<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div data-pm-slice="1 1 []" data-en-clipboard="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Thanks everyone for the kind comments, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Many thanks for sharing it on social media Ewen and Graeme, Ewen’s FB post has dominated the traffic to the blog today. :) Two small comments…</div><div data-pm-slice="1 1 []" data-en-clipboard="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span data-markholder="true"></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Re: “I was prompted to think about steep Alpine grades and cyclists... It's an issue I don't think OpenStreetMap can handle as we don't map the steepness of grades.“</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span data-markholder="true"></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Most cycling apps overlay OSM data and routes etc on a digital terrain model to create slope profile drawings for their routes. You can see a good example of this on the Gippsland section on the Vic gravel route here… <a href="https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38337498">https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38337498</a>. There are definitely some sections that would require some hard bike-pushing both up and down hill.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Re: “how in the hell do you get to Nelson and back from Mallacoota? ” </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span data-markholder="true"></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Yes, it’s definitely an impractical route! Stay tuned for the next installment. I suspect that some parts of the route will stay the same no matter where you start or finish. If so, it would create a map that looked like tributary streams feeding into a major river (the shared route). I’ve got to explore this a lot more and work out how to display the results best. Shall be interesting! </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span data-markholder="true"></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Thanks again everyone, it couldn’t have been done without all of the work done by the OSM community. Cheers Ian</div></body></html>