Distance to Nearest Climbing
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Inspired by the "distance to nearest road" map produced by the USGS, I thought it would be interesting to see a distance to nearest climbing map. |
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Tim Lutz wrote:pretty cool but why are FL coasts red?Ha ha. Good point. Maybe they're the coastal ranges of Florida. No, wait... |
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Also, if you go to the exact middle of North Dakota it looks like there is a plethora of options ;) |
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Yeah, I've always been telling people that there is climbing in every state except Florida. I guess I'm wrong. For example: Wainwright Park Cliffs |
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Hey Mike, I'd be super curious as to how you entered the data, did you get it directly from MP and import it into ArcGIS or did you do the painstaking work yourself? How many hours have you put into this? |
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Eli, |
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Cool. Using more data, you could normalize it to "quality" rock climbing (using page views, ticks, and star data), which would be much more interesting and correct for FL, etc. |
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Love it but your results are nonsensical. Your search only seems to use the top level GPS coordinates. You might need to dive deeper. It would also be useful to use the number of routes in addition to some sort of quality metric as suggested by Nick. |
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crack pot proof that NH is the best |
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Alaska is always left out! |
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Mike Skaug wrote:Eli, I did everything with Python and various Python modules, including Beautiful Soup to extract the data and Basemap to do the geographic projections and plotting. I can give you more detail if your interested. It took less time than I thought it would. What took the longest was figuring out how to plot the final image with Basemap and matplotlib. --MikeI am a GIS gumby and have no useful understanding of python, I appreciate the offer though |
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Here is an update the takes into account the number of routes at each area: |
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Those plots are so cool! |
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Texas... the lone blue spot state. |
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Nice. Beats push pins in a map. |
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This is really impressive. You should definitely take Nick up on his offer to do guest factoids. |
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That is a great visualization. I do have a question about Kansas. The Prox. to Climbing map shows something going on in Western Kansas, but when I went to the MP map that puts the pins on climbing locations, I only see 5 routes and they are all within a few miles of the Nebraska border. |
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This is a game changer! Wait, no it isn't. What does one do with this already fairly obvious information? |
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Long Duk Dong wrote:This is a game changer! Wait, no it isn't. What does one do with this already fairly obvious information?Well in GIS, someone pays you money for the map that seemed pretty obvious. Because hey, now it's a map! With DATA! |
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These are some really cool maps, I wonder what the distribution of "empty" climbing would be. Maybe you could divide the # of routes in a given area by the MP users in said area. I just thought of this because the CO front range (where I live) is obviously a hot spot for routes, but I used to live in Reno, Nevada and I found that I got more climbing in there simply because there are less people, at least compared to many front range crags. |
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Very cool, Mike. Clearly we need an MP hackathon day. |