Map Lovers - this is the thread for you

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9:54am, 12 Oct 2020
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McGoohan
... but now you've got enough on your 'plate' ;-)
Oct 2020
9:56am, 12 Oct 2020
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Incognito
Is there any love here for the A-Z adventure atlases?

They are normal OS maps, but in book form instead of large sheets of paper that are difficult to fold. I have a small collection of them for some on the national trails I will one day visit, and also Snowden.
Oct 2020
9:58am, 12 Oct 2020
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McGoohan
Yes - I've got one for the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path - the Aurum Press guide only goes as far as the old end of the NCP at Cromer. Now, with the advent of the England Coast Path, pretty much the whole of the coastline is now National Trail.
Oct 2020
10:17am, 12 Oct 2020
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Incognito
I often spend some time updating openstreetmap, particularly adding new paths, benches ect.. as I discovered them while out running.

This is a route I ran about a month ago, on the left is how the map looked at the time, on the right is how it looks now after I've spent a couple of days running up and down each path to add them to OSM.
Oct 2020
10:51am, 12 Oct 2020
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Badger
Nice work! Someone has done the same job for the park next to work. My big contribution there was changing a path marked bikes only to show that foot access is allowed, so run routing works properly now.
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10:57am, 12 Oct 2020
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Diogenes
it must have taken you a while to dig those lakes.
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10:59am, 12 Oct 2020
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um
Making maps (or correcting them) is fun with OSM. I did find it took some time to filter through to the Fetch version though.
Oct 2020
11:02am, 12 Oct 2020
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Diogenes
[Oops, now I feel foolish, they are not lakes but a ball court and some kind of skate park]
Oct 2020
11:04am, 12 Oct 2020
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McGoohan
I'd naively never realised that Open Street Map meant just that - Open to editing.
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11:06am, 12 Oct 2020
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BigChiefRunningBore
Some nice Map gifts out there - I have a London map of trees - its actually called Great Trees of London Map published by Blue Crow Media. I think there is a range as I have also seen a Brutalist architecture one.

About This Thread

Maintained by McGoohan
Do you love maps? Is planning the journey the best bit? Yeah, course it is.

This is the thread for YOU! (Original idea: Trin)

Here are some Fetchie-sourced links:

Buying maps
Dash4it: dash4it.co.uk (Oranj)
Yellow Publications: yellowpublications.co.uk (GM)
New Zealand: data.gns.cri.nz (Jenelopy)

Links to online mapping
DEFRA online map: magic.defra.gov.uk (Cerretonia)
Where's The Path: wtp2.appspot.com (Homer)
Lightning Maps: lightningmaps.org (McG)
Ordnance Survey: osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
ViewRanger: viewranger.com (-Monty-)
Swiss Maps: map.schweizmobil.ch (Homer)
The Underground Map (London through the ages) (Dio): theundergroundmap.com

Historical maps
Archi UK Old Maps: archiuk.com (Homer)
Historical maps: maps.nls.uk (Creature of the Hill)
British Library Collection: flickr.com
ianvisits.co.uk (Chrisull)

Routes
British Pilgrimage Trust: britishpilgrimage.org (McG)
Slow ways (connecting towns): slowways.uk (Sigh/GordonG)

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