Creative Idea #1 - Bee Map

This begins my first segment of creative ideas for bees.

When I first got my bees and people found out that I am a beekeeper, one of the very first (if not most frequent) questions I get is: How far do bees travel to find flowers? Eventually I got the idea to make a map. For those of you who know me and what I do, you should know that that kind of thing is right down my ally. Well here is my map idea. I want to create a google based map that lets a user place a marker of where their hives are at. Also they will be able to input information like name, address, how many hives, contact info, type of queen, etc. Then I want to create a buffer zone around each point to show the distance that a bee will travel to find food. In the end I want a person to look at a map and zoom to their home and see if they are covered by bees nearby so they will know if they are going to have a great garden that year. I plan on getting it out to all my beekeeping friends because the more data the better the information will be.


Well it took me a while for the light bulb in my head to go off, but now that it has I plan on listing all my cool ideas here. please feel free to comment on them and help me figure out a way to do them.