What are the dotted lines?

[Curlygurly2]

Anyone here use Garmin Connect Courses to plot, plan or measure routes? I assume the solid lines are where other people have done this, but what are the dotted lines? Yesterday I tried a route near the top of the map, above where it says Orchard Park, and was surprised to find that's a private lake and I couldn't run there...the dotty bit bottom right is my local Parkrun, so that's definitely not private...I'd have thought footpaths rather than proper roads but some dotted bits are in the town centre...

Someone please put me out of my misery!!

[nowster Graduate10]

It all depends on how Google Maps has classified that track, and they may have it wrong.

streetmap.co.uk/map?X=54486...

[Curlygurly2 Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

Oh really? Thank you!

[nowster Graduate10]

For round Cambridge, the OpenStreetMap data is exceptionally good, but even that's unreliable for that bit around Cawcutts Lake. It shows access from the busway which doesn't show up at all in the Google Street View photos of that area.

[nowster Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

openstreetmap.org/#map=16/5...

[Curlygurly2 Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

I wouldn't call it access exactly, it was just a gap in the hedge, and I had to clamber over the busway where there was no proper crossing point. I won't be doing that again...

[nowster Graduate10]

It can sometimes be handy to know that Bing Maps has an Ordnance Survey layer too:

bing.com/maps?cp=52.237745%...

[Curlygurly2 Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

Thank you. Doesn't OS usually show elevation? There aren't many hills around here, but I do occasionally do hill work on Elizabeth Way Bridge, GC gives me 3 MTs total for climbing up 20 times or more!

[nowster Graduate10 in reply to Curlygurly2]

There are spot heights and contour lines. In the link above there's the 15m contour line.

There's a spot height of 14m in Impington itself and one of 12m just to the SW of the roundabout.

Back at the end of August last year, I did Willingham-Busway-Over-Bluntisham-Colne-Earith-Willingham as a Half Marathon route.

[Curlygurly2 Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

Where is the spot height and contour line? Am I being dim?

Was that an organised HM or solo?

My husband has a sort of idle fantasy of working out what trajectory he would need to fire a missile from our house to land on Elizabeth Way bridge. Not to do it of course, but just to work it out....

[Curlygurly2 Graduate10 in reply to Curlygurly2]

Ah gotcha! I can see 12...

[nowster Graduate10 in reply to Curlygurly2]

Solo. We were staying in Wilmington visiting a group of friends in the Chesterton area who hold an annual BBQ over the Bank Holiday weekend.

[Curlygurly2 Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

Oh yes, I think I remember that. Not far from me, I live in Chesterton. You should let me know next time if you come, always nice to put a face to VRB s

[nowster Graduate10 in reply to Curlygurly2]

It's always the August Bank Holiday weekend, and they're just off Green End Lane.

(Currently looking for places to stay nearby. Prices everywhere have ballooned since last year. And I can't sleep in the car like I did when I used to come on my own.)

[Curlygurly2 Graduate10 in reply to nowster]

I don't know what your budget is, but they have rooms above the Waterman on Mitcham's Corner, I think They include breakfast..

[Curlygurly2 Graduate10 in reply to Curlygurly2]

Hmm, from £110, sounds a lot to me. A friend stayed at the Travelodge when she came for a race, I think that's about £60

[Frenc Graduate10 60minGraduate]

I’m afraid I can’t help Curlygurly2 but I can tell you that once, using the Footpath app, I ended up running through someone’s back garden. The app said it was a public footpath! I was mortified as the owner and his dog looked at me in a fairly angry way 🤣.

[Instructor57 Graduate10 in reply to Frenc]

🤣🤣🤣

[Curlygurly2 Graduate10]

Ha ha!! That's the sort of thing I'd do!!