martint235
Dog on a bike
- Location
- Welling
RWG still seems to be free to me although I'm at work and access is fairly limited. From what I could see though I actually prefer the new look.
RIDEWTHGPS has gone commercial, alas.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'll stick to using my UK (minus NI)-wide digital OS Landranger map and MemoryMap software!
tmesis: On first trial, editing and fullscreen functions seem to have disappeared but I note your comment re editing
dell: I have an opening for our map reading assistant.
booze and cake
probably out cycling
Yeah must say I don't like the new Ride with GPS interface, do not want.
Firstly its orange, like strava, I mean orange, really? Hideous.
Secondly its buggy as hell, i've tried searching the 'find' section for rides and it repeatedly crashes my firefox browser
Thirdly as mentioned it does'nt seem to be showing the elevation profile on the same page as the map, which I always found useful to see exactly where the cols actually are, bit of a massive fail.
Fourthly the 'rides' tab can only be accessed by signing into Facebook, give me strength, same as with Twitter, I'd rather cycle round the world using my face for tyres that join the white noise community.
And lastly the search for segments section has vanished so you can't even look up any segments in your area. Another major fail.
Overall RWGPS, D-, poor showing this term. Your early years promised much and saw some good improvements, but it seems this term you've really got in with the wrong crowd and have been led astray. Could do better. I'm verging on abandoning ship.
'#don't like change, its was better in the olden days, evolution regressing back to the ameoba etc
Firstly its orange, like strava, I mean orange, really? Hideous.
Secondly its buggy as hell, i've tried searching the 'find' section for rides and it repeatedly crashes my firefox browser
Thirdly as mentioned it does'nt seem to be showing the elevation profile on the same page as the map, which I always found useful to see exactly where the cols actually are, bit of a massive fail.
Fourthly the 'rides' tab can only be accessed by signing into Facebook, give me strength, same as with Twitter, I'd rather cycle round the world using my face for tyres that join the white noise community.
And lastly the search for segments section has vanished so you can't even look up any segments in your area. Another major fail.
Overall RWGPS, D-, poor showing this term. Your early years promised much and saw some good improvements, but it seems this term you've really got in with the wrong crowd and have been led astray. Could do better. I'm verging on abandoning ship.
'#don't like change, its was better in the olden days, evolution regressing back to the ameoba etc
bigjim
Legendary Member
- Location
- Manchester. UK
I really like this http://www.mycycletour.com/displayroute.php?RouteNumber=139#close.
You can see the profile and mileage as you create the route and it is far easier to use than any others IMO.
The big letdown at the moment is I cannot convert the created route into Mapsource. Working on that.
You can see the profile and mileage as you create the route and it is far easier to use than any others IMO.
The big letdown at the moment is I cannot convert the created route into Mapsource. Working on that.
www.gpsies.com will convert pretty much any file format.
If you are still using MapSource it's probably worth updating to Basecamp.
I'm with Greg on this. Best site by far. Because you can see the OS map, you can be sure you are using a real road
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Sometimes I just click on my house, then click on my destination (using the opencyclemaps routing algorithm) and dump the route to my GPS and go.
As a result I now know what it is like to ride a fixed gear bike on 28mm tyres uphill for 1000 yards on a stony and rubble strewn bridleway fringed with stinging nettles and covered in ar5e fruit from the local horses.
Next time I'll check the map more thoroughly. (Preparation isn't my thing really.)
GlasgowFinn
Guru
- Location
- The People's Republic of Cumbernauld
Email back from Cullen this morning saying that the elevation data problem was fixed.
Pretty good customer service for a free (currently) product.
Pretty good customer service for a free (currently) product.
One of the mapping sites is remarkably conservative with their climbing figures, can't remember which one it is. They explain somewhere on their site why they use the algorithm that they do - it does lead to some quite marked differences between them and other sites.
Sillyoldman
Guru
Cheers for the bikehike steer. Just had a play and its superb. Have been using ridewithgps for ages, but although I have got to grips with the new interface the integration to OS maps on bikehike is genius.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
The only things is...
...don't leave your route planning until late evening if you are going to rely on the OS maps. There is a finite limit to the number of map 'tiles' the OS hand out to bikehike, and other mapping services for free each day after which "Sorry this map cannot be displayed" replaces the OS maps! Seems to happen more at this time of year, I would guess as more folk are doing more route planning!
