Dylan's Ride Blog

Some occasional musings on mountain bike rides and walks in North Yorkshire, with odd bit of discussion on mapping technology thrown in for good measure

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7 weeks of dry weather - get it while you can
07/05/2007
I managed a few miles this weekend on some of my favourite bits. Conditions at the moment, after 7 rain free weeks, are excellent. Even in the forested areas, the trails are bone dry. The ground is so …
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EXIF GPS properties
24/04/2007
I'm parsing Exif data in images for ShareMyRoutes. I'd already written code to parse most of the well known properties, but could find out how to extract embedded lat/longs. Some cameras can add GPS l …
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Riding today
01/04/2007
Got out for a ride today up in the Hambleton Hills. Starting from up on the Cleveland Way, near Kepwick, I tried a track I hadn't tried before in Boltby Forest. I actually ended up going the wrong way …
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Binary fileupload in NET 2.0
31/03/2007
Been going nuts over this one. I have just been adding the ability to add custom waypoint icons to ShareMyRoutes.com, and couldn't, no matter how I tried, get a stream created by the fileupload contro …
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Dead end bridleway in Robin Hoods Bay
29/03/2007
If you have read this blog, you'll know I take an interest in local rights of way issues. Dead end bridleways are a particular pet hate of mine. For various reasons, when the rights of way were record …
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Spring is here
11/03/2007
I dusted off my nice bike, and to do a loop up in the Howardian Hills, as the ground seems to have dried out in the last few days. Conditions are great right now. The lack of rain for a week, and st …
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Beta testers wanted for new route sharing site
16/02/2007
I'm currently working on a new route sharing site. Instead of just downloading routes from this website, you'll be able to create and share routes with other users of the website. Others will be able …
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clear that trail and fill that hole
04/02/2007
Those nice people at the CTC have been busy bringing some web based tools of interest to us riders. First, there's http://www.fillthathole.org.uk/, which lets you report road surface problems to the r …
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Winter is here and so is ASP .NET Ajax RTM
25/01/2007
Well, after several months of rain, greyness and wind, York has finally seen some snow. It's pretty rubbish snow, consisting of a dusting of snow, which soon vanished. It looked like there might have …
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Scottish winter walking
28/12/2006
Just been for a bit of a walk in Scotland. Dalwhinnie to Corrour to be exact, over several days, carrying everything I needed. I'm a mountain biker at heart, but I'm more than happy to put on a pair o …
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