What would make wild camping easier for you?

Conal said:
In our admittedly short travelling life (two years excursions in the UK, Ireland, France and Spain) one thing we weren’t often able to get from apps, web sites, guide books or google earth was information about road access to areas or to informal sites. Sometimes we have been able to make an informed choice from blogs and forum posts with photos and decriptions.

Our Motorhome is nearly 8 metres long and wider than the average vehicle, so it is important to us to be sure we will fit. Our Garmin camper satnav is useless in this respect - a question mark is not information.
I would pay (although not a lot) for an app/ publication that was updated each year with suggestions for “large Motorhome friendly” areas.

My advice from my college days long ago is don’t spent too much time on this.

There are lots of apps - you have to offer something different.
Maintaining such a service for a large area would be incredibly time-consuming. I think you would have to use a similar model as Britstops use if you were doing this for real.
It might be wise, for your presentation, to start with one area - the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, or North Wales might fit the bill as they are very popular with many narrow roads and will have been visited by many here.

You may not be able to afford the subscription for this site but I don’t think you will get many too many responses from members here without giving them a specific task so I have a suggestion, your exercise is fiction, so invent sites based on a real area.

Thomas Hardy wrote about Dorset and invented towns based on real places. Maybe your family and friends could look at an area you chose on google earth, and make up fictitious names for real sites.

Others may be happy to provide disguised information for their favourite sites. If you were given access information on 50 “sites” that would probably be enough.

You would want people to suggest improvements. For instance if you were to chose my suggestion, once you gave us your basic ideas someone might post the suggestion that you add short screen cam videos of the approach. Someone else might suggest a map route showing the best direction from which to approach the area.

An example might be: In Skelwith Bridge there is a Rugby Club. In the summer months they rent out their pitches for motorhomes. You could google small village sports clubs in the area and invent one that allows free parking overnight. The information for this may be “from the south follow the one way system towards Coniston Water and the site is on your left as you leave the town. Good access with no overhanging trees and wide gates”

Some supermarkets and superstores allow free overnight parking (Alde and Ikea abroad). Again, google supermarkets in the area and change names and say they offer free overnight parking.

Whatever you chose as an app I would be happy to get at least five others to assist you by emailing you directly with constructive comments from different email addresses so that is six to start with.

Once you have an initial outline of what you are suggesting, post it on here and I will check if I can private message you. If not I am sure we can find a way to get in contact. I am on Facebook.

Hope this helps

Conal
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Helllloooooooow’ please read all the responses to this thread from the beginning ! (y)
 
Feel sorry for op he has pretty much been brutalised here - he may be pi####g in the wind with his idea but it is his choice - if people want luxuries easier to use campsite
 
The OP created a new username and started another thread (which appears to have been deleted now) which explained that he was a Uni student working on a project and was looking for information to help him with that, i don't think he actually intended to create an app.
 
Eggs said:
Or, you could just wire into a lamp column (only joking).
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You may have been joking but I have seen this in Eastbourne some years back. Parked on the seafront and removed one of the bulbs from the lights strung along there, presumably through a roof vent, and connected up. Probably enough for a fridge and charger.
 
This trendy "vanlife" movement is probably only monetisable among the wannabees who still live in rented bricks and mortar but think a rent-free, council tax-free, nomadic lifestyle in a former horsebox filled with IKEA would be living the dream, woo hoo! The wannabees should be the target market, not the real Vanlifers and crusty New Age travellers.

A glossy Vanlife magazine for the coffee table to feature on-trend and cool Hipsters in Vans. With adverts for beard oil, of course. Actually, that is proper Dragon's Den fodder.
 
To answer the question? Paper towel dispensers, so after emptying my cassette toilet in the badge I can wipe my hands ;)

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Louis
I did, including the second post referred to above by ChrisL.
What is your point?
Conal
 
ChrisL said:
The OP created a new username and started another thread (which appears to have been deleted now) which explained that he was a Uni student working on a project and was looking for information to help him with that, i don't think he actually intended to create an app.
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Second accounts are auto-delete when detected. All he had to do was drop me a line rather than sneakingly open another account. :doh:
 
An old colleague of mine was addicted to reading what he called 'Walt's World' which was some survival forum where they continually argued over which expensive brand of boots you need to buy to ensure surviving a night wild camping in Devon, and whether to pack blood plasma, just in case, for a weekend trek in the Lake District. :D2

There was a question from somebody asking where he could wild camp in the Peak District that had 3G coverage and all the photos of home made shelters were obviously taken in somebody's garden. :rolleyes:
 
Conal said:
Louis
I did, including the second post referred to above by ChrisL.
What is your point?
Conal
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Sorry did not realise you were in partnership with the OP (y)
 
Louis
What makes you think that?
I simply read two posts and responded with one of the few constructive comments on this thread.
I must be a little slow because I didn’t understand your first post and I don’t know what you mean by your second.
Conal

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Eggs said:
Or, you could just wire into a lamp column.
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Many moons ago, when I worked one summer for the Cheadle and Gately Urban District Council's street lighting department, if we wanted a "brew", we just pulled the van up to a lamp post and plugged in the electric kettle...

JJ :cool:
 
Conal said:
Louis
What makes you think that?
I simply read two posts and responded with one of the few constructive comments on this thread.
I must be a little slow because I didn’t understand your first post and I don’t know what you mean by your second.
Conal
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Conal said:
Louis
What makes you think that?
I simply read two posts and responded with one of the few constructive comments on this thread.
I must be a little slow because I didn’t understand your first post and I don’t know what you mean by your second.
Conal
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Conal said:
Louis
What makes you think that?
I simply read two posts and responded with one of the few constructive comments on this thread.
I must be a little slow because I didn’t understand your first post and I don’t know what you mean by your second.
Conal
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Oh ok then, the OP was fishing for information from experienced members for their own gain, but I’m not sure that you were jumping in , or in cahoots with the OP, and, I thought you had read all the posts? That’s all . (y)
 

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