Hi All - My name is Mark Henson. I'm a software developer and beekeeper in the western mountains of NC. I've been working for almost 2 years on a new online application for beekeepers. Hive Tracks (www.hivetracks.com) will have its official launch and débuted at the Eastern Apicultural Society (EAS) meeting in Boone, NC on August 2, 2010. Hive Tracks is a FREE service. Its not just a website. It’s a powerful online database where each user can track their yards, hives, weather, inspections, feedings, medications and more. Please take a look at it and give me your brutal, honest opinion.
First, thank you for all your work on Hive Tracks and all of the code and debugging you are doing.
I read the Hive Tracks blog of several screens a few days ago and several and made notes, but did not respond. Now I have read nine screens just to catch up.
Many of my notes now have been mentioned but I support the inclusion in the program of places to note: hive weight, pollen traps, propolis traps, bee escapes/type, and upper and/or lower entrances.
I think that your program will be much used and appreciated by the beekeeping community.
Mark,
The more I read the better HiveTracks gets. Thanks again to you for your devotion to the beekeeping community !!! No need to reply just keep at the keyboard !!!
Just created an account and added 3 yards (no hives). While I like the ease of use I am not happy with the GPS coords using zip code.
Could you add zip + 4 and generate accurate codes. This would probably help with weather input. My furtherst yard is 12 miles away. Using zip code only for GPS really doesn't give me accurate information. For instance, the furtherest yard (12 miles away) has the same City as my yard at my house. But it actually is closer to several other towns. One of which is in a different county. The difference in rain between these 2 yards and the fauna is significant.
I would second Ken's comment. My distant yard is in a high mountain meadow with blooming clover as far as the eye can see. I do have GPS coordinates, but zip code is meaningless.
The lat/lon we provide is just a rough estimate. You can overwrite it with whatever cooredinates you like for either a yard or individual hives. The only thing to note is the text area where you enter lat/lon is a little tricky. It has an edit mask which is not the best in the world. I'm going to try and improve it over time.
You have replied to many questions but completely ignored any suggestions or requests for information about inclusion of alternative hive types such as tbh's.
Could you please just let us know if they will be added/supported or not in the future?
If not, I can then go about canceling my account and forgetting about this software.
If so, then I might consider sticking with it to see it develop and be of use to myself and many others who like me, primarily use top bar hives.
We don't track costs/income at this time. I would imagine our best option here would be to export data that some accounting packages could then import.
Very nice job. Thankyou for putting this out there. I signed up today and put in 6 yards. Finally some software I can use and understand. This will help me tremendously.:thumbsup:
Oh yea, are you going to have an Iphone app? I would pay for it. Thanks.
Mark,
I am getting aggravated with my Beetight account, it switches the languages all the time so it takes me double or triple as long to put down a few inspections, is there any way to export my inspections from Beetight to Hive Tracks? Thanks.
Man, oh, man do I love this web application. Love it, love it, love it! I think the graphical-interface "hive builder" feature that I get a kick out of most. I like that I can actually keep track of equipment in that way.
I understand it isn't iPhone-compatible (yet); but that doesn't really bother me too much. I can take a notepad and pencil out to the apiary; I think the electronic device is better off waiting until my hands are clean, ha!
Does anyone know if there is a way to use characters in the hive numbering? I use a system that includes the last two digits of the year the hive was started followed by a dash and then a 2-digit number. Thanks. -james
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