Northeast & New England Ski Resort and Ski Area Locator Map

Greg · May 24, 2006

Brian and I have been working on this on and off since February and we are now pleased to announce version 1 of the Northeast & New England Ski Resort and Ski Area Locator Map! This map combines the power of the Google Maps API, AlpineZone ski area profile data, and SnoCountry.com ski report feeds to provide an interactive map showing all major ski areas in the Northeast U.S.! With this new map, you can:

Zoom in and out to view various ski areas and their relation to each other
Quickly browse ski reports of various ski areas just by hovering over the respective peak icon
View more detailed information, satellite imagery, and in some cases an AZ member photo and/or description of a ski area by clicking on a peak icon
Get Google Maps-powered driving directions based on your starting address or zip code

ga2ski · May 24, 2006

This a is a great idea...

How do you minimize the text box once youclick on it for a resort? Also the the text box does not fit in the window of the map.

Also Attitash is in the same location as Bretton Woods.

Keep up the good work.

Greg · May 24, 2006

ga2ski said:
This a is a great idea... How do you minimize the text box once youclick on it for a resort. Also the the text box does not fit in the window of the map.

There's an "X" in the top right corner. And yeah, sometimes the info balloon will scroll off screen. You can click, hold and drag the map to view the whole balloon.

bvibert · May 24, 2006

ga2ski said:
Also Attitash is in the same location as Bretton Woods.

Crap, I knew about that one too. Thanks!

bvibert · May 24, 2006

If there's any functionality that anyone would like to see added please let us know.

Greg · May 24, 2006

ga2ski said:
Also Attitash is in the same location as Bretton Woods.

Whoops. Missed that one. All fixed.

roark · May 25, 2006

Pretty nice. Last season I used SkiDweeb's site: http://www.skidweeb.com/
Might give you some more ideas.
I particularly liked that it gives you driving distances and vertical, and acreage. He also has granite gorge on there :wink:

kbroderick · May 25, 2006

It would be nice if it checked for whether or not data was available so that during the summer it could display something better than "null" for each item.

Pretty cool, though... I can see it being rather useful for trip planning. And perhaps even more useful for killing time on the computer.

kingslug · May 27, 2006

I like it. Good for exploring new areas. Wonder if you can get it to show distances between areas. Say if you clicked on one then another and get the miles between them. This winter I could not get good info when I wanted to get between Whiteface and some Vermont areas.

BeanoNYC · Aug 22, 2006

Looks great! Thanks for all the hard work. FYI: It works on Safari.

bvibert · Aug 23, 2006

Thanks Beano, good to know about safari.

tjd · Aug 29, 2006

Some comments

Nice job. Gotta love Web2.0 apps. great way to present the data.

for early season skiers, can you color the peaks ?
red - closed
yellow - partially open
blue - fully open
or something like that ?

it would also be useful if you included a summary of current weather conditions from NWS - they have an API to grab weather info for mashups.

One comment - there was significant latency in the initial load and update - maybe due to the variety of sources being queried. Can the presentation update be done as each query is completed rather than when all are complete ? This way - you can see the data appearing.

Lostone · Aug 29, 2006

May not work for older systems.

Clicked on Vermont.
Got a warning saying a script has stopped responding, with choice of stop script or continue. Tried continue 3 times, then stop script. Got a map with lots of ski areas, but none in Vermont.

Using Firefox on a Win98SE system.

Luckily, I don't need a map. I just walk outside. :beer:

Lostone · Aug 29, 2006

OK, tried it again with a lot more patience.

Still get the script errors. This time I clicked Continue 4 times and it did work. Then all seemed to work ok. I'll have to try it again when some of them are open. :idea:

Clicking Vermont, shows New England, and places are too close. I think it would be better to have one state, more spread out. :spin:

bvibert · Aug 29, 2006

Lostone said:
OK, tried it again with a lot more patience.

Still get the script errors. This time I clicked Continue 4 times and it did work. Then all seemed to work ok. I'll have to try it again when some of them are open. :idea:

Clicking Vermont, shows New England, and places are too close. I think it would be better to have one state, more spread out.

Thanks for the feedback. That's probably because the code uses Javascript, which relies on your computer/browser to do the processing. There are a lot of data points so it may take longer than the timeout on slower systems.

bvibert · Aug 29, 2006

tjd said:
One comment - there was significant latency in the initial load and update - maybe due to the variety of sources being queried. Can the presentation update be done as each query is completed rather than when all are complete ? This way - you can see the data appearing.

I'm not sure if there is a way to do that using the Google Maps API. That's a good idea though.

bvibert · Aug 29, 2006

bvibert said:
I'm not sure if there is a way to do that using the Google Maps API. That's a good idea though.

Actually, there is. It may require a lenghty re-write though... I'll look into it...

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