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By viv, 26 April, 2012 8:00 am

In the guest post below, Gwenda Owen of Ramblers Cymru explains how the mass trespass 80 years ago on Kinder Scout has made the new Wales Coast Path possible and how the GeoVation Challenge may help people to engage with it.

This week here at the Ramblers we’re celebrating the mass trespass that took place 80 years ago on Kinder Scout. As someone relatively new to Ramblers  I’m only just beginning to truly appreciate the ‘battles’ that have been fought to secure the right to walk on paths that I’ve enjoyed and on the whole taken for granted.

Had the working people of Greater Manchester and Yorkshire not risked imprisonment in challenging the restrictions imposed by many landowners it is unlikely we would be celebrating the opening of the Wales Coast Path on May 5^th.  The account taken from Ramblers.org.uk highlights the steps which lead us to where we are today.

‘It is widely agreed that the Mass Trespass was a pivotal event in the fight for walkers’ access rights. A few weeks later, 10,000 ramblers – many more than the few hundred at Kinder Scout – took part in an access rally at Winnats Pass, near Castleton. A further mass trespass also took place on the Bradfield Moors in South Yorkshire in September 1932.

Less than three years after the Mass Trespass, the Ramblers Association was created from the National Council of Ramblers’ Federations. Although the Federation had not endorsed the Mass Trespass, the newly formed Ramblers Association set about lobbying for access to hills, for the creation of long distance paths and national parks and for better protection of public rights of way.

In 1949, following the disruptions of World War II and a period of hard-fought campaigning by the Ramblers, the National Parks and Countryside Act was passed. Foundations were laid for access rights to open country, for the creation of national parks and long distance paths and for rights of way to be surveyed and recorded on maps.

The events at Kinder Scout on 24 April 1932 were also instrumental in the Peak District becoming the first designated national park in 1951. The Pennine Way, which runs north for 268 miles from the Peak District all the way to the Scottish Borders, was the first long-distance footpath to be opened in 1965.

The Mass Trespass also had far-reaching implications for access, culminating in the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 which granted the right to roam in open countryside in England and Wales. This was followed by the Land Reform Act 2003 which granted statutory access rights to almost all land in Scotland, making it one of the most walker-friendly countries in Europe.’

 Wales Coast Path

The Ramblers and others continued to campaign, negotiate and undertake practical work and we are now able to ‘beat the bounds’ of our nation by walking the Wales Coast Path .   This is what we’ll be doing on May 5^th on our Big Welsh Coastal Walk when we’ll be joined by 1000’s of people. The full potential of the Wales Coast Path to have an enormously positive impact on both local communities and visitors has yet to be realised and we hope that the GeoVation Challenge will prove to be one of the key motivators in engaging people in all that it has to offer.

Gwenda Owen
Community Engagement Officer
Ramblers Cymru

If you would like to enter the GeoVation Challenge and be in with a chance to win a slice of £125,000 in funding then hurry, the closing date is 12 noon on 2 May2012

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By viv, 25 April, 2012 8:00 am

With only 1 week left to enter the  GeoVation Challenge’ How can we connect communities and visitors along the Wales Coast Path?’ I thought it would be good to take find out where the ideas have come from. There seem to be quite a lot from North Wales and even some from England, but there are still plenty of gaps!

We would really like to see ideas posted from all over Wales and there’s still time to enter. So if you have an idea of how people who live and work along, or visit the Wales Coast Path can use digital technology to benefit from this ‘world first’ for Wales, then enter the GeoVation Challenge – you could win a share of £125,000 in funding to make your idea happen!

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By viv, 24 April, 2012 8:00 am

What better way to discover the Wales Coast Path and think of ideas to connect communities and visitors along it than to get out for a walk along part of it?  The guest post below from Gwyn Hughes-Jones first appeared on the Ordnance Survey blog in February and takes in a 10-mile section along the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path around St David’s is available on OS Explorer Map OL35, North Pembrokeshire.

Starting at the car park at Caerfai Bay, follow the Pembrokeshie Coastal Path sign to the right for St Non’s Bay. After a kilometre, you will arrive at St Non’s Bay. St Non, who was the mother of St David, lived in a cottage on the site of the present chapel. It was here that St David was born in about 462 AD.

