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Park Run

The lazy person’s version of exercise I love running. Initially I started running as it’s the lazy persons version of exercise. Seriously. You use the biggest and most efficient muscle groups in the body,…

Thank your Mother

Who taught you how to walk? Mothers do so much for you. Most people reading this blog are avid walkers or lovers of the outdoors. But just think back to why that came about?…

A New Map Spec

New Map Spec  SplashMaps‘ brand New Map Spec is launched this week in the Lake District and being rolled out throughout our destination range of maps. Uniquely it gives you what the walkers report…

Spring Adventure Campaign

Spring Adventure Campaign The SplashMaps Spring Adventure Campaign is running in the main cycling and walking titles this season. Regular reader of Walk (the Ramblers Magazine), Cycle (the Cyclinguk membership magazine) or cycling world?…

Retrofit Maps on your favourite suit

Retrofit Maps on your favourite suit Unique Christmas present At a recent geo event I met an old client of mine, Andy.  As a Christmas gift I’d given him a personalised SplashMap of his…

Custom Fabric Maps Unique to any Adventure

Unique to any adventure “SplashMaps make custom maps unique to any adventure”, made an easy enough message to share with gift market customers who ponder Christmas 2018 at Spring Fair. We were there to…

Showing out!

SplashMaps will be showing out at Spring Fair, Hall 5 Stand E103. But what’s there to shout about this year? Quite apart from anything else, we’ve now covered all the aspects that the Dragons…

Twitter inventions

Why Twitter inventions? You may have noticed that Twittter is my favourite of the the social media.  For me it’s pretty easy to understand, easy to post and easy to reference and get links…

Influences on Location Technologies

Influences on Location Technologies Every 2 months the finest in Geography get together to discover, discuss and network around the latest influences on location technologies. This week witnessed a first! Joint winners shared the…

A good walk ruined by bikes

For my brother-in-law the best way to mark a birthday is to celebrate with a ride on his mountain bike.  A plan was hatched, and the location seemed to choose itself.  But if we…