Tyre Credits

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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.

Tyre 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)

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 addons

Pieter Geelen Tourist Information Manager

Kees Wesselius Tourist Information Manager

Mike Williams Google Maps

Tom Anthony Postcodes

Alexander Strobel Garmin File Types

Joachim Ehrecke Garmin File Types

GET INVOLVED

Itineraries and ideas

Lots of people have been very helpful (and they still are!) in offering itineraris, coming up with suggestions, reporting bugs, etc.

Their names use to be here, but the list became way too long…

Thanks to you all!