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Red Hill
I decided to ride red hill today.
I didn't want to use the usual entrance, so I found where a track met Wakehurst Parkway and drove there. I turned right into what looked like the start of the track, and Lo! I was at 4wd folly.
I didn't fancy driving up, so I unloaded my bike after parking a short distance away.
I rode 4wd folly, Garden of Gullys, and Drop Zone. I also found another track which led to Wakehurst parkway. There were too many drops for it to be pleasant. It looked like it had been made by mountainbikers, rather than being an overgrown firetrail, so tehre weren't many B lines.
Climbing the obstacles was great fun. I really wished I had taken my camera with me. SOme of the flowers were beautiful.
I promised some people that I will run a slow ride there in the future, to show everyone the trail network. I just uploaded my GPS logs to openstreetmap. Hopefully the maps of the trials on the northern beaches will continue to grow quickly.
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glad to here you had a good ride, but aren't those trails already mapped here http://maps.google.com/?q=http://nobmob.com/medi... ?
Hi Stuart!
All of the trails except one are indeed on that map. ( The one missing was the one I don't like).
I thought I'd try out the blog feature
However, google maps has certain limitations:
- YOu can only use it when connected to the internet
- The maps are copyrighted.
- YOu can't actually change the maps themselves
- Rob holds the copyright to the track point data you referred to. He has made this plain by the caption "Copyright 06-06 R.A Rainton" and it would be disrespectful to him to infringe upon that copyright.
THe advantage of Openstreetmap is that
- you can view it offline
- You can load it onto a garmin GPS.
- The data is creative commons licenced ( you can use it pretty much however you want with attribution)
- It is far more accurate than google maps. Most commercial mapping groups use satellite imagery, etc. Most of the data on OSM is from people actually exploring tracks and roads with a GPS receiver.
- Anyone can change the maps themselves
- As a result, it can incorporate local knowledge of an area.
I run OSM maps on my garmin GPS. If I find a new track, which doesn't feature on it, I love being able to upload a gps track, and then within a week, downloaded an updated map for my GPS< with the track featured.