I'm all for starting our own open source version specific to Arizona...if we could get enough resources together, it might be kind of fun to try. Brian -----Original Message----- From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of Jason Poulter Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:33 PM To: listserv@azgeocaching.com Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics maybe we should just dump geocaching.com all together and write our own site!!! ;) or at least a distributed database that everyone and anyone could setup and access all over the world with open source code etc... jason Brian LaFrance wrote: >Maybe we could figure out a way to distribute the workload across several >servers. I also have a server that I could run the code on. It may be >something where we could each query a range of cache numbers, user ID's, or >some other way of breaking the load up. Not sure if that would help though. >We all may end up banned from scraping data off Geocaching.com...it could be >a fun project to try though. > >Brian >Team AZEvil > >-----Original Message----- >From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com >[mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of >bcasteel@cox.net >Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:35 PM >To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics > > >That's a good idea, in theory. However, not every cacher can write code >like the Snaptek guys, nor can everyone understand how to run a script of >this nature. If they gave me the code, I'd gladly throw it up on my server >to run, and all would be happy. :) > >Brian >Team A.I. > > >>From: Bob Renner >>Date: 2003/09/04 Thu PM 05:34:29 EDT >>To: Arizona Geocaching List >>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics >> >>Jason, >> >>I realize this would be a total rewrite of your >>statistics gathering software, but it might be a way >>to lessen the load it puts on the geocaching.com >>website. Instead of crawling the entire data base, go >>to the individual profile pages of Arizona geocachers, >>and get the information from the "User Stats" pages. >>Anyone who wants to have their information included >>into the AZgeocaching web page, would have to tell you >>to include them in your list. You could still include >>the logs of others on the caches within Arizona. >> >>Another, approach would be for you to provide the code >>for Arizona geocachers to run on their own computers >>to get their basic information from geocaching.com and >>then automatically forward this to you to be compiled >>into one database. The advantage of this would be >>that the load on geocaching.com would be from multiple >>IP addresses and only when a user knows his/her stats >>need to be updated (i.e. when they have found or >>placed a new cache). >> >>Just a thought that might help get around any blocking >>you are experiencing. >> >>Bob Renner >> >>__________________________________ >>Do you Yahoo!? >>Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >>http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com >>____________________________________________________________ >>Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com >>To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: >>http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching >> >>Arizona's Geocaching Resource >>http://www.azgeocaching.com >> >> >> > >____________________________________________________________ >Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com >To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: >http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > >Arizona's Geocaching Resource >http://www.azgeocaching.com > > > >____________________________________________________________ >Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com >To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: >http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > >Arizona's Geocaching Resource >http://www.azgeocaching.com > > ____________________________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com