opencaching.com

CoyoteRed · Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 220

Besides the obvious multiple submissions and editing of cache discriptions, the amount of work is multiplied by the number sites listed, what are some other pitfalls of multi-listing your caches?

If the problem of remembering to archive/modify/check your caches on all the places you've listed you cache, would there be a problem?

Is there a way to remotely edit gc.com edit-your-cache page?

Might become an issue once this takes off and people start clammering for an easy way to modify their pages.

Or Irish accepts the opencaching TOS and that's not likely to happen.

Although...

If opencaching takes off, accepting OC TOS could be a way for him to keep his customers on his site! He would then have to stay ahead of the game with services--which isn't a bad thing.

Wink

Just thinking out loud...

CR
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hmarq · Site Admin Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 351

2nd post on the board

The site gets built and succeeds

-OR-

Others (gc in particular) get more open

Those were my 'success' criteria. I guess I'd expand that to having feature completeness and competition too, making all sites better.

As for the difficulty of maintaining multiple sites. I suspect that is really an issue for very few people ... going out on a limb, I'd say that less than 1% of gc.com's users have *placed* more than 10 caches. For that 1% I can see it being a major pain in the arse ... but for them perhaps the answer is *not* cross posting, but instead posting some on each site with no cross posting. For everybody else I could see it being a small inconvenience but not a deal breaker.

I don't think you'll see remote editing of gc.com caches, nor do I see gc.com being 'offsite' listed ... as to do that, like navicache, I'd need enough data to do search listings ... to do that I'd either need the data directly (not likely to happen) or they'd have to loosen the terms on pocket queries (again, not likely) ...

A final though on the 'offsite' type. It was originally conceived to support the geotag thing that you and I have talked about quite a bit, not really support non-opencaching site imports ... I kinda kludged it to work for navicache and even then it didn't work too well from a tos perspective. If we find some way to take files, from other sites legitimately I think those caches would become native opencaching caches that just happen to be cross posted with one of the commercial sites, not an offsite cache.

CoyoteRed · Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 220

I think I got off track mentally from what I was wondering originally.

To put it short, I think if this is take off, people need a way to easily get their caches into the system, even existing ones.

My experiences entering my caches at nv.com is IT'S A CHORE!

Familiar, easy, and seamless is probably the most important issues in getting the db populated.

CR
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Scout · Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 235

CoyoteRed · Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 220

That's an excellent idea.
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nici- · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 3:58 pm Post subject:

TEAM 360 · Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 27 Location: Arizona

What about the reverse? If someone posts a new cache through OC, will GC be actively seeking out this info and automatically list the cache on their site? Will OC allow this?
Just a question I had.

Scout · Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 235

cezanne · Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Posts: 58 Location: Graz, Austria

Scout · Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 235