I'm trying to map out some of the Sustrans cycle routes around Edinburgh so that they appear on opencyclemap. In the last few weeks I've cycled ncn43 to Croy (which was already mapped), rcr73, and ncn76 as far as Dunbar. Next on my hitlist is ncn76 from Dunbar<->Berwick, the ncn1 from Berwick<->Seahouses, and the ncn1 north of Edinburgh up towards St Andrews.
My kit: Garmin Etrex yellow+bike mount, I use gpsbabel to get the tracks off the gps and into Linux, and josm to do the editing. I'm finding it hard to keep track of stuff on the bike without lots of stopping and starting - ideally there'd be some one-click bluetooth earpiece type voice annotation solution, but for the moment I'm experimenting with taking voice records and photos on a SE k750i phone, which at least records individual files with accurate timestamps.
Discussion
Comment from Richard on 2 November 2008 at 20:57
Brilliant. Really good to see how NCN1 is coming together through the efforts of lots of different contributors...
Comment from smsm1 on 3 November 2008 at 17:01
I'm the one who done the rcn43 between Edinburgh and Glasgow; ncn75 between Edinburgh and Glasgow; ncn76 between Edinburgh and Stirling on the South of the Forth; and the ncn1 between Berwick and Edinburgh.
What I do for the long trips to get the route is that I don't care about the detail, and just care about where I went. I then let the locals come in and fill the gaps. By going out to do an area several times, I pick a small bit more each time I go, thus slowly gets more detailed, though the full route is added in one go. I didn't think the ncn76 went any further east than South Queensferry on the south side of the Forth.
I'm now living in London.
Comment from smsm1 on 3 November 2008 at 17:04
From http://www.sustrans.com/webfiles/general/sustrans_2008_ncn_map.pdf it looks like they have developed it into a coastal route to Berwick from Edinburgh finally.
Comment from ChrisB on 4 November 2008 at 13:03
Yeah, it's grayed out on that map so it's "proposed" only, but the signs are up and the route really exists :-) Apparently it's only been signposted for a few months, and it's a bit patchy at points - I had to go back and look to make sure I'd followed the right route several times, and there's a distance of about 5km that I mapped without signs where you join the B1348- the sign directs you left onto the B1348, but then it seems you cycle for a long time without any confirmation. Maybe I'm just used to seeing route stickers more often, or maybe the sign is wrong and you're meant to be on the John Muir Way here... speaking of which, they're looking for volunteer rangers to maintain this section of the route http://www.everydaycycling.com/edc/news/news2008/20080630_round_the_forth.aspx