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ACA call for Blood!!! 13-Sep-2009 At 4:33:18 PM rolsen1

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On 13/09/2009 cogsy wrote:
>Does that mean the website is to be canned?
>Perhaps the database can be maintained by the SRC or the VRC (or perhaps
>both). They seem to have pretty good longevity, and a good sized membership.
>

Maybe this is the wrong thread, but anyway...

I made contact probably a year ago suggesting that an API (Application Program Interface) be added to the site to allow the data to be extracted from the site and be used in other ways. Kyle was open to the idea and gave me access, unfortunately due to my general slackness I never did anything.

I still think it is a good idea and maybe some sort of standard be established in the way that climb descriptions are stored. The logic being that multiple sites and applications (eg offline phone application) could share climb data, it wouldn't be that hard and may even lead to sites such as VCC and climb.org "sharing" data. It would also ensure that if any site disappears the data wouldn't be lost.