[potash]

Great site design. A couple ideas off the top of my head:

- Let hikes to include GPS route(s) to display on the map.

- Link to the USGS topo map that covers a given hike: http://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/usgs/maplocator/(xcm=r3standa...

- Add a bibliography to each hike.

- Scrape some websites to create "stubs" for new hikes and encourage users to develop these.

- Speaking of stubs, if you are going to have collaboratively edited content why not just build on MediaWiki or similar?

- Use OpenStreetMaps instead of GMaps and encourage users to add trails to OSM.

[zakn]

Great feedback.

-GPX support is top of my list of TODOs.

-I like the USGS topo / OSM idea. I'll have to do some investigation to see how it compares with Google Maps.

- I agree that a bibliography is a must. This is also something I would have gotten for free with MediaWiki. The reason I didn't build on top of that was, basically because I wanted to have complete control over the end result. Writing the code was the fun part for me. That being said, I wouldn't completely write it off.

- And I did write one scraper already for wta.org, but was unsure about whether that was ok to do or not...

[potash]

Cool. Not a lawyer but I think that if you are not copying the main content (just the metadata) AND putting the source in your bibliography you should be okay.

Also one simple way to try to raise money for the site is to use affiliate links to Amazon for any [e]books in the bibliography.