Posts from ‘June, 2007’

Finally I finished Snowbird, UT. Snowbird is big and complex, as are Alta and Park City. The biggest problem is one shared by Jackson Hole - how to show defined trails along with all the treeless areas and skiable areas with trees. For these kind of areas I have to make several levels of transparency, [...]

This one isn’t finished yet, but I read they’ve raised $60 million in development monies. In Russian “bystro” means rapidly, I think Bystrets is a place in where the river runs rapidly. But it isn’t “rapids”, the word for that is “stremniny”.

There’s a lot of ski development going on in Ukraine, in the Carpathians. Bukovel Ski Resort will be expanding over the next four or five years.

I got an email from someone in Ukraine curious about how I make my maps. I pleaded trade secret, but gave a little info and was skeptical about getting any good data. Then I finally broke down and checked out the Space Shuttle SRTM data, at which I’ve turned up my nose before because it’s [...]

Finally I’m getting time to add new resorts. Also, I’m now fully recovered from my system crash. I found that some of the libraries and paths for the software I’ve written to make 3D files from the raw data had to be restored. Of course it’s been so long since I developed all that stuff [...]