Manual
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- Creating routes without nodes
Fietsknoop is a digital planner for planning routes along the official nodes. Without an account, or with a basic account, only this network can be used. Anyone with a Fietsknoop[+]Plus account can create their own routes, as gpx tracks.
Go to the website and log in to your account. Click on the blue button 'Activiteiten' (= Activities) and choose 'Fietsen' (= Cycling) or 'Wandelen' (= Walking).
On the map, click with the mouse on the spot where you want to start the route. Click anywhere else and Fietsknoop will create the shortest route between the two points using the existing paths. Drag a point if you want to change the route.
Save the route and use it as an 'Activity'. As the route does not run through the nodes, no voice support is possible.
This feature is still under development.
- Routes, Trips and Activities
What is the difference between Routes, Trips and Activities?
A Route is a node route, based on the official node network of nodes and intermediate road sections.
A Trip is a recording of a cycled or walked route, and/or a route with a note taken. (https://www.fietsknoop.nl/info/handleiding-item/89/1)
An Activity is a read-in gpx track. This need not be based on the official node network, this can be made anywhere on the map. It is therefore also possible to read in a gpx file created in a planner other than Fietsknoop.
See https://www.fietsknoop.nl/info/handleiding-item/50/1 and https://www.fietsknoop.nl/info/handleiding-item/160/1
An Activity cannot simply be converted to a Route because there is
- no node information is included in a gpx file
- an Activity can have been created anywhere on the map, without a connection to the official network.
- Read GPX file into Fietsknoop as 'activity'
Import a GPX file via your own dashboard in the Fietsknoop website (only for Fietsknoop[+]Plus users).
Log in to www.fietsknoop.nl/dashboard/inloggen. Click on the blue button 'Activiteiten = Activities' and then on 'Lees GPX bestand in = Import GPX file'.
After importing, the GPX file automatically appears in the app, under 'Activities'. Open - in the 'Activities' screen - the imported route. Using the Fietsknoop GPS function, you can use the route again. No voice support is possible, however.
Sometimes a GPS route is saved as .bin Change this to .gpx and save the file.
