Europe By Camper - Travelling Europe By Motorhome: GPS and Autoroute

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This POI data set contains almost 130,000 freely available points of interest from some of the best motorhome resources across the internet; all highly relevant to the European motorhome traveller. 
 
We have been creating this information as our sole source of planning while on the road for several years. While compiling, translating and formatting this information for use on Autoroute takes Adam several hours, we are making the files available here in the interest of helping others who use Microsoft Autoroute and not for commercial or financial gain. 
 
All POI's remain the property of their respective owners or collaborators and we encourage you to visit their websites or use their own applications for the most up to date information, since changes may have been made since this file was created. 
 
This is of course likely to be some duplication between POI sets (I haven't de-duped between groups), but see this as further validation that a particular POI exists if it is listed on more than one directory. 
 
Summary of Contents 
 
2011 Europe By Camper Trail - 212 
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Data of where we stayed during our 12 month tour of Europe in 2011. Includes type (eg Free, Wild, Site), a link back to the relevant blog post and if free WiFi was obtainable at the time. 
 
2014 Discount Camping Card - 2,739 
Discount campsites for €12, €14, €16 or €18 per night. You must be a member of the scheme and have a copy of the 2014 book (costs £12) in order to benefit from the discounted rates - but it soon pays for itself. See: <a href="http://www.campingcard.co.uk/">www.campingcard.co.uk</a> 
 
2014 Camper Contact - 16,257 
Excellent resource run by the Netherlands Kampeerauto Club. All push pins link directly back to the free website for more detailed information and often photos. Consider supporting this resource by purchasing the excellent iOS or Android app for £3.99. 
 
This data is broken down into: 
Service Locations (no overnight parking) - 850 
Overnight Locations - 15,407 
 
2014 Bordatlas Aires - 6,010 
A mainly German based aire guide with POI's freely available from their website. All pushpins link back to the website, for which a valid 2014 book needs to be purchased in order to access. The book also contains pictures for the majority of sites. 
 
2014 Archies European Campsites - 30,980 
A collaborate resource giving the best POI data for campsites in Europe. Consider supporting this resource by purchasing the iOS on Android app for £1.99. 
 
2014 myLPG.eu LPG Filling Stations - 26,678 
Not for profit resource, reproduced here with kind permission of the owner Matija Matvoz. Visit 
<a href="http://www.mylpg.eu/" target="_blank">www.mylpg.eu</a> for the most up to date information. 
 
2014 Camping Car Infos - 18,432 
Excellent French language resource Camping Car Infos website might be a bit dated, but the information it provides is excellent. All pushpins link directly back to the website for additional information and pictures. Consider using Google Chrome as your web browser for automatic translation from French to English. Consider supporting this resource by downloading the Android app. The set comprises of: 
 
Aire De Service - 5,544 
Parking Areas Tolerating Motorhomes Overnight - 5,472 
Designated Motorhome Overnight Parking - 650 
Motorhome Parking - 495 
Aires Camping Farm - 263 
Campsite Aires Accepting Campers - 4,109 
Campsites With Services - 801 
Service Point Only - 629 
Motorway Service Points - 469 
 
2014 Womo Wild Camping Spots - 12,521 
From <a href="http://www.womo-sp.org/" target="_blank">www.womo-sp.org</a> - use these as a guide rather than going too far out of your way to find a Wild Camping location, but we've found some hidden gems in the past thanks to this data. 
 
2014 LIDL Europe Wide Locations - 9,858 
Lidl - the motorhomers friend! Locations all over Europe correct as of January 2014. 
 
2014 McDonalds Locations - 5,761 
For the Free WiFi of course! 
 
Total POI's 129,448 
 
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Download Links 
 
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Click below to download the file, if you are unsure on what to press see the image to the right for steps 1 and 2. 
 
<a href="http://goo.gl/kBd57F" target="_blank">Autoroute 2013, click here and choose 'Download'</a> 
<a href="http://goo.gl/UmK7by" target="_blank">Autoroute 2011, click here and choose 'Download'</a> 
<a href="http://goo.gl/auX69d" target="_blank">Autoroute 2010, click here and choose 'Download'</a> 
 
Unfortunately conversion to Autoroute 2007 or older would be a lengthy process, since the version handles POI data slightly differently, so do consider upgrading or using one of the free trials below. I regret that I cannot supply these files in any other format (eg TomTom) or assist you in installing them on your device. Please visit the website owners to obtain the raw data files for use on your other devices. 
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Notes & Tips on Usage 
All POI sets are 'turned off' by default. Right click on the set that interests you and select 'Show pushpin set' in order to view them. Unless you have a very fast computer, turning on all of these POI's while in the 'Full Europe' or a whole country view will most likely grind your computer to a halt. If you don't have a GPS dongle (you can buy one for £26, see below) to display your exact location, then zoom to within a couple of hundred miles of your area of interest and turn on the POI sets that are relevant to at your destination or along your route. 
 
