iWalk Cornwall vs Ancient Trees

iWalk Cornwall is a digital walking guide providing circular walks with detailed directions and local information based on over a decade of fieldwork and research. Both the app and walks are designed and developed in Cornwall and have a big local following. Routes are continually being checked and updated with help from the local community. iWalk Cornwall was Highly Commended in the 2017-2018 Cornwall Tourism Awards and a finalist in the 2017 Cornwall Sustainability Awards. The app is free to download. Walks are purchased from within the app which includes ongoing free updates. The "Lanhydrock Gardens" walk is included with the app for free so you can try it out, and there is a simulation mode so you can do so without driving there. Over 300 walks are available in all areas of Cornwall, classified by steepness and length and themes such as coastal walks and pub walks. New walks are also continually being added. Features: - Tracks your location using the GPS receiver on your device, providing real-time information as you follow the walk route. - Directions are triggered by your location, with a beep/vibrate notification when there’s a new direction for you to follow. - Based on your location, provides information about points of interest along the walk. - Includes an accurate map of the walk route and surrounding area, showing where you are on it and which way you are facing. - Warns you if you wander off the walk route, intelligently based on local knowledge (i.e. not with a blind "computer says no" where there is something legitimate to go and see) - Tells you how far you have left to go and an estimate of time remaining based on your personal walking speed - Keeps an eye on your battery and if it doesn't look like it will last the walk, offers a number of power-saving strategies - Once walks are downloaded, the app doesn’t need a mobile signal or internet connection. - Walks are continually being checked and updated - updates are downloaded for free The app also includes a mechanism to feed back any footpath issues that you spot to help us work with the Local Authority Countryside Team and parish councils to maintain Cornwall's footpath network. Note: Users of Wifi-Only (non-cellular/3G) iPads will need an external GPS device to navigate using this app Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Ancient Trees maps the remarkable old trees of the world's cities, and shows you the ones near you. Open it anywhere and the map fills with the trees around you: a yew that was old when the church beside it was built, a plane whose trunk takes four people to reach around, an oak that has stood through everything that happened on the street it shades. Each one has a page telling you what it is, roughly how old, and why it is worth the walk. WHAT YOU GET Trees near you, on a map you can search by place, by species or by name. A story for every tree, written to be read rather than skimmed, and honest about what nobody knows: where an age has never been measured, the page says so and asks you. Directions to the trunk. Where a location is rough rather than exact, the page tells you before you set off, because sending you to the wrong spot is the one mistake worth avoiding. Your own collection. Photograph a tree while you stand in front of it and it joins your trees, ours and your own alike. Signed out they stay on your phone; signed in they follow your account to a new phone, and nobody else can see them. WHERE THE TREES COME FROM Every tree is verified against at least two independent sources before it goes on the map, and where the sources disagree the page says which and why. Official registers of protected and monumental trees are read directly. Photographs carry their own open licence and credit. Nothing here is a wholesale import of a municipal tree inventory. A tree earns its place by being worth crossing town for. WHEN WE ARE WRONG We will be, and readers are how it gets fixed. Every page has a way to report a wrong pin, a fallen tree or a mistaken species, and corrections are made the same day. An account is one email address. Sign in and your collection follows you to a new phone; delete the account and everything goes with it.