Day 203 Galway to Letterfrack, Ireland 20 Oct 07

Day 203 Galway to Letterfrack, Ireland 20 Oct 07
13:11
So today I'm headed off to Letterfrack, where i plan to spend the next week (not spending much money). .. And working on my GPS Map.
I should have more routes across canada posted on my file. .. I think having 10 routes will do for now.
.. As i find more, they'll get posted. .. But i'll just be asking others who cycled across canada, if they want to post their on route to google maps. .. As this is a user centric guide.
As people can be posting thier own routes and as much info as they want on it.
As it's not that hard to find those places that you were at, and write about them.
Alot of people have posted their routes online, but i want to have a whole lot of them posted onto this file here.
Hopefully Crazyguyonabike will develope the ability to use google maps better on that site for the journal entries. .. As having the main google map of the full route, just makes sence.
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As it helps in creating this user centric GPS map.
As this kind of information these people who cross canada want to know.
I'm not too concerned about the Tour Du Canada cyclists... who go along with th tour, as they are different.. as it's a van supported tour, so they dont have traffic, and have the route planned already.
The focus of this map is for those who are cycling solo, or in a small group who are camping along the way (with various budgets, and time frames) .. they all do this for their own reasons.
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So these people are the best at sharing what they learned from the road..
Lessons from the road.
All the tidbits of info that they give. ... ie. that a tiny town in northern ontario only has a variety store. .. Well, that's great info. .. As then I can find the name and location of that store, with the phone number and photo of the place. .. and have it as a sujested rest stop area.
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And those locations where their is a shelter. (doesnt matter WHO put it there) the fact is that it's available for trail users to use. It also doesn't matter what trail it is eithor.. what the name of the trail, or what trail it's linked to.
... It's just another man made trail which need to be used,.

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13:22
I guess what im getting at is this.
.. What i dont like seeing or hearing, is of those cyclists who do bush camping or on the side of the road, .. as usually if it's out on an open field. .. That's actually someones private property.
.. Which is why these road side reast areas are designed for.
What SHOULD be changed, is that the areas of road side rest stops SHOULD allow tent camping. .Or have some kind of a sign posted showing where the closest camp site it.
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For example, I'm looking at the BC route map that some made about touring BC. .. It's all nice, but doesn't show all the places to camp. .. As there are lots of privatly owned campsites out there. .. Making the route easy to follow if you know where those sites are.
Simply put, every cyclist going across canada, uses A paper map, and some kind of digital thing. .. Eithor looking at other peoples routes. .. or just going by 1 map, and useing those campsites listed.
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So what would be really cool is to have this GPS Map where people can download the full route, along with all the sujested routes across canada, and all the points of interest which are helpful to the cyclists.
I've now posted (almost done) 10 routes across canada, and have them in My google earth file. .. Some of them are the actual Google map that others created. .. so they are a 'Streaming' data. Which means that as those people update thier own route, it automatically is updated on this google earth file.
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So now the task is to get something together which i can show to various organizations who can support this project. .. I'd like it to be an independent organization which has many sponsors, than have just one company who tells me what content they want in it, and not more. (As it's not the purpose of this file) .. As many links can be shown, i don't yet know how to create these imbedded points of interest which shows the links in the description...
So for now, this is how it is.
If anyone can help me in this task.
Your help would be greatly apreciated.
P.S. Im checking the hit count on my routes, and see that people are viewing the file.
As on Google Eath community i can see that many have downloaded my file, and are using it :)
Cheers,
Sam
Galway, Ireland

From the Desk of Berlin B. Bear:
Discovering the Human Impact on the Environment and;
Creating a route map online and on GPS for others to easily follow along.