WalkLakes Blog
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14/04/17
• We've Improved Our Walk Maps
We have just release a major upgrade to our WayMaps tiles which, for example, adds relief shading.
We have just release a major upgrade to our WayMaps tiles and the supporting mapping application. To remind you the WayMaps tiles are used for: read more ... |
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06/04/17
• Displaying Your Walks in 3D
With some fanfare the Ordnance Survey announced this week that their subscription mapping application could now display walks in 3D ... on our web site you've been able to do that for a long time, for free.
With some fanfare the Ordnance Survey announced this week that their subscription mapping application could now display your walks in 3D ... with our web site you've been able to for ages, for free. Here's a screenshot of it in action: read more ... |
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31/03/17
• We've Improved Our Walk Profiles
We've upgraded all our walk profiles to make them clearer and easier to read.
If you use our site either to plan you own walks or to go on one of our walks then you will be aware of the walk "profiles" we generate. A profile is a graph of height versus distance along the walk (or track or route if you're using our GPS Mapping application) and it's useful for getting a feel for the sort of walk it is. Does it go up and down, or does it go up, and down a bit, and up some more. That sort of thing. read more ... |
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09/03/17
• Numbering the Grid
We have improved the little maps we display for each walk step instruction.
When you are reading the instructions for one of our walks each walk step is accompanied by a little map showing you where you have to go. These maps are generated using our WayMaps map tiles, a "mash up" of GIS Open Data from a variety of sources. read more ... |
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01/02/17
• On Tracks and Routes
People who buy the GPX routes of our walks are sometimes confused that the route appears to be shorter than the walk. Paul explains why.
People who buy the GPX routes of our walks are sometimes confused that the route appears to be shorter than the walk. To illustrate here's an example of an email we received today about our walk Nab Scar and Alcock Tarn. It said: read more ... |
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27/12/16
• We've Upgraded Our Maps
We've just rolled out our new WayMaps mapping across our whole web site.
When you use our site you may have noticed that we use Ordnance Survey mapping for some of our maps (in the maps introducing each walk for example) but for licensing reasons we use an alternative set of tiles we were given, which we called OpenMaps, for most mapping e.g. the location of hills, the subjects of photos in our gallery, or the little maps shown for each step of our walks. read more ... |
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