What would you think of having a small gallery of images for each area that gets mapped? I'll try and work that into a copy of the template and see how it looks, but I think it would be a good idea. We could even make it user-submissable, too.
just an update, i looked into this real quick, created a flickr account, and started uploading images. I quickly ran into the 3-set limit for not-pro users. A pro-membership is $24.95 per year, which is a bit steep. I'm gonna look into other ways of organizing it and maybe sorting by tags. Check out the Ragged Mountain and Loon Mountain pages for an example of the picture implementation.
I definitely like the idea of pictures. Given the focus of the site, I think the coolest thing would be if we could geotag them such that they would show up in GE and you could click on them to view from within GE. Especially cool if geotagging can contain attitude data as well (azimuth/elevation/clocking angles). Any chance that picasa would offer more connectivity to GE given their affiliation?
the reason I chose flickr is because wikidot already has a module in place to support a flickr gallery. Obviously it's not foolproof (the overlap onto the sidebar is one problem), but it was the easiest to set up. Flickr does allow geotagging with location, and it's built upon GE, so I assume elevation would be easy enough. I'll look into the geotagging through flickr and see if there is a way to collect all of the geotag locations for images with a certian tag. That's the way the image galleries work right now. They look through flickr for all of the images tagged with "geosap" and "the area name". The one problem with geotagging is that we'd have to find a way to collect all the geosap images into one place that would display on GE.
I edited the site theme so the area pages are all table layouts now. I have to go through to each area page and reenter all the info. I'll get around to that this afternoon/tonight. Example it the Mount Southington page.





