Velo Viewer

[lazybloke]

There's enough public access as far as I can see:

Lucas Green Road / Priests Lane gets into the tricky Pirbright tile.
Ash Ranges have some public access, but you don't actually need to enter the perimeter afaict.

Thank you , but Pirbright Range is a misleading name and is to the north of where you've looked.
Here's my map, I can get all of theese except the "Round Butt" / " High Hoglees" square. It has only a private service service road coming up to the left of HIgh Hoglees.

Here's the Strava global heatmap, showing a massive hole where no one goes!!!
Annoyingly, I have been up that service road about 30 years ago as a Venture Scout doing target marking on the rifle ranges, so access isn't impossible, just not the kind of place you can casually go cycling or walking!
So technically I do have that square, on foot at least... just no GPS track!

 

[Solocle]

Thank you , but Pirbright Range is a misleading name and is to the north of where you've looked.
Here's my map, I can get all of theese except the "Round Butt" / " High Hoglees" square. It has only a private service service road coming up to the left of HIgh Hoglees.


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Here's the Strava global heatmap, showing a massive hole where no one goes!!!
Annoyingly, I have been up that service road about 30 years ago as a Venture Scout doing target marking on the rifle ranges, so access isn't impossible, just not the kind of place you can casually go cycling or walking!
So technically I do have that square, on foot at least... just no GPS track!

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Look closer. There's a public highway. See the streetview image I posted above, that's in the square.

 

[lazybloke]

Look closer. There's a public highway. See the streetview image I posted above, that's in the square.




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Many thanks @Solocle, bloomin' obvious now - don't know how I missed it!
I cant see an option to display the map tile info like that - what's the secret? God, I'm such an amateur at this VV stuff!

 

[Solocle]

Many thanks @Solocle, bloomin' obvious now - don't know how I missed it!
I cant see an option to display the map tile info like that - what's the secret? God, I'm such an amateur at this VV stuff!

For the global heatmap, the link is https://veloviewer.com/explorer

We all were there once

 

[lazybloke]

Lovely, thanks again.
Now I have a new way to assess the difficulty of reaching various squares.

I've not done this one, neither have many others!

 

[Solocle]

Lovely, thanks again.
Now I have a new way to assess the difficulty of reaching various squares.

I've not done this one, neither have many others!
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The trickiest I've ever got was this one:

 

[Norry1]

More info: https://www.hs2.org.uk/work-items/h...c-right-of-way-closures-culworth-and-edgcote/

Bridleways AG9 and AG10 that are referred to (and that I used) are shown below:


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I'm sure you'll all be delighted to know that I nabbed this tile yesterday. I did use AG9. It was diverted a bit and HS2 weren't making it look very inviting to cross their works but I got there

THat takes my Max Square to 36.

 

[steverob]

Having scrolled around the VeloViewer Explorer map, I've found two tiles that I've visited that no-one else has! Well, that's almost certainly not accurate - it's more like, no-one else who has made all their data public has visited them except me, but still it's nice to see.

Especially as both of them were quite easy to get to (both on road, only required a small diversion) and the tiles you have to go through to get to them were visited by 67 and 65 riders respectively, so it's very unlikely that no-one has gone there before.

 

[Solocle]

Having scrolled around the VeloViewer Explorer map, I've found two tiles that I've visited that no-one else has! Well, that's almost certainly not accurate - it's more like, no-one else who has made all their data public has visited them except me, but still it's nice to see.

Especially as both of them were quite easy to get to (both on road, only required a small diversion) and the tiles you have to go through to get to them were visited by 67 and 65 riders respectively, so it's very unlikely that no-one has gone there before.

I've pushed up against these ones, which it's probably safe to say haven't been visited publicly... but for very good reason.

One of the trickier ones I do want to nab is this one. No roads. No bridleways. No footpaths. In fact, no land at all.

 

[13 rider]

My Cornish expansion continues ,26 new squares on this holiday 22 ridden and 4 walked around a tricky headland

 

[Solocle]

Ongoing

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Ride out to Redditch saw me get another 16 squares.

 

[HLaB]

I lengthened my commute on Friday and got 3 more tiles and filled in a gap.

But that's not the area of my my max square or max cluster; I wanted to get a pivotal off road square or two to extend that but in extending my commute off road I think I've done some to my ITB band on the left side. I last done similar 18years ago to my right ITB, I think its the same knife through the knee feeling and instability. It was mostly OK on todays relaxed on road group ride until the very end when I had to go through town and the constant stopping/unclipping seems to have irritated it again, this off road tile (east side, 3km west of Ramsey) will have to wait 🙁

 

[Solocle]

OK, done for today now.

60 km ridden, 28 new tiles.
Cluster increased by 86 to 2338.

 

[lazybloke]

In France tonight; arrived a couple of hours in eastern Britany and will spend the next week exploring and heading east.

But spent today at Jersey. Had a nice route planned to cover pretty much the whole island but still seem to be in recovery from my 130 miler last weekend, so cut it short.
Have added 52 tiles in the last 24 hours.

Oh, also had two road closures!