aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Saturday, January 27, 2007

RouteSlip.com calls for developer assistance

Doug’s creating a bike route in Düsseldorf right now.

Huh?

He’s sitting on the couch using RouteSlip.com. It lets you build a ride log, map out your bike routes in Google maps, calculate distances and - for those of you who, like me, grow concerned at the thought of steep hills - it will automatically create an elevation profile for each route.

Doug says, “This is such a great application. I just love it. I’m putting in the route that I used to ride all the time...to my swimming hole. It’s so easy.”

Maybe not so. The elevation data is down right now and the developer has put out a call for help:

I need help from the community out there in supporting and developing future enhancements to the RouteSlip.com site. My requirements are pretty specific: I need programmers who are experts in JavaScript (5 out of 5) and very capable with PHP (4 out of 5).

As much as it pains me to say it, RouteSlip’s gone beyond what I can support right now, and I feel I owe it to the community that has been so supportive and encouraging during the initial development of the site to not abandon it.

I’m only one person, and am stretched way too thin right now without even considering RouteSlip development.

Neither Doug nor I knows Java or PHP. If you do, please help!