Useful tips for navigation

Exploring. You did open the route window of a stage of the Via Christina. On bigger screens (computer, tablet) the interactive map appeared at the left side, the route details appeared at the right side. On smaller screens only the route details are visible: by clicking on the map-icon you will see the map (the i-icon brings you back to the route details).

On the interactive map you may now explore the route. The buttons at the right side on the map offer some basic options, like choosing between two map-types, full screen, zooming, searching a location. Navigation functions are rather poor in this ‘exploring modus’. In particular the ‘my-location-button’ is out of function.

Navigation. For serious navigation, you might want more. That’s easily achieved on your smartphone or tablet.

Here’s how:

Go on the smartphone or tablet you want to navigate with to www.viachristina.eu. Clicking on the route image will take you to the overview page of the stages. (You can also open the overview page if you point your smartphone or tablet’s camera at the QR code below.) Select the desired stage. Click the ‘Download/Print’ button. You will then be taken to the RouteYou environment. (RouteYou is the platform where the stages are mapped.) Then click the ‘Navigate’ button (bottom left). You can then choose to navigate either with the free RouteYou app or with your browser.

NB. Although the RouteYou app provides good navigation and offers some useful extras, it also has its drawbacks and shortcomings. A somewhat annoying phenomenon is that it sometimes presents sights along the route that aren’t from Historische Routes and have nothing to do with the themes of the Via Christina.

Navigating with your browser works just as well, but without those unintended hotspots.

More info about the use of your smartphone or tablet as navigation device on the website of RouteYou.

Also important: the information on RouteYou about battery life of smartphones. (The information is related to the mobile website [PWA] of RouteYou, but it is also in force for navigation with the RouteYou app.)

Other systems for navigation. RouteYou is connective with several other systems and devices. On the page of a selected stage click on the ‘Download/Print button at the top of the ‘route details’. The menu offers a list of devices and systems. Learn more it by clicking the options.