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Post details Post   (Contract pics)
CaptainVertigo
2008-11-25 22:06:25
"A Warm Glow" from CaptainVertigo Contract pics
Picture: A Warm Glow (Contract pics)

Satisfied Customer
Context of comment:I am humbled to see my modest proposal for the integration of Picture and Caption implemented so promptly and so successfully with seemingly retrospective effect. What a pleasure it is to operate in a milieu such as this.
simon3
2008-11-24 20:10:48
Re: Captions
Context of comment:Captions not appearing beside pictures in forums.
Message:I've made a few changes for this. Let me know if you are happy with them.
CaptainVertigo
2008-11-23 22:34:28
"Resting in Wicklow" from CaptainVertigo Contract pics
Picture: Resting in Wicklow (Contract pics)
Captions
Context of comment:I have noticed that Photo Captions are unfailingly divorced from photographs in this good place: with one exception-if you pen a very short piece the photo and the caption will be cheek by jowl. Short pieces are not my forte. And as I occasionally put some effort into captioning, this leaves me ...cold, and less than gruntled...
Message:Would it be possible to have photo captions physically adjacent to the subject images.
Additional points:The writing of source code is beyond my remit. I leave this to the boffins among you. (PS A photo can occasionally enhance a written contribution. My choice of photo for THIS little document was deliberately chosen to attract the Celtic reader...)
wicklore
2008-11-16 17:49:14
"View south to Arklow and distant Tara Hill from Barranisky" from wicklore Contract pics
Picture: View south to Arklow and distant Tara Hill from Barranisky (Contract pics)

Name of Barranisky Hill
Context of comment:There are two parts to the upland known as Barranisky, which is split by minor roads. The prominence to the northwest of the road is named as Barranisky West on the OS map. The prominence to the southeast of the road is named as Barranisky East on the OS map. The main summit is on the prominence called Barrinisky East. But on MV the highest point is named simply as ‘Barranisky’. This means that Barranisky East (with the Eircom masts) is to the west of Barranisky.
Message:I wonder should the highest point be named as ‘Barranisky East’ on MV? This name would incorporate both the main summit and the smaller prominence with the masts. If Barranisky retains its current name, we will continue to have the anomaly of a Barranisky East to its west!
Additional points:If I can help with anything I will.
simon3
2008-11-09 20:09:33
Re: Knockavoe Hill (Strabane, Co. Tyrone)
Context of comment:Suggestion that this summit be included in MV Lists.
Message:This summit is less than 400m. It will be included in the current list if it's relative height also known as prominence is at least 150m. To establish it's prominence you need to find the col or watershed linking it to the nearest higher peak. If the summit is 150m above that then it is in. There's more about prominence on Wikipedia.
Additional points:Have a go at establishing the prominence please!
dino
2008-11-09 17:28:49
"Knockavoe (Map)" from dino Contract pics
Picture: Knockavoe (Map) (Contract pics)

Knockavoe Hill (Strabane, Co. Tyrone)
Context of comment:Not Included on The Site
Message:There's probably a very good reason why this is so but Knockavoe Hill just outside Strabane (H373 976) is missing from the lists. Many of the lesser neighbours are included so this may possibly be an unintentional omission? I've included a map image if that helps
CaptainVertigo
2008-10-29 22:46:35
"" from CaptainVertigo Contract pics
Picture: (Contract pics)

Endless Undulations
Context of comment:My natural diffidence, and indeed huge respect for the work of this site, prevented me from articulating seeping chagrin at what I perceived to be a retrograde step. The addition of the 400m heights was welcome, although it made the notion of ultimately completing my list during THIS lifetime more remote. But the enumeration of every pimple on the backside of this fair island of 150m plus took my breath away. Now I feel I should retrace my steps so that no bump should go unbagged. Somehow the noble higher spots seem surrounded by lesser stuff on all sides. I cannot see the wood for the trees. I know (from recent contributions) that my gloomy broodings find echoes amongst my peers:
"For we were nurst upon the self-same hill,
Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill."
Colin Murphy
2008-10-29 10:39:42
Sorting tops
Context of comment:Sorting 500m from 400m tops on map of local summits.
Message:Simon: My suggestion was actually not to exclude 400m tops, but to build in a filter (similar to Lists & Logs) which would allow anyone not particularly interested in them to hide them. Having said that I find pazapas suggestion of some sort of colour coding very interesting. Simply colouring sub-500m tops blue for example, and making 500m+ summits say, red, would solve the problem. (While I'm aware one can get a map of only 500m+ tops on the Lists & Logs page, unfortunately this means leaving the summit info page you are researching. )
pazapas
2008-10-23 16:48:19
Sorting tops
Context of comment:Feedback on sorting summits.
Message:A simple filter would be fine : sorting summits upper than an height defined by a user.
Finding tops between two heights is useless and at least a potential source of troubles.
Colored spots depending on height value could be an improvment for maps.
simon3
2008-10-23 09:06:51
Re: Sorting 500m from 400m tops
Context of comment:Suggestion that we display only summits of 500m (which would omit the lower 400-499m and the small prominent ones) in the map of local summits.
Message:The advantage of this is that for people only interested in the over 500m summits, there would be no clutter from smaller ones. On the other hand many people looking at an area might have a go at picking off some the smaller ones perhaps en route to larger.

Colin: are you aware that in the LIsts & Logs section you can get a map of the summits in an area in which you can selectively choose which list the summits are from? Let's suppose you were walking in the Sperrins and wanted a map of all the summits over 500m but not the others. This is currently possible. I use this feature when planning what to walk in an area.
Additional points:I really need some further feedback on this. It could be done on a selective basis however some people might believe that this was a disadvantage and breaks the link between the map and the summits listed in the site.


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