ATVTrailFind.com Dev Blog

One of the things we’ve been looking at constantly throughout development is how the handling of trails would work. We wanted to allow users to submit their trail tracks (that was and will always will be central to the site design) while at the same time acting as a great resource for people to find trails and trail maps.

We were worried that if we allowed users to submit trail maps directly to the database it wouldn’t be 100% clean. We could have trails starting not at the beginning but from someone’s cottage down the road or incomplete trail maps.

What we’ve decided to do is break our trail section in to two pieces -
1) Trails, these will be official trail maps. We will work with clubs and also have our team out mapping trails. This will ensure you can count on 100% accuracy on our maps
2) Tracks, tracks will be the track logs submitted by users.

Users will be able to search and look at both Tracks and Trails. Trails will have updated trail conditions and ratings. Tracks will have the details submitted by users.

We hope this change will help make the site more useful for all of our users. Please let us know if you have any feedback!

admin Uncategorized milestone 1.5, Site News, Tracks, Trails

Part of our final pre-launch milestone (Milestone 1.5) was to clean up the bugs with the site. This evening we cleaned up the last of those bugs and we are getting very close to being able to launch the site.

The last feature we are adding before going in to public beta is a new way of uploading trails which is very exciting! We are changing the trail adding system to be able to handle uploads from ANY GPS device to the site. This was functionality we envisioned for well down the road but we found a way to get it in in time for launch.

admin Development milestone 1.5, trail adding