Recent content by Jan van Bekkum

I just uploaded a major update of the propane/butane/LPG connection document. Shouild help to get gas for cooking while you travel. It is in this folder (future updates will go her as well): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-FIwWOCEoQ-b3h2LTJQa0VDMjQ. As before any updatyes are more than welcome.

Rewrite of document I have completely rewritten the document. Should be much easier to read now. You find it in this folder: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-FIwWOCEoQ-b3h2LTJQa0VDMjQ

Many travelers get stuck in the jungle of connection systems and adapters for propane, butane and LPG when they try to fill their containers abroad. Systems differ per country and within countries often multiple systems exists. Furthermore travelers need to be prepared for various filling...

Thanks Gareth, We have renewed our Carnet before. For residents of the Netherlands that is done with ADAC in Germany. They are generally quite efficient.

Temporal car import New Zealand Thanks Griff, You have a very informative website! I expect that we will be in New Zealand for a few months and in Australia for 6 months to a year. We are investigating the best alternative: shipping our car to new Zealand and then Australia or directly to...

We drove from the Netherlands to South Africa. We intend to drive around in Southern Africa until the end of the year or so and then ship our 4WD LandCruiser camper to Australia or New Zealand. If we take it to New Zealand we plan to ship it to Australia afterwards. Are there any issues in...

Comments on the OSM tagging proposal have resulted in a substantial update of the proposal.

Hi itshanney, The Yelp for overlanders sounds great. I can see two developments that would be valuable. OsmTracker that generates OSM nodes rather than markups The core functionality of OsmTracker as shown earlier in this thread is to generate markups that can be imported in OSM. A manual OSM...

It is only a configuration file for OsmTracker. This is the file.

It is a configuration file for the existing app OsmTracker, it is not an app development. This is the configuration file.

I have added an overview of camping needs for overlanders in the OSM campsite wiki here. Useful for people who want to do their own camping uploads.

Android tool for simple upload of overlander info to OSM I made the prototype of a tool for simple upload of overlander information to Open Street Map. Please have a look here. Some sample screenshots:

Hi, I achieve most of what you look for with OsmAnd+ for offline calculating and recording the route and waypoints and with OSM with Bing Imagery for online viewing the recorded data.

Thanks Scott, I look forward to more details about them.

Navigation for Overlanders We just completed a one-year overland trip from the Netherlands via the Middle East to South Africa. We intend to continue the trip in a few months. For almost the entire trip we had at least five map sources: a country and a region paper map and three digital maps...