 Poster: A snowHead
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the slopes.
Does anyone know if any product out there can replicate (to a greater or lesser extent) Sat nav functionality. eg I'm at lift x and want to get to resturant b.
Here is your route
Quickest
Longest
Avoiding or taking in certain tyes of lifts/runs
Just thinking of topic (or piste  ) so to speak.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ansta1, Garmin do a version with a piste map IIRC. Couldn't tell you how effective it is though. There have been one or two threads about this over the last few years - perhaps some of the contributors might be able to provide more a detailed response.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Sat Ski do a standalone unit and also an app for smart phones.
I tried it last year but it didn't work - may have been my phone though!
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At the end of piste 1 turn right, turn left, turn right, turn left, turn right, turn left
Do a 360 when possible
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Why anyone wants one for skiing is beyond me.
Its much more fun with a group of you stood around a soggy piste map in a howling gale arguing which run gets you to a hot vin chaud the quickest. You get far better bamnter in the bar that evening 
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altis, I've already got berryski for my blackberry so I can track where I am on the mountain and record run stats I was thinking more akin to a proper satnav type affair which you can programme a start/finish and it will calculate a route and even perhaps guide you around the mountain. I don't really need one as I can plan my route and read a piste map just thinking it may be something that would be interesting to develop and have.
Another one for the wish list I guess but maybe some of the developers that lurk these pages may pick up on it and see what they can develop. Whilst not particularly straightforward i'm sure it's not that complicated I would have thought. Going forward and given enough interest from resorts it could even link into lift queue information.
Just a thought......
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I have an SD card with piste maps of all the French ski resorts in it. It simply fits into your sat nav and away you go. I find it very useful and would use it each time I go skiing but I now have an iPhone with apps in which do the same function. If you want o will
Sell you mine as like I said, I now hove an iPhone which does exactly this. As far as programming I. A restaurant and how to get there from a certain point I'm unsure about but you may be able to do this.
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Ricklovesthepowder, I have all european maps on my blackberry so I'll pass on the offer
In terms of the programmatical side it's not that complicated as there are only so many options to get from a to b on a mountain, these would be held it a database I would assume rather than dynamically calculated but I'm no sat nav developer. It would be more complicated if you added in real time information and data but even still it's only a tree based decision.
eg. Find all routes starting from A ending at B.
list routes
Evaluate route against criteria (eg no blacks)
Display those that meet criteria.
But I'm probably over simplifying it somewhat. Off to get out my iphone developer kit and have a play....
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I have an SD card with piste maps of all the French ski resorts in it
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all? Really? Where did you get it?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I can just see it now
"You have taken the wrong lift, at the next deep area of snow, lift the bar and jump!"
Or
" I don't care vot zee machine says, zis is a cowshed, not a restuarant!"
Or halfway down a black run
"You have taken the wrong turn, turn around and go back the way you came for 300 metres"
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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tangowaggon, yes, the "turn around when possible" command could strike terror, couldn't it? 
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pam w, off the Internet. Paid about £70 for it IIRC. Really good bit of kit actually.
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You know it makes sense.
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Ricklovesthepowder, how many resorts?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Here you go pam w, this is where I got mine from. I have the full
France edition but it also covers the resorts in other countries that are linked by piste, so all the Swiss resorts of the Portes Du Soleil are on there for example.
http://www.mountaindynamics.com/en/
Covers over 125 resorts I think
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Poster: A snowHead
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Have a garmin for the mountain bike which could be used for ski touring but to be accurate enough for pistes you'd have to do the runs and save the data log by which time you'd have probably have learnt the piste!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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tangowaggon, agree with your position so would have to be a either accurate or require a pragmatic user base, still think it has some merit as a potential app though...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ricklovesthepowder, thanks. Looks very interesting and they certainly have lots of resorts mapped. Could be very useful in an area you're really unfamiliar with.
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An app merely to work out the quickest way between two lifts would be a good start, requiring only an average ski time between lifts and lift travel time itself. If a developer could negotiate data from electronic pass gates it wouldn't seem to be an unreasonably hard task.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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pam w, I found it great when exploring the PDS. I didn't always had it out with me in hand but if I was ever unsure of where I was it would pin point me exactly.
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okay, so there is a posible interest, anyone fancy taking it to the dragons den?
basic mapping and route planning can be done by a relatively simple database, but proper navigation would require someone to ski all of the piste and take all of the lifts to get the data required for full and complete mapping and sat nav type solution. i'm not sure anyone i know would want to spend weeks on end skiing up and down lots of mountains? 
time to drop a message to some of guys who responded re other ski route logging software and see if they want to do it.
just think of some of the other options..... virtual racing, meet me at(directions supplied to multiple groups or individuals) mornings or days pre planned so people can meet up. links into other socia apps to show where SH are on the mountain ( i know this can already be done to some level on google maps)
what have i started......
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At the end of piste 1 turn right, turn left, turn right, turn left, turn right, turn left
Do a 360 when possible
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Damn - I was going to post that.... L'dMAO even harder when I read it though
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Ive used satski a few times on my windows mobiles over the years with great results, giving you a full play back on the map at the end of the day, with all your runs down and lifts back up.
Im sure it has an option to navigate you to where you select on the map, never used it my self
www.satsportsgps.com/satski/
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Satski allows users to plot routes from point A to Point B avoiding the runs you don’t like and at the same time will provide animations of the route you have chosen providing information such as, time the route will take, distance of route and more.
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