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Rokjox

Trad climber

Boys I'dunno

May 24, 2011 - 11:26am PT

This is hot stuff. I'm going armchairing.

NotIt

Trad climber

SF, CA

Jun 4, 2011 - 11:38am PT

very very cool.

Thanks for the resource!

Baggins

Boulder climber

Jun 4, 2011 - 01:41pm PT

This is great! At first I have to say I thought it was an amateur programmars job at recreating the features in google earth.. BUT shame on me because the range of surface overlays is fantastic and very very useful.

Actually it has helped me determine some boundaries of private vs USFS ground that show up in the MyTopo overlay.

As other ppl have said, deleting pins would be useful.. but Im sure you'll jazz up the route design features in good time.

Maybe one day all these sites... mountainproject, wikiboulder, 27crags, sendage will all come together and make some huge infinitely useful resource... probably for the best? or maybe not!

As for apologizing for "spamming" ST... yeah I was greviously disappointed when I opened this thread and didnt find 3,213 replies relating to the color blue vs red...

PS. Good luck with ankle. I dislocated mine 6 months ago, basically healed now, just gotta be patient

ryanb

climber

Seattle, WA

Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2011 - 09:07am PT

So I spent some more time working on hillmap and made some improvements to the path tool based on nah000 and others suggestions. Path node icons are now less intrusive and you can now mouse over them to see the distance along the path. I would like to make the mouse over highlight the graph as well put the library I'm using for plotting doesn't support that.

I also added a short changlog to the about page at QITNL's suggestion.

And Baggins, I lost my amateur programer status long ago ;) ... though professionally i mostly write software to analyze cancer data and Hillmap is showing off how amateur my graphic design skills are. I am trying to extend google maps to be more useful for planing trips away from roads using free api's provided by google and others.

Tim Camuti

Trad climber

Aug 9, 2012 - 12:41am PT

Thanks for continuing to improve the site, I really like what I see. I lead backcountry treks for summer camps and this can help to share our planned route with people coming to join! Also lets us do all sorts of other fun shared things like GPX comparison or planned vs. actual route. Thanks again for doing this!

nutjob

Gym climber

Berkeley, CA

Aug 9, 2012 - 01:40pm PT

Thank you for this site. Just using it for the first time right now. I'll chime in with feedback when I have something useful.

QITNL

climber

Aug 9, 2012 - 01:44pm PT

Nice new features and good info in the blog. Thanks!

micronut

Trad climber

Aug 9, 2012 - 03:16pm PT

Well Done! A great resource. Just looked up a loop out of Florence lake to climb Mt. Hooper. So cool. Thanks man.

Andrew F

Trad climber

Sunnyvale, CA

Aug 10, 2012 - 11:21am PT

After using pretty much all the other mapping sites for trip planning, I have now switched exclusively to Hillmap. I use it at least once a week. Thanks Ryan!