Posts Tagged ‘ski’

Back to the USA with Steamboat, Colorado. I’ll add lift lines tommorrow.

This is a nice looking ski area in Kyrgystan, aka Kyrgizia (Киргизия) or Kyrgyz Republic. The nearby lake, Yssyk Kol, give it the feel of another Tahoe, though this lake is about 5 times as long and wide as Lake Tahoe.
I included the Bowl, even though it isn’t really part of the ski base. But [...]

I was watching women’s super-combi at Val d’Isére on tv today, and felt I should do this map. Another very large area, with too many lifts to consider adding at this time.

I added Les Trois Vallées, France. It’s a very large ski area complex, with many, many lifts, so it’s going to take a while to get all those in. As a compromise, I put the major towns and peaks on there, after their official trail map. At least those give some sense of location.

I’ve added Kitzbühel Ski Resort, Austria. No lifts yet, though, that’s a lot of lift lines!

I added Dizin, the best known ski area in Iran complete with lifts. The latest imagery on Google Earth looks like 1 meter resolution for Iran, so it was easy to pick out the lift lines.
The elevation data is pretty bad, though, I guess it’s on 30 meter postings, so you can see the pixels. [...]

I finally put a European resort in my stable. It’s still just the 30 meter data, but it’s better than nothing. For some reason I had to fiddle with the positioning to get it to work, and even then some of the areas in the “back” don’t fit together. But those are non-ski areas so [...]

I’m finally back to adding more ski areas. I went down some software dead ends for improvements I want to make, but decided to take a break from that.
Angelfire is a small resort in New Mexico. To me it looks like they could open up the rest of that mountain and nearly double their size, [...]

Added Deer Valley with lift lines, and Snowmass with no lift lines yet. I’m still developing my tools, which is slowing things down a bit.

Took less than an hour to add Mammoth, but then I already had a batch of elevation maps I downloaded. But still, adding it to the website had speeded up considerably.