[pct-l] Happy Trails

[Brendan Beltz]

If it's a slog, yeah, who wants to deal with it. But we live in a world of
foursquare, yelp, and PCT-Ls. Clearly, with easy methods at hand, people
want to contribute above and beyond what they need to.

But I'll look closer at your map. Interested.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:30 PM, PCT List <pctlist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Geo-tagged reference for a whole slew of categories has existed for
> almost 4 years at postholer.
>
> Anyone can add markers to the postholer PCT google map in one of 14
> different categories, specifically relevant are water report, trail
> reports, fires.
>
> The issue isn't that the tools don't exist, it's a matter of getting
> folks to use them. I completely understand it, though. It's
> effectively a data entry slog and I personally find it rather boring.
> Let's be real, there are things folks would rather be doing.
>
> As Jim mentioned, there are plenty of forums out there you can choose
> from. At postholer, specifically there are these forums, "Class of
> 2011", "Trail Conditions" and the general PCT forum.
>
> -postholer
>
>
>
>
> >>>>
> Though, I think my keenness is more directed towards the idea of
> combining a bulletin board and group-edited map in one. I mean we have
> the trail laid out on google maps at Postholer. We have water updates
> at Asabat and trail updates here and PCTA - all of which could be
> tagged by GPS coordinates. Anybody doing time sensitive activities
> could post and later delete info (such as a trail angel camping out, a
> cache being refilled, a hiker flash mob dance at the top of Mt
> Whitney...)
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