Google Maps

Area Discussion North East Midlands
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I’ve had the following from Dennis who is organising the September drive, can anyone help?

…looking to find a route planner to print out my route for Sept run. Have looking at google maps but cannot save route with mileage and direction arrows, do you have any idea how to do this? Or no anyone that can help?

Please post on this thread if you can help.

Karen

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Karen,

you can somehow print direction from google maps but for most club runs I think you will find people sit down at a word processor and create their own directions having driven the route a few times.  Its way more reliable and easy to check. Printing straight from anything online is risky in my opinion, (and cheating Wink)   Also if you do it yourself you can put in mileages and kilometers, which you will need as more than likely to have people on the run in a Roadster where trip will read in kms… You can also add in turns base on landmarks etc, which make the run a lot more fun, 

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Hi Martin,

Thank you for your advice. Most members, including myself, do as you suggest - drive it and do mileage etc. (Although of the dozens we have taken part in and organised over the years I’ve never had a request for kilometers - will ask around the region see if it has ever been a problem for anyone!)  But this new member asked the question and I hoped somebody would be able to help him, I always want to encourage any offers to organise an event and take some of the load of our AC shoulders Cool !

I don’t quite understand your cheating wink? A map such as is being considered isn’t pretending to be anything its not, is it?

Thanks Martin,

Karen

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Hi Karen, sorry, its the pressure, here’s the more sensible answer (typed twice as forum kicked me out!!)

Go to google maps.

put in start, end and any fixed internediate points to visit, 

hit get directions,

you can then carefully drag the route line to any roads you want it to go along.

if you are logged in to google you can also save the route in my places

then hit print button.

it brings up a nice route list with arrows that you can then print or better save as a pdf. and edit as well I think…

here’s one I did to test it…

you can also do in KMs so it seems.

watch out though, as google have updated maps, and if you have the newest version it works a bit different (you cant seem to save your own stuff with it yet)  so may have to switch back to old version which is a link on the new maps page somewhere. 

now I confess I’d not really looked at doing it this way before, but those are pretty good… !

its only “cheating” as I’ve always done them the hard way but I may have now seen the light., google here I come… :slight_smile:

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Cheers Martin, that is amazingly hepful of you, I really appreciate the time you’ve put in on this subject, thank you Smile Especially as you had to do it twice!

All the best,

Karen

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Hi Karen,

If the route is particularly mileage dependant in order to follow it, it will need to cover kilometers as well miles as quite a few of us have Eunos and although the speedos are updated for mph, the trip remains in km. I wouldn’t recommend this though as it also assumes nobody takes a wrong turn which would throw their distances out…
The routes usually reference signposts/road signs/locations etc which means we manage without the need to reference the mileage (or if we do, we calculate it roughly in our heads).

I know when people have just used Google directions before and not done a reccie run there’s been problems as it can be a bit theoretical i.e. farm tracks in the Peak District. It also assumes the roads are labelled with their respective names which often they are not. As Martin advises, a pre-run is the best, or if this is not entirely possible, then I have used Google Maps to visually check a route is appropriate (satallite option and streetview enable you to actually see the route), but then I’ve transcribed the route onto a map for people to follow rather than giving directions.

Rich