March 25th looked like a pretty good bet to launch the Sea Kayak Wales beta trip planning service when we were looking for a good launch date a
few months ago. People should be thinking about an Easter paddle we reasoned.
The weather will be enticing people who generally did not paddle in the winter
we surmised. We did not expect that people would have to be planning on taking
snow chains with them when running their sea kayaks down to the coast.
So all in all we now expect a fairly quiet response to our launch this morning.
This does give us some more time to research and prepare some of the extensive underlying data required to extend the reach of our trip planning services to more of the Welsh coast. This will open up additional opportunities for the sea kayak Wales community to add their own private trip plans for more of the Welsh coastline.
Community members can already add their own private trip plans for Anglesey and have them included in the trips considered by the suggestion service. You can keep private trip plan ideas private (we promise not to peek) or you can offer to share them with everyone else. Either way around, the same trip suggestion process can factor in tides and winds to decide when to offer your own trip plans alongside those generally available to everyone else.
Entering a private trip plan is a pretty simple process using the prepared “wizard” that takes you through each step of the process until a plan is complete. Give it a try and add to the variety on offer.
So all in all we now expect a fairly quiet response to our launch this morning.
This does give us some more time to research and prepare some of the extensive underlying data required to extend the reach of our trip planning services to more of the Welsh coast. This will open up additional opportunities for the sea kayak Wales community to add their own private trip plans for more of the Welsh coastline.
Community members can already add their own private trip plans for Anglesey and have them included in the trips considered by the suggestion service. You can keep private trip plan ideas private (we promise not to peek) or you can offer to share them with everyone else. Either way around, the same trip suggestion process can factor in tides and winds to decide when to offer your own trip plans alongside those generally available to everyone else.
Entering a private trip plan is a pretty simple process using the prepared “wizard” that takes you through each step of the process until a plan is complete. Give it a try and add to the variety on offer.