From St Non’s Bay, continue on the coastal path for 2 km to Porth Clais. Porth Clais is where St David was baptised by Elvis, the Bishop of Munster. After another 2.4 km along the path, you will reach Porthlysgi Bay – keep an eye out for the natural sea arch on your way.

From Porthlysgi the coastal path tracks around the tip of St David’s Penninsula to Porthstinian (about 4.8 km).  There are fantastic views of Ramsey Island: Ynys Dewi in Welsh. Is was here that Dewi Sant (St David) supposedly met St Patrick. There is another natural arch as you approach Porthstinian, and you will also be able to see Ordovician and Pre-Cambrian rock types providing stunning views.

Porthstinian was home to the Breton hermit St Justinian, who was, apparently, the confessor of St David. He met a sticky end on Ramsey when his head was cut off by his followers, apparently for being too strict a discipliarian!  Porthstinian is also home to the Tyddewi (St David’s) lifeboat. I realise it is not everyone’s cup of tea but I, for one, always enjoy the opportunity to look around the boat house, explore the slip way and take a peek at the Tyne-class lifeboat itself.  Those with wider interests might also be interested in the boat trips around Ramsey Island that set off from here.

From Porthstinian the coastal path goes on to Porthselau which is just south of Porth Mawr (a distance of 3.5 kilometres). When you reach the beach at Porthselau take the first footpath on the right after the campsite and follow it inland for 700 metres (ignore the left-hand fork).  When you reach the road, turn left and follow the road for 1.5 kilometres until you reach a T-junction. Turn left at the junction and continue for 200 metres. Take the road on your right which will lead you to St David’s after 300 metres.

It is worth having a look around St David’s, which is the smallest city in Britain. There is plenty to see and, in contrast to the city, the cathedral is the largest in Wales. There are several local hostelries and it is well worth seeking out a pint of Felin Foel Double Dragon.  It was the first beer in the world to come in a can but, more than that, it tastes great too!

From St David’s it is only a brief 1.5 kilometre stroll back down to the car park at Caerfai Bay.

We’ve also got a Welsh version of the walk for you:

Pa ffordd well sydd i ddathlu Gŵyl Dewi na chael taith gerdded 10milltir ar hyd Llwybr Arfordir Penfro o amgylch Tŷ Ddewi? Mae’r daith ar gael ar fap ‘Explorer’ OL35 Gogledd Penfro.

Cychwynnwch o faes parcio Bae Caerfai, dilynwch arwydd Llwybr Arfordir Penfro I’r dde i gyfeiriad Bae Santes Non. Ymhen cilomedr dewch at y bae. Mam Dewi oedd Sant Non drigai mewn bwthyn oedd ar safle’r capel presennol. Dyma le’r ganwyd Dewi tua 462 OC.

O Fae Santes Non ewch ‘mlaen ar y llwybr am 2 gilomedr i Borth Clais. Yma gwelwch Ffynnon Dewi lle y bedyddiwyd Dewi gan Eilw, Archesgob Munster. Ymhen 2½ cilomedr fe ddowch at Fae Porthlysgi – cadwch lygaid am y bwa morwrol naturiol cyn cyrraedd.

O Borthlysgian, ymlwybra’r llwybr heibio I  Benrhyn Dewi Sant at Borthstinian (tua 4.8 cilomedr). Yma mae golygfeydd arbennig o Ynys Dewi. Yma, yn ôl hanes, y cyfarfu Dewi a Sant Padrig. Mae bwa naturiol arall fel y dewch at Borthlysgian, ac fe welwch hefyd greigiau Ordofigaidd a Chyn-gambriaidd.

Roedd Porthlysgian yn gartref  i Sant  Justinian, y meudwy Llydaweg, oedd , mae’n debyg, yn gyffeswr i Dewi. Daeth diwedd ar ei fywyd ar Ynys Dewi pan dorrwyd ei ben i ffwrdd gan ei ddilynwyr, mae’n debyg, am fod yn rhy llym fel disgyblwr! Mae Porthlysgian hefyd yn gartref i fad achub Tŷ Ddewi. Rwy’n sylweddoli nad yw hyn yn plesio pawb ond dwi’n mwynhau’r cyfle i edrych ar yr adeilad, y llithrfa a’r gwch Tyne ei hun. Efallai fod rhai a diddordeb a dal cwch oddi yma i fynd o gwmpas Ynys Dewi.

