We’ve now added the ability for members to rate the quality of the GPX walking routes on our site, by voting on them. Go to any route’s page such as http://www.haroldstreet.org.uk/yorkshire-3-peaks-route/ and scroll down to the “I’ve completed the route” section, there you can mark it as completed by giving your vote such as… Excellent one of the best » read more »
TUMPs or P30s are hills of any height with a drop of at least 30 metres or more on all sides. The name TUMP stands for Thirty & Upward Metres Prominence. There are far too many Tumps to display on a simple single page. However all Tumps for each area of Britain can be viewed using URL » read more »
We have upgraded to version 13.1 of the Database of British and Irish hills See here for detailed changes… www.hills-database.co.uk/revision_history.html
We’ve added a new “find by location” url filter to our Trigpoint & Hill pages. For example the page… www.haroldstreet.org.uk/waypoints/download/?g=NN166712 will look up the nearest hill (or failing that the nearest trigpoint) within a 20km square of the ten figure grid reference provided by the ?g= value If you only want trigpoints then the same » read more »
We’ve added some useful external links to the pages for each individual Mountain, Hill and/or Trigpoint: Wikipedia the article link for a hill if we have it (for approx 10% of Hills & Mountains (& also some trigpoints) GeoHack – a Wikipedia tool which provide links to various mapping services for the specified geographical coordinates of our Hills. » read more »
Author: Phil Newby