More Stuff and Things!

Sorry for lack of content recently.  It's not even been from the lack of motivation or lack of material to work with - there's about 5 posts that just need prettying up and posting but finishing stuff right now seems to be the issue.  Still, life keeps rolling on in the background so I've incorporated a few things I wanted to mention into this post.  No particular order so lets start with.....

www.mountainboarding.info

www.mountainboarding.info 

...is still in it's early stages but is well worth a visit. Roger S describes the project aim to 'provide a community-generated, comprehensive, accumulated resource of all the mountainboarding information we can find'. There certainly is plenty of knowledge out there so if you have some spare time in front of a computer and want to help, please contact Roger.


UK Snow Map

I like this amalgamation of  existing technology.  uksnowmap.com searches Twitter for real-time snow reports and displays them on the map.  In return, all that twitter users have to do is to tweet the hashtag #uksnow, their location (postcode, town name or geotag), and rate the snow that is falling out of ten (0/10 for nothing - 10/10 for a blizzard).

Nothing up there right now, but then it's probably not snowing right now.  When it does though, it could be a really useful resource.

Mountainboard Tutorials

After compiling an 'Ultimate Mountainboard How-To Video Guide', Jasper of OneDayMedia has been a busy, busy chap producing not one but two guides covering both scrubbing, and how to drop-in on a hill.

Jaspers Channel with all of his work is linked to below so that you can go and 'like' him:
http://www.youtube.com/user/0neDayProductions#p/u/0/9pl4pjmyhVk

Mapping Data

So, if I understand things correctly, (and there's no reason to believe that I do), elevation data used to produce those lovely 3D Google Earth images is set to become a lot more accurate and detailed.  The project joint funded by NASA and Japan can be read about on NASA's page here, but the interesting detail that 'Each elevation measurement point in the data is 98 feet (30 meters) apart' improves nicely on the existing 50 meter resolution.  Far more applications use this data than just Google and given that the data can be freely downloaded, should mean that everyone wins.

The Annual Official Surfing Dirt Pumpkin Carving Contest... 

...is back again, and goes to show that when out in the woods, you just can't be too careful.  Don't have nightmares!
http://www.surfingdirt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4926


Master of the Hill 2011 Trailer?


Master of the Hill 2011 Trailer from all4ride on Vimeo.

That must mean that the full video must be on its way soon!

Random Blog

http://www.great-rock.co.uk/blog/
Forget the bikes - just look at the scenery.  Plus I have beard envy.

My word, this blog post has been random!  Best get out riding and enjoy those Autumn leaves!  Feel free to inspire me with your lovely messages or let me know what I've forgotten to mention today, cheers!