Cofounder Will here-- thanks for the gbtrails link; that was actually a big resource for Berkshire Co. Odd that nothing came up for that town; we're still working out the bugs in the search, but I'm guessing that you entered something other than capital-G Great and capital-B Barrington (which we'll eventually make work anyway). Let me know if re-entering works, and we-- and by "we", I mean I'll buy kollapsnik more beer-- will make lowercase place names work.
And by all means, if you see maps, have maps, or know of maps that should go here, let us know-- the research to build this was extensive and obsessive, but I make no make claim that it's complete, just reasonably thorough.
Just some code. I hardly think so. I like it and I'm impressed.
If I'm understanding where the speed I see is coming from it's because the JSON document provides a database on the client side so Javascript can search it locally getting instant results.
I'd like to know more about the technical details. I'd be surprised if none of the map data is kept on the server side. How do the two interact?
Thanks k-dog! For technical issues I refer you to my friend kollapsnik-- the many, many, many hours spent finding all these maps would still be a big unreadable spreadsheet otherwise.
Happy to see it live! Will did all the hard work; I just slammed out some code.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a nice resource! I have my eye on some bike touring in Western Mass.
ReplyDeleteI tried "Great Barrington" in the search and it came up empty. Here is a nice resource for that area:
http://gbtrails.org/map.html
Hi Jim,
DeleteCofounder Will here-- thanks for the gbtrails link; that was actually a big resource for Berkshire Co. Odd that nothing came up for that town; we're still working out the bugs in the search, but I'm guessing that you entered something other than capital-G Great and capital-B Barrington (which we'll eventually make work anyway). Let me know if re-entering works, and we-- and by "we", I mean I'll buy kollapsnik more beer-- will make lowercase place names work.
And by all means, if you see maps, have maps, or know of maps that should go here, let us know-- the research to build this was extensive and obsessive, but I make no make claim that it's complete, just reasonably thorough.
Thanks, Will
masstrails.com is awesome.
ReplyDeleteJust some code. I hardly think so. I like it and I'm impressed.
If I'm understanding where the speed I see is coming from it's because the JSON document provides a database on the client side so Javascript can search it locally getting instant results.
I'd like to know more about the technical details. I'd be surprised if none of the map data is kept on the server side. How do the two interact?
Naturally I'm also happy to see Sully.
Thanks k-dog! For technical issues I refer you to my friend kollapsnik-- the many, many, many hours spent finding all these maps would still be a big unreadable spreadsheet otherwise.
DeleteAnybody's guess what I entered yesterday, but today "Great Barrington" gives a nice list of results! Nice work!
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