[Philmont] The "Routes" Project

A second phase of the PhilSearch project involves identifying the various
routes at the ranch between camps as well as points of interest. While
there are many trails on the ranch, there are actually a small number of
actual routes used by crews independent of itinerary number.

The routes project seeks to identify each route, which is made up of
segments, which are defined to be either a camp to camp, camp to
intersection, or intersection to intersection segment. Once these segments
are identified, I will profile each (yielding distance and elevation
changes) with the end goal being the ability to choose routes within a trek
and see the impact on distance and elevation change.

The first phase of this work is actually automated and drives off the
database and logic built for PhilSearch. This phase will identify all the
segments utilized within a trek. Once all treks are processed all active
routes will be known. This I will do myself and I'll make the results
available to anyone how is interested, hopefully within the next week.

The second phase is to name or number each of the routes. This I need some
help with as most of the trails at the ranch have no names. Thus far my
creativity has been limited to adopting the interstate highway scheme - odd
numbers for north south, numbered from east to west generally by 5's and
even numbers for east west numbered south to north generally by 10s. This
I'd like some thought and feedback on. Of course, number routes can be
named just as they are in real life.

The third phase will be to marry routes with PhilSearch so that each trek
will have segments pre-assigned (just like the ranch does in the Treks book)
but also provides the capability to examine alternate routes.

Thanks for your thoughts and comments in advance.

YIS
Jim
HA ASM T6
www.troop6bsa.org?cmd=philmont
PSR '74(16) '04(4) '06(26)
IWTGBTP
www.troop6bsa.org?cmd=philsearch

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Received on Mon Aug 21 10:34:07 2006