Manual
Read more about how Fietsknoop works.
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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.
- Show network
For a route, only the nodes used are shown. Sometimes you might also like to see the network with the surrounding nodes. That's possible!
At the bottom righthand corner of the map, you will see the eyelet symbol.
Click it and you can see the node network around the route. Clicking again clears the map so you can better read a place name or address.
Click the eyelet a third time and the route is shown again.
Are the nodes not yet visible? Then zoom in on the map.
- Grey hiking nodes
On the hiking map, you sometimes come across grey hiking nodes. For example, in Flanders, near Antwerp or north of Brussels. This is a virtual network. The network exists only on the map, there are no roadside signs. To distinguish it from the 'normal' nodes, these hiking nodes are not shown in brown but in grey.
You create your route in the normal way and save it as usual. Are you going to use the route? Open the route from your Routes list and click Start. With the help of voice support and by following the road on the map, you will enjoy the most beautiful walks.
With Fietsknoop[+]Plus, you can also add your own Plus nodes to the hiking nodes.
- Blank nodes in Amsterdam
There are few official nodes in Amsterdam. Only the city centre and peripheral areas contain nodes. There are many intersecting links, however, which are not official nodes. To still be able to plan freely over this network, we have added numberless nodes. These can be clicked on and used like a normal node in the planner. This way, you can create your own route through the city. So in practice, these numberless nodes have no meaning.
We do not know the reason why there are few official nodes in Amsterdam.
Blank nodes are also used in some cases in other regions of the Netherlands.