A new walk programme has been issued with the Autumn 2011 issue of Footnotes. For those of you who haven't received it yet the 'walk programme' section has all the details. Happy walking !
Some useful information - and a request - from Mike Westley
Promoting HOEW through Geograph
Fellow HOEW leaders and friends may be interested in a project that Ordnance Survey have been sponsoring for the last few years - a project to photograph every grid reference in UK with details of location and a bit of detail - all photos are uploaded to www.geograph.org.uk , with Grid References on a map, and then freely available to schools, the public, anyone for research or recreational interest.
It's building into a massive educational, recreational resource, and is now being archived by the National Archives (there's over 2 million photos !). People looking for places to visit or research can use the site's extensive search features to find, say, all photos re 'Heart of England Way' - there's currently 240 photos. I believe we can help to promote HOEW by uploading photos of our sections, and include a link to www.heartofengland.org in the text of the photo uploaded.
Take a look at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1869945 (a photo of mine) which has information and a link. If anyone has a question or needs help on this, by all means email me (address below).
Planning Walks - useful websites
As mentioned above, www.geograph.org.uk can be used to search locations for photos, to perhaps suggest places of interest on a particular route. You can search on a phrase, town or GR (eg SP2582) and much more.
Another site, http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm (just type 'wheres the path' into google), provides OS mapping alongside google aeriel imagery (like google earth). By zooming in and out, you can get an idea of the terrain or places of interest (or not) of a route you may be planning.
Another feature, by clicking on a location, you can record the 10 digit GR for anywhere on your route eg SP 25155 82040 (Queens Head, Meriden ). Again, if anyone needs any help with this, drop me an email. There have been changes to OS Getamap website recently, so I'll come back to this site another time.
Lastly, the classic version of Multimap (http://classic.multimap.com/index/ ), which I find easier to navigate than the later Bing version, is ideal for finding towns, villages and locations, has zoom functions, street names, 1:25000/1:50000 series OS maps, aerial and birdseye views, which can all be printed (with notes) for use on walks etc.
