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Count Steer
20/04/2005 at 14:48
Started a thread in General but some of these may be useful...particularly:

www.mappy.com or www.mappy.co.uk look useful for European travel and will, apparently, calculate toll costs for Autoroutes (but not for bridges). Put the vehicle type in to get these accurately.

www.maps.google.com

Covers UK, USA and Canada at the moment - and has v detailed satellite pix of US and Canada.

http://uk.map24.com/ 'is pretty impressive'. (Jimbo)

www.viamichelin.com 'Best Euro routing I've found ' (Dodgy Geezer) Apprently also has most of the fixed speed cameras in northern europe.

Update: there's also www.viamichelin.co.uk which may be quicker to use from the UK.

www.rac.co.uk has a popular routing facility. It allows a range of routing choices (avoids, via's, etc) and appears to cover most of Europe.

www.bestbikingroads.com has European Biking Roads with maps and some GPS co-ords. Offers routes all over Europe and allows you to enter your fav routes.

Pocket GPS UK Safety Camera Database Also includes NL & FR. Not strictly mapping as such, but can help planning (Splat!...you must be a very naughty boy )

http://www.transportdirect.info/TransportDirect/en/ is a little strange in terms of routing but may have particular uses.

For the Franglais speakers :

http://www.autoroutes.fr/index.php?lng=2 is a handy route planner for France, with info on tolls, travel bulletins/radio, weather etc. Note the name...it's focused on the motorways.

Not a routing facility, but information about roadworks in France, plus some bottlenecks
http://www.bison-fute.equipement.gouv.fr/

http://www.uem-online.com/goie.html - ADAC/European Union of Motorcyclists motorcyclists maps...downloadable from the UEM web site.

Not particularly detailed or high quality (maybe a little easier to read thru a tank bag?), Some interesting routes...eg map 7 - the Ardeche gorge.



There's Multimap and Streetmap too - I'll add 'em later and extend this to 'PC' based software too.
Dodgy Geezer
20/04/2005 at 14:58
www.viamichelin.com

Best Euro routing I've found
Jimbo
20/04/2005 at 16:26
Count maybe you could keep the first post updated to include stuff that others post below? That would be dead handy and mean people don't have to trawl the whole thread.

http://uk.map24.com/ is pretty impressive.
Splat
21/04/2005 at 20:38
Pocket GPS UK Safety Camera Database Also includes NL & FR. Not strictly mapping as such, but can help planning
andy4200
23/04/2005 at 08:48
I use viamichelin too.
Been using it since way back. I think it used to be shellgeostar
It has fantastic coverage through Europe
Horse
26/04/2005 at 14:30
Found this today, haven't tried it yet.

www.transportdirect.info/TransportDirect/en/

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RX7XX
26/04/2005 at 18:19
Not sure if it's relevant, but this site www.bestbikingroads.com has European Biking Roads with maps and some GPS co-ords.

Maybe it's also useful
brilec
27/04/2005 at 09:03
www.mappy.com or www.mappy.co.uk for the english version, will indeed give French Autoroute toll costs, but not tolls for bridges or tunnels. Make sure you set the type of vehicle first though.
Count Steer
27/04/2005 at 09:18
Thanks all - first post is updated.

Horse...or anyone that gets chance to try Horse's link...interested in your comments on it.

Ta.
Cousin Jack
27/04/2005 at 10:14
Thanks CS, first post is now a very useful set of links.

Tried Horse's link and was not impressed. Routing is OK, but quirky (through VERY narrow town centre rather than bypass). Signposted directions for the turns are fairly crap (not necessarily wrong, but not the obvious main direction either).

May be useful for it's public transport functions.
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brilec
27/04/2005 at 18:09
Not a routing facility, but information about roadworks in France, plus some bottlenecks
www.bison-fute.equipement.gouv.fr/

In french though, the english version doesn't seem to be up at the moment.

Some might have seen the Bis signs in France, which are holiday routes, to avoid "les embouteillages"
Count Steer
09/05/2005 at 09:25
Boinged with a few updates in the first post.
The Spin Doctor
12/05/2005 at 11:20
You might like to add this page to your list CS...

www.uem-online.com/goie.html

These are ADAC/European Union of Motorcyclists motorcyclists maps...

Not particularly detailed or high quality (but that might make them a little easier to read thru a tank bag), but they are downloadable from the UEM website, and have some interesting routes planned... for instance, map 7 has the Ardeche gorge marked out...

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Count Steer
25/05/2005 at 15:21
Small update to the top post and a boing as there's quite a bit of route planning going on.
RX7XX
03/06/2005 at 14:03
Useful thread, thanks.

David
Count Steer
03/06/2005 at 15:50
RX7XX wrote
Useful thread, thanks.

David


Glad you found it.
mr tack
05/06/2005 at 15:27
Got any for the man without gps.
i got a book from michelin for france its about 4 inch by 8 inch and is dead handy as it gets less worn that a map.
(i want northern italy and croatia).im looking for recommendations.
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Count Steer
06/06/2005 at 11:56
Not sure about the question Mr T...many of the links are ideal for non-GPS users. Plan the route using the on-line route planners then refine your route and route notes based on your Michelin map. Can't say if any of the list include Croatia though.

mr tack wrote
Got any for the man without gps.
i got a book from michelin for france its about 4 inch by 8 inch and is dead handy as it gets less worn that a map.
(i want northern italy and croatia).im looking for recommendations.
Espesh from dodgy whos not given a bad route yet !
Bigyin
07/06/2005 at 18:08
Very handy thread CS.................just printed off my chosen route using the map24 site jimbo put up for my long weekend to France....i knew basically where i wanted to be and the route, but handy for those little detours if needed
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Count Steer
03/01/2006 at 21:52
Been a while since a boing....
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