Comments on: LiftSift

By: skadaha

skadaha — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:57:11 +0000

Maybe work in the HTML5 spec for location?

By: dave

dave — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:02:45 +0000

Great tool! Only problem I see is that the site lists Ski Plattekill as being 9 miles from NYC, when its really 154 miles away…keep up the good work!

By: Nate Weiner

Nate Weiner — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:01:16 +0000

@Dirk @Compy

Working on adding Canadian resorts, as well as others from all over the world. Had several CA resorts submitted by users this week which I just pushed live.

I also expanded the postal code field to accept longer codes.

By: Compy

Compy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:25:38 +0000

It doesn’t seem to list any of the Canadian mountains. Not sure if they would be easy to add or not, but would be nice.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:12:35 +0000

I checked out the site, and liked the idea… however, I noticed that even though I can set my location to somewhere in Canada, and the distance logic works, if I go to add a new mountain, I’m given a ‘country’ field… but only a list of US states, and a ‘postal code’ field that’s too short to hold a postal code- only a US zip code.

It seems that you should either drop the country field for now, and admit it’s US-centric, or properly expand it to allow entries from other areas.

Otherwise, a great and useful idea - thanks!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:09:04 +0000

Another very awesome idea with beautiful execution Nate. All in 10 days too, not bad.

I don’t ski that much but I can definitely see this as helping people. Another idea to add might be a rating system like stars or comments next to the lifts for more community involvement. Hey, maybe even expand even more for a mountain search/rating site!