Digital Guide
This is a web-based routes database application specially designed:
- for Guidebook producers, allowing multiple descriptions of routes from different guidebooks
- for future web and mobile publishing
Access to the core application is restricted.
The core application has been extended with:
- Feeder web application for collecting new route details direct from climbers
- TopoEditor software for creating interactive topos suitable for print, web and mobile
- Public web application for disemminating new route information
Future extensions are likely to include:
- Adobe InDesign and Illustrator scripts or plugins to facilate guidebook production
- Additional public web applications
- Mobile publishing (possibly through an existing mobile app)
- Comprehensive analysis of first ascent data
Technology
The core and new route full-stack applications are built with
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Deployment
The main Climbing Database Applications are currently being run on Linux-based virtual machines (one for each club). The entry level has sufficent CPU, RAM and memory (providing pre-built containers are used) and is very cost effective as:
- Climbing Databases can be stored and run from the internal memory (provided appropriate backup is organised)
- More than one service can be run on one virtual machine (e.g. New Route Reporting.)
Virtual machines require some work to set up, update, maintain and monitor (compared to 'serverless' used for other applications).
All applications use S3 storage for images, documents and other files.
Cloud Service Providers
is used as its offers simpler, lower cost, fixed price services compared to AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Archive Storage is used for backing up files, documents and images.
is used to host https://topoeditor.com
and https://newroutes.smc.org.uk