WalkLakes Blog

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 ...

Cicerone Press have helped the Lake District Search And Mountain Rescue Association (LDSAMRA) to update their leaflet Stay Safe and Enjoy the Fells (Adobe PDF, 869KB).  read more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You may notice the next time you visit that the banner ads you saw at the bottom of every page on the site have now gone and I thought it was worth talking a little about why we've done that.  read more ...