Post your ideas here:

Mine:

1 Keep the 1 month discard
2 Monthly trophy for winner not just the 4 seasonal cups, sponsored by different shop every month (or any business associated w GTC or GTC member)
3 More interactive website as proposed by Nebbs (please explain)

Great work for 2010 guys!

For 2011 I would it be possible to have the gear, wind speed and direction included in the auto-upload from GPSSS as text in the footer of the session notes?

Team captain control over adding/moving members is a good idea, would deleted members still have their stats on record?

Great ideas Hardie and Ben - fully supportive of them all.

My 2 cents:
1. The ability to select only latest sessions from any given country. It's been incredible that the rest of the world have taken the GPSTC on so enthusiastically although during some months (usually Northern hemisphere's summer) you can miss your team's posting due to the sheer volume of posts.
2. Everyone posts their session via KA72 so if there is any query anyone can download that session for independant checking (it is also nice to download someone's super session and have a look in awe of someone hitting +45 knots etc). Yes I know that there's no sheep stations involved but this puts everyone on a level playing field. Should KA72 give wildly differing results to users own software then it could be adjudicated by the team captain and /or GPSTC appointed tech crew and amended as necessary.

Keep up the excellent work guys and looking forward to the bigger and better GPSTC for 2011.
Merry xmas too.

Could a feature be developed around peak speed that indicates where your peak speed is at relative to history?

So let me explain better, if you posted 31 knots for the first time the site would tell you Fred Haywood won the Windrush speed trials in 1980 doing 31knots on a 10m neilpryde prototype. it gives more context to the speed and makes it feel like an achievement and provides education around speed history better than PB. Then we could issue a Fred Haywood certificate PDF for fun in 1980 style.

Cheers Russ

Like the gear spec idea, not sure how practical it is though from Nebb's point of view.

great work nebs and hardie,
What about an "away" game? ie bonus points for sailors/ teams who try out other teams spots. Might make for some interesting cross border raids!

Nic nack Paddymac that's a great idea. So the sailors PB's are listed next to total kms and (correct me if I've misinterpreted) if he/she is in the top two speeds of that session for any of the categories he/she receives attribution per category. I like it.

Also, just tried to do the numbers on maybe increasing the minimum numbers of sailors required from 2 to 3 to post a valid team session but it disadvantages the smaller teams and if a split rule was introduced where larger teams (say >20) needed 3 but smaller team s only needed two, this would disadvantage the larger teams. So just ignore my ramblings.

So far I like...
1. Monthly trophy, although some teams will need bigger shelves.
2. I like the idea of PB scoring but not sure how it'd work, might give younger teams the thrill of a monthly trophy
3. All sessions to go through KA72 but with team captains checking PB's. If the KA72's site is slow how can we help or can GPSTC use KA72 software under licence.
4. Number of session visits, good to see what's topical as PB's don't always indicate an interesting session (I'm thinking those TSS driving around snow drifts to get to a spot with photos). Speaking of which, it would be good to know if anyone does see your posted photos & video.
5. Team mates session notification.
6. What Paddymac said, I do a lot of Pb checking to see if someone has had a good personal session or see if their Pb is a nice jump.

Also,
1. Is there a way to keep just photos in the image gallery as it's clogged with Google tracks, and yeh I post lots of tracks too.
2. Keep front page simple with maybe just the rankings, news and maybe as someone said a slideshow, keep the sessions on another page so they don't disappear so quick.
3. Encourage more profile photos.
4. If not already, is there a way to check back an all our personal data, not just the best 5 of each division. I'd like to work out my PB's for the dam, beach and reef etc.

Great work guys

Good night

Theres nothing wrong with the way it is now BUT -

The ideas I like are:

Only show sessions that match the filter selected (country or international) on the front page. The Sessions link up the top already gives the whole month of sessions.

When a PB is improved still show on the old session that this was a PB at the time (perhaps a different color?). This might be too difficult to do.

I like the idea of more information against each sailors name (I sometimes cant remember my own top speeds and have to go check them, let alone anyone elses).

What about number of posts this year as well ? (you know you want to see it Mark !)

Could we show if a score is in the top 5 for this sailor (ie (PB) bold for a PB as it is now, (pb2) not bold for your second best ever (pb3) etc.... - would draw attention to when someone has come within a ****teenth of a PB but not quite got it. Perhaps with different colors.

I sometimes wonder if my score made any difference to the teams standing, could there be a summary after you post of any affect it had, ie my normal posts it wouldn bother showing but sometimes it might display "team ranking for the month changed from x to y". If that ever popped up it would be a nice surprise ;-)

Just wondering whether we could also incorporate total distance for each team per month, year and overall? Not part of the comp, but be interesting to see the team miles to date somewhere and perhaps have a chart or table that ranks them. A bit like the Global Corporate Challenge, where people use GPS's to clock up (walk) miles for their team and in doing so work their way around the world.

hardpole said...

Windxtasy said...

I'd like to be able to see sessions that have gone off the bottom of the front page - a second page (or more) would be good.

We're going to be keeping you busy here Nebs. Sorry, but it will help a great site get even better.

I think you get what you want if you click on the "Sessions" menu / heading at the top.

ah yes, it does. Thanks.
The reason I didn't realise that is because when you hover over 'sessions' the only thing that pops up in the drop down menu is 'image gallery'.

I like all the suggestions.The GTC can only get better from here

I for one would like to see apples being compared to apples meaning all posts have to go through KA72 so everyones data goes through the same software. Besides its easier to then post to the GTC

Sorry you asked, now!

hardpole said...

Will they all be ready for January, if not why not

Yep should all be ready for January...



... 2012 [}:)]


Thanks for the feedback, please keep it coming.

What would be a good idea: in the Individual Ranking section to have a Month filter like the (Team Ranking section has)
So you can see how you are performing against other sailors for that month.

Pointman said...


My missus already reckons I ogle GPS tracks like porn, wait til I can start ogling other peoples

Same - my wife says she cant wait to find me ogling real porn like a normal person rather than windsurfing..