WalkLakes Blog
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28/02/18
• New Tiles on our GPS Mapping Application
We've added a new source of aerial photography tiles to our GPX mapping application.
If you use our GPS mapping application and you have logged in then you used to be able to use aerial photography for Bing. These tiles are often very good, for example they are in the Lake District, but elsewhere in the UK there are gaps with no tiles present at some zoom levels and/or the best tiles being satellite rather than aerial photography. read more ... |
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31/12/17
• Our Walks in 3-D
You can now view any of our walks in 3-D on your screen without any additional software needing to be installed.
Our labours on viewing maps in 3-D have now born fruit and one product of this is that just in time for the new year you can now view any of our walks in 3-D on your screen, be it a desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. read more ... |
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25/12/17
• A Christmas Present
Our Christmas present for WalkLakes users is going to be a little late this year, but here's a preview.
When we're not out walking the Lakeland fells or hills elsewhere in the UK we're beavering away on the software we have on our site, in particular the GPX mapping app which has long had aerial photography available once you're registered and logged in. read more ... |
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22/11/17
• More Improvements to our Mapping
We've just put online a new release of our map tiles with the usual update plus NCNs for the first time
We've just put online a new release of our map tiles. We do new releases regularly, not least to pick up any changes in the data coming from OpenStreetMap and also, in this release, the latest updates from Ordnance Survey's OS VectorMap District. read more ... |
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09/10/17
• More Improvements to our Mapping
We've just put online a new release of our map tiles with a host of significant improvements
We've just put online probably our most significant new release of our map tiles. There are many changes, including: read more ... |
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11/09/17
• New Path, New Crossing
The latest release of our map tiles includes both the new Ullswater Way and Queensferry Crossing
You may remember that back in December we launched our WayMaps mapping tiles which are built from open data from a number of sources put together with our own styling. read more ... |
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