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Hey everyone,
me, Alberto and Ciccio (Francesco) just built skimap. ⛷️
We found that current apps have some problems: bad coverage, drained battery🪫, and too complex.
so we built our own:
1. best coverage
2. clean 3D map 🏔️
3. fun (leaderboards) 🏆
4. works offline 📶⛔
If you ski, I’d really love to hear what you think so we can improve!
Thanks for checking it out! 🤙🏻
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How are you handling GPS accuracy and battery usage, especially when tracking all day on the mountain?
so, we don’t track at a constant high frequency, we adapt based on movement and then smooth the data instead of relying on raw GPS points. for accuracy we also do some map matching so runs align better with actual slopes.
on battery, we have a few small tricks that help a lot. nothing crazy, but surprisingly a lot of big apps don’t do them. dm me if you want i can share them 🙂
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@paolo_cadoni Nice approach, how are you handling edge cases like lifts or pauses where movement patterns can throw off the tracking?
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I am snowboarding for too many years and tried different kind of apps. My question is: why there is no app yet that shows my directions how to get from location X -> to location Y? Like, take ski lift X1, X2, go down slope A and take cabin X3.
Looking at your app I am not sure if you actually load real map or ski lifts, but I'm curios on this.
The main issue is that ski resorts don’t behave like normal maps. lifts and slopes don’t start and end at the exact same points, and connections between them are often ambiguous.
for example, a lift might drop you “near” the start of multiple slopes, but not exactly on any of them, and small differences in terrain or direction can completely change where you can actually go.
so building reliable directions like “take lift X → slope A → lift B” is much harder than it looks, because the system isn’t a clean graph like roads.
we’re still trying to build it though, in a way that doesn’t require mapping everything manually (hard but maybe possible)
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It helps not only on the day but also to familiarize with new resort before getting there. It’s a one stop shop for this activity: usual maps are often hard to read
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best app for skiing ever!! i have used it all the season. very simple practical and fun, i really like the leaderboards part especially the speed one.
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Best app ever. Been using it these days in Livigno and it’s awesome.
How are you handling GPS accuracy and battery usage, especially when tracking all day on the mountain?
@becky_gaskell
Thanks for the question!
so, we don’t track at a constant high frequency, we adapt based on movement and then smooth the data instead of relying on raw GPS points. for accuracy we also do some map matching so runs align better with actual slopes.
on battery, we have a few small tricks that help a lot. nothing crazy, but surprisingly a lot of big apps don’t do them. dm me if you want i can share them 🙂
@paolo_cadoni Nice approach, how are you handling edge cases like lifts or pauses where movement patterns can throw off the tracking?
I am snowboarding for too many years and tried different kind of apps.
My question is: why there is no app yet that shows my directions how to get from location X -> to location Y? Like, take ski lift X1, X2, go down slope A and take cabin X3.
Looking at your app I am not sure if you actually load real map or ski lifts, but I'm curios on this.
@paul_boldijar
The main issue is that ski resorts don’t behave like normal maps. lifts and slopes don’t start and end at the exact same points, and connections between them are often ambiguous.
for example, a lift might drop you “near” the start of multiple slopes, but not exactly on any of them, and small differences in terrain or direction can completely change where you can actually go.
so building reliable directions like “take lift X → slope A → lift B” is much harder than it looks, because the system isn’t a clean graph like roads.
we’re still trying to build it though, in a way that doesn’t require mapping everything manually (hard but maybe possible)
It helps not only on the day but also to familiarize with new resort before getting there. It’s a one stop shop for this activity: usual maps are often hard to read
best app for skiing ever!! i have used it all the season. very simple practical and fun, i really like the leaderboards part especially the speed one.
Best app ever. Been using it these days in Livigno and it’s awesome.
Sick!
would be sick then connect skiers🫶