See the blue rectangular button to the right of this page. Check it out at to verify exactly which app you need, then go to the Android or Apple app store as appropriate to download the app.Īlso, you can buy the hard copy guidebook here in the forum, at the Camino Forum Store / Casa Ivar. Author Samantha Davies Creation date Tags phones/apps/gps/maps Overview History. This nearly as good as a specific GPS only app, like, but contains so much more useful information. Camino de Santiago Frances on Google Maps. The apps have an offline mapping capability that uses the smartphone 'pinging' to cell towers to establish your path and routing along a downloaded topographical map. If you must have this sort of detailed tracking capability, I recommend the very inexpensive but very comprehensive Wise Pilgrim Guides series of apps and hard copy guide books. Only where the Camino has you walking on the verge / shoulder of a road, will it be accurate. I wish I knew who created this so I could give him/her credit.Google Maps, or any other mapping app intended for auto or bicycling use, will only route you on known roads, not a Camino path, per se. When you get to that web page - which is a very good map in itself - click on the link that says "Fly tour as Google Earth Animation" just beneath the map and next to the Google Earth icon to start the tour. Very interesting and most entertaining, but long - it takes about 45 minutes on my reasonably fast computer. For those not familiar with Google Earth animated tours, it is a virtual flyover of a gps track that someone has saved and overlaid onto Google Earth satellite imagery - in short, it's like flying along the entire length of the CF in a helicopter. I received the following link in a response on the internal forum, which I thought I'd share here since it's mainly of interest to this particular Camino route. Google Earth Animated Tour of the Camino FrancesĪs a user and fan of the program gmap-pedometer for planning my training hikes for my Camino later this year, I posted a question on the internal forum (and a similar question on this forum's Frequently Asked Questions board) asking if anyone had created gmap-pedometer routes for the Camino Frances. You can also draw the route you would like to take on Google Earth and save it, and load that into your GPS. gpx files and loaded into a GPS with a site such as I’ll attach two files of different variations. It is the most addictive time- waster you could ever dream of. This feature is great to see places you stayed, check out trail conditions for a bike, or just relive your trip. Drag him to a place where the Camino crosses a road, and you’ll get a view from the street, often with pilgrims on the trail. Drag him onto the image, and “street view” roads become visible. In the top right corner is the icon of a little man. Once the track is open, you can turn on all sorts of layers, photos people have loaded, stores, hotels, restaurants, roads ,etc. Several tracks of different variations can be opened. From Google Earth, click file pen, and click on that file-whoosh, it will zoom to the track. Download one of these files and put it where you can find it. A track is a line on the image, and it can be downloaded from a file with a ,kml or ,kmz suffix. To see the Camino, you need to download a track. Once it is on your computer, there are various tutorials available, but basically, it allows you to view the whole earth, from the edge of the solar system to standing in some streets. You need to go to Google and download it. I’m sure many of you know it well, but I know from some of the PM’s I’ve answered, some have not fully used this great toy.
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