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steve3742 
| 28 Jul 09:05 |
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Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 7 Bike: My Profile | Hi. It's always struck me as strange how hard it is to get cycle route information about cycling from one city to another. Even nearby cities. Like Nottingham to Derby - only a twenty mile route but it's actually quite hard to find (on the internet) details of how to cycle there. It's part of Cycle Route 6 and you could buy the Sustrans Derby to York map - but it seems a lot of hassle to go to for a relatively short route (and am I the only one who thinks that getting details on Sustrans routes is quite hard? The major routes are covered by their map series, but info about the minor ones like route 15 or 64 isn't too easy to get.) Anyway, I thought it'd be a good idea if everone who's a member here posts rides from the town/city where they live to the adjacent ones. That way, we could build up a database of routes that could all join together. So, for example, for Nottingham I could post details of Nottingham-Derby, Nottingham-Leicester, Nottingham-Loughborough, Nottingham-Newark, Nottingham-Lincoln and Nottingham-Sheffield. And someone who lives in Leicester could post Leicester-Nottingham and also Leicester-Northampton. Then the Northants guys could post Northampton-Milton Keynes and Northampton-Oxford... well, you get the idea. Eventually, it would be possible to plot a route from Sheffield to London. Cycle routes are different from the results you'd get from AA Routemaster or similar. We prefer to ride away from the main roads and we often have the option of taking short cuts that cars can't. Local knowledge will often give you these details, but local knowledge is, well, local. But if everyone posts [b:95cf0164c7]their [/b:95cf0164c7]local knowledge, we'd soon have a good cycling database. What does everyone think? For my part of the deal, I'm going to post the Nottingham-Derby details soon (that's the Sustrans route - would there be copyright problems?) And I'm planning a cycling holiday around Lincolnshire soon so I should be able to post Nottingham-Newark and Newark-Lincoln (which, of course, combine to make Nottingham-Lincoln) along with some others in Lincolnshire (assuming the Lincolnshire people don't get there first.) So, anyone else who's got any knowledge of cycle routes, post away. |
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| 23 Feb 06:03 |
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