SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted October 14, 2009 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted October 14, 2009 09/10 SITE UPDATES Here's a summary of what is new on SnowJapan for the 2009/2010 snow season: Real-time resort weather voting system New Town Maps New Town map website www.snowjapanmaps.com Zao Now! daily reporting section Rusutsu Now! daily reporting section New photo uploading system (automatic resizing / pics up to 8MB) Details of each of the new updates can be found here: Real-time resort weather voting system: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/331606/09_10_SITE_UPDATES_Real_time_r.html New Town Maps: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/331605/09_10_SITE_UPDATES_New_Town_Ma.html New Town maps website: http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/331604/09_10_SITE_UPDATES_SnowJapanMa.html Zao Now! http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/331603/09_10_SITE_UPDATES_Zao_Now_dai.html Rusutsu Now! http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/331602/09_10_SITE_UPDATES_Rusutsu_Now.html Photos section http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/331601/09_10_SITE_UPDATES_Photos_Sect.html ----------------------- That lot took the best part of six months to create/prepare.... as much as we have tested the new content, with such a huge volume of new and often complex work going online at the same time there may well be some initial issues/problems. We will be dealing with any issues we find as quickly as possible over the coming days. If you do find any obvious errors or problems please email us at editor@snowjapan.com or send me a PM. (We would prefer you do that than post these issues on the Forums). It will also take a short while to get the new pages all linked up properly and fully integrated into the site from the relevant pages/sections. We will be getting that done as soon as possible. The updates for the season aren't finished yet - we will be updating a fair amount of the general and travel information on the site in the coming before the ski season begins. I would like to thank the friends who took time to test and give us feedback over the last few months. Your support is appreciated. We hope you like the new content and features. Here's to a great season. This thread is open for discussion...... Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Give me a week to get through all that lot!! Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 No Yokohama now section? Link to post Share on other sites
fukdane 2 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Only taken a quick look but... great work. Having the hotels on the maps is a huge thing, they look great. Will look forward to seeing/using that weather thing in action. Link to post Share on other sites
Sciclone 2 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Cool. Nice work SJ.. Just wondering, with the town maps thing, do you want any restaurant suggestions or anything? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 the restaurants will need to pay to be listed. There's no free lunch Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Great updates there, been working hard I see. It is great to see where the hotels are as well, that was kind of lacking until now. Big improvement. Hope people use the weather thing properly, it's like the Yahoo j-site weather thing + archives. Nice one. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Excellent stuff guys. I thought I knew what you had planned but didn't know a few of those. Sent you a mail with a few very small fixes. Hope you can enjoy a good rest soon after all that. Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Interesting stuff there. Agreed on the map things would be good to get some regional ones too sometime in the future. Will help with the Madarao / Nozawa reports. Good to hear from Zao too. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted October 15, 2009 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted October 15, 2009 We are experiencing a few small issues with the weather voting thing. It will get sorted soon, but that won't be today. (I'm actually surprised at how smoothly it all went considering...) Link to post Share on other sites
griller 9 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Should be really useful that. Really like the idea. Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Who's the plonker who clicked on blizzard for Myoko? Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted October 15, 2009 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted October 15, 2009 Not sure, but know where they posted from. There are obviously a few issues that we have with this particular feature and we will be thinking it all through carefully. With something like this there was always going to be this kind of thing happen to some degree. But hopefully in the long term it will be masked out by all of the real and useful data that people with good intentions vote for. We don't have our full editing functionality backend up and running as yet but will soon be able to pluck those obviously 'joke' votes out. It's slightly annoying of course but we're all tired here so perhaps not in the mood for that kind of fun joke so soon after putting it up. I suppose at the beginning there may be people clicking on something as they don't know exactly what it is yet. Anyway, thinking hats back on tomorrow. Hopefully it will have settled in fairly soon and if enough real people vote and keep the jokers out it will become a useful and fun thing for everyone. Here's hoping! Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Excellent ! Lot's of essential information. What a great site. The maps are really good to have. Keep adding them when you have the time in the future. I was thinking about Zao. I think we have to do a "Thank you SJF party" in the future, too. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Indeed - a massive party in Yuzawa. Let's hire out a hotel. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted October 15, 2009 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted October 15, 2009 We do plan to add more maps in the future. Realistically, it will be next year before you see them, but it is in the plans. Our new maps are very easily changed/adapted as well and so we can quite easily make changes to them. Thanks for the comments both on here and in messages sent, much appreciated. Link to post Share on other sites
SantaCruz 0 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Nice. For a noob who's never been to an area (like me), the maps are super helpful. It's great being able to see how close you are to the lifts. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Anything we can do to help SJ with regards to maps? Link to post Share on other sites
its-a-clock 0 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Looks great. Happy to hear from Zao as well this season. Must go there. Link to post Share on other sites
best skier in hakuba 5 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Nice one, I'll post a few votes from Hakuba every day. Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted October 15, 2009 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted October 15, 2009 Originally Posted By: RobBright Anything we can do to help SJ with regards to maps? Not really Rob, at least now, but thanks for the offer. First of all we get the maps and permission to use them and create the map itself. That's the main part that will take a while and it's a matter of our graphics guys getting some time to get that fit in. There's a lot they are doing before they can get to that though. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites
BillTheBinMan 0 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Maps = great idea. Always wanted to know where all those places were. Link to post Share on other sites
BillTheBinMan 0 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 That weather thing looks interesting too. Otsukaresama! Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted October 15, 2009 Author SnowJapan Admin Share Posted October 15, 2009 OK we've had a talk about this. We are going to change the message on the chart to try and make it clearer to only vote if you are there. But that won't put off people who will be intentionally messing around and so we are going to implement a new system that allows us to easily pick off obviously rogue votes. It's going to take a number of days for us to make these latter adjustments. It is always sad to have to spend so much time and resources on features such as this but got to be done. Again thanks for the feedback folks, always good to hear comments and suggestions. Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 silly people voting for what they wish for rather than what is reality! Happy Dance for the Updates!! Awesome work Link to post Share on other sites
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