Mountainpeaks Blog - General

Rocky Mountain National Park

nospam@example.com (Kasey Eunice) — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:49:38 -0700

There are many wilderness areas, state parks and national parks that are near or in the Rocky Mountains. The most notable of these is the Rocky Mountain National Park. The current park is about 265,770 acres in size. There are many habitats represented in the National Park including Pine Forrest, Riparian, Meadows, Alpine habitats Grassy hillsides and even Tundra can be found within the park. The majority of the park is montane areas and subalpine ecosystems.

The plant and animal life is wide ranging. There are larger mammals including bighorn sheep, mule deer, elk, black bear, cougars, coyotes and many many small animals. There are also many hundreds of plan species occupying ever niche. From pine trees, to flowering plants, the Rocky Mountain National Park has it all.

There are 150 lakes along with 450 or so miles of rivers and streams. As with all mountain habitats, the weather can be sunny one moment and turn to a down poor the next. The best time to view flowering plants is from April until September.

The park is the highest park in the nation. Elevations range from 7860 to 14,259 feet. Almost a third of the park is above treeline ( about 11,200 to 11,500 feet ). There are many small permanent glaciers hiding in the upper elevations. For more information, visit the Rocky Mountain National Park.

Searching for object by city, state or ZIP

nospam@example.com (Kasey Eunice) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:46:06 -0700

This article describes how a user can find objects that are near a city, state or zip code. The main screen shows a zip code field, city field and state field. The user can ener EITHER zip or city and state.

When a zip code is entered, the website will display by default all summits near the city. If the zip code is not found, a message is displayed accordingly. If the city and state is entered, the website will first check to see if the city is found. If the city is found within the state, the site will then check to see if there are multiple zip codes for the city.

If only one zip code is found, the webite will automatically display objects and features for that zip code. If more than one zip code is found, the website displays a list of all zip codes for each city.

The mountainpeaks.net database maintains latititude and longitide coordinates at the zip code level. The lat and lon are then used to determine what objects are near the selected city.

International mountains, peaks and other features

nospam@example.com (Kasey Eunice) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:00:07 -0700

We have many requests to add international features to our database. This is on our list of things to do. We have located a set of data that maintains all named features for international ( non-us ) features and objects. This dataset however does not maintain elevations so the skyline view will not work as it does with us based features.

If anybody knows how to find a dataset that lists international mountains, peaks and summits with elevation ( lat, lon, name ) would be greatly appreciated. Our thoughts are to create a similar site to mountainpeak.net that contains international information.

Again, this is on our list of things to do and we hope to get to this in a few weeks.

View mountains and peaks from given height

nospam@example.com (Kasey Eunice) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:51:44 -0700

There are a number of new features that we would like to add to the website. One of these features is to update the skyline view to present the display from the height of the object. For example, if the user selected mount whitney, CA the view would display from 14K feet ( or a little higher ). this would display a "birds eye" view of the summits near the selected feature.

Another option we are thinking of is to allow the user to select the view height. that way, the user could see the mountains and summits that are behind some of the mountains in the foreground. This would almost present a view as seen from an airplane in some ways. This should not be too difficult and we hopefully we can add this feature to the site in a few weeks or so.

what is Mountainpeaks.net website

nospam@example.com (Kasey Eunice) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:56:35 -0700

Mountainpeaks.net is a website that displays a variety of objects based on the users point of view. The site shows a map of the location along with all the nearby objects such as mountains, rivers, streams, valleys. There are over 70 objects that the site can display. Along with the overhead map, the website also shows a skyline view of the surrounding area. This will help the user identify named mountain peaks and summits from there location. This will greatly help in answering the age old question "what is the name of that mountain".

The site also allows the user to select objects on the map and in the skyline view and see information about that site. The user can easily change the object they are interested in. Example, the site initially shows summits and mountain peaks within a certain radius of the users location.

The site allows the user to search for objects by city location or by the name of the feature object. Take a look around the site. There are currently over 1,800,000 features contained in the database for objects and features within the US. We are planning on adding international information in a month or so. Please enjoy our site.