Search by Seasonality area / facet

[willmonks]

Hi guys, the search interface doesn't seem to allow a search of crags by seasonality. Eg I'm looking for ideas for climbing in January, it'd be handy to spit out a list of crags which are "in season".

While some crags have a single obvious peak season in the seasonality histogram (eg Nowra & Frog = winter, Coles Bay & Frenchman's Cap = summer), others have two obvious peaks (Arapiles & Grampians = spring & autumn) which should both be returned, and some crags don't have strong seasonality (Blue Mtns, Pt Perp) but should still get a fair share of search hits.

Maybe a suitable definition would be that a crag is:

1. "in peak season" in month X, if month X is one of the "top 2" busiest months at that crag, based on recorded ascents.
2. otherwise "in season" in month X, if the number of ascents in month X is > 50% of the number of ascents recorded in the busiest single month at that crag.
3. otherwise "not in season".

The "top 2" and the 50% are fiddle factors you could tweak to massage for best results obviously.

The idea behind test (2) might even let you rank (and then sort) the results by how strongly in season the crag is in that month (it's "X% in season" if that month gets X% as many ascents as the busiest single month).

It's not going to be perfect because recorded ascents can reflect more when people have holidays than when the weather is ideal, eg at Araps January is the 5th or 6th busiest month but would be one of the worst for season. But a search capability along these lines would nevertheless be a pretty useful filter hopefully.

Anyway, just a thought.