emmea90 a écrit:Dear Svam, what sort of problems do you have with our site and our guys?
We are not trying to provide the official route, nor intended to do it. We are trying to make a route according to the rumors that came out on twitter/facebook on the newspaper websites and so on. Rumors change, route change.
None of us call it "the official 2018 TDF route", because is a route made according to rumors. More rumors/news came, more is likely to be near the final one. I think it's better to try and edit it when other news came out than staying totally out from it. We basically got the whole week one except the Mur de Bretagne stage two weeks before Velowire came out with that.
I think what you wrote about us and our attempts is unrespectful of my work and the work of my staff that searched all the possibile informations (not only about TDF, but also about Giro, that nasdon33 is tracking). As stated, no-one of us intended to present is as "the official route", neither the tracks, mostly only to have the track in the table, randomly tracked, are.
If you prefer to wait until you have a route "100% sure" you have other websites. So sorry if someone intended it as definitive, but probably will be more similar to the final one than every full route that cames out today. I think there should be more respect for people who try to do something than people that simply do nothing and complaining.
Best regards.
EDIT: i forgot one thing about the 270 km transfer. It was clearly illogic, but at the time i don't know what of the two stages were the right one, so i leave both in the route until further clearance.
Hi,
I'm well aware that your current route is not the real one. For me, it's clear : it's not a rational route, it is a collection of different rumours, from very different weight and often torn to fit in the map. The problem is that your audience doesn't think that and take it for granted.
One of my problems with your methodology is that you are according too much importance to new rumours/articles than old ones. So, your map changes often radically, even if the new rumour doesn't fit well... In your current map, Lens, Tourmalet and Arette clearly don't fit. And sometimes you just pop rumours out of nothing. Serioulsy : where does Balneario di Panticosa came from ?
Furthermore, I think that you lack some reflexion about the rumoured town you've selected. For example, Alençon and Vielha are still total rumours... I'm well placed to know that because I'm basically the person who created these rumours ! I was just proposing it as an hypothesis regarding other pieces of information (Alençon is candidate and was well placed on the map, Vielha can be the spain stage that VSD only has referred). Then, a lot of people start to put them in their "pronostic route"... and so you.
So, when you say that your method is good and present the fastest results, let me laugh because you are basically stoling my first-hand reflexions
And concerning the idea that "I'm just complaining and do nothing", I do the same job as you do... except I put some thoughts and reflexions in it. And I publish regularly these ideas. But you already know that, otherwise you would not be here... checking for some informations for you nextday map.
Concerning your site, I'm not a big fan of it, but a lot of people here are using it and so, I must pay a tribute to your efforts.