trail conditions dashboard

Norm said:
Another option, or even an add-on, would be a single thread with conditions. The first post has the overall dashboard and every time a state changes it tacks on a post. So the first post updates all the time but new posts are added when a state changes.
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We could set up an rss feed page and just have the forum pull it from there every 10 minutes. Like we do with the live blog posts.
 
Perhaps we could have a constant series of posts added to the conditions thread, so every data point input would trigger another post. And an email to all users. And a FB post. Tweet. And a foursquare check-in to Chuck-E-Cheese.
 


If somebody wants to check conditions, they can go to MTBNJ.com/TrailConditions.html something or other tool. Don't need my phone yelling at me about Allaire if its 3 hours away.😵
 
I can beta if you need any more people. Also need a plugin to wash my bike if it gets too dirty out there.
 
I almost forgot we used to have this working. What it did was pull the last post in the conditions thread and we had a list of all the parks and the content of the last post in the conditions thread on one static page.
It was pretty good.
 
Ok, data is coming in slowly but I now have a sorted list of parks top to bottom by rating. Stewart & Round Valley come in as just on the border of red/yellow. Everything else is red.
 
Stewart State Forest, up in NY state, where SSaP is run, our Stewart 45 will be, and the Darkhorse 40 used to take place.
 
can we have the rating system in cheeseburgers, like 5 cheeseburger's is awesome.
 
5 Mayor McCheese's and you're good to go!

@soundz or @gtluke - I need to put together a table of the info to present. I need some sort of style info to work with. Better yet, I give you a sample chart, one of you mocks up a page, and I can programatically fill it in with the data. Just want to keep the same look & feel as the site.

Jimmy - any luck on a popup/layer? I'd like to put the link next to Trail Conditions and then have it popup like that. How is it that the profile page can do it?
 
Norm said:
5 Mayor McCheese's and you're good to go!

@soundz or @gtluke - I need to put together a table of the info to present. I need some sort of style info to work with. Better yet, I give you a sample chart, one of you mocks up a page, and I can programatically fill it in with the data. Just want to keep the same look & feel as the site.

Jimmy - any luck on a popup/layer? I'd like to put the link next to Trail Conditions and then have it popup like that. How is it that the profile page can do it?
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Send mockup and we can style it and send it back.

Looking to overlay now. It needs to have some sort of json response associated with the page you want to render. The profile page already has that json response template.
 
soundz said:
Send mockup and we can style it and send it back.

Looking to overlay now. It needs to have some sort of json response associated with the page you want to render. The profile page already has that json response template.
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Yeah I can get the profile page to work in the BOOM area. I'll send you the page via a message.
 
Yeah, it's not really hidden anymore. Display is now open for all to see. This is real user data, not a mock-up.
 
One thing I can't understand is how can Stewert be yellow right now? Did it not rain up there?
 
soundz said:
One thing I can't understand is how can Stewert be yellow right now? Did it not rain up there?
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Need more user data. When your ratings are based on 1 rating when the user put the info in before it started raining, that's what you get. We obviously need more user input.

BTW this is perfect on mobile. Great on the site, even better on mobile.

I guess I should put a post up announcing this tomorrow.
 
Hmm. I'm interested to see if this average thing will work. If it's dry for 6 day then you get a dumping of rain, wouldn't it be possible for the park to still stay green?
 
soundz said:
Hmm. I'm interested to see if this average thing will work. If it's dry for 6 day then you get a dumping of rain, wouldn't it be possible for the park to still stay green?
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Yes, but if it's pissing rain down are people really going to drive there. So you have 6 days of decent data - and let's face it how many people are going to rate the park when it's perfect? So you have 6 days of meager data saying it's dry. Then it rains and nobody goes - so you now have 5 days of meager dry data. Then a few people who give a crap go and load it up with ratings of 1. Then the overall goes down. Then people may or may not go out to the park and give it real data. Then the meager "good" data is pushed out by the actual updated data.

This kind of system will be useful for the next month. Then in the fall again. Between May-Sep nobody is going to really care much.
 
soundz said:
One thing I can't understand is how can Stewert be yellow right now? Did it not rain up there?
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I rated it as per my Sunday ride. Either way, rockier trails in there like Powerlines can be ok, while the muddy ones like Orchard can be crap. That's why I was wondering if we can have some kind of comment box so I don't rank the entire park as bad. Worst thing is the fire roads really. Wed gravel/mud get you covered.
 
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