Hey there climbers...

Picture this...your first epic ascent of an amazing new route. You want to share the details and give beta to your climbing friends but have to doodle over a photo with Paint, or pay a butt-load of money for professional illustration software. Even if you have the spare change for a program, it's never quite climbing specific. Search no further - Betaflash is here. Betaflash is a new free application designed by a climber specifically for creating quality climbing topos.

If you're using Windows, Mac, Linux or other Unix flavor, download it from this website: http://sites.google.com/site/betaflashsite

Enjoy.

Very cool. What do the large green dots represent?

Chad

Vegetation and other shrubbery.

Very nice! I did notice that when moving a "route" object via the "move & scale" options it was actually changing the route angles

Thanks a ton for passing this valuable program along. You just never know where cool stuff is going to come from!

I have posted a new version of Betaflash on the website.

http://sites.google.com/site/betaflashsite

Following is the list of all changes...

Version 0.9.1 (1/24/2010)

New features:
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* New color trees
* Control points are easier to hit and give visual feedback when active
* Right-clicking on canvas deselects all objects
* Main window sizes to screen
* Windows: nicer program icon

Bug fixes:
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* Improved mouse responsiveness
* Mac: quitting asks for confirmation
* Mac: only one quit and about menu items
* Windows: fixed repaint bug

This software looks extremely cool. I plan to start playing with it soon. Thanks so much for posting!

Glad you find it useful. Next version it's going to make the map for you... well... almost. Check out the announcements section.