The short answer is that we haven’t had time to add them yet but they will be coming - subscribe or check back later and they should arrive eventually.

The longer answer is that we’ve started on the areas that we’ve either covered, or are soon to cruise because the time we have to spend on creating locations is limited. The other problem, particular to the UK is that English blogs about England tend not to cover tourist sites - more the waterways, people and pubs. I suspect this is because England is familiar to the English. Perhaps we need to find some blogs from Americans, Aussies and other ex-colonials or someone from mainland Europe who find England an exotic location.

The primary purpose of this website is to provide accessible tourist information, as such, it relates to a town generally. If this were a mooring guide (which it is not) then it would make sense to have the location placed at the mooring point.

If you want an accurate, comprehensive and current mooring guide, that is fully searchable and has a map-style interface, the website of DBA - The Barge Association has the best I'm aware of. It is only available to members but worth the price of membership. Here's an example:

These are the map markers and what they represent:

A recurring event held each year, approximately in the designated month.

A non-recurring event held this year in the designated month.

Note - where the event is held frequently, say once every week, it is classified as ‘Seasonal’.

A location where the article describes some tourist attraction. It is also usually and overnight stop.

A location where the article describes an overnight (or longer) stop.

A location where a waterway feature is described but not used as an overnight stop.

The primary aim is to help identify attractions that cruisers can get to readily. Our assumption is that most people can walk, have bicycles and can use public transport (on a day trip basis). 

We do not expect that the majority of those cruising either have access to their own car (some do of course!) or can drum up a friend to take them somewhere in a car.

Thus, we only index locations where the blogger has reached them on foot, bicycle or by a short public transport journey.

Those sites distant from the waterways have probably been reached by bicycle or public transport from where the blog writer was moored.

The best place is the search box under the legends at the bottom of the map. Type in a name, press return or click on the Go button. Search is pretty good but not as good as Google, so extreme miss spelling or something really unique might generate an error. It may help to put a comma at the end of the name and follow it with the country in which the place is located.

Once found, the map zooms in and will show locations within 15 km of the target. Zoom out to see if any of our locations are present nearby.

Unfortunately, this map has to deal with multiple markers at exactly the same location. Almost all map solutions do not handle this well at all. Generally, you get the topmost marker and can’t select any of the others. No use at all for us.

This particular map allows ’spidering’ for markers at the same location - and with that goes the requirement to ‘cluster’ the markers into larger and larger groups as the map is zoomed out. 

Sometime in the future, we may have the resources to design our own map solution, until then the clusters will have to stay

Maybe coming...

Definitely being planned for a future upgrade. It depends on whether some existing code can be added to the map plugin and that it will be practical to use.

These are non-recurring events - they only take place on this date in this year. The standard yellow markers denote recurring events that take place every year

Generally, these will be visible only for 'this' year, that is if it is 2017 now, these events will only take place in 2017. At the end of the year, these events and markers will be removed and replaced with whatever is current in 2018.

It's a fact of life that, particularly on the Continent, they speak different languages to English and their websites are often in their native tongue. We select the site we link to primarily on how reliable the information about the event (particularly the date) is likely to be. That site may not be in English.

Depending on the information you want, you may be able to extract it just by looking at the site. Otherwise, we highly recommend having the Google Chrome browser available as that will offer a translation of a non-English site into English.