+mrcpu Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 Would you like a Canadian Geocaching Site? Quote Link to comment
+LoCache Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 Would this be a new site, or a canadian "extension" of Geocaching.com? Geo ---------------------- http://www.geopolitan.net/geotrex http://www.ggaonline.org Quote Link to comment
+mrcpu Posted March 7, 2002 Author Share Posted March 7, 2002 I'm thinking an extension so that our Canuck Content is not just a Forum... I'm not sure what else though... Quote Link to comment
+mrcpu Posted March 7, 2002 Author Share Posted March 7, 2002 I'm thinking an extension so that our Canuck Content is not just a Forum... I'm not sure what else though... Quote Link to comment
+mrcpu Posted March 7, 2002 Author Share Posted March 7, 2002 I noticed 74 views and 8 votes counted so far. Sounds like a municipal election! Quote Link to comment
+clatmandu Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 quote:Originally posted by mrcpu: I noticed 74 views and 8 votes counted so far. Sounds like a municipal election! I have looked twice today, but i'm not going to vote. I don't have dual citizenship. Quote Link to comment
VA2VA Posted March 25, 2002 Share Posted March 25, 2002 quote:Originally posted by mrcpu: Would you like a Canadian Geocaching Site? I would like a Canadian extension of Geocaching in French, at least one or two pages to explain the game. Ideally, also a nice colourful poster of geocaching (English, French). Quote Link to comment
+mrcpu Posted March 25, 2002 Author Share Posted March 25, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Mario: quote:Originally posted by mrcpu: Would you like a Canadian Geocaching Site? I would like a Canadian extension of Geocaching in French, at least one or two pages to explain the game. Ideally, also a nice colourful poster of geocaching (English, French). Parle vous Frances? Maybe you could translate and Jeremy would put it up. Rob Mobile Cache Command Quote Link to comment
VA2VA Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 quote:Originally posted by mrcpu: quote:Originally posted by Mario: quote:Originally posted by mrcpu: Would you like a Canadian Geocaching Site? I would like a Canadian extension of Geocaching in French, at least one or two pages to explain the game. Ideally, also a nice colourful poster of geocaching (English, French). Parle vous Frances? Maybe you could translate and Jeremy would put it up. Rob Mobile Cache Command http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/4525_1300.gif Hello Rob, yes I do speak French. I have started translating the FAQ in French. I will write to Jeremy as soon as I am done. You have a very colourful logo near your signature. Did you create it yourself? Mario Québec, Qc va2va@videotron.ca Quote Link to comment
+welch Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 quote:Originally posted by mrcpu: I noticed 74 views and 8 votes counted so far. Sounds like a municipal election! i do too vote, i voted for blue, GO BLUE Quote Link to comment
+welch Posted April 2, 2002 Share Posted April 2, 2002 quote:Originally posted by mrcpu: I noticed 74 views and 8 votes counted so far. Sounds like a municipal election! i do too vote, i voted for blue, GO BLUE Quote Link to comment
k&l crew Posted April 23, 2002 Share Posted April 23, 2002 Haven't been on the message board in a while. I think a Canadian extension to the geocache site would be a great addition. Unsure what type of content you're looking at, but a Canadian presence would be good to see. Quote Link to comment
halldorr Posted April 23, 2002 Share Posted April 23, 2002 I didn't see this thread earlier but I think some kind of Canadian site would be nice I have to get around to finally finishing my own personal Geocache site Quote Link to comment
halldorr Posted April 23, 2002 Share Posted April 23, 2002 I didn't see this thread earlier but I think some kind of Canadian site would be nice I have to get around to finally finishing my own personal Geocache site Quote Link to comment
Sliver & Lucy Posted April 23, 2002 Share Posted April 23, 2002 A Canadian site would be ok.. Quote Link to comment
halldorr Posted May 13, 2002 Share Posted May 13, 2002 I voted yes and can offer some help if ever help is needed... Quote Link to comment
+Richard & Beth Posted May 13, 2002 Share Posted May 13, 2002 I'd like a site similar to the UK Geocaching Info site at http://www.roblisa.com/geocache/ that has Waypoint files for Canada. Having been able to load directly from mapsource for the UK caches, it gets a bit tedious doing the Canadian caches when we come visiting! Incidentally the UK files are produced automatically every couple of days, so I will have a chat to Rob, the person who does the UK ones to see how easy a Canadian version would be. The other information would be a bonus. Regards, Richard Quote Link to comment
VE2LY Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 Hello, name here is Yves. I discover Geocaching last month but work with gps since many years and also giving gps training for navigation squad. Geocaching will be explaned to my students because i think it is a good practice to them when they are on ground avaliable full year. Yes i speak french and a french explantion of the rules will be good. I think geocaching will grow here when french user know well what is it. Yves ve2ly Quote Link to comment
