All,
I just thought I'd let you all know about the charity cycle ride that I'll be doing this summer in aid of the British Heart Foundation and all of the associated mapping I'm planning to do for OSM as a result of it. This Sunday I'm setting off from Canterbury to go via Dover, Land's End, John O'Groats, and then back to Canterbury - about 3000 miles. I'm keeping a blog online, which also has a link to my sponsorship page if you're interested in supporting me: http://www.threecornerscycleride.org.uk/ So, on to my planned OSM coverage. I'm using a mixture of the NCN and other roads where the NCN is inconvenient. I hope to cover these stretches of the NCN: - Kent's RCR16 from Canterbury to Dover. Already fully mapped, but more tracks never do any harm! - NCR2 from Dover to Shoreham-by-Sea. Also following the small sections of NCR2 that exist as far west as Poole. - Following the sections of NCR25 that exist from Poole to Shillingstone. This should improve our NCR25 coverage by several miles. - A tiny section of Dorset's RCR41 west of Okeford Fitzpaine, which I hope there'll be signing evidence for on the ground. - A short section of NCR26 between Bradford Abbas and Yeovil, though we've already got this mapped. - NCR27 from near Exbourne to Hatherleigh. - NCR3 from Hatherleigh via Bude to Bodmin following braids that we currently don't have mapped. - NCR32 from Bodmin via Padstow and Newquay to Truro. This should add considerably to our coverage of this route. - NCR3 braid south from Truro to Bissoe, which we haven't got any coverage for yet. - NCR3 between Truro and Land's End, using a different braid into Truro. This'll add quite a bit to our coverage of this route. - NCR3 from London Apprentice (a little south of St. Austell) to near Bodmin. - A small portion of NCR2 in Exeter. - NCR3 from Tiverton to Cossington, mainly mapped, but I believe I'll cover one new braid. - NCR33 from Cossington to Brean, which isn't mapped at all yet. - NCR26 from Winscombe to RCR10 near Clevedon. - Short stretches of RCR10 near Clevedon, but trying to concentrate on the upmapped NCR26 spur into Portishead. - NCR41 and RCR10 over the bridge with the M49 to the point that that the routes diverge. Following RCR10 back to where they converge again near Elberton. Following NCR41 from here to Gloucester, which looks like it's pretty much mapped already. - Largely unmapped NCR45 from Stourport-on-Severn to Bridgnorth. - Unmapped NCR55 from Telford to Lilleshall. - RCR75 from Newport to just west of Audlem, closing the gap in our coverage here. - RCR75 from Nantwich to Winsford, also closing a gap in our coverage. - A short portion of NCR5 between Winsford and Northwich, which we've already got mapped. - Join our existing RCR70 coverage near Great Budworth, leaving near High Legh. - A short section of unmapped RCR82 at Shevington, near Wigan. Also a tiny portion of RCR91 on my way out towards Eccleston. - Fully mapped RCR90 from NW of Preston to where it meets NCR6. NCR6 from here to Hollins Lane, then rejoining RCR90 again shortly afterwards to NCR69. Again all fully mapped. - A tiny portion of unmapped NCR71 at King's Meaburn. - A small portion of already-mapped NCR7 at Langwathby. - Unmapped NCR72 from near Warwick Bridge to near Carlisle. - Unmapped NCR7 from Carlisle to Longtown. - Fully mapped NCR74 from Gretna to A70 junction near Douglas. - Fully mapped NCR75 from Uddingston through Glasgow to NCR7. NCR7 from here to where it joins NCR1 relatively near Inverness, which should vastly improve our coverage of the route. - NCR1 between John O'Groats back to Canterbury, with these exceptions: NCR65 from Middlesbrough to Hessle, bits of NCR13 and RCR30 between Dereham and Sudbury [Hopefully this'll mean that we'll have 100% coverage by the end of my travels, if you except the bit on the Orkneys :-)] Aside from the NCN mapping my route also takes in many roads that we haven't got any coverage for yet. I'll also be trying to get lots of POIs along the way: pubs, phone boxes, postboxes (with refs, of course), my overnight accommodation (with postcodes when I get their business cards), together with speed limits, height restrictions, etc. I'll be entering my data from the road, but probably accumulating a bit of a backlog at the same time because I've only got rest days planned approximately once a week. Also, for anybody that's within easy reach of London and Canterbury, I've organised for one of our local cycle campaign's group rides to coincide with my final day of cycling (22-Aug). So, I'd be glad to meet others on this day. Details here: http://www.spokeseastkent.org.uk/events.php It should be a fun OSM summer! Cheers, Gregory
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