VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square

[Pingu]

Bollocks. There's one centred about here   https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/53.0844/-0.6934 that I physically cannot get, given that I would prefer not to be shot.

Can you not go along Highfield Drive off Coddington Lane?

One of my tile bagging rides involved a wee sneak into a rifle range here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.2291/-2.0679

[JonBuoy]

That would probably be my first shot approach.  There is also a footpath that just nibbles into the western edge of the tile but it looks like it might be quite a tortuous route to get along it.

[Bolt]

Bollocks. There's one centred about here   https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/53.0844/-0.6934 that I physically cannot get, given that I would prefer not to be shot.

There does seem to be some public access routes into that area?

[PeteBart]

Bollocks. There's one centred about here   https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/53.0844/-0.6934 that I physically cannot get, given that I would prefer not to be shot.

According to https://rideeverytile.com/tiles/heatmap/8160x5331 , one person has got it ticked in on VeloViewer. Unfortunately but the ride itself now seems to be hidden or deleted on Strava. Maybe the extreme north-west of the tile is outside the danger zone?

[Davef]

Some tiles are harder than others ...



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[Ben T]

Bollocks. There's one centred about here   https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/53.0844/-0.6934 that I physically cannot get, given that I would prefer not to be shot.

Can you not go along Highfield Drive off Coddington Lane?

One of my tile bagging rides involved a wee sneak into a rifle range here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.2291/-2.0679

Possibly, it's a non-road though and was on the road bike today.

Just wait till the flags are down and go for it, Ben.

Hmmm, they were down today but there was a locked gate and I chickened out of climbing over it.

[Greenbank]

Bollocks. There's one centred about here   https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/53.0844/-0.6934 that I physically cannot get, given that I would prefer not to be shot.

Fake a GPS tracklog that visits the NW corner and upload it to Strava.

[Ben T]

Bollocks. There's one centred about here   https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/53.0844/-0.6934 that I physically cannot get, given that I would prefer not to be shot.

Fake a GPS tracklog that visits the NW corner and upload it to Strava.

No point in that, nobody else see it do they, in fact less point than driving an audax even 

[Davef]

On a route I am planning for next week I will be crossing the rifle range enroute to the burial ground. Usefully above the start of the bridleway on the map there is a duck symbol.


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[andyoxon]

Anyone bagged this tile..?   

Urchfont by a oxon, on Flickr

[Deano]

One of the ranges near me has a Strava segment on it I'll bet that's possible, Andy.

[JonBuoy]

Ride Every Tile has it marked as one of the Impossibles

MOD Salisbury Plain Live Artillery Firing Range. Though there are times when the public access is allowed to the range, there are no paths within this tile.

[Jack_P]

On a route I am planning for next week I will be crossing the rifle range enroute to the burial ground. Usefully above the start of the bridleway on the map there is a duck symbol.


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Thought I recognised that one, I was sat on the corner of the wood above the burial ground having an isolated picnic mid ride only last weekend. Lots of signs but easy access. I might be wrong but I thought it was a rifle range linked to Cambridge colleges, so a quite period right now 

[Jack_P]

One of the ranges near me has a Strava segment on it I'll bet that's possible, Andy.

15-20 years ago we used to do an annual mountain bike race across the firing ranges of Salisbury, they would change the route every year and the organisers were given good access. It was the first week in January and you would pray for it to be frozen, some of the tank trap puddles were waist deep with no way round 

If only I had the GPS tracks from the five times I did it.

[Deano]

They laid off a bunch of rangers a few years ago, it makes finding out when they're accessible really hard. I've tended just to ride up and check that the flags are down (make sure at least two are down, they sometimes forget one), but I'll not be fucking about with Warcop ranges, that's some really heavy shit. Me and a mate were riding across Mickle Fell about 20 years ago when they started barraging one of the targets up the fell. I've never got down off a mountain so fast.

