Veloviewer Tile Bagging?

We did a walk in town on Sunday that I nabbed a few with. Some of the golf courses around here, I've just walked to, waited for dudes to tee off and walked over. I legitimately couldn't work out how to get out of another course yesterday so just rode up to the bloke teeing off and said "how the fuck do i get out of this place?"

Locked allotments/gardens are another one. Guess I'll need to wait for an open day for them or something.

Increased my 'little tiles' square before the rain.

Cut my legs up bush bashing to get another square and basically just kissed two sides of it. No dice. Boo! I'll have to have another go - will wear long trousers I think. #fknblackberries

Weirdly ran into Battersea Brewing bloke I met at Substation on Sunday. Spotted the Dodo jumper and recognised his face. Small world.

Also chuckled at this sign.

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Inspired by the up tick in the thread I collected 8 more today down Guildford/ Goldaming way

Wentworth was pretty easy from memory, but they may have tightened up things since I went through there ~5+ years ago.

No, it's still easy. I did it this summer, a slight early morning detour on a 200km ride to Dorset

Looks at this mess.

That's ~12 years of my normal riding with a GPS.

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It's really easy to pick off these kinds of lone tiles with a few rides, however they tend to be quite uninspiring bitty rides (but better than a turbo).

Just plotting a route to hit all these piddling gaps is going to take longer than riding it.

So looking at tiny squares ... how are people getting the watery ones? Like the ones in the middle of the Thames? Not sure I've the constitution for Thames swimming

I haven't tried yet but I think many can be got with a walk along the foreshore at a low tide.

walk along the foreshore at a low tide.

You're allowed to do that? I always figured they'd restrict it to stop morons getting stuck.

Kayak?

(Anything solely human powered is ok.)

Now top 20 in squads and squadinos. Obviously the weather is shit on the first weekend I might actually be able to target tiles.

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Anyone used EveryTile?

Walking on the Thames foreshore is allowed. Picking up things or digging requires a permit although applications are closed.

https://www.pla.co.uk/Environment/Thames-foreshore-permits

Can I visit the foreshore without a permit?

While you may visit the foreshore, you may not search the tidal Thames foreshore from Teddington to the Thames Barrier - in any way for any reason. This includes all searching, metal detecting, ‘beachcombing’, scraping and digging.

There are more details on that page including one bit to avoid because of a dangerous structure

Ah, cheers. Interesting. I assumed as much, having seen some peeps metal detecting many years ago.

What's the weather like, I'm pondering doing another ride at lunch to get some more little'uns.

Just plotting a route to hit all these piddling gaps is going to take longer than riding it.

I find it much easier to plan than to actually bother going for the ride. I've had my next 6 tile hunting rides planned for over a year, just CBA (and don't have the time) to get out there and do them.

I end up with loads of stuff like:

I was exaggerating a bit. I guess it's just the silly amount of gaps I keep looking at and the weeks I've not gone for a big ride that annoy me (I want it now, Mr Wonka! Now!).
I'm sure, given a couple of weekends, I could do a pretty good amount of 'gap filling'.

It was a hassle to set up with the given instructions so that at one point I gave up setting it as it was intended and compiled a custom one from source code, with my tile data baked in. Then I found out about http://www.shmo.de/EveryTile/ which makes it easy.

What is this you're using there to see tiles and your planned routes?

I think I went through it a while back, will go find the links.

I use gpxeditor.co.uk to plot the routes and display the tiles, but I wrote something that downloaded my explorer KML file from VV and then parsed it into individual "islands" around the unvisited tiles.

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16098960/

There's a chrome plugin that overlays your squadrats onto ridewithgps which is handy for route planning.

When the only roads in the area work all the twentyfour tiles in the area; I don’t remember this happened before.

Thanks. I've been just eyeballing route planning which has been mainly fine but recently missed some tiles which are now in the middle of nowhere.
I've generally found the random routes I plan avoiding the places I've been inevitably go down some super little lanes etc. And of course also some horrendous B roads, but they usually feel worth it for the good stuff, like these sorts of things:

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Grabbed another 69 at lunch.

#oohnurse

Just the little ones, mind you. My 20x20 won't be growing any time soon.

Looks like I might be shafted with some railyards.

I guess I can just expand eastwards and copy Jonathan France's (isn't he on here?) ubersquare:

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