Mae’r llwybr yn arwain o Borthstinian i Borthselau sydd ychydig i’r de o Borth Mawr 3.5 cilomedr). Pan gyrhaeddwch y traeth ym Mhorthselau, cymerwch y llwybr cyntaf ar y dde ac fe ddowch at y maes campio. Dilynwch hwn am y tir am 700 medr (anwybyddwch y fforch i’r chwith). Pan gyrhaeddwch y ffordd, trowch i’r chwith a dilyn y ffordd am 1½ cilomedr hyd y dewch i ben y ffordd. Yma trowch i’r chwith ac ymlaen am 200medr. Cymerwch y ffordd ar y dde a wnaiff eich arwain i Dŷ  Ddewi ymhen 300 medr.

Mae’n werth i chi edrych o gwmpas Tŷ Ddewi, y ddinas leiaf ym Mhrydain. Mae digon i’w weld ac, yn wahanol i’r ddinas, mae’r gadeirlan y fwyaf yng Nghymru. Mae yma nifer o dafarnau lleol and mae’n werth chwilio am beint o ‘Double Dragon’ gan fragdy Felin Foel. Dyma’r cwrw cyntaf yn y byd i’w gael mewn can ond, yn well na hyn, mae’n flasus hefyd!

Dim ond 1½ cilomedr sydd o Dŷ Ddewi yn ôl i’r maes parcio ym Mae Caerfai.

Our Wales Coast Path Challenge closes at noon on 2 May – so hurry you have just over a week to enter your ideas to be in with a chance to win a slice of up to £125,000 in funding to get started.

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By viv, 23 April, 2012 8:00 am

People across the country jumped at the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of open data and put tools and techniques into practice at a series of free masterclasses we hosted recently.

The masterclasses, which were run by GeoVation and supported by Horizon Digital Economy Research, were held at six locations across England and Wales and attended by over 130 people. The free all-day sessions attracted small businesses, local authorities and students interested in learning about open data and how to maximise its use.

Following feedback from previous master classes, the sessions focused on giving participants the chance to use open datasets and put the theory into practice. The masterclasses introduce the context of open data, OS OpenData and the GeoVation initiative before hearing a user case study. During the sessions people had the chance to work with data from the Home Office, public authorities and more and see how it could be put to use with OS OpenData datasets, a great framework to display other available public data.

One case study worked on included taking data on school attendance rates and crime statistics on anti-social behaviour and overlaying it on Boundary-Line (see image below).

Map showing anti-social behaviour statistics overlaid with school attendance rates

Thank you to everyone who gave feedback on the master classes which we will use to improve further sessions. Congratulations to Gareth Glynn who won a £10 Amazon voucher in the prize draw.  Gareth said ‘I enjoyed the class and certainly came out the wiser – it was a tough but rewarding day’.

Don’t worry if you missed out, we’re aiming to run another series of masterclasses across the country later in the year. These may develop the current sessions by offering support for using open data in web platforms and mobile formats.  Let us know if there are any places you would like us to visit.

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By viv, 20 April, 2012 8:00 am

We were delighted at the quality and scope of the ideas of how you could transform your neighbourhoods, using Ordnance Survey products or services in the solution. A short-list of ideas (below) has now been chosen by the GeoVation judging panel and teams have been invited to develop their ideas at GeoVation Camp, 18 – 20 May, at Ordnance Survey  in Southampton.

