I despair sometimes…..🤷♀️
One of the ways I like to research CLs is to open up a particular CL webpage, have a look, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page, and find out what other CLs are in the vacinity, say a driving radius of 10 miles.
Just done this for a very nice CL not far from Dumfries. Scroll down, take a look at one Club says is 10 miles away…….hang on a minute😡 That’s as the Crow flies, not the Motorhome meanders. Said Site is the other side of the Solway Firth and actually some 70 miles drive away🤷♀️😡
Its obviously beyond the wits of HQ to sort out such blatant misinformation.
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Don’t live near an estuary…used to have the same problem with North Somerset to Wales, only 15 miles to Cardiff providing Severn Estuary was parted by Moses! I don’t think any of the online map providers have a fix for that at the moment.
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Yes, that was another Club favourite bit of misinformation, closest Club Site to Minehead…………Tredegar Park. Fine for seagulls, bit of a drive for humans round the Severn Estuary.🙄
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It doesn’t seem a simple fix to me to automate this. You would have to calculate distance between the selected site and every other listed site in the country to see which ones fall within the required radius.
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To be fair, that isn't just an issue with CAMC; I've searched for stopovers between Lancashire and Devon, west of the M5 before Bristol, on UKCampsite. You get exactly the same there, a long detour for some of the suggested sites!
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+1, I usually check any distance on Google Earth to give me a rough idea & I’ve noticed it’s very rare to get an accurate distance from most not just C&MC🤷🏻♂️
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i agree it much easier to use mapping facilities whether the paper one, the sites App, the web site or ones you have constucted yourself using the POIs. Mind you the POIs are far from correct and I regularly come across missing CLs. The paper map is soon out of date but the App is pretty accurate though.
peedee
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‘New fangled’ JV🤔, the internet has been around near 40 years, mapping way longer! Far from new fangled👍🏻
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I just found it very irritating. Got a reasonable geographical knowledge of UK, so just looked at towns mentioned and knew that the distances weren’t those indicated. At least on other websites you can use a map and radius guide, not sure if that’s possible on this website.
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Thanks PD, I will take a look. If you have any one night stopover places to recommend, D&G area but East of Wigtown, would be grateful. We have some good CL recommends, and the Britstop book, but it’s a long time since we have visited D&G, and happy for any stopovers. Found one at Caerlaverock that looks and sounds good🤔 Not interested in Club Sites.👍
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Satnavs & dashcams are ‘new fangled’ if you’ve got 1 or both of them & use them then you’ve got the nous to use others👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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I cope quite well without any grandchildren, JV. Get stuck in and you’ll find out what you’re missing👍🏻
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Like posting on CT🤣🤣🤣🤣
Seriously, why swerve it when you’d gain from using such devices?
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I believe there is an API that will provide distances and journey times for a matrix of multiple origins and destinations using Google Maps. So that it might be quite feasible to do exactly what you suggest with the help of that API and a well designed Excel workbook model. It would have a cost though.
But, given that someone, somewhere, sometime must have identified, manually or otherwise, the nearby sites for each site in point, it would not be that hard to identify those nearby, by virtue of a straight line, but otherwise requiring a long or complex journey. There won't be that many of them. You could make each site owner responsible for the list of nearby sites. That would make it very simple indeed.
I suspect there isn't the will for change on this because it's not exactly a huge issue; one could argue that, in any case, it depends on how you define nearby - nearby being the actual word used on the site page. A site 10 miles away is undoubtedly nearby; the fact that you need to be able to fly to justify such an epithet might be said by some to be neither here nor there.
The question I then ask myself is: if the club were to adopt actual driving distance, do they drop the offending site from the nearby list or do they instead leave it in and quote the actual driving distance? Hmmm, interesting!
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Have had a look at the Searchforsites website, tda. There are a couple of days to look for what you are after on it.
https://www.searchforsites.co.uk/webapp.php
I guess the OP was related to Moss-side Farm then!
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John Paul Jones I think Nellie😁 Either way, JPJ or Moss side, it’s 70 plus miles🤣
Tour is coming together nicely using a variety of stops. The main driver for locations is linking up nice places to see, nice cycling territory and close proximity to some good beaches, without having to backtrack back to a Site. Doing this, we will get further West. Historic Scotland still haven’t sorted out the conservation on their buildings yet, a good deal are still only viewable from the outside, so we won’t be spending as much time looking round their properties. However, this means we can concentrate on a few more gardens, and some HHA stuff, in between bike rides. Wet suits will go as well, it’s a tad cool for sea dipping in May🥶
And a first aid kit for me. OH has fitted a rear view mirror to his bike, he got a stiff neck looking out for me last time out, and he likes early warning if I fall off…….again🤣
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I really do think that some of you are behind the times thinking of having to DRIVE round the Firths and other similar inroads to the coast !
Just thank 'evans you don't live on the Isles of Scilly where their only bank has announced that it will be closing ( if it has not already done so ). No matter in the big scheme of things 'cos it's only about 50 miles to the next one -- that's if you have a sea-worthy motorcar !! Flying might be a tad longer and take longer too, but about £ 120 or so is rather more than a tank of diesel's best !! Not forgetting that the Scillonian is taken out of service in November until well into the New Year, or it was last time I looked.
So think yourselves lucky my friends
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I believe there is an API that will provide distances and journey times for a matrix of multiple origins and destinations using Google Maps. So that it might be quite feasible to do exactly what you suggest with the help of that API and a well designed Excel workbook model. It would have a cost though
Memory Map do it, so the software is out there.
Peedee
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