[Az-Geocaching] Suggestion for statistics

[Jason Poulter]

ya i kinda thought of those two ideas... 

jason


Bob Renner wrote:

>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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