How to save TDA’s cycling route for offline map viewing

Hello fellow riders!

While setting up my interactive map for this blog, I’ve learnt that it’s very easy to save the TDA cycling route onto our smartphones for offline viewing. I thought you might also want to do so. The same, by the way, applies to all cycling or other routes created in Google My Maps.

1. If you haven’t done so yet, download the MAPS.ME app onto your smartphone and save the maps of the countries that we will be cycling through (FREE).
2. Open our route map by clicking on the top right button in the map on tdaglobalcycling.com/tour-dafrique (“View Larger Map”).
3. Open the top left menu with the three dots, and click “Download KML”. (You might need to be signed into your Google account for this to work.)
4. Open the KML file form you smartphone. If it doesn’t do so automatically, you should be able to select to open with MAPS.ME.
5. Et voilà—we cannot get lost anymore. Or at least that’s how it seems to me . .

Hope this helps!