2018-07-28 Notes

Status update and next tasks

status

• I have a nice approach to DRY’ing up computed track fields. But I can’t quite get it to work with the csv format list view, which is really finicky with whitespace.
• I’m still blocked by not being able to sort by a derived field for my fastest/slowest lists. this forces me to keep the speed rating as a static field in each track page. This makes changes to the speed rating algorithm awkward.
• single track page is how i want it. it dynamically computes fields based on the computed fields file, doesn’t rely on any cached values.

next tasks

large

• make it easier to contribute new tracks. update existing tracks
• add glossary section for defining acronyms and terms
• factor turn geometry type into speed rating adjustments
• figure out how to sort my fastest/slowest lists by computed speed rating value
• figure out how list.csv can make use of computed fields

small

• verify static and computed speed ratings match.
• add turn geometry to fastest/slowest and list pages
• add glossary links to single track pages
• add country and state column to fastest/slowest
• list.csv iterate through all params in each page rather than referencing them one by one

other notes

• we could have a shell script which updates static speed ratings in single track pages. as long as we need to have those values cached for sorting. keeping them up to date is annoying.
• looking at the fastest list, i didn’t expect so many tracks to be single radius. I think my calculations are correct but it seems odd to me.