+MedicP1 Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 I think this would be great and might help solve some of the other concerns throughout htese threads about getting Canada specific info for Virtual Caches, Locationless Caches, etc. GPS's...A step in the right direction! Quote Link to comment
Cdn Geoquester Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 I like it just the way it is. Maybe a few more sub cat. under the Canadian forum would be nice. Quote Link to comment
+Shawn&Holly Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 I don't think a seperate site would be needed, maybe some volunteers here in Canada to work on adding Canadian content but not another website. I am quite happy with this one. I also voted blue tho. Car37 Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 ask the question again, about having french info we don't need our own site Quote Link to comment
FLeghorn Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 What would be different on the Canada site? The people in france seem to not have problems using this geocaching.com site. You want canadian flags all over the site? I don't see any other nations flag here unless the main site colour of green makes you think it is irish. It would be nice to have forum pages for each province or region so others do not need to hear the cachers on vancouver island complain all the time. Pay attention to me, boy! I'm not just talking to hear my head roar! - Foghorn Leghorn Quote Link to comment
OntarioGuy Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 I think having a Canadian-only site would be a great idea ! Thats it ! Enjoy !! Quote Link to comment
KimAndMollie Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 quote: It would be nice to have forum pages for each province or region so others do not need to hear the cachers on vancouver island complain all the time. God forbid anyone else should know that we have.........opinions! Shhhhhhhhhhh.....maybe Alberta will hear. I have no opinion. Quote Link to comment
boreal jeff & sons Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 quote: I don't see any other nations flag here unless the main site colour of green makes you think it is irish. It would be nice to have forum pages for each province or region so others do not need to hear the cachers on vancouver island complain all the time. Sounds pretty un-Canadian to me, as well, the "F" in France and the first "I" in Irish should be capitalized. I for one like to hear how other Canadians are doing but I don't think a separate Canadian site is the answer. The folks at Geocaching.com seem to be doing a great job. Every hour spent geocaching is added to the end of your life Quote Link to comment
+mrcpu Posted January 31, 2003 Author Share Posted January 31, 2003 quote:I for one like to hear how other Canadians are doing but I don't think a separate Canadian site is the answer. The folks at Geocaching.com seem to be doing a great job. I was thinking something like http://canada.geocaching.com or http://www.geocaching.com/canada/ At the sub-site there could be some unique features such as bi-lingual cache pages and information. I'd also like to see Canadian cachers doing cache approval/archival of Canadian caches, moreso because we would have a better handle on local issues and laws. Cheers, Rob Mobile Cache Command Quote Link to comment
+StAlbert4 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Hey, I heard that! "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." (Niels Bohr) Quote Link to comment
+Decodoppler Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 quote:Originally posted by mrcpu:Would you like a Canadian Geocaching Site? I think the site functions well now without breaking it out into Canada / USA whatever. When I do a serach for local site, US ones come up too which is excellent. I would not want to do a search in a different site... as it is I guess, it promotes cross-border caching. Also you'd have the issue with virtuals and locationless being unavailable to all (I know some of you would welcome that!!! ) However, I's like to see the Canada Forum split into smaller regions... DD "Either that wallpaper goes or I do!" Quote Link to comment
+DirtRunner Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 We don't need our own site, this site is perfect. Why re-invent the wheel ? BUT... I would dig Canada being broken down by province so I could ignore BC....seshhh, that one thread about "good bye for now", it just kept going and going and going...how were we supposed to say good bye when you wouldn't go away? Anyway, just kidding about the BC cachers. DirtRunner. Your not first...But you could be next. Quote Link to comment
Cache Canucks Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 quote:Originally posted by DirtRunner:"...I would dig Canada being broken down by province so I could ignore BC....seshhh, that one thread about "good bye for now", it just kept going and going and going..." Neither your point nor your humour is lost on me. There's been several 'B.C.' threads which, for those who didn't happen to live west of the Rockies, seemed downright 'clannish'. How dare people who live within a day's drive of each other get along so well! Gathering together for 'parties' and actually getting to know each other...? Just who do they think they are anyway...?!? Then again, we've had our share of 'Ontarians Only' forum discussions and could be accused of much the same thing (although I must admit, as a group, British Columbian geocachers appear to be having a much better time than the rest of us). I don't subscribe to the notion that we would be better off with a Canada 'Site', but I do think that the idea of sub-dividing the current 'Canada' forum by region has merit (heck, the United States is sub-divided into no less than 7 regions). As tempting as it may be for TPTB to reduce this to a question of numbers (ie: the current total number of posts in the 'Canada' forum [between 3-4000] is roughly equal to the number found in an average U.S. 