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Redtrails.com grows into Trails Co-Op

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:08:32 +0000

The folks at Redtrails.com have completed a nice makeover of the site, adding a cleaner integration with Google Maps and TopoFusion. If you have GPS tracks from your recent hikes, get them uploaded into this great community resource.

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Free Online UK OS Mapping

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:21:18 +0000

I recently found a wonderful site that provides a mashup of OS-GB maps alongside Google Satellite maps. Where’s The Path has a bunch of useful tools for route planning, allowing you to import/export GPX track data. It would be great to see this extended with footpath and walk information similar to the US site Red Trails. Speaking of which, checkout our upcoming Wonderland Trail hike in Google Earth. Stunning!

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SPOT route resurrected!

Fri, 29 May 2009 02:06:03 +0000

I have now successfully resurrected our actual TGO route from the SPOT web service. This was a lesson in taking a dependency on assumed API behavior rather than documented semantics. To cut a long story short the SPOT web service only provides access to the last 7 days of tracking information. However logging into your account page (https://login.findmespot.com) will gives the ability to download all data for the past 30 days. I’ve jiggered up the tracking page to show the actual route we took.

If you zoom in, you’ll note a couple of things:

We didn’t always follow the plotted route – this was because we were following our “low level foul weather” route since the weather was pretty poor.
On day 4 when leaving Cougie Lodge, we went via. Hilton Lodge rather than trying the “rough path” over the top. This was longer but saved us a great slog as we found from other Challengers.
On day 6 our route from Laggan to Kingussie avoided the heavy “A” road and instead took the military road that paralleled it. It was a lovely walk in glorious sunshine!

Enjoy!

[Large Map]

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