Google Map Listing All Great UK Roads
Discussion
Had another run out on Sunday and I think I've come round to your way of thinking on the B158. The surface is crap until you get to that end bit. Unfortunately the bleedin' cyclists were out racing so I had to be on best behavour.
Still need to try that one from Royston to Saffron Walden.
Still need to try that one from Royston to Saffron Walden.
I sympathise with Slippydiff here - it would be nice to keep these gems to ourselves. But you ain't never gonna stem the flow of information spread that is made so easy by t'internet.
I suppose evo started it themselves, by mentioning the routes they'd used as part of the 'story' and coupling it with fantastic envy-inducing pictures - I know the first thing I did upon reading some of those articles was to get the road atlas out, find them and mark them for future reference. But that's ok, cos I'm one of us select few aren't I?
The RAC analogy is a good one - I used to go and trek across Wales following the rally to every other stage too. I don't even bother going anymore; too much congestion, too expense, too commercial.
But that's the way of the information-sharing world we live in. I suppose the only question is: does publishing the routes on here serve to share them within a small community of driving enthusiasts to enjoy, or is the 'community' so large that we'll end up causing tailbacks on the Triangle with speed cameras every few yards?
Maybe we should just go and enjoy these places while we can eh? Before they are heavily policed, and while we can still [just] afford the petrol and tax....and not worry about the future too much.
I suppose evo started it themselves, by mentioning the routes they'd used as part of the 'story' and coupling it with fantastic envy-inducing pictures - I know the first thing I did upon reading some of those articles was to get the road atlas out, find them and mark them for future reference. But that's ok, cos I'm one of us select few aren't I?
The RAC analogy is a good one - I used to go and trek across Wales following the rally to every other stage too. I don't even bother going anymore; too much congestion, too expense, too commercial.
But that's the way of the information-sharing world we live in. I suppose the only question is: does publishing the routes on here serve to share them within a small community of driving enthusiasts to enjoy, or is the 'community' so large that we'll end up causing tailbacks on the Triangle with speed cameras every few yards?
Maybe we should just go and enjoy these places while we can eh? Before they are heavily policed, and while we can still [just] afford the petrol and tax....and not worry about the future too much.
As implied above, I think it would be very naive to expect the local BiB not to know where the good roads are, half of them are probably car or bike nuts themselves. Plus there are tons of 'resources' like this for bikers already.
It also seems that (North Wales aside!) they tend to be fairly reasonable and they're unlikely to worry unless you're going mad. It's simply not worth going after people doing a few mph over NSL on a twisty b-road when every mono-speeder on the planet does 40mph through a 30-limit near a school.
It also seems that (North Wales aside!) they tend to be fairly reasonable and they're unlikely to worry unless you're going mad. It's simply not worth going after people doing a few mph over NSL on a twisty b-road when every mono-speeder on the planet does 40mph through a 30-limit near a school.
Just wanted to post my appreciation of this map 
I went to castle combe over the weekend, camping sat night then back sunday, so thought i would make the drive home worth while, so planed my own route:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en...
(Hope thats the right link)
Unfortunatly, I ended up with 2 extra passangers and all the camping gear which put a dampner on the drive (Lightness is king!) and then had to slow down for the travel sick, also had passengers wanting to go straight home so the plan came to a halt around Llandrindod wells
The roads i did get to drive were fantastic, enough to make me think i will be doin a long run on my own in the near future to make up for the ruined day
Also ended up on the A483 which was full of looney bikers and a crackin road so will add that to the map
Cheers
chris
I went to castle combe over the weekend, camping sat night then back sunday, so thought i would make the drive home worth while, so planed my own route:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en...
(Hope thats the right link)
Unfortunatly, I ended up with 2 extra passangers and all the camping gear which put a dampner on the drive (Lightness is king!) and then had to slow down for the travel sick, also had passengers wanting to go straight home so the plan came to a halt around Llandrindod wells
The roads i did get to drive were fantastic, enough to make me think i will be doin a long run on my own in the near future to make up for the ruined day
Also ended up on the A483 which was full of looney bikers and a crackin road so will add that to the map
Cheers
chris
Sorry to bring up an old topic, but I've started using a new site called DrivingRoads ( http://www.drivingroads.co.uk)
Just download the route onto your TomTom, or Garmin, and off you go
Just download the route onto your TomTom, or Garmin, and off you go
Edited by Jamz on Monday 29th December 19:38
It looks like a good and relevant site – I don't think you need to be misleading about it being your own site.
I'd like to see some longer routes. Have you thought about following the model of something like iStockPhoto.com – encourage users to submit routes and then give them a cut of their sales? Web 2.0 and all that.
I'd like to see some longer routes. Have you thought about following the model of something like iStockPhoto.com – encourage users to submit routes and then give them a cut of their sales? Web 2.0 and all that.
Jamz said:
I just didn't want to seem like I was "spamming" the link.
You are
Might as well be up-front about it and hope that people think it's relevant and decent, which I do. Folk will always sniff it out anyway.I've just planned a short Welsh getaway and I'd have found it very useful if there were longer (day-long) drives that I could piece together to form a longer itinerary – something I do a lot of.
If you give people the incentive of, say, a 50% slice of the price on sales of their itinerary then you could grow your library to a substantial size (with itineraries of all styles, lengths and locations), improve the quality and authority (through user reviews) and then start to earn something from it. It'd need to be big to do that (which means user-contributions) and with the incentive thing going on you'd also have your contributors marketing their itineraries on your behalf.
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