Route Choices

Where did everyone go?

We've put your routes into a web tool called RouteGadget. Of course we don't know what you did between controls so they are just straight lines between controls, but its great comparing with others. Probably best if you choose a small number of others at a time. The NZ RouteGadget website holds lots of events, click on through to the index and choose the Waitangi stage you're interested in. Choose your own team and some of your rivals, and click on "view routes".

Even more fun is the "animation". Little dots representing your selected teams move around the map. It uses your overall average speed and those straight-lines routes, but it still gives you a rough idea of who was where and when. Try it out. Yes there's a "help".

NOW

It could be even better, if you put in the route you actually took, with all the bends etc. To do this we first have to remove the simplified route, just use "contact us" on the nav bar above and ask. Then you just click on your route, as many points as you need. It doesn't take very many to give a much better picture.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL

If you had a GPS when you rode (yes its OK as long as you didn't look at it) you can load a GPX file into RoutGadget. (No need to remove your simplified route, a GPS one goes in alongside.) These make fantastic animations because (a) they do all the twists and turns and (b) they go fast and slow when you do! Whoopee!

Before you put your GPX file in, it pays to trim off the to-ing and fro-ing that you did before the start time, and you might as well cut off anything after the finish too. Use your GPS software to do that, eg Mapsource.