Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure

This article seems to be an AI warping of this original article which contains a lot more useful details and screenshots of what the application looks like: https://community.openclimbing.org/d/24-v200-a-big-step-forw...

It's an interesting idea but these things have never taken off in the past. I'm speaking from a UK-centric position here, but there's a pretty strong ethos that guidebook creators should get paid for the work that they do and there's also a responsibility attached to a professional guidebook that doesn't exist on a crowdsourced platform. UKC can only take you so far, and 25 quid for a copy of whatever SMC book you need is hardly onerous. Any donut can add "Shit Chosspile E8 6C **" to the UKC database but if it's in the SMC book it's probably worth having a look at.

I maintain a country's climbing guidebook. It's a royal pain to keep all the different platforms (theCrag, Mountain Project, 8a.nu, 27 Crags, etc) all in sync. Each one has a different format, each info is slightly different, each one has it's own way of drawing the routes on photos. I welcome any effort to have an open standard.

Discovered bouldering in my forties, after neglecting my body for years.

Fantastic sport, I'm stronger, fitter, and more flexible than I've ever been. It's fun, social, relatively cheap, and way less of a grind than the gym.

What a cool idea.

Until now all of that information has been kept being gatekeeped applications (mountainproject, theCrag, 8a.nu, ...)

But as usual the real issue will be to get people to use it. The network effect is everything