[Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics

[Bob Renner]

Jason,

I realize this would be a total rewrite of your
statistics gathering software, but it might be a way
to lessen the load it puts on the geocaching.com
website.  Instead of crawling the entire data base, go
to the individual profile pages of Arizona geocachers,
and get the information from the "User Stats" pages. 
Anyone who wants to have their information included
into the AZgeocaching web page, would have to tell you
to include them in your list.  You could still include
the logs of others on the caches within Arizona.

Another, approach would be for you to provide the code
for Arizona geocachers to run on their own computers
to get their basic information from geocaching.com and
then automatically forward this to you to be compiled
into one database.  The advantage of this would be
that the load on geocaching.com would be from multiple
IP addresses and only when a user knows his/her stats
need to be updated (i.e. when they have found or
placed a new cache).

Just a thought that might help get around any blocking
you are experiencing.

Bob Renner

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