How-to Articles For Walk Related Activities

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Planning and Following Walk Routes

Draw a walk route on the map, generate and edit the directions that go with it, and follow it on a phone on the day.

Routes

Load routes from OS Maps, see which are already in NGX, and convert the ones you want to GPX.

Add Walk Slots

• Add walk slots for any number of up and coming Sundays
• Add a non-standard walk slot - for example on a Saturday or a weekday evening

Ramblers Walk Import From CSV

• Import walks from Ramblers Walks Manager
• You can do this when you want to import data into your database that predates the go-live of Walks Manager in June 2023

Completing Walk Details

• Step-by-step walk through the nine tabs of the walk editor
• Aimed at walk leaders filling in a slot they have just claimed
• Covers Main Details, Walk Details, Risk Assessment, Related Links, Leader, Features, Images, History and Copy

Walk Photo Albums

• Create a walk photo album from the walk page
• Add photos in the guided workflow
• Year galleries and standalone album pages

Ramblers Walk Export

• Upload walks directly to Ramblers Walks Manager
• Pick which walks to send, run the upload, watch progress
• Review audits of previous upload sessions

Meetup Settings

• Maintain content that automatically gets added to our walk description
• Configure defaults for Meetup publishing

Walk Leader Contact

How visitors contact walk leaders and the different contact methods available

Your Contact Details on Ramblers Walks

• Why Ramblers shows no leader details on walks published from the site
• The Walks Manager permission each leader must tick, and what then appears