Veloviewer Tile Bagging?

disappointingly although my tiles increased from 12 to 34 my max square is still 2x2

Finally made a bit of progress for the year and moved on 21x21, it’s taken about 400 miles of riding for that extract square. Next target is the top right hand corner, Alton / Borden area, lots of nasty looking roads.

I’ve now got myself element roam, which makes navigation so much easier, who know! Target for the year is 24x24 just going to be riding north!

45.989 miles per tile lol

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There's some great gravel riding around Bordon if that's your thing. Also some stunning roads.

Good stuff.
My current stats are
7022 tiles, average of 2.899 km per tile
Max square 23x23
Max Cluster: 748

Not sure what to make my target, maybe 30x30 by the end of the year

Map view

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A long weekend of three 100km days & I've managed to join my Leeds & Manchester chunks, & catch a few gravelly ones south of Wakefield. Decent improvement on two months ago. There are no low-hanging fruit left.

Tiles: 8587 9043
Average distance per tile: 4.570 4.483
Max square: 27x27 29x29
Max cluster: 1224 1479

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Really impressive. I wish we had strava when in lived in Halifax(10 plus years ago) most of my riding was mountain biking back then but would be interested to see where I’d been.

I’m up to 23x23 now, and 24x24 is just a couple of squares away now.

I’m off to the Isle of Wight for a couple of days in a few weeks. Hoping to try and complete it.

This is starting to take quite a bit of plan and prep.
Route planning is pretty slow going to pick up certain tiles.
Anyone know of an efficient way to check train journey times?
Wish there was a time route planner rather than location haha

Can I rectify this, I wouldn’t usually worry too much but it was annoying to get.

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See below.

https://blog.veloviewer.com/explorer-tile-calculation-updates/

See the updates section here.

Thanks that sorted it!

Started tilehunting again. It's getting a bit expensive with the train tickets so I maximise my riding time when I'm in the area. So travel + riding time is around 10 hours now. Quite long days. Why is this so addictive.

At 52x52 now.

That’s really pretty impressive.
Is 52 biggest square here??

I was impressed enough at @GideonPARANOID 29*29! Amazing stuff @MisterTomTom well done

Yeah, it fits 2 52x52 squares.
For me the planning and mapping is almost more addictive than the riding. Got like 5 daytrips planned already to grow the square. Also getting more methodical in my routes, using the "S-strategy/square borders-strategy" to cover as many squares in the fewest km's possible.

Sorry I meant is 52 biggestbon LFGSS.
I know what you mean, I need to hear more about this strategy :-)

Cheers! Ah I'm up to 31x31 now!

It's just a silly name I made up but it's pretty straight forward. :)
When I start a new route I first draw straight lines to use as a guide. X squares across, 2 up/down/left/right, X squares across etc... creating and S-like shape. Then during the actual routing I try to stick to those guides as close as possible. So in an ideal scenario you visit the tiles by "crossing the border" left and right.

Not my idea, just saw the patterns of the top riders. Like they are playing Snake https://veloviewer.com/athlete/437983/activities

Ah I see. So where can you route plan and see the grid? I have to import from Strava…

I use the Statshunters chrome extention. It has support for RWGPS (my main planner), Komoot, Strava, Brouter and some more. It shows your tiles, the grid and highlights the new tiles while mapping. Very handy.

I plan my routes on gpxeditor.co.uk which was written by someone on yacf. I pay for the premium membership which means I can do some extra bits such as save routes and import them.

Like others I love the planning part, and so I often spend a lot more time planning rides than actually going out and doing them. I used to be limited to a single weekday whilst my daughter was at school (so limited to 9.15am to 2.30pm) but she's off to/from school by herself now so it frees up more of the day.

I export the kml file of unexplored squares from veloviewer, convert that to a gpx file (using a random kml -> gpx converter) and then I've got my own script to minimise the number of lines/points/tracks.

I can then upload this and plan my routes accordingly.

I tend to do out and back routes that try and cover to adjacent squares at a time each way, once you get into the sticks this can be tricky and so it sometimes becomes a route that will pick a three wide set of squares on the out and back routes combined.

Here's a pic of my planned rides from a few years ago:-

This was before the extension mentioned above was reliable enough to use...

Will get back into it after the summer holidays, too busy right now.

Oh shit! Absolute game changer. I've been plotting my route in Strava with the VeloViewer extension, copying it into RWGPS and then heavily editing it by tab flicking for every kilometer to achieve the best ride quality and tile bagging opportunities. This is exactly what i've been looking for, thanks.

OMG!
Gamer changer, thanks!!

No problem. I can also recommend the Statshunters Strava page. Stan is the developer of the site/extention and releases new features every few weeks. He's also very quick to answer any questions and feature requests: https://www.strava.com/clubs/334054/discussion