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Post by yawpitch »

fernly wrote: post #58
s3krit wrote: post #48

I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals around the UK. They were built during the industrial revolution prior to the invention of trains such that we could transport coal and other goods relatively quickly and without damage (consider…

There are several narrowboaters who record their travels on YT, perhaps the best, certainly one of the first, is "Travels by Narrowboat", with 6 seasons on Prime[1] and the more recent years on YT[2]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=travels+by+narrowboat [2] https://www.youtube.com/@CountryHouseGent

Kevins videos have always been great, and from the same generation of “BoatTubers” as myself and my wife and dog (we’re Minimal List), but there were earlier (including the slightly more venerable CruisingTheCut) and a whole slew of great channels that came later, all speaking to different tastes and styles and audiences. My personal favorite as an introduction to narrowboat life has been Robbie Cummings for a while now; he ended up on the BBC as Canal Boat Diaries, so the production quality is just great, and he’s also about the nicest and most affable fellow I’ve met on the canals, which in this community is saying quite a bit.

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PetitPrince wrote: post #73
s3krit wrote: post #48

I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals around the UK. They were built during the industrial revolution prior to the invention of trains such that we could transport coal and other goods relatively quickly and without damage (consider…

So, how does that work when you have to receive letters ? Do you have a PO box somewhere or a home port of some sort ?

It’s easiest to have a home address somewhere you can use as a permanent mailing addresss, but there’s a system called Post Retente that can be used to receive mail at a lot of (especially more rural) Post Office locations. For the most part though it’s best to convert all the bills and whatnot to online delivery and use Amazon lockers and the Click and Collect services offered by many shops to get what you need.

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Post by yawpitch »

s3krit wrote: post #44
yawpitch wrote: post #6

Kinda neat to turn on the Navigable By Boat filter and zoom in on England to find where I live, and all the 2500 miles of actually connected and navigable English (and Welsh) canals and rivers I’ve been on over the last seven years. Or course there’s also a whole lot of “waterways” that sure as hell aren’t navigable by any boat that can support a human, but might have been at some point.

I went straight into these comments hoping to find another HN (potentially narrow) boater! What's interesting and somewhat amusing is that this map has determined that the section of the Soar that joins with the Trent just north of Loughborough is apparently unnavigable. This time of year I'd generally agree.

It’s got a lot of details wrong… it took us five real years (plus one fake pandemic one) to visit every nook and cranny, and they’ve implied things are navigable that sure as heck aren’t — just try and get on the Dee from Chester without a crane except in a lethally high flood, the lock was disassembled years ago — and unnavigable that definitely are (it’s got the Manchester Ship Canal on there, but not the Mersey we crossed to get to it).

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Post by jillesvangurp »

Looks nice but it's probably not really usable for navigation. I checked the Netherlands and Germany. You'd need more details for safely navigating on the water. But it definitely has potential.

There are also some other specialized open street map based maps for

- rails: https://www.openrailwaymap.org/

- cycling: https://www.opencyclemap.org/

- sea map (competes with this I guess, and is a bit more detailed for navigation): https://map.openseamap.org/

And probably loads of other ones.

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Post by rmc »

Hello! I'm the creator of WaterwayMap.org.

The code is here: https://github.com/amandasaurus/waterwaymap.org/> if you want to file a bug report or feature request. The main code to calculate the network is `osm-lump-ways`: https://github.com/amandasaurus/osm-lump-ways>

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Post by s3krit »

AlexMuir wrote: post #65
s3krit wrote: post #48

I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals around the UK. They were built during the industrial revolution prior to the invention of trains such that we could transport coal and other goods relatively quickly and without damage (consider…

Fellow boater here - I live on a Dutch Barge. Also awake at 0530 with creaking lines in this storm. Lovely lifestyle. We registered our new baby’s address as the boat on a birth certificate last week and had no problems. Good luck to any future researcher geocoding that! I expected a postcode to be required but it wasn’t :)

Ah I love a Dutch barge, does yours have functioning leeboards? Very surprised you didn't need a postcode for the address on the birth certificate - although I suppose if it's 'place of birth', it could be anywhere really and that place might not have a postcode.

Re: Waterway Map

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Post by rmc »

s3krit wrote: post #48

I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals around the UK. They were built during the industrial revolution prior to the invention of trains such that we could transport coal and other goods relatively quickly and without damage (consider…

Lovely! I'm Irish, we don't have it as much. But I'd love to do a canal boat holiday. Doddleing along the canals, stopping in a lovely english country pub... oh I can dream.

I made WaterwayMap.org, and one of the view is for anything OpenStreetMap considers “boatable”: https://waterwaymap.org/#tiles=planet-waterway-boatable> I know nothing about this topic, so if there's anything missing, I'm willing to add it.

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