Sugarbush Trail Map in Google Earth

[Strat]

I just found the blog of this guy Jim Schley, who created a layer for Google Earth that contains all of the trails and lifts at the Bush... check it out: http://www.schley.net/jim/?p=1044

[shadyjay]

The Sugarbush layer for Google Earth is great! Even has lift descriptions, the warming huts/lodges, etc.

Great Job Jim!

[mattlucas]

this is a great plugin for google earth as well that maps pitch for lots of resorts including the bush:

http://3dskimaps.com/ge/


great site too.

[Lostone]

Someday, when I grow up, I'll have a computer that can use Google Earth. :cry:


:lol:

[daevious]

I hope he doesn't mind me pointing this out, but "this guy Jim Schley (http://forums.skimrv.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=35)" is "one of us" (that is, a long-time member of & contributor to this forum).

[Strat]

I had a feeling... well, thanks for the Google Earth work ski_it...
I wonder why he didn't post it on here when he put it together...

[HowieT2]

I hope he doesn't mind me pointing this out, but "this guy Jim Schley (http://forums.skimrv.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=35)" is "one of us" (that is, a long-time member of & contributor to this forum).

So what's his skimrv name? I assume not Dawn Patrol.

[Strat]

Click the link there, Howie

[freeheel_skier]

I hope he doesn't mind me pointing this out, but "this guy Jim Schley (http://forums.skimrv.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=35)" is "one of us" (that is, a long-time member of & contributor to this forum).

So what's his skimrv name? I assume not Dawn Patrol.

Ummm yeh...

Very well done ski-it!

[ski_it]

thanks, guys. glad you find it useful.

[kcyanks1]

thanks, guys. glad you find it useful.

It's great, thanks!

[ski_it]

for those who haven't tried out Google Earth, it is an excellent program. Here are a couple of screenshots with the trail map layer enabled:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3377/3198806125_fe6c3883dc.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimschley/3198806125)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/3199379676_8aa9aa358c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimschley/3199379676/)

of course, the screenshots don't do the program justice since you can zoom in and out, rotate, "fly" around, etc.

Here's a direct link to download the Google Earth data file (http://www.schley.net/kml/sugarbush.kml) that I wrote.

It's a great program for terrain visualization and is a fun way to look at GPS tracks. Below is the track I downloaded from my Garmin Forerunner (https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=142&fKeys=FILTER_SERIES_FORERUNNER) watch showing the course of the ski mountaineering race yesterday:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3406/3267592923_b8478337d3.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimschley/3267592923/)

[muddy_hollow]

I'm really interested in the race route through the slide brook. Could you post your google earth overlay (.kml) file for the race.

Love the trail maps you've made.

D

[ski_it]

No problem. Download it here: USSMA_Mad_River_Valley_Race.kmz (http://www.schley.net/kml/USSMA_Mad_River_Valley_Race.kmz)

Note- this is the recreational division course. the race division continued up the work road to the top of North Lynx instead of making a left turn onto the road that connects over to Village Run.

[Dawn Patrol]

I hope he doesn't mind me pointing this out, but "this guy Jim Schley (http://forums.skimrv.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=35)" is "one of us" (that is, a long-time member of & contributor to this forum).

So what's his skimrv name? I assume not Dawn Patrol. Your bizarre obsession with me is a tiiiiny bit creepy... You should probably get a life....

[boze]

I hope he doesn't mind me pointing this out, but "this guy Jim Schley (http://forums.skimrv.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=35)" is "one of us" (that is, a long-time member of & contributor to this forum).

So what's his skimrv name? I assume not Dawn Patrol. Your bizarre obsession with me is a tiiiiny bit creepy... You should probably get a life....

I can vouch for Howie that there's absolutely, definitely no obsession with ya Dawnie. I've known Howie for more than a couple decades, and he's not the type to seek out knuckleheads - other than me that is. Any reference made to your user name is for purely comic value; you need not live in fear of any Obsession - other than that smelly perfume by the same name of course. Hope you feeling safer/better now.
:wink:

[Lostone]

Moderator note:



Please try not to bring disagreements from one thread into another. They tend to hijack the new thread.


Thanx for your support