Hi, all, and Happy New Year!
As letterboxing grows here in North America, we've talked several
times about putting together a database program that people could use
to input their own new letterboxes. Right now our system works just
fine: people can post clues here on this mailing list and also put
them up on their own websites (like JayC just did with "The Rose" in
VA). We also put up "courtesy" pages on the LBNA webspace for folks
that don't have their own home pages. I anticipate that we can
continue this system for a long time. Still, being able to input
clues more directly might be an advantage.
I, as one of your "webmasters," had started work on a user-friendly
database (you can see a non-functional preview at
http://www.letterboxing.org/lbna/creator.htm ), but I don't have the
expertise to make it work. Eric Mings, however, does know how to do
it, and has graciously offered in the past to put something up at his
own webspace. We've exchanged a couple of emails on the subject:
Eric, what do you think? And what do others think about the idea?
Jay in "bitter cold" CT
P218F92
Database for letterboxes
4 messages in this thread |
Started on 2000-12-28
Database for letterboxes
From: Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) |
Date: 2000-12-28 02:20:38 UTC
RE: [LbNA] Database for letterboxes
From: William J. Reese (reese@cyberzone.net) |
Date: 2000-12-27 21:50:08 UTC-05:00
Jay, and everyone...
I hope you're all having a wonderful holiday season! Jay, I've checked out
your non-functioning database entry form, and it seems fine to me. The only
thing I might consider adding to it would be a special place for the date
the letterbox was planted.
You know, another thought just came to mind. How about a sort of "comment"
area? A place where hunters could post reviews, etc.? "Beautiful stamp,
but be careful of the poison ivy..." for example. Just a thought, and it
might complicate things more than it's worth.
Take care, everyone. Happy hunting!
Bill in CT
I hope you're all having a wonderful holiday season! Jay, I've checked out
your non-functioning database entry form, and it seems fine to me. The only
thing I might consider adding to it would be a special place for the date
the letterbox was planted.
You know, another thought just came to mind. How about a sort of "comment"
area? A place where hunters could post reviews, etc.? "Beautiful stamp,
but be careful of the poison ivy..." for example. Just a thought, and it
might complicate things more than it's worth.
Take care, everyone. Happy hunting!
Bill in CT
Re: [LbNA] Database for letterboxes
From: Eric Mings (elm@ao.net) |
Date: 2000-12-27 21:59:15 UTC-05:00
>
>I, as one of your "webmasters," had started work on a user-friendly
>database (you can see a non-functional preview at
>http://www.letterboxing.org/lbna/creator.htm ), but I don't have the
>expertise to make it work. Eric Mings, however, does know how to do
>it, and has graciously offered in the past to put something up at his
>own webspace. We've exchanged a couple of emails on the subject:
>Eric, what do you think? And what do others think about the idea?
Jay,
I would be happy to put up a letterbox database on my site as have
mentioned several times in the past. To me the issue is whether it
will be used or not. If people want it, then I will do it. If it will
be largely ignored, then I don't want to spend the time that it would
take to do it right.
If anyone is interested in participating in the planning and
development of such a project please write me directly. You don't
have to have any technical know how, I am more interested in getting
ideas for features people would like or not. I can most likely make
anything reasonable work from the technical end of things. If there
is enough interest I will put a small discussion list for those who
want talk about it as it is developed. I don't want to flood this
list with such an ongoing discussion. However, anyone would be
welcome to join the talk list if they were interested in being
involved.
--
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
>I, as one of your "webmasters," had started work on a user-friendly
>database (you can see a non-functional preview at
>http://www.letterboxing.org/lbna/creator.htm ), but I don't have the
>expertise to make it work. Eric Mings, however, does know how to do
>it, and has graciously offered in the past to put something up at his
>own webspace. We've exchanged a couple of emails on the subject:
>Eric, what do you think? And what do others think about the idea?
Jay,
I would be happy to put up a letterbox database on my site as have
mentioned several times in the past. To me the issue is whether it
will be used or not. If people want it, then I will do it. If it will
be largely ignored, then I don't want to spend the time that it would
take to do it right.
If anyone is interested in participating in the planning and
development of such a project please write me directly. You don't
have to have any technical know how, I am more interested in getting
ideas for features people would like or not. I can most likely make
anything reasonable work from the technical end of things. If there
is enough interest I will put a small discussion list for those who
want talk about it as it is developed. I don't want to flood this
list with such an ongoing discussion. However, anyone would be
welcome to join the talk list if they were interested in being
involved.
--
Regards,
Eric Mings Ph.D.
Re: [LbNA] Database for letterboxes
From: Randy Hall (randy@mapsurfer.com) |
Date: 2000-12-27 23:01:27 UTC-04:00
> You know, another thought just came to mind. How about a sort of "comment"
> area? A place where hunters could post reviews, etc.?
I don't think we should have comments except in the log book.
I think only the person who placed the box should be able to add
content to the clue.
If you want to read the comments, get outside, find the box, and
read the log book :-)
Cheers,
--
randy "the mapsurfer" (P29F102)
mapsurfer letterboxes: http://www.mapsurfer.com/boxes/