On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a quick note to observe that you can now use the OSM cycle map to > travel between the three capitals of Great Britain, give or take a > very few 100-yard lacunae: > > - London-Edinburgh via NCN4 (->Reading), NCN5 (->Lichfield), NCN54 > (->Derby), NCN68 (->near Berwick), NCN1 > > - London-Cardiff via NCN4 (->Chepstow), NCN48 (->Hay-on-Wye), NCN8... > of course, we could probably make this a bit shorter by mapping NCN4 > between Newport and Pontypridd :) > > And the connected map also reaches to Bodmin, Dover, Holyhead, > Gloucester, Brighton, Glasgow, even Newton Stewart in Dumfries & > Galloway - not to mention all those mapped sections of NCN we've not > yet connected to the "spine". (It'd be great to get NCN51 finished.) > > A really outstanding achievement, and I'm sure after a summer's worth > of cycling it'll be better still. >
That's in the region of 7500km (4700 miles) of NCN in the UK mapped, and also about 2000km (1200 miles) of regional routes. [*] That's a lot of cycle route! Dave [*] normal caveats regarding duplicated routes etc which might pollute the raw stats :-) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
