Red Blob to Blue Blob

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Red Blob to Blue Blob

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I'm (still) trying to ride all the roads in Cornwall.
Silly idea, but I'm keeping a "log" about it by using a painting program and a downloaded GB road atlas to record the roads.

Here's a segment made up from a screenshot of two separate windows.
Ride Home Plus.jpg
The black ink is where I've cycled.
The red blob is where - hopefully me and Bike - will get a lift to on Tuesday morning. Roche, near the railway station.
We live under the the blue blob on the A390 near Gunnislake.
Red wiggly line is the Cornish/English border.
Red blob to blue blob by the shortest route is 35miles ish.

Where should I ride to take in some new roads to get me from Red to Blue???
Timescale 09:00 leaving Red, arriving Blue by 15:00 or maybe 16:00.
Distance I'm happy with (considering this is Cornwall) is 50 odd miles.

Please get your mapping programs out and give me a route. :D
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Very inventive! In the past I looked into how I could mark all my local roads that I've cycled and was amazed that there was nowhere online that could do it. Surely something like Bike Route Toaster or Bikehike could be modified to do it? Would rather not spoil my OS map with colouring pens!
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Strava does a heat map (premium feature, so I have no idea what it looks like)

But yes, a "multiple GPX upload" painting of a map should be possible...
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As I couldn't find anything online, I bought a foldable AtoZ map of Cornwall and used a highlighter pen. It wasn't many months and the paper map started to become a bit tattered and torn.

I found a free download of OS GB road atlas. I don't know where I got it, and I've looked since and can't work out where.
I still have the whole thing, but only use the Cornwall sections.

I downloaded a free painting program and open up the sections of map and "ink" in the roads as I do them. There's no way that I can do every single road/lane/street, but I can manage to do every decent road to cover the county in a cobweb of black ink.

This is a section of SE Cornwall (where we live). This is the standard of coverage I want to do all over the county.
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County? County? You'll have the Meybyon Kernow knocking on your door!
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Reuse, recycle, thus do your bit to save the planet.... Get stuff at auctions, Dump, Charity Shops, Facebook Marketplace, Ebay, Car Boots. Choose an Old House, and a Banger ..... And cycle as often as you can......
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karlt wrote:County? County? You'll have the Meybyon Kernow knocking on your door!
Yes, county.

The Duchy of Cornwall has many places in UK .............. some of it in Devon!
Duchy and county are different things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Cornwall
The duchy owns (531.3 square kilometres (205.1 sq mi) — 0.20% of UK land) over 23 counties ...........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall
Cornwall (/ˈkɔrnwɔːl/ or /ˈkɔrnwəl/;[1] Cornish: Kernow, [ˈkɛɹnɔʊ]) is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area of England within the United Kingdom.
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al_yrpal wrote:http://cycle.travel/map?from=PL26+8LG&to=PL18+9DZ
Here you go…

Al
Sorry Al, I couldn't get that page to load.
Well, actually it loaded, but it wouldn't give me a route.
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Here is an example of a Strava heat map. Not much use to Mick as he'd have to ride them all again!
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You can do the heat map thing with a free Strava account by going to

http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com/strava/map.php

Whilst we're willy-waving heat maps, here's mine (using that site)

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Mick F wrote:
al_yrpal wrote:http://cycle.travel/map?from=PL26+8LG&to=PL18+9DZ
Here you go…

Al
Sorry Al, I couldn't get that page to load.
Well, actually it loaded, but it wouldn't give me a route.


Mick if you put cycle.travel into Safari and use the postcodes it should give you a route thats North of the main roads. But then you have probably gone...:-(

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I tried it, but it wouldn't work.

Yes, I had already gone. :D Left home by car at 0800 this morning, and away on my bike from Roche/Victoria soon after 0900.
52miles done, with 20miles on New Roads.
Here's my full route today.
Screen shot 2015-03-17 at 17.46.15.png



Here's a close-up bit.
New roads were the loop down the St Austell, plus a short section between Lanivet and Trebyan. From there to home, it was on roads I've done before a few times.
Screen shot 2015-03-17 at 17.47.27.png


Total stats and elevation.
Screen shot 2015-03-17 at 17.55.58.png
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Mick F wrote:
karlt wrote:County? County? You'll have the Meybyon Kernow knocking on your door!
Yes, county.

The Duchy of Cornwall has many places in UK .............. some of it in Devon!
Duchy and county are different things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Cornwall
The duchy owns (531.3 square kilometres (205.1 sq mi) — 0.20% of UK land) over 23 counties ...........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall
Cornwall (/ˈkɔrnwɔːl/ or /ˈkɔrnwəl/;[1] Cornish: Kernow, [ˈkɛɹnɔʊ]) is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area of England within the United Kingdom.

Yes but Mebyon Kernow and many local people down this way consider Cornwall to be a separate country, as per Wales and Scotland. Interesting that in the first post you mentioned the "Cornish/English" border, rather than referring to Devon.
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niggle wrote:
Mick F wrote:
karlt wrote:County? County? You'll have the Meybyon Kernow knocking on your door!
Yes, county.

The Duchy of Cornwall has many places in UK .............. some of it in Devon!
Duchy and county are different things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Cornwall
The duchy owns (531.3 square kilometres (205.1 sq mi) — 0.20% of UK land) over 23 counties ...........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwall
Cornwall (/ˈkɔrnwɔːl/ or /ˈkɔrnwəl/;[1] Cornish: Kernow, [ˈkɛɹnɔʊ]) is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area of England within the United Kingdom.

Yes but Mebyon Kernow and many local people down this way consider Cornwall to be a separate country, as per Wales and Scotland. Interesting that in the first post you mentioned the "Cornish/English" border, rather than referring to Devon.


Also interesting in the recent Oxford research http://www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/nl6.pdf that the populations of Devon and Cornwall are genetically very different. That Tamar really has always been a barrier, but there is no pan-Celtic genetic heritage!
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niggle wrote:Yes but Mebyon Kernow and many local people down this way consider Cornwall to be a separate country, as per Wales and Scotland. Interesting that in the first post you mentioned the "Cornish/English" border, rather than referring to Devon.
It's not just people down your way who think this.

The Cornish/English border is a very definite geographical border for most of its length. Cornwall is almost an island. It wasn't until the 15th century that the stone bridges across the River Tamar were built, and the lowest crossing here at Gunnislake remained the lowest crossing right up until the 1960s when the suspension bridge was built down at Plymouth/Saltash. That bridge is over 15miles downstream.

Gunnislake is often described as a "border town". We often joke that we're guarding the border and keeping back the marauding English hordes. :lol:
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