Geocaching Australia Development List

This page lists the development ideas for Geocaching Australia This other page lists the Wiki Development List.

Work in Progress

Get swaggies working (import, listing and logs)
Bed down importing utility
1. protect against smart waypoint names
2. search for fuzzy duplicates
move the remaining xml directory into object directory structure

Follow up items for basic stats ...
- Cache results for previous months/years/anytime
Fix mates and other searches

Get cache updates working properly for GCA caches which have a delay between drafting and publishing
Add locationless to gpx and anchors
Fix the horrible cacher name process - probably get rid of it altogether
Add links to profiles and website on cacher pages
auto-populate state field (or at least default to something reasonable)
Fix character encoding bug
Fix apostrophe bug in cacher name admin panel
Fix COPA page
Tag virtual caches

Something that Loon wanted about making the footer text into links to recommended caches, etc
GeoLists
Postcode editor
Single-signon across all gca sites
Improve state navigation
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
World wind user selectable altitude setting
Fix page printing
auto-remove planned caches when found
international caches
tagging caches
more GPX options, eg unfound caches, etc

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