v-g Backpacking in Britain BlogI just picked up this appalling news on the e-grapevine: OFCOM have a proposal to increase the fees for radio frequencies dramatically, which would put enormous pressure on charities such as the Mountain Rescue teams and the RNLI. Essentially the MRT and RNLI would have to pay the free market price for the radio spectrum […]
Oh gawd. The new Trail website forum has been promised for ages and finally went live today - and seldom have I seen a more retrograde step in a website. It’s bloody awful. Just take a look at the page: yes, it really is as bad as it looks.
I’ve posted a short list of technical […]
I posted a while ago about an update to the Soapbox OS section of the main website:- this was about the fiasco regarding the license required to display a segment of OS mapping on a walking website (over and above the 10 segments you get free via GetAMap). To recap, the Paper Map Copying […]
Tracklogs V3.12 is now available for download, which reminded me to post an entry about a problem with their DEM (Digital Elevation Model): it is truncated in the far north. This only affects the latitude of the Shetland Isles and northwards. The southern part of the islands shows the correct elevation data in the […]
Following on from the last post, this was worth a separate entry. I worked out a direct link to the Cotswold Accessible Website that bypasses the damned Flash, this can be bookmarked here.
If they change their site the above link may need updating. Using the Accessible Site you can bookmark individual pages and change the […]
Good grief!. Have you seen the new Cotswold Outdoor website?. This is a new URL and a completely new monstrosity:- one of those appalling websites written entirely in Flash.
