Powder Chimp Offers I-70 Traffic and Colorado Ski Cams

[...] Ben wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt [...]

Thanks for the good word!

We’re working on some more improvements to the collection and representation of the weather and traffic conditions. We’ve included some road closure data but will soon have some nice simple representations of that kind of vital information on the map and google earth representations themselves.

You also might notice the google search trigger in the lower right part of the Earth frame. You can find places to stay, eat, rent equipment… using it.

We’re working on the various lift line cameras! There are a bunch of cameras up in the ski areas and we’ve only just begun. We’re also getting snowpack data that we can lay over the Google map tiles. So you can see snow in the google earth representation. Views and data from the parking areas is also on the agenda.

We’ve added a little game where you can ski around and in a little van that taunts you about where you’re going and stuff. When we’ve completed our snow and signage layers it will actually be a GREAT way to pre-ski a bunch of your destinations to prepare you for a better experience on the slope.

Look for our iPhone and Andriod implementation soon!

Thanks again for the great post!!

Cheers!

Chimpy