San Fairy Ann Cycle Club

Firstly, thanks for adding this section, Phil.

Secondly, perhaps a good place to start might be reviewing and updating the (exhaustive and excellent) list of cafes as created by the West Kent CTC? http://www.westkentctc.org.uk/Pages/Var ... 20list.pdf

Perhaps some interested parties could take a look and drop Graham Hines and I a line?

Cheers,

Tim.

TimFeneron wrote:Firstly, thanks for adding this section, Phil.

Secondly, perhaps a good place to start might be reviewing and updating the (exhaustive and excellent) list of cafes as created by the West Kent CTC? http://www.westkentctc.org.uk/Pages/Var ... 20list.pdf

Wow. That's a big list. Wondered whether this stuff would be more useful in map format. I do some similar stuff on a couple of websites I maintain - here's an example:

http://www.moorenet.co.uk/seoa/events/events.php

Should be easy enough to do a 'Cafe' version if people are interested.

Dave

Very interesting website Dave, both the concept and the info about orienteering. Is it all on foot or are some events cycling based?

Being able to find cafes in a particular aea on a map would be great. As these will be more permanent would it be possible to add a unique number to each location icon with a link to the dtails in the list?

The West Kent list must be viewed with a degree of caution as some of the cafes are now closed andit lists a lot of Little Chefs.

Rita Wilkins offered to produce a list - not sure if she has started yet but she planned to contact the cafes before listing them.

ronlee wrote:Very interesting website Dave, both the concept and the info about orienteering. Is it all on foot or are some events cycling based?

Being able to find cafes in a particular aea on a map would be great. As these will be more permanent would it be possible to add a unique number to each location icon with a link to the dtails in the list?

The West Kent list must be viewed with a degree of caution as some of the cafes are now closed andit lists a lot of Little Chefs.

Rita Wilkins offered to produce a list - not sure if she has started yet but she planned to contact the cafes before listing them.

I'm affraid, orienteering, at least in the SE, is 99.9% on foot, although Saxons O. C. have organised the occasional MTB orienteering event previously, most notibly at Bedgebury Forest and at Kingswood, Challock

W. r. t. the website map idea, it would definitely be possible to put in info (opening times etc...) and associate them with an appropriate map marker. In principle it's also possible to provide a 'login' so that anyone (perhaps Rita?) with the appropriate password can login and update the details. In my experience, maintenance of changing data is the key for these types of things, so using a website as a single point of data collection might be more productive than maintaining a paper list and then duplicating the same information online. Anyway, these are just ideas...

Thanks Dave, sounds very promising. My only reservation about a 100% on-line reference facility is the fact that not all members, including a number who lead runs, are not computerised.

Could this be addressed by providing a printout of the list of details? A fresh copy could be issued say every 6 or 12 months.

ronlee wrote:Could this be addressed by providing a printout of the list of details? A fresh copy could be issued say every 6 or 12 months.

Yes, I can't see why not. We'd just need to express the data in list format and then it could be printed straight from the web.