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[tripler]

How about having links to the relevant webcams on the Daily Weather Report pages? I'm pretty sure there are webcam links for quite a few resorts somewhere on the site but it would be nice to have all the weather stuff in one place.

[SJ-David]

Good idea. We will try to get round to that soon.

In the meantime, we have adjusted the main mobile page to only display prefectures that have resorts with the weather voting functionality turned on.

Point your mobiles this way:
http://www.snowjapan.com/i/weather.php

As we add this functionality to more resorts, these lists will update automatically.

If you want to post votes for a certain resort that currently does not have this turned on, please let us know.

Thanks

[SJ-David]

Originally Posted By: r45

I see you have got the detail more on the maps themselves this year - Hirafu was a bit too simple on the ones you had up before.

Yes the maps have been reworked, especially the Niseko and Hakuba ones. We have tried to get them as detailed/correct as possible.
Maps sure take up a lot of time and effort, I can tell you!

[Creek Boy]

Originally Posted By: SJForums

Originally Posted By: r45

I see you have got the detail more on the maps themselves this year - Hirafu was a bit too simple on the ones you had up before.

Yes the maps have been reworked, especially the Niseko and Hakuba ones. We have tried to get them as detailed/correct as possible.
Maps sure take up a lot of time and effort, I can tell you!

お疲れ様でした！Much more interactive and user friendly. Nice work on the maps. As more and more companies, hotels, restaurants get on here that information will grow.

Will it be easier to deal with new listings on the maps now that the ground work is done?

[Go Native]

Well I for one am glad the blizzards in Niseko have moved on as I haven't even changed over to my winter tyres yet. Getting home would have been a nightmare!!

[Creek Boy]

Originally Posted By: SJForums

Good idea. We will try to get round to that soon.

In the meantime, we have adjusted the main mobile page to only display prefectures that have resorts with the weather voting functionality turned on.

Point your mobiles this way:
http://www.snowjapan.com/i/weather.php

As we add this functionality to more resorts, these lists will update automatically.

If you want to post votes for a certain resort that currently does not have this turned on, please let us know.

Thanks

I thought SJ had the QCI (what ever that funky picture you point your keitai at and snap off a picture to access the weblink?? I thought thats how I accessed it and bookmarked it when you first got keitai access up like 4 years ago or so?? Will you have one of those again?

[SJ-David]

Haha yes. Good thing out of the above incidents though is that we realised that we need a better edit/admin for that than we had. About 3 days worth of work involved but in the long term it will be good to have.

It's good to see so many 'proper' (I think) votes up there today anyway. The more the better of course.

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Will it be easier to deal with new listings on the maps now that the ground work is done?

There were a lot of headaches on the way but from now on, it is all easy for us to change the maps yes.

Thank you.

[Creek Boy]

good job!

[SJ-David]

Yes we will make one of those little thingies.

In fact... does this work?

[Creek Boy]

Yup!!! Noice

[Creek Boy]

I know you got a lot on your plate, but it might be nice if the voting ability included a part that allowed us to rate how much has accumulated as well as how snow conditions really are, powder, groomed, ice, etc...

[SJ-David]

We initially thought about doing that and in fact began developing it - but decided that it would be way open to the abuse/misleading thing that was seen above re: Niseko's blizzards. Perhaps more open to abuse and a differing of opinion than just the simple current weather conditions. And the Now reports should every day report on such things.

We do have the basic systems in place though so it is something we could reconsider and could relatively easily add.....

Thanks.

[Creek Boy]

regardless, お疲れさん！！　Get your hands on a bottle of Jyuyon Dai sake from Yamagata - delish, and tis the season for all the sake to be released!!

[Mamabear]

I can't wait to be on location and reporting personally

[2pints,mate]

Top work folks.
Looks fantastic.

[klingon]

Go to the Niseko area map and put your mouse over the "i" (information mark) in the bottom right area.

[thursday]

Very pretty it is.

[tripler]

Originally Posted By: SKI

It is great to see where the hotels are as well, that was kind of lacking until now. Big improvement.

I don't see any hotels.

This is Hakuba http://www.snowjapan.com/e/japan-ski-town-maps/hakuba-village/hakuba-village.html
Clicking on individual squares doesn't give me any hotels either. Am I in the wrong place?

[SJ-David]

Please click on the links specified in the first post of this thread as that is the new content.

Thanks.

[BagOfCrisps]

Originally Posted By: klingon

Go to the Niseko area map and put your mouse over the "i" (information mark) in the bottom right area.

I noticed on the top right of http://www.snowjapanmaps.com there's the line "The land of snow" as well.