VeloViewer Explorer Score and Max Square

[Ivo]

Yesterday did a bunch of tiles in Luxemburg. I managed to miss 1 municipality though so I have to return.
1036 done, 2 to go (Fischbach LUX and Texel NL)

[Solivagant]

I'm not a Strava premium member, I've been using RWGPS, uploading my routes to BRouter and overlaying the veloviewer KML to check.

I've now come across this site https://www.statshunters.com/ and I like it.

It connects to Strava and as you might expect there's loads of stats but also on the map settings it already has the option to show your tiles info and you can upload your GPX routes onto open street or google maps.

Here's their youtube overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e63UKfvPw9g

I'm still bagging clumps of tiles round the edges and up to 17x17 now, next target 20x20.

[Davef]

I bagged a missing tile on Hampstead Heath and my cluster cascaded all the way into central London. Very pleasing.

[Pingu]

32 new tiles today boosted the max cluster by 74 to 1094.

[citoyen]

Did a 75km loop today with the aim of filling in a hole in my cluster. I was using Komoot to deliver navigation instructions via my earpiece and annoyingly missed a few turns, which meant I missed out on four tiles that should have been on my route. Pah!

Anyway, it was a lovely ride none the less - found a couple of great sections that I've never ridden before but will definitely want to ride again.

Also, I have another route planned that I can use to pick off those four tiles I missed without too much of a diversion And it's all good excuses to get out on the bike.

[L CC]

Got 63 new tiles in East Anglular, largely on roads I'd previously ridden in the heady carefree days before things needed to be on Strava to happen.

It was bloody hot.

I'm prepping the Southern End for The Great Joinup.

[Deano]

A cheeky sleepover at an always-open shootin' hut in the North Pennines has pushed me up to 42x42.

More significantly, I reckon, I've filled the gap between Bollihope Common and Swinhope (high land between Teesdale and Weardale). I kinda thought it would be impossible, even though it's access land, as there are hardly any tracks, only one legit bridleway, and a dirty great quarry covering a big lump of it.

Actually, I did miss one tile, but it's the one with the legit bridleway through it. To get the rest, I had to scale stone walls and wriggle under fences (out and back), then  all the rest. Tis done.

[Pingu]

52 new tiles, max cluster up to 1147.

[quilkin]

Since 'discovering' Veloviewer and Explorer tiles a year or so ago I've been endeavouring to complete Cornwall. The other day I increased my total tiles by 40 and my max cluster by 54, which was pleasing alhough a hot day in very hilly territory (highlighted ride on my image). I still have some cycling to complete near Bude, and will need some walks along bits of coast path and over Bodmin Moor:

Does anyone know if I can get rid of the straight lines caused by Strava blips? (they don't add inaccurate squares, but just look messy!)

[Kim]

Does anyone know if I can get rid of the straight lines caused by Strava blips? (they don't add inaccurate squares, but just look messy!)

Split the track into two parts, and upload them separately.

[L CC]

You can get ride of the connection lines by editing the track - in Strava if it's at the start/end you can crop it, otherwise you need dark magic tools to clean up the track.

I've never bothered.

There's something appealing to my completionist tendencies about filling in a peninsular like that.

[JonBuoy]

Strava has a riding splitting tool as well as a ride cropping tool.  It is easy to use but the one time I did use it a lot of my segment times were very messed up.  This may have been a coincidence.  It didn't bother me too much but apparently it did bother the people whose KOM's I acquired.  Strava are investigating.

[andyoxon]

On 34x34, & 1582 cluster now. 

Something I've noticed about my explorer route planning is that I now no longer really look at the elevations much; just set what seems to be a fairly efficient track for tile bagging & ride...  Still not much good at climbing though    

Last explorer ride, I discovered part way through in Cotswolds that I'd acidentally managed to route on a footpath, so selected a bridleway (on phone map) at the roadside.  Rode this, but bridleway seemed to end on GPS, took alternative route to the road - came across elderly gent out for a walk.  Ended up having a cycling chat; turns out he used to do a lot of cycling post WW2 , & frequently cycled from Liverpool area up to Scotland to see relatives.   

[quilkin]

Something I've noticed about my explorer route planning is that I now no longer really look at the elevations much; just set what seems to be a fairly efficient track for tile bagging & ride... 

Yes, that's how I ended up climbing over 2000 metres on a 95km ride on a very hot Sunday last week

[Kamoshika]

Since 'discovering' Veloviewer and Explorer tiles a year or so ago I've been endeavouring to complete Cornwall.

Good effort! I'm working on something similar in Devon, but have got a lot further to go than you, especially in the far west of the county. Parts of Dartmoor are going to be tricky too. Currently on 6863 tiles total, max square 21x21, max cluster: 1018.

[andyoxon]

Something I've noticed about my explorer route planning is that I now no longer really look at the elevations much; just set what seems to be a fairly efficient track for tile bagging & ride... 

Yes, that's how I ended up climbing over 2000 metres on a 95km ride on a very hot Sunday last week

Lumpy!   

[citoyen]

Parts of Dartmoor are going to be tricky too.

Depends how much you enjoy being chased/fired at by the MOD, I guess!

[Pingu]

26 new tiles today, max cluster up to 1216.

[Pingu]

Max cluster now 1274 

[paddyirish]

A week's staycation and some well chosen early morning 1-2hr rides and a few family walks, mean that I added another ~100 tiles and reached the Kilocluster (© Pingu) yesterday.

[SoreTween]

Signed up to Strava and VeloViewer, blimey that looks addictive!
3287 tiles
8x8 square
104 cluster

Addictive is exactly what I need to get me moving, I hope.

[Davef]

Max square is now 47x47 and my current year (2020 only) max cluster is 10th at 1337. Just need to wash the bridleway off my bike.

[Pingu]

37 new tiles today, cluster up to 1360.

[Zed43]

Zig-zagging over peat country yesterday in a DIY300 to fill some holes and bring the square to 30x30 and the cluster to 1700. Now I'm boxed in by a lake and the Eems estuary (in the East), so it's time to move South (and maybe learn to kayak, already learned it's a Bad Idea™️ to hit big open water without experience and training)

[quixoticgeek]

Zig-zagging over peat country yesterday in a DIY300 to fill some holes and bring the square to 30x30 and the cluster to 1700. Now I'm boxed in by a lake and the Eems estuary (in the East), so it's time to move South (and maybe learn to kayak, already learned it's a Bad Idea™️ to hit big open water without experience and training)

Maybe time to consider wadlopen?

J