Filter map to exclude boulder problems?
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We are planning a climbing trip this summer, so I was browsing the map to find climbing along our expected route. Unfortunately, with the thousands of boulder problems being entered into mountain project, it is impossible anymore to find climbing areas by browsing the map; I just get boulder after boulder after boulder. Am I missing something? Is there a way to filter the map so we can find climbing? |
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Actually we once had a "Road Trip Planner", which was basically the existing map, with a bunch of filters on top that would let you select Sport/Trad/Boulder and preferred difficulties and highlight matching areas. It got almost no traffic and I decided not to re-build it when everything else got recoded in the last couple years. Sorry! |
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That would be a great feature, I have driven right past crags when climbing in states that I happen to visit because I couldn’t pick them out from the boulders |
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Nick Wilder wrote: Actually we once had a "Road Trip Planner", which was basically the existing map, with a bunch of filters on top that would let you select Sport/Trad/Boulder and preferred difficulties and highlight matching areas. It got almost no traffic and I decided not to re-build it when everything else got recoded in the last couple years. Sorry! As always, things change :). You were ahead of your time before, but perhaps something less sophisticated could be done fairly easily - just a simple include/exclude boulders checkbox on the existing map would be extremely useful. Actually, the entire ‘route search’ function really needs to be able to exclude boulders. This really wasn’t a problem until recently, but with so many boulder problems being posted, it is rapidly making both the search and the map nearly unusable for climbing. I would guess that folks looking for bouldering would also be delighted to be able to exclude climbing routes as they must be having the same difficulties finding just boulders. |
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Including/excluding would be really helpful! I'm sorry I never checked out the "Road Trip Planner" while it was available. Filtering out boulder problems would be nice, but some other layers like difficulty, sport/trad, and so forth would be very welcome in my mind. I think a height filter and pitch number in this AND in the route finder would be cool too. Just an idea. |
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I would really like this too. Also when looking for recent routes. I see hundreds of boulder problems and hard to see the few trad routes I am actually interested in. |
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Nick Wilder wrote: Actually we once had a "Road Trip Planner", which was basically the existing map, with a bunch of filters on top that would let you select Sport/Trad/Boulder and preferred difficulties and highlight matching areas. It got almost no traffic and I decided not to re-build it when everything else got recoded in the last couple years. Sorry! @Nick Wilder - please revisit this! In my opinion, this would be the most significant improvement to the UX that Mountain Project could make. |