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Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 09:58
by Mocki
yep, thas why i now carry a fishing rod in the van.......
Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 09:59
by lloyd
Just a thought:
Website with members by invitation only? That way you would be able to control who could access / add information about places to stay. I know of a couple of nice quiet places within a few miles of home. Never use them myself, but would be very handy for others visiting the area. Anyone I know is always welcome here at home. There are enough of us to assemble a very nice list of places... and have better control over who knows about them.
Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 10:55
by dink
lloyd wrote:Just a thought:
Website with members by invitation only? That way you would be able to control who could access / add information about places to stay. I know of a couple of nice quiet places within a few miles of home. Never use them myself, but would be very handy for others visiting the area. Anyone I know is always welcome here at home. There are enough of us to assemble a very nice list of places... and have better control over who knows about them.
if you guy's and add a sub forum, I'll add to it
Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 10:57
by Mocki
i dont have the direct authority to add forums really, ill voice it to the admin and mods, and it will appear!
Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 12:28
by Nicola&Tony
People can already request info on sleepyspots via this forum (e.g. gen. chat, campers or members only). If we have a section specially devoted to this, it raises the profile of the locations and more of them will be closed off as they get more popular (credit crunch and all that malarky).
Just a personal opinion.
Tony
Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 12:31
by Mocki
Nicola&Tony wrote:People can already request info on sleepyspots via this forum (e.g. gen. chat, campers or members only). If we have a section specially devoted to this, it raises the profile of the locations and more of them will be closed off as they get more popular (credit crunch and all that malarky).
Just a personal opinion.
Tony
yes i agree, but we still need to be able to share them with each other dont we?
i know loads in N.Yorks and Derbyshire that i found using only my map and fuel, but to know where to find them for aplanned trip will help loads, if we can be carefull about it
Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 12:57
by Nicola&Tony
Mocki wrote:yes i agree, but we still need to be able to share them with each other dont we? . . . to know where to find them for aplanned trip will help loads, if we can be carefull about it
Agreed.
Perhaps there could be an announcement posted which advises people which forum to post requests in for sleepyspot info (for specific areas)?
Previous posts containing the word sleepyspot will hopefully be easy to find via the search facility on here.
Tony
Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 12:59
by Mocki
i shoulda copywrited "sleepyspot" i know that!
25p everytime its used.......hehehehe
Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 13:11
by Nicola&Tony
T'is a good term, does exactly what it says on the tin!
I tried the search facility as an experiment. Unfortunately some people type sleepy spot rather than sleepyspot, which means that using sleepy as the search term produces a bigger number of relevant posts.
Tony
Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 13:28
by dink
Nicola&Tony wrote:People can already request info on sleepyspots via this forum (e.g. gen. chat, campers or members only). If we have a section specially devoted to this, it raises the profile of the locations and more of them will be closed off as they get more popular (credit crunch and all that malarky).
Just a personal opinion.
Tony
Mocki wrote:yes i agree, but we still need to be able to share them with each other dont we? . . . to know where to find them for aplanned trip will help loads, if we can be carefull about it
Nicola&Tony wrote: Agreed.
Perhaps there could be an announcement posted which advises people which forum to post requests in for sleepyspot info (for specific areas)?
Previous posts containing the word sleepyspot will hopefully be easy to find via the search facility on here.
Tony
other forums, VZi for example have a subforum where you have to have a certain number of posts, and seek permission from a moderator to get in
that would solve the problem, i doubt visitors would sign up and post say 100 posts just to see where they might be able to free camp
there used to be an orsum camping spot in suffolk, aldeburgh, that got too popular, some numbhead was allegidly seen emtying his chemical toilet into the sea, and that got knocked on the head
a sub forum with a post count requirement and permission from a mod, is IMHO a sensible way to go about it
Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 14:56
by weldore
it would be good to have the poi's handy for when your out for a few days with no real plan of where youll end up.dunno how they work tho..is it a postcode or a gps position..or are they one in the same?
Re: overnighting at a motorway services
Posted: 15 Mar 2009, 18:07
by dink
weldore wrote:it would be good to have the poi's handy for when your out for a few days with no real plan of where youll end up.dunno how they work tho..is it a postcode or a gps position..or are they one in the same?
the one's I posted are GPS coordinates, i have no idea what post codes would be, or how to find them
I looked them up on google earth, satnav's these day can direct you to a GPS position, I also save a GS location, if I think it might make a decent campsite, just so's i can find it again
since google eath came out, it's made life easier