+CompassCollector Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 I'm wondering if any consideration has been given to a feature which would permit users (perhaps a members-only feature?) to write cache logs offline, perhaps in RTF or CSV formats, and upload them in a batch, rather than hand-typing them on a web page? Link to comment
Jeremy Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 The short answer is yes. The long answer involves a developer section of the web site and a web service available that allows people to write applications against it. Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 that is one of the best feature ideas EVER... good to hear you have thought about it jeremy Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 That'll REALLY garbage up the GPX files. Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 not if the site filters predetermind disallowed things and the logs look JUST like they always have. Link to comment
+Team GPSaxophone Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 I'm wondering if any consideration has been given to a feature which would permit users (perhaps a members-only feature?) to write cache logs offline, perhaps in RTF or CSV formats, and upload them in a batch, rather than hand-typing them on a web page? Why not write your logs in Word then copy/paste to the site? Link to comment
+CompassCollector Posted January 21, 2004 Author Share Posted January 21, 2004 (edited) I'm wondering if any consideration has been given to a feature which would permit users (perhaps a members-only feature?) to write cache logs offline, perhaps in RTF or CSV formats, and upload them in a batch, rather than hand-typing them on a web page? Why not write your logs in Word then copy/paste to the site? That's essentially what I do now, except I use CacheMate to MemoPad to PalmDesktop and cut-n-paste to the website. I think a lot of people would use the feature if there was a published format (csv, xml, whatever) that would allow them to write and store their cache logs offline (on a PC, PDA, whathaveyou) and also allow them to upload multiple logs in one shot, rather than having to lookup and update each cache page separately. Not that I've had a personal need for such a feature... yet. Edited January 21, 2004 by CompassCollector Link to comment
+ClayJar Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 Why not write your logs in Word then copy/paste to the site? Consider, for instance, the case of one cacher I know. He uses Watcher on a laptop while he drives around. If he could log the caches in Watcher right then and there, and Watcher could upload them once he got to a network connection -- by clicking "File/Upload logs", perhaps -- things would be quite nice. Others might want to make PDA apps that let you write your logs and then sync them to GCc. It's quite a nice idea, and being able to have it be just part of the program instead of having to copy and paste the log, fix the date, change the type, and all that... that would be sweet. Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 That would really help those poor souls who like to hit lots of caches at a time, but are still on dial-up. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 I'm sure the more ingenius developers can add logs to the site when you synch your palm or pocketpc. Moving to the new codebase has some fringe benefits by a faster development cycle for these new features. It's just getting it all programmed is the hard part. Link to comment
+ClayJar Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 (Just to state the patently obvious, and for no other reason than to remind about something that could not possibly have been forgotten, we'll obviously need to know what the log types are and the cache types for which they apply, but of course, everybody already knows that. Still bears repeating, though.) Link to comment
+CompassCollector Posted January 21, 2004 Author Share Posted January 21, 2004 I'm happy that the idea has been considered, and has support. I'm hoping I'll be able to do something like this in the future. Thanks Jeremy! Link to comment
Jeremy Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 we'll [..] need to know what the log types are and the cache types for which they apply. There will likely be a function that will return all the log types for a particular cache type. Link to comment
+ClayJar Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 (edited) There will likely be a function that will return all the log types for a particular cache type. That should work fine. To enable "offline logging" in Watcher, you'd just have to be connected so Watcher could fetch the typelist from GCc. Then Watcher would know what options to give you for the offline logging. When you go to upload your offline logs, Watcher would pull the new list and check the log types; if any were no longer available, Watcher would just ask what type you want out of the new list, otherwise, upload away. (Oh, and of course, if we upload a bad type, give us an nice error... that should take care of the uploading-during-type-changes race condition on our side.) (Sure, musing out loud is not normally anything worthwhile, but I figure in this case other devels might be reading, and now they can see if all of us are on similar pages.) Edited January 21, 2004 by ClayJar Link to comment
+-=(GEO)=- Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 I've been waiting for such a web service for a long time... I've been itching to be able to synch GPXSonar with the site from day one. Jeremy, you probably recall some emails about it too (hint, hint...) I hope it happens. Link to comment
+DomHeknows Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 me too - i've been waiting for this since day 1 of using gpxsonar - after all there had to be a reason for using (and keeping) the notes in gpxsonar. Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 Jeremy gives me an idea that makes me think it is already possible to write an app that would autopost your finds... ill have to research Link to comment
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