The global heatmaps from Strava, RWGPS, and others have improved. Over time, I’ve gotten better at gathering information during the route planning phase. After the ride, reviewing the data and seeing the accomplishment is yet another pleasure. Then there’s the ride itself: discovering new places, encountering obstacles that require changes to the ride plan, and the satisfaction of tagging a difficult tile.
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I like the planning phase, figuring out how to reach difficult tiles, and how to put together an efficient ride that explores the most terrain with the least effort. Tiling provides me with multiple pleasures. I was smitten with tile hunting from the beginning. Did the way you tile change over time? Were you a fanatic from the start?Ī. I was briefly in the top 3 for max square and cluster, but it soon became impossible to keep up with the Europeans. Thus began my quest to explore every tile in the Northeast US! I discovered that I was the top-ranked explorer in the US and started following other riders on the leader board. I knew other adventurous cyclists in my area, and from their heatmaps I could identify places they rode that I had overlooked.Īfter VeloViewer was introduced, I quickly gravitated to the Explorer metrics, and discovered that I had already explored many tiles in my area. Back then, Strava allowed you to view other rider’s heatmaps.
The personal heatmap feature in Strava was an early motivator for me. My activities on Strava extend to the time before Strava! I started recording rides on a GPS in 2007 and loaded those previous activities into Strava after I joined. I joined Strava early in its development, around 2011. Looking at your Strava ID you are an early adopter? Also in tiling? When and why did you start tiling?Ī. I recently converted a telescoping carbon fiber hiking pole into a GPS holder, so I could reach through a fence into a mini-tile boundary. Sometimes for the difficult tiles I’ve had to find property line maps or maps of conserved land, then create a bushwhacking course that stayed as much as possible on “safe” ground. Gathering information from multiple on-line sources reduces the amount of on-the-fly rerouting I may need to do during the ride. I prefer a large screen where I can bounce from satellite to OSM to Google Street View, etc. I’m often looking for a thin spot in the forest that may have been a road or a trail at one time but is not on any current map, and maybe never was. I love maps of all kinds, but unfortunately there are no paper maps that contain all the details that I need. There is this guy in the South of England who does all his route planning and tiling with physical maps. I’ve been called a “map geek” more than once! I’ve been a cyclist for most of my 62 years. I live in New Hampshire, in the northeast US. Hello Eric, could you please introduce yourself?Ī. He’ll tell us about tiling in the endless woods of New England, mapping, and randonneuring. The future will tell 😊Įric Nichols, tile explorer since back in the day and author of the brilliant activity title ‘Row vs. It might be an one off, might be that new interviews follow. RwGPS pings the altitude more often, so in general it should be more accurate, but on this day’s ride, the change in atmospheric pressure showed that I climbed more than I probably did.įascinating what all these magic internet devices in our pockets and on our handlebars are doing.Today we’re back with a 8th tiler interview. Second, the difference between RwGPS and Strava has to do with the “smoothing” that each platform’s algorithm performs. On days when the atmospheric pressure drops dramatically, there can be an “inflation” in elevation changes. He supposes that the difference is a product of the barometric pressure dropping during my ride, because of a low pressure system coming in (the same one that is now dumping all this rain on us). Presumably, the altitude should have been the same, but the return ride was 15 ft higher. Dylan tracked that down by focusing on two moments in my ride, when I crossed Hwy 217 at the the SW Denney Rd overpass. The first is that RwGPS uses the barometric altimeter in my iPhone to calculate elevation gain/loss, and when there is a significant weather front coming in, the barometer can be thrown off. I learned there are two things going on here. Shout out to Ride with GPS for some awesome customer service! I posed the question to Ride with GPS and had a great exchange with Dylan on their staff.
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