I have know idea who said it but it went like he who holds the knowledge
holds real power
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Stat problems


> Art wrote:
> > I am new to caching, but a long time perl coder.  Have you asked
> > geocaching.com about the possibility of a nightly XML dump, or a
.net/SOAP
> > interface?
>
> Yes.. over and over again..  They either say no, or promise the
> possibility of it in the distant future.
> Until then, we'll have to continue to pull a couple hundred megs of web
> pages off their site to get about 10 meg worth of data.  It would really
> be worth their time and save them some money to just give us a data
export.
> I think at this point, it's just about control of the data.... They
> could continue to have that with a license agreement, but oh well.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
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