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Re: Show HN: Piste.io

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Post by fijal »

this is really cool. The "click to ride" took me a while to find, some introduction video maybe would be cool?

EDIT: and yes, the grey pane with no indication it's loading is annoying

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

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Post by freshyill »

The controls became unresponsive a few times while I was viewing the panorama mode. I'm not complaining, as this is probably more a result of my browser than of the site.

I do have a minor constructive criticism however. When in panorama mode, there's a lot of up-down-up-down action, at least on parts of the Zugspitze. I'm guessing the camera is just tracing the contours of the mountains, but on rough terrain, it's a bit motion-sickness-inducing. A bit of smoothing of the camera's path would go a long way. I think a steadicam shot from a helicopter is everyone's real-world point of reference for something like this. Mimicing that might go a long way.

Anyway, amazing work. I hope to see some North American mountains in future releases.

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Post by gk1 »

Isn't loading for me, unfortunately. I'm seeing the gray "loading..." screen. Chrome 39.0.2171.71 m on Windows.

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Post by rkangel »

This is great - I've wanted something like this in a while. Piste Maps are a massive distortion of reality to the extent that you sometimes aren't sure which direction you're meant to go down the run. Or at least I'm not, I find them very confusing. A proper 3D representation is much easier.

What would be great is this data available in a mobile app, with no internet connection required (because even though 3G coverage is good, for a lot of Europeans when you're skiing you're usually on holiday and so roaming). Then I might actually be able to find my way around.

Where does the data come from? Is it manually entered from the Piste Map?

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Post by pheelicks »

freshyill wrote: post #5

The controls became unresponsive a few times while I was viewing the panorama mode. I'm not complaining, as this is probably more a result of my browser than of the site. I do have a minor constructive criticism however. When in panorama mode, there's a lot of up-down-up-down action, at least on parts of the Zugspitze. I'm guessing the camera is just tracing the contours of the mountains, but on rough terrain, it's a…

Which browser were you using? Was it Safari by any chance?

Thanks for the feedback on the camera movement, there is some smoothing, but it is on a much smaller scale. I originally did have a helicopter steady-cam style camera for the panorama, but switched to following the terrain to make for more dramatic camera movements. But if it makes people sick, I guess this is a bit of an own goal...

US resorts are coming, just need to process the data.

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