caughtatwork wrote:It's not exactly what I think you have in mind, but should work. Does that help?
Yep, that's actually pretty close to what I had in mind. Just a nice easy link to each one that we can statically link to. We're currently having discussions in our forums about what actually constitutes a guru and what people expect from them!
caughtatwork wrote:Note that the postcode table we use only has NZ rather than NI or SI, so we're somewhat constrained in that matter.
Are these the old or new postcodes? The new post codes were introduced last year. The problem with NZ postcodes is that they are controlled by a private company, and hence you have to pay to have a database of them, or to obtain a shapefile of their boundaries. So, I'm not sure how useful this is for us.
CraigRat wrote:so the people who want to be known as Gurus would need an account here
That shouldn't be too difficult, most of them at that level are increasingly aware of this site
CraigRat wrote:We would LOVE to make stronger bonds with the NZ caching community, so if there is anything you would like to see, let us know and we will see what we can do. (especially if it means helping get rid of that cutting grass stuff, I got well lacerated last time I was caching in NZ icon_lol.gif )
Ditto! There are a lot of us that go back and forwards across the Tasman, and the better shared experience we can create the better. Certainly with more Kiwi's 'discovering' GCA recently there seems at last to be the critical momentum in interest in GCA that we haven't had in the past. I think most of the growing interest is currently around stats and some of the associated nifty features such as friends, gurus etc.
And you're not the only one that wants to stop hunting caches in toi toi, or the more humble flax bush. We've had many a thread on our forums discussing this!
Damo. wrote:Might be as easy as having a second homepage for the NZ cachers. As it is at the moment, NZ is pretty much reduced to an extra couple of Australian states! A "Geocaching New Zealand" homepage/skin for the site would help inspire some patriotism and surely increase usage.
That sounds great - but we wouldn't want to ask too much given it is all done for free. I think that a New Zealand dashboard similar to the Australian homepage that focuses on New Zealand would be a good start - particularly for the top hiders/finders/caches.
In terms of formatting, would it be as simple as reading our profile state, and if SI or NI, then perhaps changing the Blue bar to Black, and we could probably come up with a similar logo to be used in its place. This would also change which stats are shown on the homepage? I'm sure that would get quite a few more Kiwis using it, especially if the NZ aspect is made more obvious and accessible.
Might have the added side benefit of removing NZ from the Australian page
Anyway, thanks for the help, and keen to see where this takes us.
Cheers Gav
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