MasterMaps

In my last blog post , we created a created a 500 km continuous line representing a ski route across Nordryggen in Norway. I need to transfer this route to my Garmin GPS so I can use it for navigation while skiing. How can it be done? Cross-country skiing in Skarvheimen, Norway. Photo: Bjørn Sandvik Open the route in QGIS , right click the layer and select "Save As...". Select " GPS eXchange Format [GPX] " as the format, and "WGS 84" as the coordinate reference system (CRS). I'm also skipping attribute creation as my line only contains coordinates. QGIS saves the line as a GPX route. You can import this route in Garmin BaseCamp  (File -> Import). Give the track a meaningful name. My 500 km route consists of 3867 points, but most Garmin GPS units are only capable of showing 250 points per route. You can get around this limitation by converting the route into a track . Right-click the route in Basecamp and select "Create Track fr...

I’m currently doing my last preparations for a 25 days skiing trip across Nordryggen in Norway. It will of course depend on weather, snow conditions and blisters, but hopefully the conditions will be bearable. Norway has a great network of 500 cabins maintained by the Norwegian Trekking Association . The longest connected cross country skiing track I’ve found is around 500 km, - how to map it? The map we're going to create with QGIS and CartoDB. Data from the Norwegian Mapping Authority . Nordryggen (“the north ridge”) is a fairly new name of the 1,700 km mountain range that runs through the Scandinavian Peninsula. My plan is to ski around 500 km in the southern part of Norway, most of it above the tree line. Cross-country skiing in Jotunheimen. Photo: Bjørn Sandvik You can study the waymarked ski routes on UT.no , or download the data from the Norwegian Mapping Authority if you want to map it yourself.  The dataset is available as a PostGIS dump or in S...