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* Stabilise feed
 
* Stabilise feed
 
* Fix CSS with c@w's suggestion
 
* Fix CSS with c@w's suggestion
* Get latest logs back online
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* Get latest logs back online (state is done, need to get cacher going)
 
* Get ticks and crosses working on cache lists
 
* Get ticks and crosses working on cache lists
 
* Finalise stats banners as per c@w's suggestion
 
* Finalise stats banners as per c@w's suggestion

Revision as of 18:10, 5 August 2005

This page lists the development ideas for Geocaching Australia

Work in Progress

  • Bed-down cache listing and logging
  • Stabilise feed
  • Fix CSS with c@w's suggestion
  • Get latest logs back online (state is done, need to get cacher going)
  • Get ticks and crosses working on cache lists
  • Finalise stats banners as per c@w's suggestion
  • Finalise stats

Fix Bugs/Basic Functionality

  • 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
  • Add links to profiles and website on cacher pages
  • Fix mates and other searches
  • Individual GPX/RSS/KML/etc download of cache/swaggie/cacher (eg rss of cacher)
  • Get google maps going again
  • Fix character encoding

Search

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

Stats

  • Get stats working - done. Follow up items ...
    • "Anytime" handling bug
    • Number formatting ( http://www.php.net/number_format )
    • Improve monthly navigation (allow next month, previous month etc)
    • Refactor code so it's also used on the front page
    • Exclude locationless caches
    • Fix uppercasing of regions in timeperiod selector
    • Cache results for previous months/years/anytime
  • Do little banner thing like caughatwork has set up
  • Precalculated distance matrix for more efficient distance based queries and clustering

Additional functionality

  • 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

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

  • Get maps going again
  • 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