Certainly size is a consideration. That's a lot of data for a growing
community like ours. Storing & transmitting Wyle E's alone would require a
new drive and a T1 line. ;-)

Do you mind telling us about the resources SnapTek has dedicated to
azgeocaching.com?

How do you interface with the official site?  Do you crawl the pages or is
there an api of some sort?

Keep up the good work, guys!
Jerry
Cache-Quest

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Another Download Format - XML


> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Team Cache-Quest wrote:
>
> > I hadn't noticed that the Easy and ExpertGPS is an XML format document.
I
> > did see that the .loc file for EasyGPS is XML.  The problem is that the
data
> > model for both of them is for the cache and both are incomplete (no
> > description).
>
> We aren't currently putting any of the descriptions in the database.  We
> don't want to replace major functionality of the official site.  Plus with
the
> descriptions it would make the file over 16 megs.  A download that size
> could seriously show up on the radar of the bandwidthometer.
>
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
>
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