Veloviewer Tile Bagging?

Technically I could get the train to Abbey Wood and walk 3km and get a big tile, but I'm saving some of the bunch I'm missing out East for a ride, now I can ride again.

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I've just seen this thread and signed up to Squadrats this week - figure it's maybe a good way of keeping motivation going and finding some new places to run/ride.

A thing to remember is that you'll be going over the local ground a lot to get to further places, so don't worry too much about missing local tiles, they're easy to pick up on later runs/rides.

I used to plan my rides/runs for optimal coverage, now I just skip the occasional tile if it would make a really convoluted route as I know I can get it another time.

Also, you'll probably get to a point where increasing the square becomes a pain in the arse, at this point I switched more to focusing on increasing my "yard" rather than the square.

It does help with motivation though!

I also focus on the cluster for the small ones and square for the big. Haven't grown the square in a year though.

First tile ride in ages. Got caught in the pissing rain several times but I'm not made of salt, and I was warm enough.

+85 small tiles
+74 small tile yard
+3 on my small tile square (now 23x23)

Missed a couple along the way, one really close because the GPS tracker a bit off, but it's easy to get on another ride and I've probably benefited from a bit of GPS drift/jitter for other tiles.

Hopefully I can get out for another gentle ~20km tomorrow to grab a few more.

I'm not made of salt

I am. I did turbo.

If the fan blows away the salt then surely there's nothing left?

Fat, alcohol and rage. That's what's left.

From https://hugovk.github.io/tiles/ and https://hugovk.github.io/tiles/

For the L in LFGSS:

Explorer tile / big tile / Squadrat = OpenStreetMap level 14 tile
1.52 km
0.95 miles

little tile / Squadratinho = OpenStreetMap level 17 tile, 64 times smaller
0.19 km
0.12 miles

The biggest tiles are at the equator, 2.45km, and the smallest are at +- 85.05 latitude, 0.21km.

Above/below that, there is an untiled void.

It has to be said 'about a mile across' is fairly more-developed-countries-centric.

But in North London, a tile can be up to 13 m or 0.85 % bigger than in South London. I think.

I'm not made of salt

I am.

Is that why you do the hippy hippy shake?

I created a python script to grab all my data from squadrats, you can see when I first get into squadrats as I fill in the missing tiles to create a big square and so the yard area increased quite a bit..

This is completely useless data of course

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This is completely useless data of course

Not in this thread. :)

Statshunter has a similar graph, it's pretty clear when I got into it.

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Hungover to fuck yesterday. No squares.
Motivation today. Probably no squares.

Unique tiles doesn't tell the story for me since I'd been doing Audaxes for years before I found VeloViewer (indeed, you can see when I stopped doing any Audaxing).

However, you can see when I did find VeloViewer from the Max Square graph:

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And this one shows a good contrast between the big tile hunting (which I've pretty much had to stop doing) and the Squadratinho hunting closer to home.

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You’ve been off the bike for ages, pull yourself together man.

Bagged a few small tiles around Wimbledon Common to fill in a bunch of holes. There's a few I can't get that would require a bit of a trespass around the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club but I'll ignore them for now.

I did wander about in there today (there's a public footpath that cuts the course in two) and took an accidental detour down one of the access roads but it was clear there were too many people playing for me to just wander around other parts of the course necessary to get the tiles. Being a very part-time golf-wanker I could see that I'd just be causing a nuisance for the people playing. Best to leave it until I get round to actually playing there. Even Jonathan France hasn't got all of the small tiles there.

It seems you need multiple sports in this game. I've increased my square and yard with some SUP wankerage. I think it's too late for me to take up golf.

Were you doing the same routes religiously previously or did you increase your riding as well? The jump is massive.

Yeah, I was riding central London mostly during the pandemic and then the same loop along
the river after. All the gain is pretty much after April this year.

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I had planned a 300k the week after surgery but was told not to ride. We'd already snuck in a 75k ride (shhh) but after being told there's a small risk of loosening up the plate and needed another surgery I sacked it off.

Fri night was a lock-in at my local. Couldn't not get involved in that. Didn't eat enough though and I think I've got 10 years on most of the rest in there so I was pretty fucked Sat.

Did +2 my square with a 95k ride today though so weekend wasn't total write-off.

Going to attempt a 400k next weekend, because I'm an idiot. But it'll be flat so it might be doable.

I've always wanted to canoe the Murray, but I guess I could settle for the Thames :)

I don't mind a golf course raid. "Don't mind me, you wally's, I'm just here surveying trees for the council"

I need some in Sudbury too.

I saw the 95k on Strava. Good effort, and well done for finding the motivation (or did Mal find it for you?).