StephenA

Ashton canal is closed. Update due on Friday

Not a problem if you have your passport and your inoculations are up to date 😉

Canalplan doesn't display stoppages on any map apart from the one on the stoppages page, it does tell you when a stoppage affects your route and offers to plan an alternative route to avoid it

If you remember Richard we had fun with this when I moved Canalplan background generation over to your code. The Style sheets actually have "text-field": "{name:latin}\n{name:nonlatin}" in some of them and "text-field": "{name_en}", in others. There seem to be huge differences between the OSM style sheets for each of the different styles as well. As you say, its a complete mess. But as a lot of the names for places (like Market Drayton) are actually not in the map window inside canalplan so maps wont always have the place name on them anyway

We stopped using Google maps as we couldn't afford their usage fees. I did some checking last night and different OSM styles show / don't show names at different zoom levels, so there is something in the style sheets. I'll also look at maptiler as it builds the background maps and it may have controls for what is rendered at what level. Can't do anything about OS maps as we use their pre built mapset https://maps.tty.org.uk/#13.59/52.90587/-2.48307 shows this quite well, change the map styles and watch the non Canalplan details change

Base maps for Canalplan are either open street map rendered with OSM style sheets or OS maps rendered with OS Style sheets. I don't think we turned off the layer that contains names, or it might be the styles are hiding the names at certain zoom levels, or it might be that the names of places ( like Market Drayton) are not in the viewport for the map, or that place names aren't actually on the underlying map data. I shall play around on my dev server

Possibly a 1.5 If it is a 1.5 then the thermostat housing is under those three bolts that are holding the header tank in place. the temperature sensor is bolted into it - which is what that blue wire is by the front of the alternator

Ok, as someone who provides route planning i had a play around. Setting my boat to 12 feet wide it planned a route from Oxford to market drayton.... hmmmm. Also it has some very odd ideas about places

Burghfield lock is now on the Dee branch

long time since we were at braunston. Main problem was if you wanted to go anywhere over things like the Easter weekend when it was more like sitting in a motorway traffic jam rather than boating.

I think he's fundamentally misunderstood a lot of things about UK canal boating. Telling me a lock is closed when I'm 500 metres from it doesn't help me one bit, even telling me 5km in advance doesn't help me much. If I'm on a river and the water levels are rising and the flow is increasing t's pretty obvious and all you can do is push on to the next safe mooring. If you've not noticed then on manned lock navigations the lockie will stop you and give you advice on where to moor.

As one of the two people behind canalplan I find the suggestion that Canalplan is a total plonker offensive Also given that people associate Lockmaster and canals with some fine printed maps isn't using that name for this disingenuous?

I coded a Wordpress plugin, for selfhosted sites that pulls your route from canalplan and you can then blog about it - creates summary maps, a post for each day with a map and some stats in it, and also allows you to link back to places in Canalplan and canalplan will link back to your blog posts Once the route is imported to the blog you can adjust each day. https://mintball.tty.org.uk/trips/?routeid=23 Just doesn't work with the WP modern editor as I wasn't going to learn a whole new programming language. Moved off wordpress to classic press which solved the problem

I am, and was loitering on the towpath whilst the interview was done at Market Drayton last year. We'd gone up to the boat to do some work and the floating market was on and we wandered over. Wasn't planned or arranged at all.

Once again a thread goes way off topic and then just turns into insults.