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Ain't ne'er seen a proper mountain in their loives, see. Flat'eads.

 

fuel prices seemed to vary a lot in local areas, especially France. 30c
a litre difference in places. Best I saw in Lux was 1.16euro, but that
was in the touristy Ardennes or motorway just before you enter France. I
imagine urban supermarkets would be cheaper.

 

That's a lovely Fenland accent.

 

<points browser to isohunt>

 

IIRC fuel prices are set by the state in Luxo, so no variation,
regardless.

 

That be only from moi roight 'ead, bor. Oi uses the left head to speak
posh, loike.

 

But of course, GoogleMaps has issues of its own. It sometimes gets
confused with one way streets, and inexplicably won't let you continue
on a known roadway.

There are a bunch of apps that will find a route between two chosen
locations, but nothing other than GoogleMaps (that I've found,) that
will let you choose a route first without a destination. (MapMyRoute
uses a GGMaps interface.) A window of opportunity for some web
developer.

 

seems counter-intuitive now that I have got used to Mapsource and its
little ways.

Details are shit. Street maps of the towns on Slovenia & Croatia are
welcome but the database of hotels is poor. I thought that was not too bad
until I looked at local stuff. Piss poor around here and some of the
eateries listed have not existed since I moved here in 2002. Most of the
current ones are missing.

 

I've worked out how to do that in mapsource now, although I tend to use
google maps for planning, as I'm usually comparing distances between
alternative routes and then using streetview to get a picture of the
destination

 

I guess Luxembourg must have really cheap coffee ?

Everytime I stop at the services at Wasserbillig there appears to be
hoardes of Spiky Helmets buying crates and crates of ground coffee.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, wessie

Share, or die!

 

Eh? What many users call "rubber banding"? I use it all the time.
Click on the route with the selection tool to make it yellow, click
again to give you the rubber bands. Move mouse (not dragging) to new
point, preferably a junction. Click once to anchor rubber bands there.
Mapsource automatically calculates new route through the shaping point
you've just created.

Choosing a junction ensures the new point is not created as a
waypoint, simply as an invisible "via" point. To get it accurate I
tend to zoom in to find the new point, zoom out to pick up the route,
zoom back in to anchor route on new point. By using the + and - keys
for the zooming the whole thing becomes quick and easy - more so than
my description would suggest.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Colin Irvine

<tries>

Well, I'll be buggered! I'm *sure* I've tried that in the past and it
didn't work. It's the reason I don't (didn't!) use Mapsource.

I am very much obliged.

 

Don't mention it. The functionality was indeed very flakey until more
recent versions of Mapsource.

 

Indeed. But IMHO much more fun on a bike.