Saturday, August 21, 2010

Finding GPX Waypoints and Routes for the Silk Route

Actual Route from Kashgar


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With the interest GPS tracking and routing, it's natural to ask whether there have been recent information posted. Indeed that is the case. Here is a great site with periodic downloads of data between Europe and most key places on the Silk Route. It is also possible to use gadget-like apps to embed mini-maps as we will see in a minute.

Click here to open a map showing a segment from the author of "GPS Jottings" showing a track in the Dunhuang area.

But some of the GPS sites like Everytrail offer some cool ways to share waypoints and tracks. Here is a web page on Everytrail where a cyclist describes riding to Kashgar in Xingjiang province. The image above is the result of pasting in the html code generated by the site "gadget."

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