Author Topic: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square  (Read 339130 times)

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #875 on: 30 March, 2020, 10:19:11 am »
Too much information, infographic is nice. Totals 26868 tiles, 11*11and MC 408. West coast has lots of lochs so not bothered about max square 😄

Get a pedalo

I'll give it a week before he starts moaning about people having more squares than him, going out at the wrong time of day, not sticking to the rules or anything else that doesn't suit his way of thinking. He moans like fuck about all other forms of cycling so this will be just another platform for his greetin face.

Aye
@CorbieLinnRider

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #876 on: 30 March, 2020, 10:58:39 am »
Jimbo check when i joined yacf😊 Most don't  link veloviewer stats,
showing off if you do😉 as no one else sees your Veloviewer page. Still upset about Strava comments? hope you never deleted them especially the last 2. 👿

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #877 on: 30 March, 2020, 01:32:56 pm »
Most don't link veloviewer stats, showing off if you do😉 as no one else sees your Veloviewer page.

Absolutely
@CorbieLinnRider

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #878 on: 05 April, 2020, 12:58:51 pm »
Today's government mandatory exercise netted me 8 tiles, taking my total to 9910, with a cluster of 528.

Still on 17x17 though
@CorbieLinnRider

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #879 on: 05 April, 2020, 02:24:02 pm »
Readers of this thread may be interested to know that this week's Cycling Weekly (dated 2nd April with "How Good Are You?" as the main headline) has a four page article on "tile hunting". Thought it was a pretty good one too. 

Davef

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #880 on: 05 April, 2020, 03:18:08 pm »
I am up from 5x5 in February to 25x25. If I could face Luton town centre then 3 tiles will get me to 27x27. I have become a little bit addicted.


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Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #881 on: 10 April, 2020, 10:53:01 pm »
I cycled through Luton today to get to a couple of North Luton tiles to get me to 2 21*21 squares. 23 *23 should reasonably easy, getting more tiles in North London will be more challenging once the lockdown is over

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #882 on: 11 April, 2020, 07:14:32 am »
Succumbing to peer pressure, this was probably my last ride for a while.
Still on 17x17, but my cluster has increased by 4 to 532, and my total tiles have increased by 15 to 9925
Stay safe
@CorbieLinnRider

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #883 on: 11 April, 2020, 10:08:26 am »
Russell were they threating to write you out of the will👿, learnt a lot about people's attitudes during this. 😊

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #884 on: 12 April, 2020, 08:29:02 pm »
Couldn't resist the temptation of quiet roads and so headed out to East London early on Friday morning to harvest.
Barking and Dagenham, not probably an area that I would choose to ride to on a regular basis, but interesting to visit.
Highlight was riding through a deserted square mile (although to be fair early on a normal weekend/holiday I don't think it looks any more populous)
Bumped me up 1 to 48x48

Some photos:
https://www.flickr.com/gp/thesloth94/UJ146R

...seems like a lot more are now discovering the joys and trials of the Max Square. A good activity in these times of solo riding.

Pingu

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  • Mrs Pingu's domestique
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Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #885 on: 13 April, 2020, 12:48:55 pm »
Bagged 6 new tiles to take the max. square to 19. Max. cluster is up to 930. It's going to be difficult to get the square >20.

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #886 on: 13 April, 2020, 03:06:44 pm »
Yay! Finally! Two (I think) new squares for me! (Cammo Estate near Edinburgh Airport).
I "just" need to get the other two airport squares now. (Also the quiet roads mean I might go for the A702, normally a road to avoid...)

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #887 on: 13 April, 2020, 06:59:10 pm »
Russell were they threating to write you out of the will👿
Peers, not family

learnt a lot about people's attitudes during this. 😊
No, only confirms what I always suspected
@CorbieLinnRider

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #888 on: 13 April, 2020, 07:42:10 pm »
Been getting rid of some hard drives, used Ascent to log rides on the mac.  Transferred onto Strava and up almost 600 tiles to 27461. 2007 had some rides in France😁. Now i can delete the drives.

telstarbox

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Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #889 on: 13 April, 2020, 08:43:20 pm »
Wow!
2019 🏅 R1000 and B1000

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #890 on: 13 April, 2020, 09:07:16 pm »
Been getting rid of some hard drives, used Ascent to log rides on the mac.  Transferred onto Strava and up almost 600 tiles to 27461. 2007 had some rides in France😁. Now i can delete the drives.

15th place,  :thumbsup:
@CorbieLinnRider

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #891 on: 13 April, 2020, 11:39:00 pm »
I had better start looking at the European Velo routes now. Just a matter of waiting until life is back to normal. 😂

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #892 on: 14 April, 2020, 07:49:30 am »
I had better start looking at the European Velo routes now. Just a matter of waiting until life is back to normal. 😂

There's still some room for improvement in your part of the standings. It's very quiet a bit more up the table (and most of us still riding).

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #893 on: 20 April, 2020, 01:03:33 pm »
The farmland and associated tracks around here are OOB at the moment due to lambing, so i'm stuck on a Max square of 17x17.
I have been able to increase my cluster by 12 to 544, and my total tiles have increased by 13 to 9938.

I think I'll focus on getting my total tiles to 10000 for the time being.
@CorbieLinnRider

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #894 on: 20 April, 2020, 04:39:47 pm »
Well I got my two squares near the airport but it turns out that there are two Pentlands squares that I simply can't get to under current circumstances that block me on that side. There are other places I can go, though, and sometime I will get to those squares!

Davef

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #895 on: 20 April, 2020, 07:59:34 pm »
I am up to 29x29 - not bad considering it was 5x5 in Feb

There are only 4 tiles needed to get me to 31x31.

I have found the lockdown great for this - most of the gaps were caused by main roads which have been blissfully quiet recently.


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Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #896 on: 21 April, 2020, 04:30:19 pm »
So what's with the Reading bashing? Really that bad? When I come back to the UK, it's looking like that will be the destination.

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #897 on: 23 April, 2020, 09:20:22 pm »
Moved from 21*21 to 23*23 today after knocking of 8 squares, in ones and 2s. A couple required a bit of comedy off roading but it was a lovely day for it. 25* 25 should not be too hard, beyond that a lot of work to do.

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #898 on: 28 April, 2020, 10:33:36 am »
One benefit of the lockdown, is how quiet the trunk roads are.

So a trip up the A68 to Carfrae Mill on Saturday, and another cross-border raid on the A699 to Cornhill-on-Tweed on Sunday increased my tiles by 23 to 9961
Max square is still 17x17, but my cluster increased by 52, to 596.



@CorbieLinnRider

Re: VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square
« Reply #899 on: 28 April, 2020, 01:38:07 pm »
Like Revolution9, I made use of the quieter roads at the weekend - in my case, the A702 to West Linton. I picked off some random squares within the Edinburgh bypass last week and I've got my eye on a few more Midlothian squares which should up my cluster a bit more.