Mind you, I quite like the idea of applying for a permit to access it, think I'll frame it when I do: https://www.cumbria.gov.uk/roads-transport/public-transport-road-safety/countryside-access/openaccess/Warcop.asp

[Chris S]

The military love cyclists. A long time ago in a different lifetime, I cycled past Bodney Camp next to the Stanford ranges in Norfolk, and I happened to glance down in time to see several laser beads upon my person. Fun times.

[Greenbank]

On a route I am planning for next week I will be crossing the rifle range enroute to the burial ground. Usefully above the start of the bridleway on the map there is a duck symbol.

My lifetime GPS trace would have that square easily covered.

I grew up a few miles away and my best friend lived on New Road in Barton, there was just a field between his house and that rifle range.

We used to go snooping around the targets at the rifle range when we could see the red flag wasn't flying.

[baldcyclist]

Bollocks. There's one centred about here   https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/53.0844/-0.6934 that I physically cannot get, given that I would prefer not to be shot.

Can you not go along Highfield Drive off Coddington Lane?

One of my tile bagging rides involved a wee sneak into a rifle range here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/57.2291/-2.0679

Possibly, it's a non-road though and was on the road bike today.

Just wait till the flags are down and go for it, Ben.

Hmmm, they were down today but there was a locked gate and I chickened out of climbing over it.

You can get there like Pingu describes when the range isn't in use, I did it to get that square. The footpath in the top NW corner goes just into the corner of the square. It's also all gravel tracks if you don't mind lifting your bike over the gates/stiles. You can follow the tracks right through to Stapleford or come back into the wood in a little loop.

[Pedal Castro]

Bollocks. There's one centred about here   https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/53.0844/-0.6934 that I physically cannot get, given that I would prefer not to be shot.

Fake a GPS tracklog that visits the NW corner and upload it to Strava.

No point in that, nobody else see it do they, in fact less point than driving an audax even 

I'm sure I've run a range day there but long before personal GPS systems so not counting yet.

[Ivo]

Ride Every Tile has it marked as one of the Impossibles

MOD Salisbury Plain Live Artillery Firing Range. Though there are times when the public access is allowed to the range, there are no paths within this tile.

I've fielded one for this list which is already marked in red on the heatmap (tile 8481x5494, Inden brown coal mine) but not on the list (yet).
Interestingly the two adjacent tiles which I managed to bag are still lsited as grey.

[JonBuoy]

There are a couple (8161x5348 and 8163x5348) that I have been to that are still grey but:

Data date: 10th March 2020

[Pingu]

On a route I am planning for next week I will be crossing the rifle range enroute to the burial ground. Usefully above the start of the bridleway on the map there is a duck symbol.

My lifetime GPS trace would have that square easily covered.

I grew up a few miles away and my best friend lived on New Road in Barton, there was just a field between his house and that rifle range.

We used to go snooping around the targets at the rifle range when we could see the red flag wasn't flying.

Did you eat lots of haggis?

[Davef]

On a route I am planning for next week I will be crossing the rifle range enroute to the burial ground. Usefully above the start of the bridleway on the map there is a duck symbol.

My lifetime GPS trace would have that square easily covered.

I grew up a few miles away and my best friend lived on New Road in Barton, there was just a field between his house and that rifle range.

We used to go snooping around the targets at the rifle range when we could see the red flag wasn't flying.

Did you eat lots of haggis?

It is a planned ride for next week. I will take the portable barbecue in case I find the odd haggis that has strayed onto the rifle range and met an untimely end.


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[Ivo]

There are a couple (8161x5348 and 8163x5348) that I have been to that are still grey but:

Data date: 10th March 2020

But why is the tile which I marked as impossible then already coloured red? I marked this the day after riding the other two tiles.

[JonBuoy]

I guess that updating the heatmap involves sucking in all of the available Strava data and processing it whereas marking a tile as impossible is a separate (manual) process.