[Philmont] The "Routes" Project

The "Routes" Project is an excellent idea. A Philmont itinerary is
(usually) selected based on the camps and program features in
the itinerary, when the actual route between camps and side
excursions are very significant to the Philmont experience.

I hope in the "Routes" Project photos of the outstanding sceneries
at many different points on the Ranch can get included.

The photos already included in the Philsearch project are very
good. I haven't looked at all of them. From what I have seen so far,
I have a sense of missing photos that probably will be a part of the
"Routes" Project. Photos that reflect the trail experiences available
outside of the camps.

This project is coming along tremendously well and in a remarkably
short period of time.

I encourage everyone on the Phil list to find some way to contribute
to this very worthwhile project.

Best wishes,

Joe Jansen
JAJansenJr@gmail.com
Philmont 1965; 1978

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>Subject: [Philmont] The "Routes" Project
>Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:30:12 -0400
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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
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>PSR '74(16) '04(4) '06(26)
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Received on Mon Aug 21 12:46:08 2006