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slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
I'm going back to Hoek van Holland for a long weekend via the LF1 North sea cycle path, and then turning right to Amsterdam. My third trip. The slight problem is that I always get lost in the cities while trying to follow the signs. Den Haag, Zandvoort and Haarlem tested my map sign reading skills last time.

I love paper maps and this website gives excellent information about how to follow the " mushrooms" and signs....

http://www.falk.nl/

I can print out the "waymark" numbers, but would really like to print out the maps on the screen as well. Is this possible? If so, how?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
 

Haitch

Flim Flormally
Location
Netherlands
Simple it ain't.

At the top left of the map there is a toolbar with seven icons. After you have mapped or selected a route, click the middle icon (picture of a printer). On the page that appears, give your route a name in the box at the top of the screen. Then click the first icon on the left (picture of a printer again). The map with a route description then opens in a PDF that you can print. In the example I used to see how it worked (90km), the map was half a page and the directions 9½.

User friendly it ain't either.
 
Use Google Translate. Renders the whole thing in English including the text tabs that go with the buttons. Works best if you use the Firefox Google Translate add-on - much better final layout than if you type it into translate.google.com for some reason.
 
I'm starting to get paranoid - 2 visits in a row I've come to CC to start a thread about my upcoming mini-tour in Holland and both times there's a new thread about something similar. I've been using the fietsrouteplanner: http://www.fietsersbond.nl/fietsrouteplanner/fietsroutes-recreatieveplanner/index.html and through a bunch of trial and error have worked out how to use it. Also to download GPS tracks of any of the routes it gives.
In fact, here's a link to the help page for it which google will translate nicely: http://www.fietsersbond.nl/fietsrouteplanner/recreatievefietsrouteplanner/help.html

There's an Iphone all from ANWB that's pretty useful too, use it the same way but it just gives you a map of the nodes you need to get from one place to another.




Our itinerary:
Saturday - Hoek to Heemskerk (on LF1)
Sunday - Heemskerk to Noordwijk via Amsterdam
Monday - Noordwijk to Hoek

Staying the 2 nights in NH hotels as I can get good deals on them and I know they're pretty damn comfortable.


Anyone see any problems with that? Or have any tips for the 2 places we're staying?
 
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slowmotion

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
Thank-you all for the advice. I can print out the whole route on the falk website but the map is pretty useless for a 100 km route. What I have been trying to do is zoom in on sections of the route and just print the blown up map that appears on the screen. I think that may be impossible. Ho hum....
 
Thank-you all for the advice. I can print out the whole route on the falk website but the map is pretty useless for a 100 km route. What I have been trying to do is zoom in on sections of the route and just print the blown up map that appears on the screen. I think that may be impossible. Ho hum....

It's always possible... there's a 'print screen' button on your keyboard (or in my case a 'prt scr') somewhere around insert/delete etc.
Press that, it takes a 'screen shot' and copies to your clipboard. Open paint and paste (or cntrl+v) and then cut out the non-mappy parts.
Simples :smile:
 

Haitch

Flim Flormally
Location
Netherlands
Something I've done in the past is to take photos of a map. Works best with a camera in macro mode. You can zoom in and get as much detail as the map affords. Five or six piccies usually does a 100-kilometre route and the surrounding area.
 
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slowmotion

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
Something I've done in the past is to take photos of a map. Works best with a camera in macro mode. You can zoom in and get as much detail as the map affords. Five or six piccies usually does a 100-kilometre route and the surrounding area.

That's really neat.
 
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slowmotion

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
It's always possible... there's a 'print screen' button on your keyboard (or in my case a 'prt scr') somewhere around insert/delete etc.
Press that, it takes a 'screen shot' and copies to your clipboard. Open paint and paste (or cntrl+v) and then cut out the non-mappy parts.
Simples :smile:

Fabulous! I have a terrible confession to make....until a couple of hours ago, I had never used the screen dump function or MS Paint. After a bit of thrashing about I can now print off any part of the route in blown-up detail. Amazing. Thank-you.
:bravo:
 

Will1962

Well-Known Member
Location
Edinburgh
The 'waymarks' are called knooppunts (which translates to 'button point'). At the knooppunts you will normally find a copy of the map that you see on the falk.nl site. There will also be signs pointing to the neighbouring knooppunts (and signs along the way wherever you need to turn). In theory you should be able to use the knooppunt network without having your own map.

If you use Google maps to zoom in on a knooppunt, and then use the streetview to look at it at street level, you will see the map and signs.



Will
 
It's always possible... there's a 'print screen' button on your keyboard (or in my case a 'prt scr') somewhere around insert/delete etc.
Press that, it takes a 'screen shot' and copies to your clipboard. Open paint and paste (or cntrl+v) and then cut out the non-mappy parts.
Simples :smile:

Or on a Mac, Cmd-Shft-4, pull the cursor box around the map and let go and the cropped map is ready on your desktop.:whistle:
 

dellzeqq

pre-talced and mighty
Location
SW2
Fabulous! I have a terrible confession to make....until a couple of hours ago, I had never used the screen dump function or MS Paint. After a bit of thrashing about I can now print off any part of the route in blown-up detail. Amazing. Thank-you.
:bravo:
if you have Powerpoint you can scale bits of map down and slide them in one against the other, then superimpose a line along your route and add notes or pics from Google Maps streetview
 
a quick question - how soaking wet am I likely to get at the end of the month in Holland? Looking at the weather history, October is insanely wet, but September not so bad... ALso, prevailing wind = SW so should have wind at our backs up the LF1?
 
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