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Searching for GPS map for GPS viewer for Portuguese Coastal route

pattipeep

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Portuguese Coastal Route
I’m a bit confused. I’ve downloaded the GPS viewer. Do I now need a download file for the map itself so I can view offline? Where do I get that file? Many thanks.
 
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Hi pattipeep!
Download GPX, KML tracks from here::
https://www.santiago.nl/downloads/ option to translate from Dutch at top of webpage!
You need offline map app like Osmand (uses GPX) or Maps me (uses KML)or the like!
Download GPX track from the website to your computer send an email to yourself on phone/tablet with the GPX file as attachment !
Open the file in the email on your phone /tablet and you should be asked where you want to open it ,if you have the above two apps for example choose your favourite app!
Gpx viewer should open it in the map app OSMAND!
Or alternatively KML file for Maps me/Google Earth!
If it doesn't check the download manager!
Well that's what i did for my coastal i am no expert!
(In Osmand which is what i used (it has voice navigation for walking and lots of other choices like add direction arrows,avoid steps, shows street lighting, transport, accommodation ,cafes etc) download all Caminos in Portugal and in the navigation options FOLLOW TRACK it gives them all as individual tracks choose COASTAL!)
Hope this helps: others are more tech savvy than me but you will defo get help.

Buen Camino
Woody
 
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I’m a bit confused. I’ve downloaded the GPS viewer. Do I now need a download file for the map itself so I can view offline? Where do I get that file? Many thanks.
Hi pattipeep,
We used the ninja app it was super especially when we got lost and was available offline.
Such as gorgeous walk enjoy every minute it went far too quickly x
 
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I’m a bit confused. I’ve downloaded the GPS viewer. Do I now need a download file for the map itself so I can view offline? Where do I get that file? Many thanks.
Meo Drive is a very good Portugal map app just in case you get lost.
 
Ninja app or Wise Pilgrim or Buen Camino have really simple GPS maps that will pinpoint exactly where you are. They are all free and have lots more information. Really easy to use.
 
if you need a map for your GPS so that you manage offline, try this page

and download the map titled
SpanienSpanien, Portugal, Balearen


it is a great map, actually, highly detailed, and it includes the whole Iberian peninsula, Portugal and continental Spain
 
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Hi pattipeep,
We used the ninja app it was super especially when we got lost and was available offline.
Such as gorgeous walk enjoy every minute it went far too quickly x

Ninja app or Wise Pilgrim or Buen Camino have really simple GPS maps that will pinpoint exactly where you are. They are all free and have lots more information. Really easy to use.
Yup. There are free and easy to use Camino apps with the GPS tracks built in plus information about towns and accommodations along the Camino. No need to overcomplicate things!



 
I’m a bit confused. I’ve downloaded the GPS viewer. Do I now need a download file for the map itself so I can view offline? Where do I get that file? Many thanks.
Lots of good suggestions. I used Ride with GPS for Portuguese from Lisbon. It was excellent.
 
You sure got all that right. SImplicity is a beautiful thing. One of the most valuable lessons the Camino has taught me. So much less is so, so much more.
 
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.

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