explore.ordnancesurvey.co.uk

[Steve]

I did a survey regarding OS launching a walking/cyclings etc route type
site some months back, so its interesting to actually now give it a go.
Still a beta, and has a good few faults, but not bad overall.

Might actually prove interesting especially for off road cyclists as its
often near impossible from a map to tell the difference between unrideable
bridleway and great singletrack. A little local knowledge goes a long way.


Steve

 

[Señor Chris]

Steve wrote:
> I did a survey regarding OS launching a walking/cyclings etc route type
> site some months back, so its interesting to actually now give it a go.
> Still a beta, and has a good few faults, but not bad overall.
>

<URL:http://explore.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/>

Looks quite useful - would be even better if you could download routes
in GPS format.

 

[John Wilton]

"Señor Chris" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Steve wrote:
>> I did a survey regarding OS launching a walking/cyclings etc route type
>> site some months back, so its interesting to actually now give it a go.
>> Still a beta, and has a good few faults, but not bad overall.
>>
>
> <URL:http://explore.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/>
>
> Looks quite useful - would be even better if you could download routes in
> GPS format.

I like the draggable OS maps but these are available on Multimap in a
larger, more usable window. I would also like to see a road following
ability like Mapmyride or Toporoute.

Any idea if it is possible to delete routes ?

 

[Steve]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:34:35 +0100, John Wilton wrote:

> "Señor Chris" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> [10 quoted lines suppressed]
>
> I like the draggable OS maps but these are available on Multimap in a
> larger, more usable window. I would also like to see a road following
> ability like Mapmyride or Toporoute.
>
> Any idea if it is possible to delete routes ?

It appears you cannot yet alter or delete routes, its an obvious problem so
I expect them to fix that one.

As for GPS, the original survey talked about import and export to GPS so I
guess they have the idea of it. I don't know if they plan to do that
though.

The other obvious problem is that its 1:50, given that they own all the
maps I don't see why they couldn't have used 1:25.

Steve

 

[Clive George]

"Steve" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> The other obvious problem is that its 1:50, given that they own all the
> maps I don't see why they couldn't have used 1:25.

Apparently the OS are a bit protective of their 1:25 mapping. Eg you can't
get electronic versions for a sensible price - they'll do lots of small
areas, but if you want the UK, rather than 600 quid or so (=150 quid for
1:50 x 4), it ends up more like 10,000 quid.

GRRR.

</old rant>

cheers,
clive

 

[Steve]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:57:39 +0100, Clive George wrote:

> "Steve" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>> [2 quoted lines suppressed]
>
> Apparently the OS are a bit protective of their 1:25 mapping. Eg you can't
> get electronic versions for a sensible price - they'll do lots of small
> areas, but if you want the UK, rather than 600 quid or so (=150 quid for
> 1:50 x 4), it ends up more like 10,000 quid.

You would have thought they would have put it on their own website though,
it not like everyone is oging to steal it in tiny 2"x3" chunks!

I've been peering at that new satmap device, 1:25 county size is £90, 1:50
is £60 for 17 counties!

Steve

 

[Señor Chris]

Steve wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:57:39 +0100, Clive George wrote:
>
>> "Steve" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> Apparently the OS are a bit protective of their 1:25 mapping. Eg you can't
>> get electronic versions for a sensible price - they'll do lots of small
>> areas, but if you want the UK, rather than 600 quid or so (=150 quid for
>> 1:50 x 4), it ends up more like 10,000 quid.
>
> You would have thought they would have put it on their own website though,
> it not like everyone is oging to steal it in tiny 2"x3" chunks!

It is available on their Get-a-map service, so it's odd they haven't
included it this time:

<URL:http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/>

 

[Julian Gallop]

Steve wrote:
> I did a survey regarding OS launching a walking/cyclings etc route type
> site some months back, so its interesting to actually now give it a go.
> Still a beta, and has a good few faults, but not bad overall.
>
> Might actually prove interesting especially for off road cyclists as its
> often near impossible from a map to tell the difference between unrideable
> bridleway and great singletrack. A little local knowledge goes a long way.
>
>
> Steve
It would be even better if it did not restrict browser versions.

"Unfortunately your browser is not currently supported by Ordnance
Survey Explore.

We don't want this to spoil your experience of our website; the browsers
currently supported are: Firefox 1.5.x (OS X), Firefox 2.0.x (all
platforms) and Internet Explorer 6 and 7."

Julian Gallop

 

[Andrew May]

Julian Gallop wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>> I did a survey regarding OS launching a walking/cyclings etc route type
>> site some months back, so its interesting to actually now give it a go.
>> Still a beta, and has a good few faults, but not bad overall.
>>
>> Might actually prove interesting especially for off road cyclists as its
>> often near impossible from a map to tell the difference between
>> unrideable
>> bridleway and great singletrack. A little local knowledge goes a long
>> way.
>>
>>
>> Steve
> It would be even better if it did not restrict browser versions.
>
> "Unfortunately your browser is not currently supported by Ordnance
> Survey Explore.
>
> We don't want this to spoil your experience of our website; the browsers
> currently supported are: Firefox 1.5.x (OS X), Firefox 2.0.x (all
> platforms) and Internet Explorer 6 and 7."
>
> Julian Gallop

But it does manage to work with Opera if Opera tells the site that it is
Internet Explorer. So why bother with the restriction? Surely they can
be arsed to test it?

Andrew

 

[MJ Ray]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Se=F1or_Chris?= <[email protected]>
> <URL:http://explore.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/>
>
> Looks quite useful - would be even better if [...]

Looks quite useless:

Unfortunately your browser is not currently supported by Ordnance Survey
Explore.

and the "continue" link just redisplays the same page.

These muppets should be required to FreeOurData.org.uk so they are subject to
fair competition from competent webmasters, who test against web standards as
well as verify it works in particular popular browsers.

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