Converting Google map route to Tom Tom itn

[John D.]

I've done this a few times before using this generator: http://www.houghi.org/tomtom/index.php with no problems, was always very easy to use. Yet I'm trying to convert this route:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&saddr=Unknow...

and its not having it. Just comes up with an error. I'm baffled as to why I've re-done the route a few times, moved the start and finish point a couple of metres as per the instructions.

Can anyone help?

[millband]

Sorry, can't help but thanks for highlighting a very useful tool - hadn't seen that page before!

Steve

[identti]

Sorry, I always use a program called Tyre to make my routes, it is excellent.

On another note, I drove that route in reverse up to the Newbury point the other day, and it's awesome. Enjoy it.

Also, on the 4494 there's signs on the next corner after the drama we had on the last hoon, saying a fatal accident occurred. Hope it's no one on here!

[Blues]

identti said:

Sorry, I always use a program called Tyre to make my routes, it is excellent.

That's what i use, and you can get it here Tyre Download

identti said:

Also, on the 4494 there's signs on the next corner after the drama we had on the last hoon, saying a fatal accident occurred. Hope it's no one on here!

We saw that on the day when we were on our way back to the scene - it sent a shiver...

[John D.]

Cheers guys I'll give that tyre thing a go. Still at a loss as to why the other one no longer works, unless it has become corrupted somehow.

[hcanning]

It's because Google have changed the format of the URLs and the way the waypoints/destinations are displayed - it no longer has the coordinates so the generator is now rendered about as useful as a chocolate fireguard

I had the same problem recently, but I too found Tyre and haven't looked back!

[John D.]

hcanning said:

It's because Google have changed the format of the URLs and the way the waypoints/destinations are displayed - it no longer has the coordinates so the generator is now rendered about as useful as a chocolate fireguard

I had the same problem recently, but I too found Tyre and haven't looked back!

Ah-ha! Thanks for the answer

I've just plotted the route on Tyre. Very good, even easier! Cheers for the links chaps.

[theboyfold]

Useful links guys, thanks.

However does anybody know of a way to convert TomTom routes into a route on Google Earth or Google Maps (ideally Earth)

Cheers
tbf

[morebeanz]

Tyre will convert both ways, I've found?

[Revs_Addiction]

I see you're taking the long way round to pangbourne!!!

[theboyfold]

morebeanz said:

Tyre will convert both ways, I've found?

On first impression it doesn't do quite what I want it to do. It plots a waypoint and then just draws a linear line between the 2 points, it doesn't take the road into account. I'll keep fiddling to see if I can get it to do what I want.

However, the effect that I get in Google Maps is exactly what I want...

Edited by theboyfold on Wednesday 1st October 10:39

[Blues]

theboyfold said:

It plots a waypoint and then just draws a linear line between the 2 points, it doesn't take the road into account.

That is not my experience. I have plotted some intricate TomTom routes by creating waypoints with a click of the mouse.

[theboyfold]

Blues said:

theboyfold said:

It plots a waypoint and then just draws a linear line between the 2 points, it doesn't take the road into account.

That is not my experience. I have plotted some intricate TomTom routes by creating waypoints with a click of the mouse.

I was talking specifically about taking a .itn file from the TomTom, into Tyre and loading it into Google Earth. It works fine in Google Maps.

[Blues]

theboyfold said:

Blues said:

theboyfold said:

It plots a waypoint and then just draws a linear line between the 2 points, it doesn't take the road into account.

That is not my experience. I have plotted some intricate TomTom routes by creating waypoints with a click of the mouse.

I was talking specifically about taking a .itn file from the TomTom, into Tyre and loading it into Google Earth. It works fine in Google Maps.

Ah, ok

[H2DaE]

Revs_Addiction said:

I see you're taking the long way round to pangbourne!!!

Looks like a good route, might have to borrow that

And that Tyre program looks good too, going to have a play with it tonight, cheers whoever posted that up

[John D.]

theboyfold said:

Blues said:

theboyfold said:

It plots a waypoint and then just draws a linear line between the 2 points, it doesn't take the road into account.

That is not my experience. I have plotted some intricate TomTom routes by creating waypoints with a click of the mouse.

I was talking specifically about taking a .itn file from the TomTom, into Tyre and loading it into Google Earth. It works fine in Google Maps.

I think I know what you mean, although I was'nt trying to take routes from TT to Google like you.

I noticed that Tyre is not quite as easy to plot routes as Google Maps. Tyre requires Way Points to direct it down specific roads whilst Google Maps only needs a start and end point and you can simply drag the route down specific roads and it converts them into the itn (without setting WPs'). Tyre does'nt do this and just plots the quickest route between WPs' even though you have dragged the route where you want it on the screen. This foxed me to begin with!

H2DaE said:

Revs_Addiction said:

I see you're taking the long way round to pangbourne!!!

Looks like a good route, might have to borrow that

Its not bad I wrote it as quick shakedown for my friends newly acquired Clio Cup. We had to check it was working OK Drove it early last Sunday with added interest of patchy fog and a herd of deer crossing the road on the B4494!

Welcome to borrow it, first half is nicked from Turbofun anyway

[H2DaE]

Always good that once you get to Pangbourne, there is that garage with all the exotica in it to perv on

Edited by H2DaE on Wednesday 1st October 14:33

Edited by H2DaE on Wednesday 1st October 14:33

[John D.]

H2DaE said:

Always good that once you get to Pangbourne, there is that garage with all the exotica in it to perv on

Thats where we stopped

[H2DaE]

it's been a while since i've been over that way, what was in there? last time i went over that way there was a Spyker, McMerc and and Koenigsegg with a cracked splitter in the showroom

[John D.]

Spyker, non-descript 997 Carrera, and something else I can't even remember!

Pretty boring really. Best I've seen recently is black Murcielago and silver 996 GT2.