Posts from ‘January, 2007’

Copper Mountain and Apache are both redone from the previous version of 3dSkiMaps. They go a lot faster when I already have the trail mask. Apache is one of the smallest in my inventory so far, but it still has some nice variety for its size. Copper Mountain is one of the largest. Lots of [...]

That looks like an interesting ski area. I’ve never been, but my daughter used to go there with her church youth group. She has far surpassed me and now skis double black. She also jumped a creek or something at Crested Butte, though looking at the map I’m not sure where it is. The data [...]

Park City is new to 3dSkiMaps and took a few hours to produce. But I had already done Breckenridge and Keystone before, so there wasn’t as much processing needed to get them back out in the new format.

I think I missed a couple of trails on that one, but I’ll go back over it and correct it when I start adding labels.
I’m picking resorts more or less at random, trying to get a good geographic distribution as I build up my inventory. But it’s a good sample of ski areas that really [...]

This is the first one using my new algorithm. Just noticed the static images still show 2006 copyright. That’s okay from a legal standpoint, so I’ll just fix it in the next batch.

I’m pretty sure, anyway. It was a matter of converting from lat/lon coordinates to unviversal transverse Mercator, but the hard part was dealing with the mismatch between the old and the new bitmap grids.
Anyway, now I’ll be able to start cranking out maps again, but it’s after 02:00, so I’d better get some sleep.