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This page lists the development ideas for Geocaching Australia
 
This page lists the development ideas for Geocaching Australia
  
==Fix Bugs==
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==Fix Bugs/Basic Functionality==
 
* Bed-down cache listing and logging
 
* Bed-down cache listing and logging
 
* Stabilise feed
 
* Stabilise feed
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* Filter out locationless from top caches
 
* Filter out locationless from top caches
 
* Add links to profiles and website on cacher pages
 
* Add links to profiles and website on cacher pages
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* Get ticks and crosses working on cache lists
 
* Get latest logs back online
 
* Get latest logs back online
 
==Get sharing back online==
 
 
* Individual GPX/RSS/KML/etc download of cache/swaggie/cacher (eg rss of cacher)
 
* Individual GPX/RSS/KML/etc download of cache/swaggie/cacher (eg rss of cacher)
  

Revision as of 09:22, 2 August 2005

This page lists the development ideas for Geocaching Australia

Fix Bugs/Basic Functionality

  • Bed-down cache listing and logging
  • Stabilise feed
  • Get swaggies working (import, listing and logs)
  • Get mobile.geocaching.com.au working again
  • Fix the horrible cacher name process - probably get rid of it altogether
  • Filter out locationless from top caches
  • Add links to profiles and website on cacher pages
  • Get ticks and crosses working on cache lists
  • Get latest logs back online
  • Individual GPX/RSS/KML/etc download of cache/swaggie/cacher (eg rss of cacher)

Search

  • Search by postcode
  • Advanced search/query/stats engine

Stats

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

Bonus functionality

  • 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

Bonus Sharing

  • Moveable cache trails
  • Zip gpx files
  • iCal feed for upcoming events/caches

Gallery

  • Integrate gallery logon
  • One-click photo upload from cache listings and logs

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

  • Area warnings, eg Lane Cove National Park
  • User correctable maps to improve quality
  • Integrate GPSBabel to support zillions of formats

Development environment

  • Version control system

Hosted sites

  • 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