Difference between revisions of "Geocaching Australia Development List"

Revision as of 08:45, 2 August 2005

This page lists the development ideas for Geocaching Australia

Get stats working
Do little banner thing like Cached has set up
Precalculated distance matrix for more efficient distance based queries and clustering

Improve icons
Scheduled/forthcoming cache release (coords hidden until T-0)
combinations of "planned" lists, possibly based on mates (caches my mates are also planning)
Neighbours - similar to mates, but using cacher coords
What do my mates recommend?
User-friendly layout control of cache pages / logs (use BBCode?)
Improve cache ratings (including cache of the year)
Site map
When logging a cache, allow a non-published note to the owner (sends PM?)
Show nearby unfound caches after logging - improves workflow
Automatic winners' page for finders
Cache attributes

Cache(r) half life, plot decline in find frequency
Cache(r) find frequency. Straight, and vs diff/terr
team v location: where different teams are putting their caches. colours represent teams
terrain v difficulty: correlated as most people don't understand the difference?
terrain v location: urban are are easy terrain, the ones away are harder?
difficulty v location: opposite to above
team cache style profiles: terrain v location, coloured blob represents team. colour gets brighter/blob larger as teams plant more caches of that style.
hit/miss ratio v terrain, difficulty
time to first find v location, time: hypothesis is that ttff is small in sydney but large further out. other hypothsis is that average ttff has decreased significantly over the past 12 months
team territorial analysis - thematic plot of where each team is usually active. for each team, assign (say) 5 points for a cache that they have laid, 2 points for a first find and 1 point for a normal find. then start shading areas based on the pointscore and see what you get. should be able to see odlid dave sitting down there in jannali, dogs up in hornsby, etc

Database-driven blogger which makes it easy to make websites
Aggregate comments to one page to make a community
Links into geodashing, confluence points, etc, not just secondary site
Autotext in comments, eg replace i! with i!, team names with links
Auto cross-links between stories (perhaps as part of autotext, prompting bloggers to comment on each other's stories)
Summarise comments across sites
Auto-populate comment username

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 * Filter out locationless from top caches
 * Add links to profiles and website on cacher pages
+* Get latest logs back online
 ==Get sharing back online==