After reading the Twlight thread in this group, its obvious to me there is some confusion on where trails are located, that an integrated trail guide might be a nice thing. Ugh. I'm sort of a new guy here, but I sure can't find decent trail maps of the greater Las Vegas area. I'd sure like to fix that. From another thread:
I've spent time in Strava, endomondo, garmin connect, seen the two large paper maps of the area, done plenty of google searches, etc... Its clear to me that there is no way to overview what's available in the area. I'm a computer geek, with lots of web experience (CSS, DB, Javascript, java, php, Ajax libraries, etc..) I've been playing around with the Google map API's lately. The web site that sticks in my head for a decent format are the individual trails linked from the Sun Valley Idaho trail map... BCRD Summer TraiLink - Home
I'm thinking:
--Map oriented overview of trails in the area.
--directions to trailhead, including parking instructions.
--couple of comments about the trail.
--Map which can EASILY be printed on 8.5x11" paper so you can slip it into your pocket for your ride.
--GPS route for easy download from the web site (.gpx format?)
--Three times around your block does not really qualify as a mountain bike trail. (Yup, you did it on your mountain bike, and yup, you threw it onto garmin connect, but ...that doesn't really work.)
The goal is that a visitor (or even long time local resident) can go to a search engine, type in "Las Vegas area mountain bike trail maps" and find an integrated system to help them choose a ride, drive a car to the trail head and negotiate the trail safely.
Again, what I'm looking for is a not-for-profit web site that is willing to display mountain bike trail maps.
The meetup organization is one place, but an integrated map tab won't really fit into their current web schema (I strongly recommend that they save money, do their own thing. ref: Mountain Bike Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV) - Meetup )
The Southern Nevada Mountain Bike Assoc ( SNMBA | Southern Nevada Mountain Bike Association | SNMBA ) would be a great place to post, but they apparently aren't interested. They don't answer their phone or email and don't check their messages, sigh. Their web site shows the next meeting is 12 Sept 2012. I'm thinking they are not on top of their game.
Your comments? Does anybody have names, email address, phone #'s for direct contacts of local groups? (The web site "contact us now" stuff is apparently ignored...)
If you need to respond to me personally, please use the private message system. Many thanks, zip.
I would like to VOLUNTEER (that means free!) to put an integrated map / lookup system together for the area. I've made a few calls and email submissions to the local organizations with this offer, none of them have bothered to respond. Not sure why that is so hard. What I'm looking for is a not-for-profit web site that is willing to display mountain bike trail maps.knoob said:
I've spent time in Strava, endomondo, garmin connect, seen the two large paper maps of the area, done plenty of google searches, etc... Its clear to me that there is no way to overview what's available in the area. I'm a computer geek, with lots of web experience (CSS, DB, Javascript, java, php, Ajax libraries, etc..) I've been playing around with the Google map API's lately. The web site that sticks in my head for a decent format are the individual trails linked from the Sun Valley Idaho trail map... BCRD Summer TraiLink - Home
I'm thinking:
--Map oriented overview of trails in the area.
--directions to trailhead, including parking instructions.
--couple of comments about the trail.
--Map which can EASILY be printed on 8.5x11" paper so you can slip it into your pocket for your ride.
--GPS route for easy download from the web site (.gpx format?)
--Three times around your block does not really qualify as a mountain bike trail. (Yup, you did it on your mountain bike, and yup, you threw it onto garmin connect, but ...that doesn't really work.)
The goal is that a visitor (or even long time local resident) can go to a search engine, type in "Las Vegas area mountain bike trail maps" and find an integrated system to help them choose a ride, drive a car to the trail head and negotiate the trail safely.
Again, what I'm looking for is a not-for-profit web site that is willing to display mountain bike trail maps.
The meetup organization is one place, but an integrated map tab won't really fit into their current web schema (I strongly recommend that they save money, do their own thing. ref: Mountain Bike Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV) - Meetup )
The Southern Nevada Mountain Bike Assoc ( SNMBA | Southern Nevada Mountain Bike Association | SNMBA ) would be a great place to post, but they apparently aren't interested. They don't answer their phone or email and don't check their messages, sigh. Their web site shows the next meeting is 12 Sept 2012. I'm thinking they are not on top of their game.
Your comments? Does anybody have names, email address, phone #'s for direct contacts of local groups? (The web site "contact us now" stuff is apparently ignored...)
If you need to respond to me personally, please use the private message system. Many thanks, zip.