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Website Change Log

Hills Database Upgrade to v13.1  

We have upgraded to version 13.1 of the Database of British and Irish hills See here for detailed changes… www.hills-database.co.uk/revision_history.html

Find by Location Tool  

We’ve added a new “find by location” url filter to our Trigpoint & Hill pages. For example the page… www.haroldstreet.org.uk/waypoints/download/?g=NN166712 will look up the nearest hill (or failing that the nearest trigpoint) within a 20km square of the ten figure grid reference provided by the ?g= value If you only want trigpoints then the same » read more »

External links for our Hills & Mountains  

We’ve added some useful external links to the pages for each individual Mountain, Hill and/or Trigpoint: Wikipedia the article link for a hill if we have it (for approx 10% of Hills & Mountains (& also some trigpoints) GeoHack – a Wikipedia tool which provide links to various mapping services for the specified  geographical coordinates of our Hills. » read more »

Panoramio Photos  

We’ve added a new button “ Photos“ to the map pages of each individual hill, trigpoint & routes that will show photos from Panoramio. Also if you append (?)&photos=all to the url of most map pages then it will automatically show all Panoramio photos on the map. Like so… http://www.haroldstreet.org.uk/waypoints/download/?hill=Ben+Nevis&hillnumber=278&photos=all This also works on most map pages – » read more »

Wikipedia Links  

We’ve added over 1000 links to Wikipedia articles about a particular hill or list  to the various Hill’s Detail & Mountain Lists pages. That’s more than 10% of our hills. We hope it is of use and interest to our members.  


Author: Phil Newby