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Sydney Rock Climbing Guide iPhone App 14-Dec-2010 At 11:10:09 AM garbie

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On 14/12/2010 pmonks wrote:
>Just to set a couple of things straight:

>
Daniel used the SSS data (scraped from the site), as is his right
>provided he licensed the derivative work correctly (which he did).

>
The SSS data is (as Neil points out) 4 years out of date.

>
I recently provided a full dump of the SSS data to the ACA, and I
>believe they are currently working on merging it with the more accurate
>but incomplete data they already had for Sydney.
> Once that's complete ACA will become the "system of record" for climbing
>info for Sydney. All of the data will be CC-SA licensed.

>
Daniel is already investigating using the ACA data instead of SSS,
>which is beneficial for everyone (not least because it opens up the app
>to being the mobile version of ACA, which covers considerably more than
>just Sydney).

>
From my interactions with him, Daniel is very open to any and all
>feedback on the app. I have no idea if he's on Chockstone or not, so would
>suggest sending it to him via email (his address is in the app).

>

>

Thanks Peter, I'm not much use on the tech side on all of this but if I can help in some way let me know. Agree the app will be great when the data is accurate, fully agree it should be synchronised with the ACA data.