Vinnie-, nici- & Linus

Dear Geocachers from Amsterdam, I need some help. For a game - which is not geocaching, but something related - I need a snapshot of a certain place/thing in Amsterdam. The location is very central (I don't want to say more about it in public). So, if anyone living in Amsterdam is willing to help me by going to this place, look for a certain thing and take a snapshot of it, he would make me very very happy (If I can do anything to show you my thankfulness, tell me). Best regards, V. PS: Please contact me via my Groundspeak account.

Hi! quote:Originally posted by rickrich:Imagine a system where the geocache database is scalably distributed across the computers of all users, instead of the current unscalable centralized system. There has already been thoughts about building a distributed database. This would allow cachers to 'own' there own data - meaning the data could be used by the community through defined interfaces instead of having to spider the data from here... ;-( You might like to look for some older postings in the usenet newsgroup - google is your friend. Or contact me, I'll find the post for you. I definitely like the idea. GC.com would then use _this_ data as everyone else. And it would build it's leadership on usability and service, not on the simple fact, that they 'own' the data. Greetings Nicola