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Re: Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes

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Post by zakn »

KevinBongart wrote: post #76

Hi, this is awesome! Hopefully useful feedback: when I saw that, I immediately thought "what are some nice hikes around where I live?" and even though the tagline is "Find beautiful hikes", the homepage doesn't suggest that I can find the answer here. Maybe that's not the point of hike.io, maybe there's another website that would help me better, I don't know. Anyway, the big picture of the Narrows, which is one of th…

That's awesome that you got inspired by my picture. That hike is inspiring, probably my favorite of all time.

Thanks for the feedback too. I want to support finding nearby hikes in two ways:

1. If you go to the maps page, it should zoom you into your location and show you hikes nearby. That part works, but I also wish it zoomed out when no hikes are within your current viewport.

2. Also (and this part isn't done), I wish there was a way to filter the Discover images by location.

Feel free to add any of your local trails or update the Narrows.

Re: Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes

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Post by transistor-man »

alan_cx wrote: post #21

Just my personal thoughts as a hiker; not a hacker, HNer or what ever. Firstly: Dont be disheartened by my criticism which will follow. Its a decent first attempt, the idea is absolutely worth working on, and could become a valuable resource for a lot of people. On to the criticism.... What goes in the search? Are hikes named? Do I need to know the name to search for? Search for a location? From the first page, what…

Adding a captcha for the editing mode would be a good call, at the moment anyone can add anything, looking forward to the future of this site!

Re: Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes

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Post by prawn »

ozh wrote: post #52
prawn wrote: post #7

Put some info on that front page photo so people know what it is. If there's info there, it didn't show in my browser. (The hike for anyone unfamiliar is The Narrows in Zion National Park, Utah.) Maybe also suggestions or random features on the front page? That could lead in to the discover page. Run through "top hikes" sites for ideas on what to add yourself and build up your content. I was a bit surprised not to fi…

Thanks, was coming here to ask about the front page picture. Wow, what a shame, I've been to Zion but didn't hike this place :(

Hiking top down is the ideal, but as any description also says, you can head to the busy bottom end and hike up as far as you want. We did it with a discarded stick for support and barefoot. Barefoot hurts, so take wetsuit booties or get your sneakers wet. Doing it without a hiking pole or walking stick is much more difficult and slow. You can generally avoid getting more than knee deep depending on the season, but there can be some surprises - my wife hadn't checked ahead and ended up chest deep at one point. That was funny.

It's an interesting experience and worth doing.

Re: Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes

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Post by incanus77 »

zakn wrote: post #69
ris wrote: post #58

Google maps? In 2014? For outdoors-y stuff? really ? (the site is beautifully designed though)

I'm going to be looking into OSM because of comments here. I've also looked at MapBox but last time I tried the mobile web experience was basically unusable (although Google Maps isn't great either). Do you have other suggestions?

Can you elaborate on this? Our goal is to be exactly the opposite of this -- to be eminently usable. So I'm curious what you're seeing specifically.

Re: Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes

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Post by zakn »

incanus77 wrote: post #85
zakn wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to be looking into OSM because of comments here. I've also looked at MapBox but last time I tried the mobile web experience was basically unusable (although Google Maps isn't great either). Do you have other suggestions?

Can you elaborate on this? Our goal is to be exactly the opposite of this -- to be eminently usable. So I'm curious what you're seeing specifically.

(Sorry, rereading what I wrote makes it sound pretty slanderous). Not sure if you'll be doubling back on this, but I thought I'd respond anyway. I was talking about the mobile web experience, specifically on Android.

I was playing with the MapBox SDK roughly a year ago and I remember having a lot of trouble at the time panning and zooming. This was on a Droid X. So gave up on it at the time, even though I thought the desktop experience was so great.

Anyway, I just tested again, and whatever I was seeing before is not there. I'll give MapBox another shot.

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