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Mike McHugh
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Apr 4, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jan 2013
· Points: 420
Greetings: I'm trying to find/make a streamlined method for Eldo climbers and hikers to report trail conditions and perhaps noxious weeds. I'm envisioning an app that would record GPS, trail name, a few simple categories (tree across trail, loose steps, fully-laden poo bag, myrtle spurge, ...), a photo or two, and a description field. On my end, I'd like to aggregate that data, fix the condition(s), and notify the reporter where things ended up. I can sorta-kinda cobble something together in Filemaker Go, but it will be clunky, hard to distribute, and might not be very portable in case some other trail/invasives/forestry land employee wants to try it. I simply do not have the intellectual horsepower to write a slick iPhone/android app from scratch. Any help appreciated. If you can point me to a development kit for extreme dummies, even better. If somebody for some weird reason would like to take on a pro bono project, I can remunerate you with volunteer hours, will ply you with fine coffee and/or beer, and will do the legwork to try and get grant $ if you/we can get a beta version working. Which is a fancy, slimy way of saying there's no money in this. PM me if you'd like. Mike McHugh Park Maintenance Guru/app-writin' n00b Eldorado Canyon State Park
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M Mobley
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Apr 4, 2015
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Bar Harbor, ME
· Joined Mar 2006
· Points: 911
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Mike McHugh
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Apr 4, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jan 2013
· Points: 420
Miike wrote:http://seeclickfix.com/ people use it on occasion to report urban trail conditions Looks very cool - but I can't find any pricing on their website (which might be saying something insidious). Long story short, I can't spend any state money on this project. It's gonna have to be homegrown.
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M Mobley
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Apr 4, 2015
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Bar Harbor, ME
· Joined Mar 2006
· Points: 911
Mike McHugh wrote: Looks very cool - but I can't find any pricing on their website (which might be saying something insidious). Long story short, I can't spend any state money on this project. It's gonna have to be homegrown. I could start a trail issue right now and drop a marker and description of the problem right on the map with pictures. All you have to do is sign up for an email alert for a specific area on the map. All free of cost. I'm not sure how they make money honestly.
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M Mobley
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Apr 4, 2015
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Bar Harbor, ME
· Joined Mar 2006
· Points: 911
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Kent Richards
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Apr 4, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jan 2009
· Points: 81
Consider a mobile-friendly website instead of an "app". Apps have their advantages, but for a quick-start cross-platform tool, I think a website would give you more bang for your buck. I'm a web developer and not an app developer, so run this statement by app developers to confirm: If you build the website correctly with forward-thinking, you can build in an expansion plan that will let apps integrate with it down the road (such as by planning in an API).
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Mike McHugh
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Apr 5, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jan 2013
· Points: 420
Kent: A web page has pros (no writing/distributing an app) and cons (I'd bet a lot of users will give up quickly when they don't have bars). There is a fantastic weed mapping app. It does everything right - including caching field data until it can upload. whatsinvasive.org/ A trails version of that would be the ticket.
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Mike McHugh
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May 6, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jan 2013
· Points: 420
If anybody is interested, there's now a facebook page for Eldo trails: facebook.com/eldoTrails If you post a trail problem and location (bonus points for pictures, GPS, or nearby climbs/landmarks), I'll get after it. I'll also post volunteer opportunities, status updates on trail projects (Rincon!), and stuff.
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