Righto boys and girls, the veils are off, it's official:
http://garmin.blogs.com/pr/2010/12/geoc ... ngcom.html
Interesting bit:
For cachers who have created or found caches elsewhere, Garmin designed OpenCaching’s cache code system to seamlessly coexist and integrate with other databases, devices and applications. Also, developers can access the OpenCaching.com database through an API, and cache owners can share their information on other sites through the Creative Commons license. Cachers can quickly get credit for cross-listed caches found on other sites and easily add existing caches they own to OpenCaching.com, where they can also be tagged and enhanced with more helpful information.
The features on the site appear to be very similar to what we've been delivering, will be interesting to see the impact on both us and GC over the next period of time.
On a good note, this already has given GC a kick up the bum, they now have announced that a 3rd Party API WILL be released to access the GC data.
It saddens me that it's taken something this drastic for GC to start actually responding to some of the long-term issues with their site and the direction they were trying to take the game.