markandlynn Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Just found this website and thought id share. 5 minutes away Quote Link to comment
+kewfriend Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 when the kids were small - it was obligatory reading! Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Shame they dont list caches as well Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 Shame they dont list caches as well Would make a nice addition to nearby.org ? Quote Link to comment
+choccymandm Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Shame they dont list caches as well Brian, what happened to the motorway junction cache maps Ian created using the drawings he obtained from the CBRD (Chris's British Road Directory) website? Are they still on the GC:UK server somewhere? Quote Link to comment
barryhunter Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Would make a nice addition to nearby.org ? Actully its something nearby.org.uk can do (if you know how!), just nowhere near as sleek First enter the junction name into the Name Finder, however its quite strict and has to be like "M23 JUNCTION 10" (without the quotes of course) You then should see the junction listed, along with its location, click that Grid Reference to be take to the location links. On the location links page click the (Results) just after Location Meta Search, and hay presto everything (including caches!) will be listed that are within 5km. Will see about adding an interface to select a motorway from a list, and then a junction number... (could even add a filter to only show caches....) Quote Link to comment
barryhunter Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 (edited) Shame they dont list caches as well B) Brian, what happened to the motorway junction cache maps Ian created using the drawings he obtained from the CBRD (Chris's British Road Directory) website? Are they still on the GC:UK server somewhere? While Brian is having his tea, I can answer that For the M1: http://stats.guk2.com/misc/motorway.php and the same again for the M60: http://stats.guk2.com/misc/motorway.php?mway=M60 Which are the only two motorways available at the moment! (and if you into trigs then visit this page, where you can generate a list of trigs near to a motorway! Sadly not feasable at the moment with caches, constantly coming/going as lots of processing invloved to create the indexs) Edited January 3, 2006 by barryhunter Quote Link to comment
+KiwiGary Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 You could have look at our bookmark of caches with 1 mile of the M1, see my signature. See ya...Gary Quote Link to comment
barryhunter Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Would make a nice addition to nearby.org ? See: By Motorway Junction for a very quick and dirty, but functional, version. Thanks to markandlynn for the idea! Quote Link to comment
+choccymandm Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 many thanks barryhunter, good to see someone uses their bookmarks more than we do! .... goes away and bookmarks every link in this thread Quote Link to comment
barryhunter Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Actully I just went a poking around the server (yes legally) Quote Link to comment
Deego Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Actully I just went a poking around the server (yes legally) Thanks Barry I was having my tea Quote Link to comment
+klaus23 Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 (edited) hmm... how well is this researched? M5 Jct.19 mentions the Lodway Service Station, who's fuel costs more than the services at Jct.19. I think they still sell 4-star leaded, if they are open when you stop by. The petrol station on the other side - west of the junction-, in Portishead is one of the cheapest in the area. The website also fails to mention a pub/restaurant near Jct.19 called 'The Priory' in Portbury, a stone's throw from the junction which always gets mentioned in other 'close to motorway' guides. "5 minutes by Google!" sounds more like it. (edit for spelling) Edited January 4, 2006 by klaus23 Quote Link to comment
nobby.nobbs Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 but i want to be lazy, is there no way to download all the sites they suggest as waypoints for a 60c? now that would be usefull. Quote Link to comment
NickPick Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 hmm... how well is this researched? M5 Jct.19 mentions the Lodway Service Station, who's fuel costs more than the services at Jct.19. I think they still sell 4-star leaded, if they are open when you stop by. The petrol station on the other side - west of the junction-, in Portishead is one of the cheapest in the area. I don't think 5 minutes away consider petrol prices - they just rely on the premise that non-motorway fuel is usually cheaper than motorway fuel. For price comparison, PetrolPrices.com is better, but you'll need to use streetmap to find out the postcode for your motorway junction. Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 I was trying to set up an M25 bookmark cache list (which failed) However, there is a GPX file with all the Motorway junctions as waypoints. GSAK users could then create arc filters based on each Motorway, set the parameters, and away you go! the reason the M25 one didn't work is that the points weren't in the correct sequence, so it created more of a spiders web then a circle! Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 There are currently 61 active caches within 1 mile of the M25 and I have them as a GPX file and a CSV file. I'm not sure if I can make them available without contravening the Terms and Conditions and I don't know a quick way of putting them into a bookmark list Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Just had another thought.... If anyone knows how to do an 'Arc/Poly' filter on GSAK, I could let you have an uploadable (to GSAK) file of the waypoint list for the M25 from HERE. Quote Link to comment
barryhunter Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 (edited) Try this blog post for a file of junctions for GSAK. (incidently uses the same source as nearby.org.uk does, via an different route, thanks to the guy who manually plotted them all!) Found via Google to search this forum "site:forums.Groundspeak.com motorway junction gpx" incase people dont know of the functionality. Edited January 4, 2006 by barryhunter Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 There are currently 61 active caches within 1 mile of the M25 and I have them as a GPX file and a CSV file. I'm not sure if I can make them available without contravening the Terms and Conditions and I don't know a quick way of putting them into a bookmark list there's a macro for creating a bookmark list from a GSAK filter. You still have to confirm each page (bit like logging) but it works well. Quote Link to comment
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