WalkLakes Blog
2023 | |||
| November | |||
| Winter - Time to check your gear | |||
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| September | |||
| Hills Database Updated | |||
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| August | |||
| Being Prepared | |||
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| July | |||
| Leave Only Pawprints | |||
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| June | |||
| Mountain Rescue Box ransacked | |||
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| May | |||
| A Happy Lake District Story | |||
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| April | |||
| Lost in the Lakes | |||
| Wasdale MRT Open Day | |||
| No More Accommodation Adverts | |||
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| February | |||
| The Perils of Relying on a Smartphone | |||
| Hill Top Bagging | |||
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| January | |||
| Challenging Paths | |||
| Looking Forward to a New Year | |||
2022 | |||
| December | |||
| Email problems | |||
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| November | |||
| Hills Database Updated | |||
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| October | |||
| New Scafell Pike Walk | |||
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10/09/23
• Hills Database Updated
We've just imported the latest version of the Database of British and Irish hills. This release adds four more hill lists, plus we've now got the "drop" of each summit recorded.
We've just imported the latest version of the Database of British and Irish hills. We were previously on version 17.4 and we're now on 18 which was released on 29th July. Our apologies that it's taken a while to get this release online but we've made some changes with this import. read more ... |
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21/01/23
• Challenging Paths
Some paths on our maps and walks are challenging. How do we identify those?
There was an incident recently where Keswick MRT had to be called out after walkers got cragfast on a path on Barf and it made the news as they were using a hiking app that took them down the path. read more ... |
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07/11/22
• Hills Database Updated
We've just imported the latest version of the Database of British and Irish hills. There's a lot of changes, mostly minor, with tops moving and heights being more accurately measured.
We've just imported the latest version of the Database of British and Irish hills. We were previously on version 16.1 and we're now on 17.4 which was released on 14th July 2022. Our apologies that it's taken so long to get this release online but it was a big one. read more ... |
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20/10/21
• National Trust, Fords, Paths, and Toilets
We've recently put online a new release of our map tiles which are widely used on this site. This release includes a number of new features.
We've recently put online a new release of our map tiles which are widely used on this site and are also available in our GPS mapping app. We do new releases regularly, not least to pick up any changes in the data coming from OpenStreetMap and the latest updates from Ordnance Survey's OpenData programme. read more ... |
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09/07/21
• Labels and Footbridges
We've just put online a new release of our map tiles.
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 the latest updates from Ordnance Survey's OpenData programme. read more ... |
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05/06/19
• Yet Another Release of Mapping
We've just put online a new release of our map tiles. This release also includes a number of changes, some resulting in feedback from users after our last release (and the blog post includes a rather cool slider to let you view the changes side by side).
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 the latest updates from Ordnance Survey's OpenData programme. read more ... |
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