Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Ride out to Kettering this morning to take my max square to 43x43. 46 new squares which increased the max cluster by 47.
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Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Another square filling ride, only 14 squares but it increased the max cluster by another 28 and and gave me 44 squares west to east on the max square.
Now need to decide if I want to go north or south to take it to 44x44. North is more squares but looks easier to do than the south which involves either using the A45 or lots of miles to get squares next to each other.
Now need to decide if I want to go north or south to take it to 44x44. North is more squares but looks easier to do than the south which involves either using the A45 or lots of miles to get squares next to each other.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Lazy bugger, here's the link if anyone wants it for android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.anisart.vv&hl=en_GB
PapaZita
Guru
- Location
- St. Albans
There has been a nice little enhancement to Veloviewer today, where the maps for an individual activity or planned route can show the tiles that have been or will be visited.
He just needs to get it to show any new squares against the route and against your current squares
steverob
Guru
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
There's also a second part added where if you zoom in to maximum on an activity now, you can see where all the GPS plot points are, which is useful to see if/why you did or didn't get a tile.
I had a ride recently where I just grazed the edge of a new tile - literally there is only one road that crosses into the tile and even then, it's really only one side of the road that does just barely - and sure enough I did get it. Now looking back on it, I can see that officially I only recorded four plot points in that tile, so therefore was only over the tile border for four seconds, but it still counts! Had I been in the other lane going the other way, I almost certainly wouldn't have got it.
Ha, I was playing with the new features for individual activity maps, and it's recalculated and removed one of my tiles that was incorrectly credited to me (a straight line plotted by Strava when it was paused had crossed a tile I hadn't entered).
So my tile count has dropped from 506 to 505, and my max cluster from 165 to 157. The tile isn't far away, so I can easily make a quick trip out to get it.
I popped out this morning and regained that tile, to take my totals back up again. But, more importantly, I've been examining things more closely in satellite view and I think I've made a breakthrough discovery...
My big problem has been two tiles just to the east of me, covered by the private (walled and gated) Knowsley Park estate. It struck me a little while ago that I could probably get in to the southern one of the tiles by visiting Knowsley Safari Park - if I cycle there, the areas you can walk around are just into the southeast corner of the tile.
And the northeast corner of the northern tile looks like this...
You can see the tile borders at the top, and the difficult tile is the one on the left. The blue arrow indicates one of the gates of the estate, and there's a fence heading from it along the boundary of the field to the left of the trees. But then I spotted the track indicated by the orange arrow, which doesn't show on maps but is clearly there on the satellite image. And that heads just far enough into the tile, assuming it's as accessible on the ground as it appears from the air.
My max possible square including my home might be a lot bigger than I'd thought!
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
I'd be parking the bike at the gate, nipping over it and going for a brisk walk 
It's a proper big gate - not a little country thing you can hop over.I'd be parking the bike at the gate, nipping over it and going for a brisk walk
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Have you had a look on OS mapping to see if there are any footpaths going through it?
Yes, there are definitely none going through the estate - it's been the very private property of the Earls of Derby for centuries and is still owned by the same family. But it doesn't matter if I can get along the path at the edge of that field for about 50 metres or so.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
