Thursday, January 19, 2012

Mt Bachelor Nordic Application

The Mt Bachelor Nordic ski area located near Bend Oregon, is a full service Nordic ski area as part of the Mt Bachelor Ski Resort.  The Nordic area features 56 km of groomed trails for both classic and skate skiing. 
The Mt Bachelor Nordic Application was designed to provide accurate up-to-date information to the area users which would allow them to make decisions about where and when to use the resort, determine distances or conditions of trails, current weather, detailed trail terrain map and Google map locations.

The application is available on the Android Market.

 

Features of version 1 are as follows:
Version 1.0
  • Tab layout with 5 tabs
  • Conditions Tab
    • Content for this tab is obtained from the Mt Bachelor Mobile Nordic report directly from the Mt Bachelor web site.  It contains up to date weather and trail conditions.
    • Additional Mt Bachelor links are available on the page and include web cams.
  • Twitter Tab
    • Content for this tab is obtained from the Mt Bachelor resort twitter postings
  • Weather Tab
    • This tab contains five weather pages which are significant to local and travelings users.
      • Mt Bachelor weather station
      • Wanoga Butte weather station
      • US97 at lava Butte weather station
      • Santiam Pass Summit weather station
      • National weather service forecast for the are
  • Trail Map Tab
    • Trail image showing the trails and boundaries
  • Google Map Tab
    • Google map with marker showing location of resort
      • Additional map features are in progress
  • Preference Menu
    • Google Maps options
      • Zoom preference
      • View preference
        • Traffic
        • Street
        • Satellite
    • Weather station preference
      • Allows you to select the defatul weather station that is displayed when you select the weather tab.  Mt Bachelor Weather Station is the default.
    • Starting tab
      • Allows you to select the tab that will be selected first when you launch the application.  The conditions tab is the default.
Tab Examples:

Conditions
 Twitter:



Weather:

Preferences:

 Weather stations, select one for a default:

 
Default tab