MyOutdoors.net is up for sale

As a few people have noticed, MyOutdoors.net hasn't seen a lot of attention in the past few months. I'm guessing that this happens with projects of passion fairly often. The unfortunate (or fortunate...) circumstance is that my brother and I have both become involved in other projects (Sharendipity and FlyingCart). We just don't have the time to market the site anymore, so we've decided to put it up for sale.

We've posted two entries, one on BizBuySell and another on Web2.0ForSale.com. You can see them here:

BizBuySell: http://www.bizbuysell.com/cgi-bin/addetail?J=bbs&nosearch=1&tab=su&q=295025

Web2.0forsale.com: http://web2.0forsale.com/item/4818281-Complete-Web-20-Outdoor-Community-Site-MyOutdoorsnet?mpurl=forsale

We apologize to those select few who have continued to remain loyal to the site and have been using it on a regular basis. We managed to complete the site, we just haven't had the time to build the community that we envisioned when we first started on it. I hope that your needs will continue to be met in the future.

Oh, how we love the Isthmus!

We were recently fortunate enough to have David Medaris of the Isthmus interview us here at MyOutdoors.net. It's the first real publicity the site has received so we're incredibly excited about it. David wrote a fantastic article and really made an effort in describing what we're all about. Go check it out.

Thanks, David!

KML Downloads

We recently added KML downloads to MyOutdoors.net. I didn't realize how cool they were until I started implementing them. The KML specification has matured over time and is now at a 2.0 release. KML stands for Keyhole Markup Language, an acronym that endured Google's acquisition of Keyhole in 2004. The KML specs allow for some serious mapping annotations. Some of the cooler things are 3d paths, polygons, HTML annotations, custom overlays (ground and screen) and serving content from remote locations. Really the best thing about KML though is that you can put your own data into Google Earth's amazing 3d interface.

We've really only touched the surface with our KML implementation. As we have the time we'll try to add some of the more advanced features of KML. Downloading KML from MyOutdoors.net will get you a KML document that has your path and a placemark for every waypoint in your journal entry that has been annotated. The view should then be centered at the normal centering point for the journal and the camera tilted at a 45 degree angle. Seeing a path set atop the 3d terrain with satellite images gives you a very good idea of what the author's journey was really like.



I hope you all enjoy the new feature. Look for some enhancements to KML files on MyOutdoors.net in the near future.