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14:53
December 27, 2008


Dave Damouth

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Very nice site.  But I'm afraid that if we have to enter every campsite one at a time, the site will never reach a critical mass of campsites. I think that's the major reason why previous attempts to do similar things have failed.

There must be a way to enter existing lists.  For example, the list of free and low-cost overnight parking that movinsue uploaded to <http://www.discoveryowners.com/cginfolinks.htm>.

The .AN1 file contains GPS coordinates and descriptive title for a large number of sites.  If the .AN1 format is hard to parse, it's easy to convert it to a .csv (comma-delimited plain text).

I have similar lists in my own mapping system (Delorme Street Atlas), although I format mine as  map notes to allow more text to describe the type of site, access restrictions, etc. The content of my mapnote would have to go into your "description" field.

It would be really tedious to enter all this information via the existing web site interface.  Shouldn't it be possible to enter an entire list of this sort into your database automatically? (I presume you'd have to write a little code <g>).  

If this were possible, you could get hundreds, perhaps thousands, of campsites entered practically overnight.

In many cases, would be important for us to be able to quickly add additional information to campsite listings that are already in your database.  Is it possible to add this feature?  This is particularly desirable for those campsites that are entered automatically, since the existing lists will be lacking some of the information that your website requests.

/Dave

12:31
December 28, 2008


jenn

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I agree. I have a lot of lists that I want to mass import too. The main problem with them is that they are lacking important info. Like price or coordinates.

You're right, it would take some code, and some excellent parsing to make sure that the database wouldn't be compromised. That code will take some time and a lot of testing. Once done, the first version will require you to format your file in a specific manner. Later versions might allow you to specify the format that you are using. I would need some suggestions on allowed formats as I am not that versed in the various gps's out there.

hmm, come to think of it, any gps import file would be lacking some of the fields that I require… like price. So, I might require the specific format forever. I'll think it over some more.

In the mean time, if you have a file that lists at least the name, city, state, coords, price, description, and a distingushing seperater for each field, I would be happy to parse it and pop it in the database. Send it to admin at freecampsites dot net

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