Thanks for supporting Tyre
The Tyre hall of fame. Several people have been very helpful in translating Tyre or otherwise. On this page we show the people who contributed or still contribute to the Tyre Navigation program and website. If you have feedback or questions, please check out our contact page.
Tyre History
The basis for Tyre was laid in 2006, when the Dutch minister Boersma combined his two hobbies: motorcycling and programming. He created Tyre: the program that made Google Maps work with TomTom.
In the fourteen years that Tyre exists the program has been continually upgraded. Without any commercial effort or advertising it has become the most popular freeware program for creating GPS routes. More than 500,000 people worldwide use it. Now is the time for further professionalization and expansion of the capabilities of Tyre. So we can all enjoy more perfect routes. Tyre2Navigate makes that possible.
The Tire Hall of Fame
- Jan Boersma Lead Developer
- Juan Antonio Sáez (Translator Catalan)
- Jorge D. Sanchís (Translator Catalan)
- Kevin Ling (Translator Chinese simplified)
- Bert Chen (Translator Chinese traditional)
- Pavel Kriz (Translator Czech)
- Albert van Harten (Translator Danish)
- Lau Flemming Pedersen (Translator Danish)
- Peder G. Mortensen (Translator Danish)
- Tomi Hurenius (Translator Finish)
- Chris Deckers (Translator French)
- Denis Sorel (Translator French)
- Ulrike van de Groep-Heid (Translator German)
- Chris Steinfels (Translator German)
- Jörgen Klein (Translator German)
- Stefano Pastori (Translator Italian)
- Rita Petrini (Translator Italian)
- Adrian Navarro (Translator Japanese)
- Gunnar Olaussen (Translator Norwegian)
- Zdzislaw Winkiewicz (Translator Polish)
- 'Uncle Longbeard' (Translator Polish)
- Miguel Lemos (Translator Portuguese)
- Valentin Rakutin (Translator Russian)
- Eduardo Ridaura Lopez (Translator Spanish)
- Tobias Ekengren (Translator Swedish)
- Murat Araç (Translator Turkish)
- Metin Akbil (Translator Turkish)
- Eduardo Ridaura Lopez (Designer logo)
- Roland Boon (TomTom add-ons)
- Pieter Geelen (Help with Tourist Information Manager)
- Kees Wesselius (Help with Tourist Information Manager)
- Mike Williams (Google Maps)
- Tom Anthony (Postcodes)
- Alexander Strobel (Garmin File Types)
- Joachim Ehrecke (Garmin File Types)
Routes and Ideas
Lots of people have helped (and still do!) By sending route files, coming up with suggestions, reporting errors, etc. In the past, all names were here. But the list became way too long… Thank you all!