Today has seen the last of the laybys/stopping places along the route catalogued, and waypointed for the satnavs (a couple of Garmins, and phones). This has been quite a mammoth task, taking about 3 full days, with little else being done other than the waypointing. Next step is a spreadsheet of them as a backup to GPS and phones can begin. The spreasheet will also have contact information, and facilities information (need to know where we can empty the toilet. We have also bought in an additional cassette, so we can effectively have twice the toilet capacity if necessary. The 2nd squeaky clean cassette is only for emergency use if we can't empty the first timeously.
I've also done a little work on how we can make the live tracking work for readers, as well as us. You will be able to see the proposed cycle route on your tracking maps, which we cannot do on our phones, and both of us on the same map.
I've also come to grips with the blog format a little more and managed to add the relevant phones as 'authors' and such. Be warned, my typing is atrocious on a touch screen, and the posts will be more like a cryptic crossword clue than anything that makes sense.
Now ... back to the spreadsheet. Inputting all the contact and facilities information for just under 400 places is both boring, and time consuming :(
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