[philmont] PhilSearch News for January

Continued thanks and best wishes for the great job on Philsearch. As luck
would have it I was browsing Philsearch when your email came in.

The addition of new and beautiful photos is communicating the great beauty
of Philmont. As an example, the photo of the view of Window Rock out of the
circular window in Villa Philmonte is terrific. (Note: scroll to the
bottom of the page, second photo from the bottom, when you select program
features and Villa Philmonte)

I strongly encourage everyone on the Philmont list to contribute to this
project. If you cannot contribute personally perhaps you will know someone
who can. Even one additional picture of exceptional beauty adds to the
value of the overall Philsearch experience and facilitates a boy picking a
Philmont experience that will be best for him.

Thanks to all who have contributed and worked on this project; thanks in
advance to all who will.

Joe Jansen
JAJansenJr@gmail.com
Philmont 1965 (crew member); Philmont 1978 (crew advisor)
Proud holder of the Philmont Arrowhead patch and belt buckle

On 1/8/07, Troop 6 Webmaster <troop6webmaster@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> PhilSearch vA24 - News for January, 2007
>
> In retrospect December proved to be another productive month. Just a
> couple
> of days ago I was feeling like a slacker in that I didn't feel like I made
> the progress I wanted to … but it seems to be a pattern that while I
> might
> not make the progress I want in one area, progress is made elsewhere. Key
> changes this month include:
>
> · Over 100 new photos were added to the database – thanks and keep
> them
> coming.
> · Major enhancements to Trek Search.
> · Addition of Chester County Council's Trek Selection docs which
> dovetail
> with PhilSearch.
> · The addition of another 60 or so routes with elevation profiles
> bringing
> the total to about 120
>
> Another hundred or so photos have been added this month which caused the
> enhancement of a feature that debuted last month, "photo sets", to include
> a
> category for recently added photos.
>
> The fifth generation of Trek Search benefits from a new feature suggestion
> several months back to provide a way to exclude items, Burros being the
> cited example. While I like the idea of the feature, I had second
> thoughts
> because folks seem to want to avoid the burros, and the burros are
> something
> special about Philmont. Frankly everyone that I've talked that has had
> the
> opportunity to take the burros enjoyed them … check out the burro racing
> shots. Anyway, I digress, Trek Search now allows you to specify items
> (camps, programs, difficulty & composites) that if present remove a trek
> from consideration, a category I've chosen to call 'prohibited'. While I
> attended to some unfinished items as well. You now get a summary of the
> selection criteria along with the results, an item that has been deficient
> since day 1. This is also the groundwork for providing a way to save
> criteria and refine it. I'm inclined to let Trek Search stabilize for the
> next couple of months as we run up to trek selection for '07 … but who
> knows.
>
> Speaking of Trek Selection PhilSearch was originally conceived to support
> our council's trek selection process, a role Dan Yoder's site
> provided when
> it was being maintained. The tooling, however, is only part of the story.
> The documents that support the overall process were added under a new home
> page category "Crew Trek Selection Tools"
>
> Last month I reported that I was moving my attention to mapping and
> routing
> and that I hoped for a major breakthrough. Well, while that breakthrough
> hasn't quite happened yet, good things have happened in the world of
> routes
> largely due to the efforts of Allen Jones of Oklahoma City, OK who has
> pitched in by converting GPS tracks to routes and elevation
> profiles. Allen
> has processed some tracks of his own as well as some provided by Doug
> Latimer of Plano, TX. The result of Allen's efforts along with some of my
> own has resulted in significant progress in this area. Much remains to do
> but I think its possible to have 100% routing coverage for 2007 treks. If
> you have GPS tracks of the ranch please consider contributing.
>
> I'm still looking for more photos, probably always will be. There are
> activities and campsites that still have no photos and others that could
> use
> better ones. I'm always looking for the special shots as well, please
> think
> of contributing.
>
> For the moment the focus is back on mapping and routing, I hope to make a
> major breakthrough this month, although as I've previously indicated
> mapping
> probably won't be in place in time for '07 but rather will be more useful
> to
> '08 crews.
>
> As always your comments, good or bad, and suggestions are welcome.
>
> YIS
> Jim
> January, 2007
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Received on Mon Jan 8 00:31:26 2007