Wireless access to geocaching info
-
- Posts: 19
- Joined: 24 April 03 11:14 am
- Location: Sydney
I have only just discovered this thread. It all sounds very interesting, but I would think geocaching.com would have started something like this long ago. Anyway, I have some good ideas. WML and WAP pages can be hosted from any webserver (so long as it is configured to do so) and are just a different ContentType. If we had a server that could host Java servelets (ie Apache Tomcat) available to us we could perhaps come up with some sort of real time page scraping that uses the CacheMonkey Engine to create a real time menu of the latest caches available for each state. A few problems i can see with this is that CacheMonkey requires a login to geocaching.com to actually get a lot of the information it needs, so i guess users would need to login to the WAP pages. Also all requests to geocaching.com would be coming from the server hosting the WAP pages, this may eventually get found out and be blocked.
CacheMonkey could easily be setup to create the WAP pages automatically as one of its output file types, and build the menu pages as well.
I have a lot of fuzzy ideas flying around at the moment, so im just throwing into the discussion to see what comes of them. Some sort of Powered by CacheMonkey WAP site is very easily doable.
CacheMonkey could easily be setup to create the WAP pages automatically as one of its output file types, and build the menu pages as well.
I have a lot of fuzzy ideas flying around at the moment, so im just throwing into the discussion to see what comes of them. Some sort of Powered by CacheMonkey WAP site is very easily doable.
-
- Posts: 1329
- Joined: 29 March 03 6:04 pm
- Location: Gladesville, Sydney
- Contact:
I have an architecture in mind that's similar, Leek (good ideas BTW). Using perl and a sample of a cache list database that I found in a brown paper bag on the street, I envisage setting up real time searching and drill down to cache info. I'm not sure how the drill down will work because scraping is considered naughty, and that's all I'll say about that here. Something will be worked out.
Once it's all working, it can port easily to a hosting service that has the necessary support services. nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.
Once it's all working, it can port easily to a hosting service that has the necessary support services. nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.