Allow users to enter personal notes, tags or icons for an area (mainly crag or sector)

[georg-d]

Situation: I oberserved I worked through the same irrelevant crags/sectors each time I plan a trip to a region that I visit infrequent enough to not know by heart which crags/sectors are to my taste and which are not. Hence, after reading details of a crag/sector, I realize that area is not relevant for me and I came across the same conclusion several times. This repeats with the next crag/sector. That slows down crag/sector selection, is needless waste of time, and sometimes even causes conflicts within the group / discourages use of TheCrag ("are you still not finished? drop that shitty website, use paper and let's start!")

Idea: Let's add a possibility to enter a personal textual note and/or tag and/or icon that is only relevant & visible for that individual user and speeds up decisions.

Example usages:

• tags or icons like 😀😐☹🔍 whether I (dis)like that crag/sector at all, or it's depending on details
• tags or icons like 🌞🌦❄ 🛠🕘🕛🕒 when I personally like to climb there (weather, season, workdays, time of the day,...) which differs between persons, e.g. subjective temperature feeling
• tags or icons like 💪🥱 in which state I like to climb there
• tags or icons like 🚗🚲🥾 which approaches are suitable for my taste
• note could contain more details to the above metioned, e.g. what is to my taste or not (like bolt density + placement), which of the approaches is to my taste and how long that takes for me (structured tags don't help here as it's just the walk time but appraoch startes from the home base which is highly individual), who of my mates does / does not like to go there, which of the accomodations is my preferred one, ...
• note could contain details of what I personally like to bring to that crag, e.g. which shoes, clip stick, material for approach path & crag maintenance,...

Thoughts about the feature

• Seems "cheap" in the sense it won't cause much data volume, is not requiring a complex GUI, has very limited interaction with other features, does not need versioning or translation,...
• would resemble hand written note in paper or PDF guide book
• it's known in general in the digital world, e.g. from social network Xing where you can add to each user a notice that is only visible for you
• it will naturally only work while logged in, which is another motivation for guest users to create an account – which is the main hurdle to add data to the site
• could be reserved for supporters or users with high karma, as it's mainly interesting for heavy users and as a reward to users helping to run the site (thus another motivation for users to support via money or time)
• Tags, icons and first 10-20 characters of note (followed by "...") could be displayed in map view, e.g. where indicated below. In case the popup shall not be enlarged much, the texts "66 routes" and "126 ascents" may be displayed left of the circle "66" which increases width only a little but frees up a lot of heigth.
• Tags, icons and full note could be displayed in the heading of crag/sector page, e.g. here:
• individual tags and notes could be used in search, e.g. "summer and peter" or "for 2 days" or "nice view"