About RouteCardMaker

RouteCardMaker was designed to ease the burden of producing Route Cards.

When producing a Route card the walker breaks down the route into a series of legs of a few hundred metres to perhaps a few thousand metres. The UK's Uniformed Youth Organisations use routes of about 3000 to 8000 metres.

Duke of Edinburgh Award organisers will use routes of from 15 to 50km. However, the route is often broken down into single day sections and it is an easy matter to use RouteCardMaker to produce these day sections.

So just how can RouteCardMaker help? Normally the walker plots the route on a map, measuring the distance (along paths or tracks) and the bearing between the start and end of each leg.

Having collected all of these measurements the walker enters them by hand (or pehaps using a Word template) onto a Route Card. There are a number of problems that can arise from using this method.

Are you certain that your measurements are correct? When you measured the bearing was the compass pointing in the right direction? Does your hand written route card look tatty?

RouteCardMaker checks your data as it is entered and although it is difficult to calculate a bearing from 6 figure Grid References the programme will warn you of possible errors in both bearings and distances.

Much of the repetition involved in producing a Route Card is removed, with the programme needing just the end of all legs (except the first) to be entered. Magnetic bearings are automatically entered for you and the programme will work in either degrees or mils (and will convert one to the other).

The end result is a quality Route Card with a high degree of confidence in the accuracy. It can be Saved and Edited as well as e-mailed. A range of tools is provided including the reversing of a complete route. A maximum of 25 Legs are catered for.