On this page:

• Introduction
• Browsing the map
• Showing your location
• Walk routes & waypoints
• Contact Us / Feedback
• Or go Back to Self-guided walks

Introduction:

• The interactive map is still under development, but is already usable now and we welcome any feedback you can give us of any problems you find when using it. See our Feedback form at the bottom of this page.
• We have detailed at various points on this page the known issues that we already have on our list to solve, so no need to report those (unless you don’t like the solution we are planning). For example:
  • Known Issue: We plan to add to the map a Help button that leads to this help page.
• The interactive map requires internet access to work properly.
• Copyright: The map image tiles were kindly provided by John Thorn and are his copyright. They are derived by him from map data from Ordnance Survey open data, Open Street Map data and rights of way data from rowmaps.com. See the formal copyright statement by clicking “©Copyright” at bottom right on the map.

Browsing the map:

• The map covers the Furness peninsula as far as just north of Haverthwaite, Gawthwaite and Grizebeck, with north always at the top of your screen.
  • Known Issues:
    • The map currently shows some minor place names (e.g. of individual houses) more prominently than we’d like, even when not zoomed in closely.
• Pan Left/Right/Up/Down: Touch & drag the map (on touchscreen device) or drag with mouse.
• Zoom In / Out: Standard spread & pinch gestures on a touchscreen device, or use mouse wheel.
  • Possible Addition: On larger devices (typically non-touchscreen) we are thinking of adding “+” & “-” zoom buttons top right on the map, to make zooming easier.

Showing your location:

• On a device with a GPS sensor, tap the ➣ arrow icon (top left) to add your location to the map. The first time you do this you will be asked to grant the map permission to use your location.
  (Your location will only be used to show your location on the map – it will not be used for anything else and is not recorded, saved or shared outside your device.)
• Tapping that button to activate the location marker will centre at your location and show your location marker; the button will change colour from black to orange, to indicate “active and centred”. If you pan the map your location marker will continue to be shown and follow you, but the map centre will no longer follow it and the icon will change to green to indicate “active but not centred”.
• If you tap the location icon when it is active (centred or not), location following will be deactivated and the icon will change back to its original black “inactive” colour.
• The marker showing your location has a small arrow attached that points in the direction your device is pointing, so if you point your device in the direction you are looking the arrow shows what direction that is on the map.
  • Known Issue: That arrow is very small and hard to see, and seems to be missing on some devices/browsers. We will be working to fix this.
• Possible Change?: Some GPS mapping apps use a ⌖ gunsight icon for this location button, instead of the ➣ arrow icon that we are currently using. Votes welcome on which conveys the purpose best.

Walk routes & waypoints:

• If you go to the map directly from the self-guided walks webpage, then it doesn’t show any walks or routes – it assumes you just want to use it as an online interactive map.
• If on the other hand you go to the map from a walk’s web page, then the map shows the start point and route of that walk (unless zoomed out so far that the route would be tiny). When you are sufficiently zoomed in, it also shows waypoints along the route that you can tap to see walk guidance details at that point.
  • Known Issues:
    • The waypoint icons are too big at some zoom levels.
    • We plan to that when you tap a walk start icon it shows the title of that walk.

Contact Us / Feedback:

Please let us know if you see something significant that we could improve, other than the “Known Issues” detailed above. Please include your email – we won’t use it fr anything other than to reply to you (and without it we can’t reply).