Opensource mp.com?

Hello Nick,

Do you have any plan to open source or create public api to access MP database?

There's a very limited one that's designed for personal use:

mountainproject.com/data

Had no idea about the API. That's awesome. A basic search method returning routeIds would pretty much fill it out.

are there any plans to have a route search in the API?

Whoa, I must be in the wrong place, and I didn't see nuthin. (slowly backs away)

MountainProject could really benefit from being open source. It has a strong brand, especially now that it's under REI, so having the code available to others should not pose a business risk.

MP could benefit from distributing the work to the outside world instead of struggling to find employees. There's plenty of overlap between software engineers and rock climbers and people willing to help.

I'd put it on Github, manage the work items to keep the product in line with the internal vision, have your engineers work on what's important to the company, and let outsiders work on whatever they find interesting and important that would otherwise get ignored. At the very least, the bugs will get fixed.

I think it is time to necro this thread. MP could really benefit from this. Recently there have been numerous threads debating how the MP database allows catagorization of routes and I believe a lot of this could be fixed if MP had a better system for catagorizing routes. Also, how many people have wanted to have tag searching for finding specific types of climbs, or the last thread I made here requesting a way to filter routes by severity?

I understand that going opensource has its issues, but considering the database is already crowd sourced, it makes a lot of sense to just embrace the crowd sourced nature of the platform and go all in. Besides, hasn't the excuse given for a lack of updates on MP always been "its maintained by only one person"!?