Emm 2022 Spain And Portugal

Chris,
An excellent write up of a trip I would surely have loved to have been able to go on, as indeed I have in previous years with you and lots of the other guys who attended this one this year after such a long Covid-wait! Great to see so many familiar friendly faces, doing the usual, drinking.......

Great locations to have had the chance to visit and as you rightly point out, the Picos are a fabulous area to ride within.

Hopefully the labyrinthitis has eased now, an ailment I have been subjected to at times and very unpleasant it is indeed. Keep doing the prescribed exercises and perhaps try sleeping with your head higher than normal and I can assure you, it will disappear. I know it works for me!

Thanks for posting, which with a bit of luck will also soon be supported by a write-up by Jose & Gregor, assuming they will do the honours.

 

Au contraire my friend. You can display multiple routes by selecting them from the Routes menu in the left panel (hamburger menu) once you have a route loaded. Granted they just display as a line, you can change the colour of these so each route is easily identified. Once you close the window you'll need to load them again the next time though.

 

MRA free, works very well as an initial route planner which can then be exported to Basecamp to refine. For whatever reason (and a very kind forum member has tried really hard ) I cannot get my head around shaping points in Basecamp, far easier in MRA. And yes, I’m a skinflint Andy

 

Looks like a great trip, thanks for posting

 

I have done the "hard miles" with Basecamp now and can get it to do most of what i want. I can't find towns or POI's but I use my old version of MapSource to do that or Google Maps.

 

Got very proficient with first Mapsource and then Basecamp. However, the features* in MRA Gold and the ability to transfer from the app on my phone directly to my Garmin XT without plugging in or resorting to swapping out microSD cards etc. just make it a complete winner for me and worth the cost of a lifetime subscription.

* MRA Gold features that I use (some, though not all, maybe available in MRA free and Basecamp)

• Export to GPX 1.1 with route and track data, show track and route together on the XT and even if route deviates or recalculates you can see the original route and follow it.
• Using Garmin Drive the ability to save routes from the mobile app, that you have planned on your PC (they're stored in the cloud), and then export directly to my Garmin XT.
• Google Streetview to preview real road and terrain.
• Multiple mapping options, such as; Google Maps, Google Satellite, Michelin etc.
• The ability, at a pinch, to edit or create routes on your phone.
• HERE routing, pretty well identical to that used by Garmin (also has TomTom routing option).
• The ability to compare routing between active and the others. Select default active from the following: Here (Garmin), TomTom and OpenStreetMap
• Disable/Enable seasonal closures.
• Avoidance options.
• Way-points and via-points (shaping nodes). These transfer to Garmin GPSs and work like they should.
  
• Set start time and date, add stops to route with delays and you can see total accrued time and distance (delays don't transfer to Garmins though, don't in Basecamp either).

It's come a long way since I first took out my lifetime subscription and is being actively developed and improved. If they offered an export to Google Maps and CoPilot TRP format option then it would be all that I need in my 'nav app tool-box'. Those last two are more for the convenience of others that come on ride-outs and tours that I organise though.

 

Sounds Great, especially the link via the app and the preview in Google Streetview.

But I am increasingly suffering from tech rage and must keep away from new tech as much as i can. Todays offerings are my phone videos will not play on the PC. Both me and the misses have been looking it to it for 2 hours now and have concluded that the phone has somehow been set to super high res. Yesterday it was micro disconnections of work VLC. The day before that Garmin would not connect to the laptop.

 

Likewise. I have thrown two Satnavs into the hedge whilst on tour over the last 12 years. I can't understand why they are so difficult to use unless doing A to B. However, MRA is a really good planner, and it is just the Garmin which is the problem. Last trip to Spain in May it was unseeable and refused to talk to my intercom, so my wife had to read it over my shoulder and shout directions to me. I am seriously thinking of going back to peices of paper on the tank bag, except that SatNav has become so ubiquitous that signage is decreasing.

If thinking of setting up a Tech Rage Society, count me in for a subscription.

 

There's an icon on the lefthand side, it isn't in the mapping options drop-down menu. Available in all mapping types, so you can be using Michelin maps, or any other, and still access Google Street View.



Activating that brings in the blue overlay indicating Street View coverage, hover over until you get the pointy finger cursor and click for the view.

Please note that this feature is only available as part of the MRA Gold version, one of the many reasons that the sub is worth the outlay. They're doing an offer on the lifetime version at the moment, £129 rather than £255.

 

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but @Twin4me please do let us all know about the EMM 2023 meet. I, for one, am interested in that but a quick Google couldn’t find any info.