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The iOS app every rock climber has ever wanted

Climba

Italy is a country where rock climbing is spreading like wildfire. So many great places where you can climb and a great community of passionate people growing day by day with veterans helping newbie climbing higher and higher. But until now climbers have had to rely on word of mouth, printed guides or old style incomplete websites.

Climba is here to change all that. Our aim is to build a free community driven database of italian climbing spot.

Table of contents

• Version History
• What is Climba
• Why Climba
• What can you do with Climba
• Technology
• The Climba Database
• How to suggest a revision
• Contributors
• Links
• License

Version History

• 1.0.6 (11/14/2014): Initial release

What is Climba

Climba is an iOS app made by rock climbers for rock climbers. It is based on the Parse cloud backend and it allows you to:

• search for italian climbing spots with map, description, access, weather infos, sectors and routes
• add climbing spots to favorites
• look for other people routes repetitions
• add your repetitions with comment, personal grade, beauty
• Facebook login and Facebook sharing
• personal profile page

Why Climba

Climba comes from the need of today's climbers of a way to discover new climbing spots and to share their achievements. Until yesterday climbers have had to rely on paper books written by veteran climbers, printed pdfs downloaded by some proprietary old fashioned web site or the same old fashioned web sites resized to fit on smartphones... Recently some apps have been published on this matter but they use expensive business models.

When i decided to write Climba i had nothing on this in mind, i just wanted to experiment with Parse and iOS programming. But during the development of Climba i felt that i was building something more than a simple app.

Climba is more than this. Climba wants to be a community driven database of italian climbing spots where everyone can suggest or add new spots, new routes, correct wrong description and do whatever he wants with it. Do you want to build an Android app similar to Climba? You can, and you can use Climba's database.

What can you do with Climba

• Download the app from the App Store and use it!
• Fork this repository and experiment with it.
• Tell me about a particular issue on the app.
• Submit a Pull Request for a feature you would like to add to Climba.
• Collaborate on the Climba open database. More on this.

Technology

Climba is based essentially on the Parse Backend as a service. Here you can find a list of all the third party technologies or libraries used by Climba:

• Mantle
• ReactiveCocoa
• AsyncImageView
• AFNetworking
• TSMessages
• MBProgressHUD
• Reachability
• Facebook-iOS-SDK
• Parse
• MarqueeLabel

The Climba Database

The Climba database is hosted on the Parse cloud backend with free plan which include as of now, among other contraints, a limit of 30 request/sec and 20GB of database storage.

If you want to Fork Climba to experiment you should:

• sign up to Parse and set up a database that is the same as the one we use with Climba;
• obtain your API keys;
• put your API keys in the source code you forked;
• start experimenting...

In order to set up a database like the one we use with Climba here you can find the tables and the field we use:

"Users" table

Field name	Field type
objectId	String
username	String
password	String
authData	authData
following	Relation<_User>
emailVerified	Boolean
email	String
createdAt	Date
updatedAt	Date
ACL	ACL
profile	Object
facebookId	String
bestRouteGrade	String

"Activity" table

Field name	Field type
objectId	String
fromUser	Pointer<_User>
toUser	Pointer<_User>
type	String
content	String
repetition	POinter
createdAt	Date
updatedAt	Date
ACL	ACL

"Region" table

Field name	Field type
objectId	String
nome	String
falesie	Number
createdAt	Date
updatedAt	Date
ACL	ACL

"Repetition" table

Field name	Field type
objectId	String
user	Pointer<_User>
via	Pointer
type	String
stars	Number
comment	String
gradoProposto	String
settore	String
falesia	String
createdAt	Date
updatedAt	Date
ACL	ACL

"UserPhoto" table

Field name	Field type
objectId	String
imageFile	File
user	Pointer<_User>
createdAt	Date
updatedAt	Date
ACL	ACL

"falesia" table

Field name	Field type
objectId	String
createdAt	Date
updatedAt	Date
ACL	ACL
lat	String
long	String
nome	String
descrizione	String
accesso	String
regione	String
provincia	String
provinciaShort	String
id	Number
numSettori	Number
oldID	Number
numVie	Number
available	Boolean

"settore" table

Field name	Field type
objectId	String
createdAt	Date
updatedAt	Date
ACL	ACL
id	Number
nome	String
oldID	Number
falesia	Pointer
numVie	Number

"via" table

Field name	Field type
objectId	String
createdAt	Date
updatedAt	Date
ACL	ACL
id	Number
nome	String
oldID	Number
grado	String
settore	Pointer
frazioneGrado	String
numeroValutazioni	Number
votiBellezza	Number
bellezza	String

How to suggest a revision

The community driven database of Climba is hosted on Github here: Climba-data.

Another way to suggest a revision for an existing climbing spot (falesia) or to add a new one is sending an email to Climba email address.

Contributors

Roberto Belardo — Author @robertobelardo

Links

• App Store
• Website
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Blog

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.