time and suggestions, @woody66.
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