Heya Richard.
Dunno if you know but I worked for WaMu and that was past tense, I got laid off. So what have I been doin' with my time? Well... catching tons of rezzies and a few searuns. Oh, and I've been working on a need-driven, passion-driven web application for fisher people and outdoor enthusiasts of all sorts. I have the rather incomplete application hosted right now without a great deal of capacity, and plan to increase capacity when I "go beta" with it and announce to the world. I'd like to invite you to preview it, though, since I consider you an accomplished and well thought out fisherman. Any feedback, ideas, etc would be very very appreciated.
I'll be entirely frank: the idea here is 2-fold, provide the tool that *I want* for my fishing endeavors to the world (wide web) AND make some advertising dollars. One thing that will be extremely important that is not yet drafted is the Privacy Policy which will be extremely tight... folks secret fishin' holes must be safe on my site.
www.smartfishmap.com
definitely register, or it ain't all that great...
Here's the skinny, Current Features:
Google Map and a Calendar (to select start dates)
- ability to add and delete markers (saved to your profile) and add/edit notes attached to markers
- for currently selected marker right click the map to get Weather Report (point report for Lat / Lon for 7 days); get Flows (finds closest USGS stream flow gauge and graphs it for 3 days, allows you to add a marker precisely where gauge is at); get Tides (finds closest realtime station for now [e.g., Wauna would be Tacoma] - I'm working on getting way more data) - also graphed.
Here's the coming soon stuff that ties the whole thing together:
Journal Pages
- ability to link a journal page to Markers (and therefore associate the weather, tide, flow data, notes, etc)
- ability to make a given journal page public
Trips
- set up a trip by selecting a date range and associating markers for the location(s) of your trip.
- trips may the be associated with Journal Pages, to automatically link the markers and gauges that were used in the Trip
Water Temps and Reservoir data
etc and more and more