• Show and Grow To use OS Street View and OpenStreetMap data in an online web mapping application which allows people in the local community (elderly, busy families, young couples) to volunteer garden space (by tagging the location of the space to the online map) for growing fruit and vegetables for the community.
• Charting the Coldspot An idea to reinvigorate empty and underutilised shop and built environment assets within Peterborough City Centre Conservation area’s high street.
• The Place Station Introducing owners of land and buildings across the UK to social and community entrepreneurs with ideas for transforming their local area.
• BikeSafe App: ending local bike theft with community engagement  An app to reduce and clear up bike theft using an our existing database, based on police data, police contacts and smartphone capabilities.
• My Neighbourhood – Live A web page that displays local geo-tagged content, aggregated from around the web that is tailored to the users location.
• Sustaination – food enterprise mapping & communication Network food enterprises to more effectively work together, and promote themselves to their communities. Open-data platform helps citizens map food-webs, highlighting opportunities for innovation, engagement, and re-localisation.
• Hate Crime Reporting App A smartphone app to help individuals gather evidence and submit reports of alleged hate crime to local police and local community support organisations.
• Schools in Transition: Mapping Local Communities Addressing the challenges of diminishing cheap energy and climate change by creating local solutions and more resilient, connected communities.
• SkillxShare – creating a generation of job makers Enabling people to find others locally who share their interests and can work together on specific projects to gain income is the future
• Community Transport Share Develop community transport in rural area using lift sharing and other available vehicles, particularly where there is a lack of established community transport.
• Wandelwelt: co-creating a vision for future neighbourhoods Identifying and mapping specific challenges within communities and co-creating solutions with communities we will help ensure successful neighbourhoods now and for future generations
• Where next Pilot the use of community maps to facilitate person-centred planning with vulnerable, older and isolated people as a way to enable them to engage and integrate into their local community.
• Community Animation Mapping Strengths and Assets Idea is to meet 600 people from identified neighbourhoods and unearth the latent strengths, skills and talents of local people and  map these digitally using detailed Ordnance Survey maps.
• Community Payback Visibility Members of the public will nominate locations for Community Payback work and track their progress using a smartphone App
• Safe Areas The Safe Areas web portal will provide a community focused website which will allow users to view, explore and contribute data relating to road safety.
• Block Wars – Improving Neighbourhoods Through Youth This concept develops a GIS based game where children compete and co-operate locally in order to play, whilst exploring their area.
• Residents’ Green Space Mapper Test innovative approaches/tools to support local people to survey and assess their green spaces.
• Re-cycling reminders An App reminder using GPS to remind you what bins are being recycled that week.
• Community Map Power  Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation working  with Countryscape to develop a tool kit and training package that will enable groups to use maps to innovate, communicate and strengthen their work.
• Come To Your Senses: Mapping & Sharing a Sense of Place To run an online prototype website to test how we can display the data we collect during public mapping pop-up events that we organise.

Congratulations to those who have been short-listed and thanks to all who have registered, posted ideas, voted and commented.

Whether you were short-listed or not, if you’ve got experience or knowledge that could help the ideas develop then come along and be part of it, by registering for a place at GeoVation Camp from 18 -20 May. The most exciting ideas will be chosen to go forward to pitch for a slice of £115,000 in innovation funding at the GeoVation Showcase at Ordnance Survey on 20 June.

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By viv, 17 April, 2012 8:00 am

As many of you know Coastal Wales was voted number 1 on Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel, top 10 regions for 2012.

The Lonely Planet book states: “What a wonderful thing: to walk the entire length of a country’s coastline, to trace its every nook, cranny, cliff-face, indent and estuary. How better to truly appreciate the shape – and soul – of a nation? Well, in 2012 Wales will become the only country in the world where you can do just that.

With the Wales Coast Path due to open on 5 May and our GeoVation Challenge calling for ideas to connect communities and visitors along the new path, this got me thinking:   Is there a top 10 of things to see or do along the Wales Coast Path?

Here are some suggestions:

1. See dolphins in Newquay – Cardigan Bay
2. Surf at  Llangenith – Gower
3. Play the Prisoner at Portmerion
4. Eat cockles in Penclawdd
5. Catch a show at the Millenium Centre in Cardiff Bay
6. See the starlings flock at dusk on Aberystwyth prom
7. Visit the Great Orme in Llandudno
8. Eat honey ice cream in Aberaeron
9. Walk on Whistling Sands Aberdaron
10. Bird spotting at Newport Wetlands

Or what about these?

• Seal spotting off the Llyn Penninsula
• Enjoying the tranquility and uniqueness of Porth Iago
• Take in the sunset over Worms Head
• Explore the highest sand dunes in Northern Europe in Merthyr Mawr
• Walk the barrage, then dine in Cardiff Bay
• Visit a Castle at Criccieth

(Thank you to Gwenda Owen at Ramblers Cymru and Gareth Browning of Welsh Government for these suggestions)

I’m sure you have your own top ideas to make the most of Wales Coast Path, but don’t keep them to yourself. If you can think of how people who live and work along, or visit the Wales Coast Path can use digital technology to benefit from this ‘world first’ for Wales, then enter the GeoVation Challenge – you could win a share of £125,000 in funding to make your idea happen!

