Any hikers? This may be of use...

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The web address is http://www.routehiker.org.uk

10 months work on this project lol.

This free software is designed to aid in the creation of routecards for hikers of any type, being in Scouting, DofE or general use. It allows you to calculate the fields that normally would take a long time to calculate by hand. You can create multiple routecards which can be saved and then edited in the future, as well as having printer friendly versions for use on hikes.

I am proud to say Escouts Route Hiker is always being developed, and now incorporates features such as mobile phone browsing, which allow a user to edit their routecards whilst they are away from their computer on a hike. Any additional ideas will be welcomed and there is a very high chance that they will be implemented.
 
I didn't post this just to have people rip it down. I posted it to notify people of a useful resource. If you're not interested, then why bother posting?

Btw the affiliate links aren't there to make money. They are there for my own statistical purposes.
 
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Do what you like TBH.. I don't see any problem in just spreading the news of a free resource.

I don't get any money for it, and I only put an affiliate link from these forums so I could see how many users on overclockers are actually interesting in hiking. The only reason is statistical and that's honest. There's no money involved.

Delete this thread if you must.
 
paulsheff said:
Ok I'm not much of a hiker, so I'll stick to comments on the site itself.

The email you send to verify my account went straight into my rather cluttered spam box. I'd do a google search on tips to stop this happening. Here's one I found a while back http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Website-Marketing-Help/Spam-Protection-Ate-My-Newsletter/

Logging in in Firefox was a bit of pain with the popup issue, though I was ok getting in through Yahoo.

On a design note, the Google ads kind of get in the way, I'd put them below the footer.

Thanks Paul.
The popups are needed, so there's not much of an alternative there..

I'll take into account your comments on the ads and the email.
Cheers
 
weescott said:
Can someone explain this for me:



so no free advertising means no personal web sites for home pages in our profiles or members websites as per sticky?:confused:

Made me wonder as well...surely the members list is seen as advertising?
 
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Yeah have been in Scouting for about 10 years :)

I used to do DofE, but got fed up with using paper routecards...this progressed to using an excel spreadsheet, which progressed to a full blown web application :p

Thanks for the responses, and I hope you get something useful out of using it!
 
riven said:
Well I am personally glad this was posted. I'm on the committee of the York University Outdoor Society. One of our previous members set up another route card site, which is widely used and a great resource, and I'm glad to see another site that us walk planners can look for routes on.

I'm registering now (its being very slow!)

Thanks for the support. I hope its useful.

We're upgrading to a dual zeon server tonight, so should be a tad faster than the current Duron its on :p
 
robjf said:
Well i think those that are apposing it are being somewhat pedantic and also pathetic, i know this will get a great deal of use from me and itll be such a handy tool.

This is being hosted on webspace which is run on behalf of the Scout Association which in itself is a non profit organisation, any gains that are made through any of these sites int he form of adwords have to be donated to either escouts or the Scout Association, both of which are non profit. No personal gains here...

Rob

You're exactly right. This is Escouts' big project atm, and we decided at the pub last weekend that we'd use all the money from the ads on Route Hiker to pay for the server which everyone else's accounts go on.
I'm going to move route hiker to my company's server either tonight or tomorrow, to lighten the load on that server.

Btw its nothing to do with the Scout Association...its Escouts, which is just a group of volunteers who run an online community :)

I think I just posted in the entirely wrong place!
 
robjf said:
I know its not financially anything to do with the Scout Association but it is run for the use of the Scout Association right? (what i was getting at)

robjf said:
PS. Ive shown several leaders the site already and it gets a big thumbs up!
Excellent news!
Just gotta get it running faster now :)

Hope you get some use out of it!

Prob best to let this thread die now...i know there's a lot of unhappy dons and men of honour out there :p
 
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