Manual
Read more about how Fietsknoop works.
Also watch our instruction videos in Dutch
- Creating routes without nodes
Fietsknoop is a digital planner for planning routes along the official nodes. Without an account, or with a basic account, only this network can be used. Anyone with a Fietsknoop[+]Plus account can create their own routes, as gpx tracks.
Go to the website and log in to your account. Click on the blue button 'Activiteiten' (= Activities) and choose 'Fietsen' (= Cycling) or 'Wandelen' (= Walking).
On the map, click with the mouse on the spot where you want to start the route. Click anywhere else and Fietsknoop will create the shortest route between the two points using the existing paths. Drag a point if you want to change the route.
Save the route and use it as an 'Activity'. As the route does not run through the nodes, no voice support is possible.
This feature is still under development.
- Show network
For a route, only the nodes used are shown. Sometimes you might also like to see the network with the surrounding nodes. That's possible!
At the bottom righthand corner of the map, you will see the eyelet symbol.
Click it and you can see the node network around the route. Clicking again clears the map so you can better read a place name or address.
Click the eyelet a third time and the route is shown again.
Are the nodes not yet visible? Then zoom in on the map.
- Creating fixed Plus nodes
Open the Plus nodes [+] screen from the multiple-choice menu.
Click on the map where you would like to place a fixed Plus node and give it a name.
Click on the Plus node to rename or delete the Plus node.
Move the Plus nodes with your finger if it is not in the right place.
How do you show the fixed Plus nodes on the map? Open the planning screen and click on the + symbol with circle in the green top bar. The fixed Plus nodes are now visible with their names attached.
All your fixed Plus nodes are placed on the map together. You decide whether you want to use them or not.
See also the instruction video about Fixed Plus nodes.
- Creating fixed Plus nodes on the website
Log in to your account on the website. On your own dashboard page, click the blue Routes button, top right.
On the opened routes page is the blue button 'Je vaste Pluspunten maken' (= Create your fixed Plus nodes). Click this button.
Click on the map where you want to place a fixed Plus node, using the mouse to drag the Plus node to another location if necessary. Click on the Plus node to add, edit or delete the text. You can place up to 50 fixed Plus nodes.
When creating a route, you can place your fixed Plus nodes on the map by clicking the blue button above the planner map.
- Scrolling the node bar of a route
While cycling or hiking a route, the node bar automatically slides along.
Would you prefer not to do this?
Go to 'Settings' and then 'Navigation settings'.
Here you will find the option 'Lock node bar while navigating'. Turn this option off, and you can scroll the node bar yourself while cycling or hiking.
- Large or small icons in the node bar
In the 'Settings' menu, you can set whether you want the nodes of your route to be displayed 'large' or 'small'.
When showing large icons, it is possible to see the total distance, and the distance between two consecutive nodes.
When showing small icons, only the distance between two consecutive nodes is shown.
Use the option Distances in bar to show only the nodes.
- Place or street name reading
The node network is shown projected on the map. Sometimes the node or route line hides the place name or street name.
How to solve this?
In the app: Click on the 'eye' on the screen. There are three modes. Click once, and the node network becomes invisible. Click twice, and the route can be seen when it is opened. Click a third time, and the network is shown again on the map.
On the website: below the map you will find the option to make the node network invisible.
Click on the Network tab ('Netwerk'). Click again and the network is shown again.
NB: the website is only available in Dutch. With the help of your browser's automatic translation function, you may be able to translate the website.
- Grey hiking nodes
On the hiking map, you sometimes come across grey hiking nodes. For example, in Flanders, near Antwerp or north of Brussels. This is a virtual network. The network exists only on the map, there are no roadside signs. To distinguish it from the 'normal' nodes, these hiking nodes are not shown in brown but in grey.
You create your route in the normal way and save it as usual. Are you going to use the route? Open the route from your Routes list and click Start. With the help of voice support and by following the road on the map, you will enjoy the most beautiful walks.
With Fietsknoop[+]Plus, you can also add your own Plus nodes to the hiking nodes.
- Blank nodes in Amsterdam
There are few official nodes in Amsterdam. Only the city centre and peripheral areas contain nodes. There are many intersecting links, however, which are not official nodes. To still be able to plan freely over this network, we have added numberless nodes. These can be clicked on and used like a normal node in the planner. This way, you can create your own route through the city. So in practice, these numberless nodes have no meaning.
We do not know the reason why there are few official nodes in Amsterdam.
Blank nodes are also used in some cases in other regions of the Netherlands.
- What is the address of a node?
App:
Click on the node list of a route on the overlay screen and you will find all the addresses for each node.
Website:
on the right-hand side of the map is the icon for the node list with the address for each node.