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By viv, 12 April, 2012 8:00 am

I recently visited Pembrokeshire, staying Fishguard, to run along part of the Wales Coast Path with DragonRun 1027.  Since September last year the number of trains arriving in Fishguard (or Abergwaun to give it its Welsh name) has increased which means it is an ideal destination for those who want to travel by train, as I did. It is also a gateway to Ireland with a regular ferry to Rosslare.

The coastal path runs through Goodwick and Fishguard and the town’s history includes being the scene of the last French invasion of Britain in 1797. But our hosts at the hotel we stayed at explained how the economic downturn was affecting local businesses and as we walked around Fishguard we could see this for ourselves with many pubs and restaurants now closed.  While travelling around the North Pembrokeshire coast we could see that other areas seemed to be doing pretty well – for instance, we were unable to get a table at a restaurant in popular Porthgain without a prior booking. But I wondered how businesses and communities could connect better with the Wales Coast Path and make the most of this world first for Wales, the only complete ‘formal’ walking trail to follow a country’s entire coastline in the world. In turn how could this  stimulate sustainable economic growth, health and well- being and social inclusion in coastal communities?

During the stay there we also suffered a day of appalling weather conditions which also helped us to question how the path could be an attraction that could encourage visitors all year and not just in good weather?

On the final day, while out walking on the coastal path around Fishguard we saw children out making the most of activities in the water and I wondered whether anymore could be done to  encourage children to make more use the path and the coast?

I don’t have  the answers, only questions?  So maybe some of you have some ideas on how to make more of this amazing attraction.  If so, enter them on our Wales Coast Path GeoVation Challenge and you could win a share of up to £125,000 funding to get your idea started.

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By viv, 10 April, 2012 8:00 am

Since launching our latest GeoVation Challenge’ How can we connect communities and visitors along the Wales Coast Path?’ I’ve been itching to get out on to the Wales Coast Path and see what its all about!   On 5 April I had the pleasure of joining Arry Beresford-Webb, aka dragonrun1027, a sports therapist from Cardiff on a little part of her epic 1027 mile ultra run around the whole perimeter of Wales. See previous blog.  Arry started out on 24 March from Cardiff Bay and her plan is to return there on 5 May in time for the official opening of the new Wales Coast Path -  having run all around Wales to get there.

Joining Arry on the run

Along the way Arry is aiming to raise £25 000 for charity. As we ran she told me about her the Velindre Cancer Centre , for which she has recently become an ambassador, and the work they do.

Arry has been taking the challenging terrain and incredible weather conditions in her stride (excuse the pun), as she has been making her way around the Gower and Pembrokeshire coastline.  I joined her at St Justinian at midday – when she already had 16 miles under her belt that day.  We covered the 12 mile section from there to Porthgain, taking in Whitesands Bay and Abereiddi.  It was a windy, cold but incredibly clear day and though the  path was pretty hard going at times, we earned some  incredibly breathtaking  views in return.  I could see why this section of the path is so popular, with stunning coastline at every turn, but I also experienced, as a runner, that at times it was difficult to navigate, with a lack of signage at some key decision points; we were grateful for Arry’s GPS when we deviated from the route. Map reading while your running isn’t that easy.

Just checking...

Arry explained that although she had been preparing for 15 months prior to undertaking her challenge and had picked up advice from some top ultra runners, she had still found her body was taking time to adapt to the constant demands on it, though she felt she was slowly getting stronger and becoming ‘marathon woman’. A big fan of many ultra runners and particularly Dean Karnazes ,  Arry uses his saying “Run if you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, but never give up” as her mantra to keep going and explained how she had developed a love of trail running, particularly with this beautiful coastline to keep her going and  I could really understand why!

Taking a look at the way we've just come!

My experience  during the run has given me an appreciation of the  beauty of the Wales Coast Path , but also a few of the difficulties in making it accessible to those who want to use if for more than walking.  I also have an enormous admiration for Arry. The day before our run, weather conditions had been appalling with driving rain and winds of up to  40 miles an hour but Arry still battled to get 10 miles in, but had to give up. So, to make this up, on the day of our run  after completing the 28 miles to Porthgain, she then backtracked and put in a further 10 before it got dark!

