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Re: Show HN: Piste.io

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Post by molf »

Great job!

Apart from some performance and usability issues this is one of the better piste visualisations I have seen.

To be truly awesome it could use some context. For example: villages, roads (only those open in winter), restaurants and piste facilities, but most of all: accommodations. I can easily see myself using something like this to compare the location of various chalets, apartments, hotels etc. Partner opportunity?

Also it would be great if you can browse neighbouring ski areas. This is something most traditional maps lack – but I can see it becoming a great way to browse for nice runs in a certain area.

Edit: Oh and it would also help to at least include the actual ski area names. I was looking for "Portes du Soleil", but you have listed it as "Avoriaz", even though you seem to have included the entire area.

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

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Post by cipher0 »

Great work! It might be cool if you could use voronoi diagrams to select the closest path to the mouse's position like the NYT did [0] because without really zooming in, the lines on some terrains appear to be very thin which makes hovering over a specific one a little harder.

There's also a great talk that discusses this from JSconf2014 [1]

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/02/us/politics/pa... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90NsjKvz9Ns

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#54

Post by Numberwang »

pheelicks wrote: post #42
whizzkid wrote: post #39

Hard work and good job. enjoyed the experience. PS: After 20 seconds of looking at panorama view, I started hearing a wind like sound, and was just thinking "oh nice, let me hear that", and then realised that it was my macbook air's fan cooling the cpu.

Glad you like it. The code itself is optimized, I just have a background worker thread finding primes to get the fans spinning.

I just want to say congratulations on causing my laptop to overheat and crash (seriosly!)

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

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Post by jonnyscholes »

Love it. Be great to see this expanded to include walks (machu pichu etc) - only because that has more relevance for me though.

One question, why does the camera 'rock and roll' when previewing a route? Personally I'd prefer a smooth panning motion... (the rocking made me feel a little queezy...)

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#57

Post by frenchy »

rkangel wrote: post #7

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 covera…

OsmAnd should work for you. It's just a regular 2d map (though it can do topo lines & hill shading). As long as you have a GPS signal you should be able to find where you are relative to where the run is on OpenStreetMap.

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#58

Post by civilian »

pheelicks wrote: post #45
endeavor wrote: post #44

I want to love this but I am really struggling with the UX: - Takes a long time to load - Runs fine on my newish MBP but runs like a dog on my Linux desktop - I am having a hard time controlling the camera position using the trackpad. Maybe with a mouse it would be better. If the arrow keys worked that might help. - Some instructions on how to use it would be great. - As they are, the camera and style squares appear…

Thanks for the feedback. Lots of good points. The loading time is due to it having to load the elevation data, although it will be cached on subsequent visits, and it is further slowed down by client side processing, which is currently done in JS, but in the future will be hardware accelerated As for the controls, do you find it more difficult than something like Google Earth? I was hoping that people used to that wo…

I have no idea what the controls are for "click to ride", and pressing mouse buttons, arrow buttons, WASD, and spacebar don't clearly do anything. I did the Piste:Rochette run, if that helps. It seems like the camera was just slowly moving downhill on it's own.

Re: Show HN: Piste.io

#59

Post by habosa »

This is beautiful, but so slow for me. Based on other comments though it must be a Linux thing. I am running Chrome on Linux with 12 cores and 32GB of RAM and the site is very, very slow.
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