WhifflersWalks Routes

All WhifflerWalks Routes included on this website have been uploaded to OS Maps, designated as public, and should therefore be accessible to anyone using OS Maps Websites and Apps, but...

• this may depend on your signed-in status with OS Maps -

• what version of OS Maps you are using -

• what software you are using on your computer/tablet/phone -

• and possibly future OS Maps "updates" that have yet to materialise!

Help may be available from OS Maps in their FAQ Page but "403 Forbidden" ? in October 2022

Accessing OS Maps of the Routes

Note that it is no longer be possible to access OS Maps by a link direct from this WhifflersWalks website but only directly to the OS Maps Website or App.

Signing-in should allow access to specific functions, choices and types of maps - for a detailed explanation of these see OS Maps Help & FAQs referred to above. If you have previously used any Ordnance Survey services on the internet you may find that your existing sign-in email address and password gives you access to OS Maps as a Registered User.

Alternative ways to gain access to the WhifflersWalks routes : >

Having first signed-in to OS Maps as a Registered or Premium user:-

• Zooming-in to West Norfolk area of the map shown on a OS Maps Website or App - a search of "Find Routes" using the Route Name given in Walk Index of this WhifflerWalks website, eg. Ashwicken 01.

• Once you have been able to access a route as described above, and if you want to access it again, it is advisable to mark the route as a "Favourite" and it should then appear listed under this heading on "My Routes" in your OS Maps Website and App, and will remain there to be selected in future if required.

• A further alternative is to download the GPX File of a route from the Walk Index in this WhifflersWalks website, as described elsewhere in this website, and to import the unedited file into OS Maps Web and save the route created, it will then be listed under "My Routes" on your computers.

Note that the link to the "Streetmap" of a walk starting location, shown in the Walk Index of the WhifflersWalks website, shows the location on a 1:25K OS Map, and the map shown on this can be panned and zoomed to view the whole of the area which the route will follow.

OS Maps Users Significant Features for Walkers

Registered - sign-in required - free to use

• can view Standard Map only

• can set personal profile for line colour, width, opacity, etc.

• can print route from Classic OS Maps, but on Standard Map only

• cannot export GPX File

Premium - sign-in required - subscription required

• can view 1:50k & 1:25k Leisure Maps in addition to Standard Map

• can set personal profile for line colour, width, opacity, etc.

• can print route on Leisure Maps and Standard Map

• can export GPX Route File for download

The 1:25k scale (Explorer) and 1:50k scale (Landranger) Leisure Maps are those that walkers will be most familiar with from their paper format. The Standard Map, available to non-subscribers, is quite detailed but does not show all paths through the countryside and, most important for walkers, does not show legal Rights-of-Way.

OS Maps Problems

During the short life of this website I have encountered several problems with the use OS Maps, particularly when they have updated their software after I have uploaded routes, and on two occasions I have deleted all reference to their maps from my websites. But having used the paper versions of their maps over a long period (I have nearly 100 of these stored in a cupboard) I found I could not live without them. So they have always returned, in some way or other, and I have learnt to live with the problems of using them on the internet - so if you wish to continue to use WhifflersWalks on OS Maps I'm afraid you may have to live with these problems as well - of course by the time you read this warning things may have stabilised!