Wrestling with the same problem. I'm thinking of taking the OS 1:50 000 maps (probably trimmed to essentials plus a little extra) in my backpack, and using waterproof double-sided A4 printouts for actual walking. Since I don't have a printer, I'll be paying for a printing house to do it for me, and that means I need to save the maps in PDF and then send them to be printed out. I'd love to somehow get all the map sheets in a single file, or at least not be forced to save them all separately, as the facility I asked about the cost will charge 0,50 euros for each file in addition to the waterproof sheets and the actual printing.

At the moment the only online mapping software I have is the OS maps premium subscription and I'm not quite sure if their printing option is the best possible.


Okay, back to route-plotting (almost there...). Thanks for any advice in advance. I honestly didn't have a clue all this preparation woud be so time consuming! (and yet I love it!).

Minna / Finland, a first-time Challenger

Hi Minna, it's possible to combine all your pdfs in Acrobat, that's what you mean.

1.Within Acrobat, click on the Tools menu and select Combine Files.
2.Click Combine Files, and then click Add Files to select the files you want to include in your PDF.
3.Click, drag, and drop to reorder the files and pages. ...
4.When finished arranging files, click Combine Files.


By the way, where in Finland do you live? I've worked for Finnish company for 29 years, and lived over there for 2 years. I still travel over to Helsinki every month.

Hi John and thanks for the techno-tip - I like to think of myself as a fairly competent modern person, but sometimes it's just too much .

I live in Tampere, which is the third biggest city in Finland. I have many friends in Helsinki so I visit there quite often. Maybe after Challenge we can have a mini-meet in Helsinki .

Minna

Hi Minna,

If you don't have Adobe Acrobat, which is the paid version of their software, you can download PDF Split and Merge for free and use that to merge all the different PDFs into one file.

Thanks Brian

got one from the App store for 1€. Works like a train toilet (a Finnish saying meaning it works really well).

Minna