You can always delete sets not relevant to you by right clicking then and choosing delete, or make any other changes you wish by simply selecting FILE > SAVE AS before exiting. Because it is so easy to make changes to the data set accidentally, I would recommend having a backup copy saved on your computer. 
 
Why Microsoft Autoroute? 
Autoroute is one of the best offline mapping tools, despite the many excellent smart phone and tablet apps available. It is able to handle and manipulate a large amount of data from multiple data sets, as well as plot your location with an inexpensive USB GPS dongle. This is what we have, <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360254511011" target="_blank">available on eBay for £26 (click)</a>. 
 
We use it with a dashboard mounted laptop on <a href="http://www.europebycamper.com/2011/03/dashboard-mounted-laptop-gps.html" target="_blank">this blog post (click).</a> 
 
Autoroute already contains millions of built in POI's including Fuel Stations, Cash Machines and Banks, Parking Lots, Supermarkets, Pharmacies and Post Offices. 
 
Free Trial of Microsoft Autoroute / Purchasing 
You can download a 14 day Free Trial of <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/autoroute/free-trial.aspx" target="_blank">Microsoft Autoroute 2013 by clicking here.</a> 
You can download a 60 day Free Trial of <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/streets/en-us/Products_AutoRoute.aspx" target="_blank">Microsoft Autoroute 2010 by clicking here.</a> 
Or you can buy it for £33 here (DVD or Download) <a href="http://www.microsoftstore.com/autoroutegb" target="_blank">by clicking here.</a></div>

2014 Autoroute Motorhome Aire, Campsite & LPG GPS POI's

This POI data set contains almost 130,000 freely available points of interest from some of the best motorhome resources across the inte...

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We have literally been inundated with requests for our Autoroute Data File and we apologise in advance if we haven't been able to get back to you with a link. 
 
 
 
 
 
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This information is now out of date. For the most recent version, please see this post here:</div>
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<a href="http://www.europebycamper.com/2013/12/2014-autoroute-motorhome-aire-campsite.html">http://www.europebycamper.com/2013/12/2014-autoroute-motorhome-aire-campsite.html</a></div>
 
We have been working to both collate and check our information and are pleased to be able to provide you with our first release which we believe to be as accurate as possible for now. 
 
We have created two files, one which contains just our information and one which contains our information plus all of the information we used to help us along the way, the latter of which is available further down this page. 
 
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Our 2011-2012 Trip Information - 212 POI's</h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our POI data in Google Maps</td></tr>
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Our trip information contains a detailed description of the location, the co-ordinates, the cost, if we were able to obtain free <a href="http://www.europebycamper.com/2011/04/wi-fi-access-in-europe.html" target="_blank">Wifi</a> and if it was an aire, wild camping or even a campsite. 
 
The best way to quickly view all of our information is to <a href="http://g.co/maps/creg4" target="_blank">check out our Google Map (click)</a> from which you can download a Google Earth KML file from the left hand side should you so wish. 
 
This information is hosted on Google Docs and you will need to press 'download the original document' in order to download the information. Don't right click, click the links and choose 'download'. 
 
<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4t_jdH1m_b-eVdsajIzMXpUdUdnOGc4dEY2Und5UQ/edit" target="_blank">Download in Autoroute 2011 Format</a> 
<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4t_jdH1m_b-VmQycko5RUpRcWlQZ1FCLXZKSUluQQ/edit" target="_blank">Download in Autoroute 2010 Format</a> 
<a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4t_jdH1m_b-VGNrWXExM3JSS08wVG5jOVhEek1BUQ" target="_blank">Download in CSV Format</a> 
 
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Our Full Autoroute Datafile Database</h3>
The original incantation of this file is credited by Ryan from <a href="http://www.doyourdream.co.uk/" target="_blank">Do Your Dream</a> and we have added our own information to this and redrawn the icons so that they are smaller and can fit more on. 
 
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EuropeByCamper POI's - 212 
Full European McDonalds Location (for Wifi!) - 5,761 
Full European Lidl Locations - 9,615 
Womo Wild Camping Locations - 12,482 
Camping Car Info Aire Locations - 12,200 
Bord Atlas Aire Locations - 5,624 
LPG Filling Stations - 20,540 
ACSI Campsite Locations - 2,301 
 
Because these files are a bit larger there is a slightly different procedure for downloading them. After you click the link below, within Google Docs, you just select FILE and then DOWNLOAD. Once downloaded you can extract the ZIP file and access the co-ordinates. Don't right click and Save As! 
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4t_jdH1m_b-R1gwdzZTQ3hSaGViSXh3RFd4ZlBIQQ/edit" target="_blank">Click for Microsoft Autoroute 2010 </a> 
 
 
 
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