I suppose I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with this. I looked at my area (orange county, california) and there were a few icons. clicking on them didn't give me any description - I suppose it's because you don't have any for those places (I do see the link to add info there).
But you show me some info that I don't really understand. It doesn't change based on my interaction with different icons. Maybe give me a one liner telling me "Hey, these are interesting reviews of places near where you're looking." Just a thought to make it more immediately engaging - I wouldn't personally take the time to figure out this interface as it is right now, even though I enjoy hiking quite a bit.
That said, you guys have ben iterating quite rapidly it seems, and making great progress, so I'm sure all of this will be taken care of shortly.
As it stands now, if we have a report for a place, then we give it an orange notebook icon. Typically, a place will have the icons as you see - streams, summits, etc.
We have 6000 or so reports indexed to the map now, and we plan to increase that by an order of magnitude or two, so we'll have reports all over the map.
I don't think the notebook icon is that obvious. Looks almost like part of a train track or zip.
I read this comment of yours, then visited the site, and still spent a couple of seconds wondering what that icon meant (train? video upload?) before I remembered you mentioning an orange notebook.
But you show me some info that I don't really understand. It doesn't change based on my interaction with different icons. Maybe give me a one liner telling me "Hey, these are interesting reviews of places near where you're looking." Just a thought to make it more immediately engaging - I wouldn't personally take the time to figure out this interface as it is right now, even though I enjoy hiking quite a bit.
That said, you guys have ben iterating quite rapidly it seems, and making great progress, so I'm sure all of this will be taken care of shortly.