Velo Viewer

[13 rider]

Just been checking I'm 99% certain I've covered Leicestershire now , not completed Rutland yet a few off roads ones at Exton to tick off to avoid riding the A1

 

[JonBuoy]

Most of the off-road tracks in Exton Park have better surfaces than some of the on-roads around the county. This was taken last November and the A1 is about 400m behind me:

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Most of the off-road tracks in Exton Park have better surfaces than some of the on-roads around the county. This was taken last November and the A1 is about 400m behind me:



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I’d have to check but I think I picked a couple of squares up via Exton Park, but I do remember thinking the same about the surface quality.

 

[Norry1]

Many years back, @Supersuperleeds posted a map showing he'd visited all the tiles in Leicestershire, so I checked my map to see how close I was to completing Buckinghamshire and found that I still needed almost another 250 tiles, mostly in the south of the county, with other smaller clusters in the north-east and north-west.

Checked again the other day and found that I'm down to just 28 to go. Three individual tiles in the south-west, two in the centre and then a batch up by the north-east border. But everything else is now complete. Trouble is some of those odd tiles are the difficult to get ones, requiring walking rather than biking or access to private grounds.

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Nice.

How do you do that? It might be amusing to see how many tiles I need to get all of West Midlands

 

[Solocle]

Nice.

How do you do that? It might be amusing to see how many tiles I need to get all of West Midlands

When I've done it its in a very basic fashion, and despite literally being my initial tiling goal, I've yet to complete a single county (I don't think the BCP unitary authority counts...)

 

[steverob]

How do you do that? It might be amusing to see how many tiles I need to get all of West Midlands

To get the image I had to take a lot of screenshots and then paste them all together in Paint, which was a rather laborious process.

But if you only want to check your progress without having a picture, you can just switch the map view on VeloViewer to OpenStreetMap, which does show county and region borders (I don't think the other types of map do).

On my map above, any tile shown along the edge has the Buckinghamshire border running through part of it, even if it is the smallest amount, which means some of those tiles may only be 1% in Bucks and 99% in another county, but I still had to visit that tile (even if I didn't visit the Bucks part of it). The two striped tiles are actually fully in Hertfordshire, so that's why I excluded them.

 

[JonBuoy]

My crude attempt:

The county outline was obtained as a KML from https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/ and the tile outlines were the 'Unexplored Tiles' KML from VeloViewer. All combined in Brouter but other KML viewers would work.

 

[Solocle]

Something of a parallel question, counties at least partly in your max cluster.

For me:

• Dorset
• Devon
• Somerset
• Wiltshire
• Hampshire
• Berkshire
• Surrey
• Greater London
• City of London
• Gloucestershire
• Bristol
• Oxfordshire
• Warwickshire
• West Midlands
• Leicestershire
• Derbyshire
• South Yorkshire

Buckinghamshire is tantalisingly close, I have a cluster tile that is partly in Buckinghamshire, but is only corner-adjacent to my max cluster.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Nice.

How do you do that? It might be amusing to see how many tiles I need to get all of West Midlands

I think I got a KML file of the county border and uploaded it into Strava, I might have had to use GPX visualiser or something to convert the KML to a GPX or FIT file first. If I get time I'll try and work it out again.

 

[steverob]

My list is a lot shorter:

• Buckinghamshire
• Hertfordshire
• Oxfordshire
• Bedfordshire
• Northamptoshire
• Berkshire
• Greater London (plus the City)
• Surrey (but only just barely)
• Cambridgeshire (most recent addition - July this year)

I have a lot of pink tiles in Essex that are directly connected to my purple cluster, but need to get 2-3 more around the London/Essex border to fill in a gap so it officially counts as part of the cluster. Warwickshire is a similar story but it'd required a lot more tiles, probably at least 10-12 to properly join it up.