Posts from ‘December, 2006’

It’s no big deal, just that the new data I’ve been using isn’t as massaged as the data I had been using, so as I was redoing the maps, things weren’t lining up on some of them. So I had to go back and revise the way I’m calculating the slope map and creating the [...]

I added a preliminary map for Beaver Creek, CO last night. Flux Player won’t read the VRML for some reason, I’m communicating with the developers about that.
This map has no trails, just the color-mapped steepness. I’ll be adding Breckenridge, Keystone, Telluride, and the four Aspen mountains over the next week or two. It takes one [...]

I moved 3dSkiMaps to a new host, MonsterHosting.ca. I had been using a subdomain off my own site, but with the changes I’m making and the push toward productization and profitability, I wanted to make sure my hosting could handle the Digg effect. I read that my own host, iPowerWeb, didn’t handle heavy traffic gracefully [...]

I changed the scale for the mapping of the steepness of slopes. Before it was like a scientific rainbow scale: blue at the bottom and red at the top. But that meant that blue was Beginner and green was Intermediate. It was a pain to have to explain that to people each time, so I [...]