A tweet from Jim Phelps put me on to the Gmap Pedometer, which I’ve been having a quick play with this evening.
The service provides a means of being able to pre-record a route that can be exported to a gpx route in the same way I’ve shown previously. Rather than use Google’s directions service to be able to describe a route, you can simply ‘draw’ it on the Gmap Pedometer service and then export that out for use on your Garmin as before. Now that’s more like it - as provided the high-res imagery is available in satellite view, you should be able to record off-road routes without too much trouble.
A word of caution though. The registration/positional accuracy of the Google data coupled with the accuracy of your GPS unit at any given time may well lead to some pretty large error in positioning. Pretty large meaning, don’t plot any knife-edge routes and expect to be able to follow them blindfolded wihtout mishap. You have been warned!
Homeward bound, so long as the wind doesn’t affect flights out of Bastia. Should be back in Cardiff by early pm. Looking forward to Monday in a sort of day zero way, which might makes things interesting.
Last day 
Decided to stack all the outside furniture before we left, but forgot to do the loungers down by the pool - fatal mistake. Wind was easily gale force in bursts last night, and so woke this AM to find a smashed-up lounger in the garden. Sacre bleu!
Looks like we’ll need a trip to a Geant this morning if we’re to replace it. J has taken A and O out for breakfast to the local boulangerie. Their last chance to partake of real hot chocolate before heading back to the ‘diff tomorrow.
Il fait du vent! Spent the day at the villa with the kids today as G&G took off with the car to do the tour of the Cape. Decided better of joining them, as a few hours of touring in second gear in a hot car isn’t what I’d class as ‘fun’.
You can’t really class the relief of Corsica as ‘High Mountain Environments’, but its island form and the fact that there is significant massif makes for interesting local weather conditions. yesterday we spent most of the day outside in the grounds in high winds and sunshine, even though less than a mile away, the tops of the hills were covered in pretty angry looking clouds.
Today we marked the passing of the inflatable ring, as it was last seen heading for the ravine at great speed. It will be sorely missed by A and O (until such time as it is replaced by a trip to ASDA or some such consumer palace for a 99p replacement).
Out for dinner during the evening, much to A’s delight (she’s a real socialite at 4.5yrs old).
O was up even earlier today - about 5am, and so having entertained him for a few hours whilst the rest of the family slept, I have been granted leaved to crash around the house today instead of taking a trip out. The rest of the clan have headed to St Florent again for a day trip to the beach and probably to enjoy a nice lunch somewhere.
Being on the leeward side off the Cape means that the current weather is a little gloomy this side. We are assured by the locals that St Florent will be basking in sunchine, and given that it sits on a plain between two mountain ranges, this is almost certainly going to be the case. Occasional patched of blue sky keep breaking over the house now and again.
So today’s agenda is: sleep, coffee and then reading and Enterprise Architecture work until the family come back from their adventures.