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Barbican Wall route descriptions 19-May-2010 At 3:26:08 PM tskinner

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On 19/05/2010 armstp wrote:
>I had been holding off and hoping that the VCC would start up something
>like the ACA site as a more "official" way of keeping comprehensive up
>to date records of cliffs that are unlikely to get covered by guidebooks
>in the near future - if ever again. But it doesn't seem to be happening
>so maybe the ACA is going to become the de-facto font of all climbing records.
> Not necessarily a bad thing but it has some of the problems that you
>get with info on Wikipedia. No editing, quality or accuracy control.

I'm sure our webmaster could probably give more information on this from a technical point of view, but I know this is something that we have discussed often and all feel it is something that is really important and would love to do. We even started putting something in place a little while ago - it still requires much work though to do the job properly One of the biggest issues with much of what we would like to do, especially with something like this, is volunteers. Someone to commit to the time to do it properly. All of the committee members are pretty much up to their eyeballs in club commitments already. Volunteers are not that easy to come by - I should know.
I agree - there are so many cliffs and areas out there that will never make it into the guide books - we'd be hauling around huge tomes otherwise(and the Araps guide is big enough as it is!) And there is a real risk of it disappearing. But to have a reference, a database of most of what is out there, old and new - would be great. One that has a standard, no frills documentation of routes. At least then the information that was originally provided could stay intact. If people wanted to reference it and record elsewhere, be it guide books or websites, adding and deleting, making it more user friendly - so be it. But the original would always be there. ACA route register is great and definately helping to maintain the recording of routes and areas and for much of the new stuff, it probably is the origina descriptionl. Anyway, think you get my drift- well I hope so.
Maybe a bit down the line, something I just described could go hand in hand with the ACA.

My 2c worth. I'm sure there are those more experienced than I at recording routes and the ins and outs of it. I just have a hoarders nature and hate for things to get lost.

Ramble over.

Tracey