WalkLakes Blog

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 ...

A user of our GPX mapping software posted on our forum today. She said:  read more ...

Whether you would like to improve your own skills, or are a parent or teacher leading the next generation, during National Map Reading Week the Ordnance Survey will be providing help and support with all kinds of map reading and navigation.  read more ...

We've just imported the latest version of the Database of British and Irish hills which adds another 213 hills to our database including another 10 in the Lake District and makes lots of changes to the existing hill data. We were previously on version 14.1 and we're now on 15.3 which was released on 9th September.  read more ...

If you look at your OS map you will see a little diagram which looks like this. It indicates the direction, although not the actual angles, by which the three norths vary. So what's this all about? Let's start with some definitions.  read more ...

As you'll know already if you've bought an Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer or Outdoor Leisure map recently their latest 1:25,000 maps now include an option to download a copy of the map to your mobile device if you use their app. This is coming to their new edition 1:50,000 Landranger maps two weeks from today on Wednesday, 24th February.  read more ...