Veloviewer Tile Bagging?

A phenomenon of UK roads, the no footpath thing.

I’ve been looking at my Germany grid and it needs a bit of work…

green square is where you are currently, and you have 'completed' it, red is 'uncompleted' sugggesting that it doesn't know where you have been already - the kml transfer has failed either exporting out of veloviewer or inputting it into the garmin. If you can I would follow the guide exactly and use the garmin express software to transfer. hope u get it working :)

Thanks - will have to give it a go later!

For the adventurous types among us

Isn't the unique spirit a million u-turns in people's drives?

I saw that. I'm not sure walking around overgrown bridleways wearing a sling counts.

No poking sticks through fences?

Is that what @middleofnowhere is up to these days?

Where's that and why? I've usually found other ways into squares so I've never had to do anything that silly. There's a couple that I'm stuck on but that's more to do with not wanting to be answering questions about why I'm in a school or why I'm in a postal depot or some oil sheiks backyard or whatever. I guess lots of tile baggers probably take more risks

Got another few tiles today on foot by taking central line to Debden. Pretty dull but I'm not sure about riding yet. I've now got a saddle on the Ogre so I'm possibly going to try a short ride tomorrow and see how that goes.

I am doing bigger tiles on longer rides on the weekend and all roads during the week because I can still do that near my house. But it's a bit annoying that Wandrer includes clearly fenced off roads
or every lane on motorways as a separate track.
Last night I cycled straight into the bus depot in Morden Wharf and wobbled around all the parked
busses to make sure the GPS track sticks and none of the cleaners there said anything.

I am going to need a very long stick for this one. The dashed lines on the bottom are also somewhere
behind a fence and overgrown.

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I've found lots of stuff that OSM will let you route to but is private or blocked for some other reason. I try to update the OSM maps when I notice this kind of thing. The fiddly little tiles I was doing on lunch breaks take a bunch of goes to find a way in often. I'm stuck on a bunch of stuff now because it's private so I won't be expanding that square, it'll probably just jump into central london or something as I cover more area.

Last night I cycled straight into the bus depot in Morden Wharf and wobbled around all the parked
busses to make sure the GPS track sticks and none of the cleaners there said anything.

Sometimes, I think we need a 'shit tile-obsessives say' thread, but then I realise it's right here. :)

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It creeps up on you, I first thought it's the most pointless thing and now my rides look
like this

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tile-obsessives

Earlier this evening I visited this grave. It is at the point where four big squares I didn't previously have meet.

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Was a post on squadrats FB last year. Some military compound

https://www.strava.com/activities/8906735452
https://squadrats.com/activity/Eizh8vZbdMqOsWAnZBST

News from Hel
Karo & Adam have just seized two military-grade squadratinhos 🎖️
We've learned that to collect the first one, they needed to use a technique called "a phone on a stick." While the second one was possible thanks to a method called "running away from the guards."
The location is crucial here. It's Hel. A funny-looking peninsula on the Baltic Sea with a long military history.

• We've been mapping Hel for a few years, and except for the Polish President's Holiday Resort, we'll be done with Hel this year. To achieve this, we needed to do a lot walking on beaches, through thickets, and around military areas.
  

This is the opposite annoyance, large parts of my route don't register because it's not aware
of those paths existing.

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What are you looking at? I do all my routing in RWGPS with Squadrats plugin.

Grew my square by another 1x1 yesterday thanks to a little ride out west. God damn it's so much easier to get tiles with a bike compared to walking!

Thanks to @gojira54 - I got the EveryTile app working properly. 🦖

Picked a few squares on a Radlett, Hemel, Redbourn, Hatfield, Hadley route - didn’t extend the x by grid though.

This is on Wandrer which doesn't track squares but the roads you travel but sometimes it's a bit off, I think those were mostly signed paths.
On the other hand it goes overboard in some denser areas

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Ah, I see. Is it configured to only recognise roads or something? Perhaps you need more detail in the OSM maps or whatever it uses? Getting tiles is enough of a ball ache, I'm not doing whole streets too :)

I does have even faint trails in parks but maybe the south of London is unexplored wilderness.

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Haven't charged my Garmin and about to go out to get some tiles

Is there a phone app I can use to record my route?