'region' forum), that logic ignores the reality of Canadian geography; despite our numbers, we are one frickin' huge country with a population as regionally diverse as that of our friends south of the border. If the intent of sub-dividing the U.S. forums by region was to group discussions by geographic commonalities, that same reasoning is just as applicable to Canadian forum discussions (me thinks). Quote Link to comment
Bellavance1951 Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Why? Pierre Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 I THINK ABBOTSFORD SHOULD HAVE IT'S OWN CACHE SITE SO THAT I CAN COMPLAIN AND CHEER TO MYSELF ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!!!! Really, yes, some breakdown of region would be warranted ***perhaps***, but other than adding French for Quebec and other isolated pockets, I am not won over to the idea that this will *help*. And I don't scream in caps lock as a general rule, and since you have ALL read my posts and logs elsewhere, you know that Vancouver Island is not the true home of whining. Thank you, canadazuuk Quote Link to comment
+Solar Max Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 I vote for the Abbotsford only site. Zuuk needs a fan club. I volunteer. Quote Link to comment
+Solar Max Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Hey dirtrunner..g'bye already Quote Link to comment
Cache Canucks Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 ...how about: 'Western' - B.C./Alta/Sask 'Central' - Man/Ont/Que 'Eastern' - N.B./N.S./Nfld and Lab/PEI 'Northern'- the 3 Territories Quote Link to comment
gm100guy Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 If the system works as is why try and reinvent the wheel. gm100guy http://members.rogers.com/gm100guy/cachepage.htm Quote Link to comment
+PDOP's Posted February 1, 2003 Share Posted February 1, 2003 There are days now when there are only a couple of posts to this forum. I don't think there's nearly enough traffic to require subdivision let alone a totally separate site. Quote Link to comment
+fizbot Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 I like the idea of having all world wide Geocaching activities and information in a single spot. If we start breaking up activities, then information wll become disjointed and lost. ie. some people will post on one site but not the other etc... I'd recommend speaking with the administrators of this site and look to either assign a "Canadian" representitive to the administration group who can create appropriate forums as required, or ask their current administrators to look at the current thread list and look at adding additional forums in order to clarify the discussions etc... Quote Link to comment
Janik Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 I voted no for these reasons: 1. Geocaching is an international sport by definition, it doesn't make sense to separate sites into every area. 2. One centralized site = only one interface to learn/use. 3. The canadian site would probably get < 50% of the canadian visitors on Geocaching.com, and no international visitors except _maybe_ tourists. Fewer users = fewer caches. 4. Who wants to rebuild such a complex website. Web programming is hard! I'm certainly not opposed to a "Canada" page on Geocaching.Com - it could talk about caches, events, applicable laws, etc. that relate to canadian geocaching, but use the same website overall. Maybe you should talk to the admin of Geocaching.com? Janik Zikovsky Play Dungeons & Dragons? Then try my program, DM Genie, a great gaming aid! Quote Link to comment
OntarioGuy Posted February 23, 2003 Share Posted February 23, 2003 Well looking at the poll more people want a "Canada Oriented" geocaching website, I mean I for one think its about time. Will someone actually take the initiative and start it ? I would love to but I wouldnt know how to start one. I love all the ideas put forth, Canadian cache reviewers, searching within Canada by province or whatever, bi-lingual access. Of course since Alberta will probably be seperating from Canada soon maybe we should just exclude Klein and klan for now Thats it ! Enjoy !! Quote Link to comment
OntarioGuy Posted February 23, 2003 Share Posted February 23, 2003 Sorry for the new post, I neglected to mention that this idea of "if its not broke dont try to fix it", is all wrong, it IS broke *LOL* thats the point, its not geared towards Canadians and though some seem shy to new ideas Canadians (without a doubt) would enjoy the benefits of having a Canadian Oriented geocache site. As for the "well geocaching website attracts international viewers, how would we get exposure", I just scratch my head to that statement, I thought this site was about being able to log and share caches, period, if there is a system that makes it more intuitive for Canadians and still keeps the spirit of the old site I say go for it. Why doesnt someone get Jeremy on this ? see what he has to say, perhaps hes working on some of these features we would like. Thats it ! Enjoy !! Quote Link to comment
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