Geocaching Australia Development List
This page lists the development ideas for Geocaching Australia. If you want something added to this list, please post your request in the forum.
For changes to the Wiki, see the Wiki Development List.
Roadmap
Where are we heading?
Work in Progress by your primary developers
caughtatwork
- Add new link under caches to "Log a Cache" with data entry box for the code or name with explanation and direct jump to the "/my/log/new" page.
- Moveables caches to look at whether a "found and moved" icon can be made up where a found has co-ords.
- Add state to http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Cache_alerts to restrict caches to a stated state, even if it's inside the radius selected. i.e. Stops Tasmanian caches showing up in Victorian alerts. Trouble will occur for non-Australia cachers when their state won't be selectable. Want to try and keep the site as international as possible.
- Add ability for "NOT=Tag" in My Query function so as to ignore things like cache race entrants.
- Add functionality to alerts to stop alerts on moveables if already found. Should be able to make this user by user selection, but not cache by cache.
- Allow toolbox to handle this format 33° 51′ 59.36″ S, 151° 12′ 27.34″ E
- The "Find a Geocache Zone" page has "Warning Zone Checker" where you put in GPS co-ordinates and click 'Check'. Awesome! Simple request: can you add this "Warning Zone Checker" onto the page used to create new cache, please?
CraigRat
Migration to new server **SOON!!! YAY**
OAuth/Opencaching API integration to enable site to work with many more mobile applications
overall look and feel of the site/menus etc
Downloadable hotlists (csv, gpx etc) e.g : http://geocaching.com.au/my/hotlist/firsttofind.gpx
Bulk/batch upload of logs - Have server notify you after it's all updated and processed.
Custom list of waypoints - Solved a few puzzles? Place em here so they come up on YOUR map - perhaps link to cache - viewable buy user only.
Possibly add a 'permission to display' to cache owners for external site listed caches allow to full listing details on GCA... Opt in only of course.
Add log limit to queries.
Ideas
- Auto-text in GCA logs to allow embedding of gallery items in a nice pretty way.
- Improve Tag and Gallery visualisation
- Administrative Pages for Tags and Gallery, plus some stat generation
- Upload of MP3 files for podcaches
- Add a notification bar to the header to allow notification of save/edit/addition rather than a blank page with a 'return to what you were doing' link
- Add a way to bulk tag caches (e.g powertrails)
- Meetup Events to facilitate group caching (to plan best date and area/geocaches)
Fix Bugs/Basic Functionality
- Tag virtual caches
Search
Better Search options, searching all items (logs/gallery/tags/cachers/caches etc etc as requested in obscene detail by the one known only as "The Ginger Loon")
Add API for Cache name search eg Android app (for authenticated users)
"Advanced" search options: (from search bar - not my query page)
- Filter by cache type
- Filter by cache owner
- Filter by state
Additional functionality
- GeoLists
- Site map
- Automatic winners' page for finders
- When logging a cache, allow a non-published note to the owner (sends PM?)
- HTML export from various cacher statistics pages (allow editing through FCK editor).
- Generate a GPX file based on the caches visible from a Google Map page.
- Change the icons on the logs to a drop down list to save space / make look consistent.
- Allow cachers to add listing site prefixes to their ignore lists (like OX, OU, OK, GC, etc).
Bonus Sharing
Gallery
- Cacher specific galleries in new gallery system
Stats
- 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
Mapping
- Integrate GPSBabel to support zillions of formats
- add more filters eg GCA only , cache-types