Elevation between St Justinian and Porthgain

On the following day, as I got up full of aches and pains, from 12 miles of hill running, Arry was back out bright and early to put in another marathon run, and will continue to do so every day until 5 May.  So if you’re out and about around the Wales Coast Path and happen to see Arry (accompanied by Puff the dragon on her rucksack), give her a cheer or, even better, sponsor her here.

Myself,  I am grateful I had the opportunity to run with Arry and experience the wonderful coastline for myself –  I certainly want to get back there and do some more running too if I can.  Meanwhile if you have ideas on how you think visitors or communities can better connect of make use of this wonderful first for Wales, then don’t waste any time, enter your ideas here and the best ideas could win a share of £125,000 to get them started.

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By viv, 5 April, 2012 8:00 am

We are getting some great ideas posted on our GeoVation Challenge ‘How can we connect communities and visitors along the Wales Coast Path?’

For instance, an idea for ‘Caban’ portable, off-grid accommodation system- to provide comfortable accommodation at appropriate locations along the Coastal Path without permanent development.  The ‘caban’ could operate on uneven ground with difficult access such as woodland or rocky terrain and be completely removed when needed. It could offer shelter and facility ‘hubs’ along the route on existing campsites or more remote sites and is underpinned by an environmentally ethical design  and can provide business opportunities for the community.

Or what about an Augmented Reality Guide to the Wales Coastal Path?  An idea to create a number of augmented reality films of sites throughout Wales  from different historic periods.

But these are just a couple of the ideas already submitted.  You can vote or comment on these or, if you have your own ideas that help stimulate economical business growth, encourage visitors or support communities using geographical data along the Wales Coast Path,  – then enter the GeoVation Challenge. The  best of these will be shortlisted to attend a weekend camp to develop their ideas further and finalists will be invited to a Showcase where they can pitch for a share of £125 000 funding to make their ideas happen.  You have until 2 May to enter.

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By viv, 4 April, 2012 8:00 am

Below is a guest post from David Roberts, one of our colleagues at Ordnance Survey, who has been working hard alongside the GeoVation team to launch and run the Wales Coast Path GeoVation Challenge.

Working for Ordnance Survey has given me a double view and insight into the importance of the completion and opening the Wales  Coast Path on May 5th. The sheer size of the logistics to successfully launch an ‘e challenge’ to tackle the problems associated with the world’s first coastal path around a Country; and to bring together a nation to walk on it is immense. And yet the GeoVation Challenge has successfully brought together an extremely diverse range of people from Government through Local Authorities to professional and charity groups, businesses and individuals on and around the coastline. With their unique talents, all have expressed their thoughts, views, doubts and fears from those early meetings, but share a real desire and enthusiasm to see this work; not only for May 5^th but for 365 days per year, every year.

To get as many people aware of the opening and on to the path as possible for May 5^th, I have been working alongside the Welsh Ramblers who have led many of the meetings and workshops to ensure success. Through their informative website and electronic map of Wales they show a growing number of walking groups, their routes, leader contact details and even where the media helicopters will be flying for TV coverage. Ordnance Survey has created a giant “walk on map of Wales” using the Explorer 1:25,000 scale and will measure approx 15m x 12m. This map will be available on the opening day in Cardiff and will made available “Free to use” to any organisations who would like to use it in for, demonstrations, functions, education etc.

My own role has been working with the youth groups of Wales, including Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Scouts & Guides to ensure that as many groups from the youngest upwards are walking, camping or just having fun on the day and are aware that they will form part of a historical event for Wales. With around 20,000 Scouts & Guides in Wales, plus those on the Marches,  there has been enthusiasm from the Heads of both organisations to organise by County or Area and get the boys and girls involved in activities son the day. All of these events will be fed back to the Welsh Ramblers to be included on their electronic map acting as an information page and historical document. A special badge for Scouts & Guides has also been created for this event and will sit above the Queens Diamond Jubilee Badge.

With three major celebrity openings around Wales in Flintshire, Aberystwyth & Cardiff on the day itself this as an important staging post for the Country and with the right coverage and media it will put us on the map a little bit more firmly and encourage others to visit.

We have the coastline; all we need now is the people to share it with.

David Roberts