GPS Cycle Routes

Quoted message said:

This new cycle website includes many cycle routes for most of the
other English counties with each route containing GPS files,
elevation profiles and maps with a photographic aerial view of the
route. There's also a facility for users to upload their own routes in
GPS format so I'm hoping it will become a useful resource for sharing
cycle routes in England particularly as I expect GPS to become more
popular for bikes.
The site is free and can be seen at
http://www.gps-routes.co.uk

I'm assuming it your site?

Its not too bad, but google maps is unsuitable for use for offroad cycling,
have you consider either the OS openspace or the multimap OS layer api?

Steve

Steve said:

Quoted message said:

This new cycle website includes many cycle routes for most of the
other English counties with each route containing GPS files,
elevation profiles and maps with a photographic aerial view of the
route. There's also a facility for users to upload their own routes in
GPS format so I'm hoping it will become a useful resource for sharing
cycle routes in England particularly as I expect GPS to become more
popular for bikes.
The site is free and can be seen at
http://www.gps-routes.co.uk

I'm assuming it your site?

Its not too bad, but google maps is unsuitable for use for offroad cycling,
have you consider either the OS openspace or the multimap OS layer api?

Steve

I mostly get a few errors such as:

Error 500
HTTP Web Server: Invalid URL Exception

Error 404
HTTP Web Server: Lotus Notes Exception - Entry not found in index

Googlemaps can be handy for off-road route planning if like me (1) you
live in an area not covered by OS, (2) you live in an area with good
aerial images, and (3) you have a decent paper map highlighting all the
main cycle routes and trails etc.
I'll stick to mapmyride for the time being.

(PS IMHO Lotus Notes is the biggest software disaster ever released for
public use. I could easily file 100 bug reports before morning coffee,
but I have better things to do.)

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Andy the Expat Kentish Cyclist

Andy said:

Steve said:

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:15:59 -0800 (PST), [email hidden] wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

This new cycle website includes many cycle routes for most of the
other English counties with each route containing  GPS files,
elevation profiles and maps with a photographic aerial view of the
route. There's also a facility for users to upload their own routes in
GPS format so I'm hoping it will become a useful resource for sharing
cycle routes in England particularly as I expect GPS to become more
popular for bikes.
The site is free and can be seen at
http://www.gps-routes.co.uk

Quoted message said:

I'm assuming it your site?

Quoted message said:

Its not too bad, but google maps is unsuitable for use for offroad cycling,
have you consider either the OS openspace or the multimap OS layer api?

Quoted message said:

Steve

I mostly get a few errors such as:

Error 500
HTTP Web Server: Invalid URL Exception

Error 404
HTTP Web Server: Lotus Notes Exception - Entry not found in index

Googlemaps can be handy for off-road route planning if like me (1) you
live in an area not covered by OS, (2) you live in an area with good
aerial images, and (3) you have a decent paper map highlighting all the
main cycle routes and trails etc.
I'll stick to mapmyride for the time being.

(PS IMHO Lotus Notes is the biggest software disaster ever released for
public use.  I could easily file 100 bug reports before morning coffee,
but I have better things to do.)

--
Andy the Expat Kentish Cyclist- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks for your comments and looking at the site. I think I've found
the cause of those errors you were getting but it should be ok now.

Quoted message said:

The site is free and can be seen at
http://www.gps-routes.co.uk

I can read the descriptions and see the files for download (althought I
don't have a GPS unit) but the map is missing. Probably undisclosed and
needless use of costly Javascript that makes a site less accessible to
different devices (such as mobile phones...).

Thanks,
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MJ Ray said:

Quoted message said:

The site is free and can be seen at
http://www.gps-routes.co.uk

I can read the descriptions and see the files for download (althought I
don't have a GPS unit) but the map is missing.  Probably undisclosed and
needless use of costly Javascript that makes a site less accessible to
different devices (such as mobile phones...).

Thanks,
--
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Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder,
consumer and workers co-operative memberhttp://www.ttllp.co.uk/-
Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstokehttp://mjr.towers.org.uk/

Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately google maps require javascript
turned on (this is true on any site they appear-including google)

Quoting <[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

Thanks for your comments. Unfortunately google maps require javascript
turned on (this is true on any site they appear-including google)

No, it doesn't; it degrades to a JS-free interface with clicky buttons for
moving and zooming, and furthermore the normal interface is a rare example
of actually using JS for something that couldn't be done perfectly well
without it.
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Today is Potmos, March.

David Damerell said:

[google maps] degrades to a JS-free interface with clicky buttons for
moving and zooming, and furthermore the normal interface is a rare example
of actually using JS for something that couldn't be done perfectly well
without it.

Flip maps seemed to do maps perfectly well, but people have now gone nuts
for slippy maps while ignoring how much extra CPU (=electricity =carbon)
they use and how awkward they are for people who don't have tight pointer
control (for example, hands that shake a bit), or use non-conventional
browsers (most mobile phones).
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