A preliminary start on a Trip Planner (Beta – looking for suggestions and problems)

Given a Start Place, End Place and desired minimum miles per day, layout a plan that will cover the distance. Once the initial plan is determined, you can adjust individual stopping places to make a truly personalized plan.

Use the forced day, place check box  to hold a specific day/location as a constant. This is useful if you have some existing conflict, or once you start to make reservations.

[trail-trip-planner]

 

 


Several modification to the code are:

  1.  better documentation
  2. distinguish between placers with lodging and those without
  3. smarter search selection – The next day selection is not very smart. It simply adds up mileages between points until it goes over the min per day.
  4. update the database, use ATAs, Linking ups, bikecando, or Google – I used a trail head database which does not have lodging information in it.
  5. update database to flag places with minimal rooms
  6. tie the output to a map
  7. handle branch/ side trails minimum
  8. Add a note field
  9. use a table format

Done

  1. Allow adjustment on each individual day.
  2. Save data from load to load
  3. Add a fixed checkbox to enable reservations
  4. Add a Start Date