- Joined
- Mar 17, 2005
- Location
- N. N. Raleigh, NC
All,
I will be organizing the collection and compiling of information to create and maintain detailed trail maps of URE.
This will be a group effort. If your reading this, consider yourself part of the group. There will be many types of effort and work to be done to collect and maintain the information over time.
The goal will be collect and maintain this information. This will require the input and continued corporation from everyone. If you have an interest in contributing, please do so.
Some overall goals are:
Develop distributed collection model.
Develop a method of viewing and reporting.
Develop a method to document trail conditions over time.
Some actual tangible and usable goals will be:
Create a detailed trail map, outlining date/time, location and conditions. This will be used to better document needed trail work.
Reduce scouting or planning trips prior to work being performed.
Document actual work performed.
Enable multiple work efforts to contribute to common goals.
Capture historical information of trail conditions and maintenance.
As you can see this is a very brief summary. Hopefully there will be more uses for the information as things progress.
For all the BS above... Here are a few examples of the information in use...
Trash Pickup --- Bob Jones rides saw mill on his day off and picks up trash for 1/2 mile of trail before he gets PO'd at the amount of BudLight cans that has filled his bag. He records time/date, where he started and stopped. Someone else can pick up (literally) where he left off or it could be rolled up into a work day.
BEEs --- A ground bee nest is discovered on Rocky Mount loop. Time/Date and location are noted, someone snaps a picture or a previous picture of that area it highlighted with an arrow to the precise location to avoid. When bees are gone, and update is made..
Rouge Bypass trails --- Folks riding at URE this past weekend, notice a new illegal bypass trail. They snap a picture from a suitable distance, note the Time/Date and location and submit the information.
FS Review - FS reviews information we pass onto them. If sufficient information is presented an in person review may not be needed and activities may be approved. (I made this up, I'm hopeful if we can help reduce the FS need to make repeated trips into the woods we can speed the time from identifying an issue to approval to do the work. )
Work Day Crew --- Approved work day items are carried out using a check list of FS approved activities.
5 years from now --- Simply filtering data collected from Spring 2011, we can present an overview of information available. This could simply be a collection of pictures of specific trails at various way points or descriptions of conditions.
Your ideas here ---
I will be organizing the collection and compiling of information to create and maintain detailed trail maps of URE.
This will be a group effort. If your reading this, consider yourself part of the group. There will be many types of effort and work to be done to collect and maintain the information over time.
The goal will be collect and maintain this information. This will require the input and continued corporation from everyone. If you have an interest in contributing, please do so.
Some overall goals are:
Develop distributed collection model.
Develop a method of viewing and reporting.
Develop a method to document trail conditions over time.
Some actual tangible and usable goals will be:
Create a detailed trail map, outlining date/time, location and conditions. This will be used to better document needed trail work.
Reduce scouting or planning trips prior to work being performed.
Document actual work performed.
Enable multiple work efforts to contribute to common goals.
Capture historical information of trail conditions and maintenance.
As you can see this is a very brief summary. Hopefully there will be more uses for the information as things progress.
For all the BS above... Here are a few examples of the information in use...
Trash Pickup --- Bob Jones rides saw mill on his day off and picks up trash for 1/2 mile of trail before he gets PO'd at the amount of BudLight cans that has filled his bag. He records time/date, where he started and stopped. Someone else can pick up (literally) where he left off or it could be rolled up into a work day.
BEEs --- A ground bee nest is discovered on Rocky Mount loop. Time/Date and location are noted, someone snaps a picture or a previous picture of that area it highlighted with an arrow to the precise location to avoid. When bees are gone, and update is made..
Rouge Bypass trails --- Folks riding at URE this past weekend, notice a new illegal bypass trail. They snap a picture from a suitable distance, note the Time/Date and location and submit the information.
FS Review - FS reviews information we pass onto them. If sufficient information is presented an in person review may not be needed and activities may be approved. (I made this up, I'm hopeful if we can help reduce the FS need to make repeated trips into the woods we can speed the time from identifying an issue to approval to do the work. )
Work Day Crew --- Approved work day items are carried out using a check list of FS approved activities.
5 years from now --- Simply filtering data collected from Spring 2011, we can present an overview of information available. This could simply be a collection of pictures of specific trails at various way points or descriptions of conditions.
Your ideas here ---
