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Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 9:06 pm
by steve-e
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oabt5 ... sp=sharing

I've only just started on it this evening, I'll get to adding the Hill Climbs and other disciplines in time :)

You might have seen this one before though, someone else's TT Course Map, quite a beast of a thing!

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mi ... sp=sharing

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 7:16 am
by Richard Rollings
Did similar thing a few years ago. Not as tech though
Race Circuits.jpg
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Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 3:49 pm
by sidecarracing
Both great efforts!

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:27 pm
by Fanch
International (incomplete) list
http://www.calendrier-piste.fr/circuit-liste.html

Used British Circuits
Aintree - N 53° 28' 37.04" - W 2° 56' 31.93"
Anglesey - N 53° 11' 37.23" - W 4° 29' 47.42"
Brands Hatch - N 51° 21' 30.52" - E 0° 15' 08.16"
Cadwell Park - N 53° 18' 38.74" - W 0° 4' 17.63"
Castle Coombe - N 51° 29' 38.80" - W 2° 12' 48.95"
Croft - N 54° 27' 34.90" - W 1° 32' 57.34"
Darley Moor - N 52° 58' 51.13" - W 1° 44' 56.95"
Donington Park - N 52° 49' 26.31" - W 1° 23' 2.55"
East Fortune - N 56° 0' 24.48" - W 2° 42' 42.49"
Goodwood - N 50° 51' 35.87" - W 0° 45' 3.17"
Knockhill - N 56° 7' 56.63" - W 3° 30' 10.36"
Lydden Hill - N 51° 10' 57.53" - E 1° 11' 57.33"
Mallory Park - N 52° 36' 3.81" - W 1° 19' 50.63"
Oliver's Mounts - N 54° 15' 34.19" - W 0° 24' 41.73
Oulton Park - N 53° 11' 0.74" - W 2° 37' 3.85"
Pembrey - N 51° 42' 29.54" - W 4° 17' 46.27"
Rockingham - N 52° 30' 36.27" - W 0° 39' 38.48"
Silverstone - N 52° 4' 24.19" - W 1° 1' 32.63"
Snetterton - N 52° 28' 28.56" - E 0° 57' 18.90"
Three Sisters - N 53° 30' 20.62" - W 2° 38' 9.01"
Thruxton - N 51° 12' 18.86" - W 1° 36' 48.42"

Practices
Bedford - N 52° 13' 10.16" - W 0° 29' 34.19"

Dragsters
Santa Pod - N 52° 14' 10.74" - W 0° 36' 36.00"

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:39 pm
by Dan
Getting a bit technical there Fanch. Remember this is for sidecar racers and half of them don't even know which way they should be going on the circuit :roll: :D

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:45 pm
by Fanch
Dan wrote:Getting a bit technical there Fanch. Remember this is for sidecar racers and half of them don't even know which way they should be going on the circuit :roll: :D

You're the first of this half. Who is the other ?

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 5:06 pm
by Dan
:trophy:
Fanch wrote:
Dan wrote:Getting a bit technical there Fanch. Remember this is for sidecar racers and half of them don't even know which way they should be going on the circuit :roll: :D

You're the first of this half. Who is the other ?

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
Estelle could be, there is no doubt about where she is going :trophy: :notworthy:

I got most of the way round before losing my bearings :oops: , I think the compass fell off. :lol:

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 5:59 pm
by ianw
I know it will be off this topic but can we start another topic on the circuits we have lost over the years?

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 6:36 pm
by Big Tim
ianw wrote:I know it will be off this topic but can we start another topic on the circuits we have lost over the years?
There was something along those lines a few years back, Ian - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=36267&hilit=ye+olde

Feel free to add to that, or start a new one if you prefer :)

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 7:40 pm
by ianw
Thanks Tim, that link is brilliant, answered my question, so many circuits that have gone.
I remember Barkstone Heath well, terribly boring but cheap racing, well done Pegasus & Keith & Anita Awcock for getting the RAF to let the club use the runway.
That back straight just went on for ever. I'd only rev my Puma to 6000rpm because flat out on that straight it would have blown itself apart. We had some good dice's round the twisty bits though.
Must say though, the best bit of the weekend was in the local pub with the Beckworths & the likes of Stu Mellor & Eroll Craven amongst others. :notworthy:

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 2:22 pm
by jeff buckley
fanch a job for you put upp the french circuits if you have nothing better to do

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 12:19 am
by G JONES
jeff buckley wrote:fanch a job for you put upp the french circuits if you have nothing better to do
And Belgium / Germany / Holland.....etc :D

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 12:32 am
by sidecarracing

Re: Have started putting circuits on a google maps layer

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:13 pm
by steve-e
I'll get back onto this soon then, seems I only scratched the surface. You know how it is, been in racing all your life and think you know about half there is to know..

Then the next day realise you know less than 1%. Something this site has taught me since it started is you can live your whole life in this and not know 10% of everything that is going on :D