Veloviewer Tile Bagging?

Was an oil refinery:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coryton_Refinery

Interesting; still think around might be better than through…
Wonder if the security is still live…?

Give it time - the site is going to be redeveloped into some sort of business park. Might be easier to get in then?

You can use this app to see the tiles in realtime https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.anisart.vv

Interesting new feature. Haven't tried it yet though.

https://blog.veloviewer.com/veloviewer-explorer-tile-3d-heatmap-in-google-earth/?fbclid=IwAR2bMdEcNz55KitCV81okEuswaz7dits4N4WFHr_E0nfOwimnKIQYPBvf-M

Don't really get the point...?
Seems fairly obvious that the tiles closets to your house will be visited the most frequently?

I occasionally visit London Gateway for work. I guessed that the bloke I saw wandering round the port entrance past the no pedestrians sign some months back was doing the Veloviewer thing.

Walking round inside the port is heavily restricted and there is CCTV on the high mast lights. Security is pretty tight, even with an authorised entry permit.

If you want to do the kayak thing, you will need to know what you are doing. Tidal range is high, the current is strong and the port has lots of vessel and tug movements. Kayaking near the ‘oil refinery’ at slack tide might be ok but doubtful otherwise. Small vessels close to the Shell jetty/ tank farm without a permit might provoke an unexpectedly strong reaction, given how the government is treating XR protestors currently.

If it was without bike it might be an "Auditor".
I've been right up to the entrance, you wouldn't gain anything by going past it.

I agree Kayaking seems somewhat precarious given the environment.

He was walking outside of but very close to the main port gate, past the no pedestrians sign.

Did he have a blue bike? ;-)

I mean what's the point of anything really? I just thought it was an interesting data visualisation.

Just tried it on mine and I have the expected "ridge" going between London and Cambridge as it's a route I've done ~30 times or so (mostly along the same route).

There are a few other Audax routes that show that I've done them a few times too.

The biggest square got extended again today https://strava.app.link/I51W5DX5Iwb
126x126 now

Is that difficult to do? ie. if you live next to a nuclear power plant or somewhere else with no access would that prevent you doing similar? Or could anyone with enough time build a square that big?

There are a few "impossible tiles" like you mentioned, that's just bad luck. Or living in the mountains (not impossible but a lot harder) or next to a lot of water (start kayakking). So you need a bit of luck with where you are located, how much free time you have and how much money (trains, cars) you're willing to spend after your square gets too big to expand starting from your home.

In the end it's just a bit of fun but not an equal playing field for everyone. The main goal is to go explore places you haven't been before, some shit, some nice.

some shit, some nice

lots shit, few nice

I reckon you would have to live in nothern France, Benelux, Germany or Poland.
Probably don't get the large enough area of land, flatness and road density anywhere else. That square is probably bigger than you could fit in England now.

I haven't looked into it but does it work in America, or not enough roads?

Almost all of top 100 for max square on veloviewer are from western europe mainland. Jonathan France is London based and has a 106x106 square.
You can also build your cluster, that leaderboard is a bit more international.

What's the difference between a square and a cluster?

Your Max Explorer Cluster is the largest set of connecting, visited Explorer Tiles which each have their four immediate neighbouring tiles (above, below, left & right) also visited. In the above image, taken from my own Activities page, you can see all of the visited explorer tiles coloured in red & blue. The blue tiles are showing my Max Explorer Cluster. Each one of those blue tiles has a visited tile (i.e. red or blue) immediately above and to the side. As you can see near the top left corner, missing a single tile results in a hole of 5 tiles in the cluster. The idea is obviously to make the biggest cluster you can!

A max square is the largest square that fits in your cluster. It gets exponentially harder to grow a square as you need more and more tiles to expand it by 1.

Clusters can be any shape.

A visited tile is in a cluster if its 4 neighbours (not including diagonals) have all been visited.

You max cluster is your largest interconnected cluster.

https://blog.veloviewer.com/introducing-the-explorer-cluster-and-configurable-explorer-visuals/

the things we do...

Audaxing is great for cluster building as long as you do varied rides, and/or lots of ride starting from a similar area. My cluster is sitting at 508 at the moment but I'd only need a single 50km ride out near Marlow to add 200 to that as I've done a few rides out that way that just need a few different tiles to be filled in. It would also only take one carefully routed DIY 200 up to Cambridge and back and I could connect a large chunk of tiles in the Henham/Ugley area.

My Max Square has stalled at 18 but I've got a ~50km ride around Guildford to do (to get 12 tiles) that should bring it up to 21. Right now I find it more therapeutic to plan things manually, although I have hardly any time to actually do any riding, but I'll be making an effort to get back into it this summer/autumn.

I'm tempted to have a look at this as an excuse to explore more but a lot of my riding these days is indoor and/or repetitive loops. You have to pay Veloviewer right and does that also require Strava Premium or can you just deal with Veloviewer? How much does it cost?

EDIT: Read the first post, dickhead.

Yes, just £10 a year to VV. Nothing to Strava (I don't pay them a penny).