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Huge Mountain database upgrade

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marianne Premium account Joined: Sep 03 Points: 20248 Posts: 349 Posted: 2004-12-16 18:02:00    What a great idea! Tangkuban Prahu and Krakatau both both in Indonesia it are not in. The data base is a bit illogic the Merapi in Java is listed as Gunung Merapi, and there is Gunung Bromo. Gunung means mountain. Keli Mutu another mountain in Indonesia is lisred without Gunung. To most tourists these Indonesian mountains are known without the Gunung. So this may pose a problem when people want to find these mountains. Marianne --- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson Reply    Reply with quote    Contact marianne   andreas Joined: May 02 Points: 8313 Posts: 809 Posted: 2004-12-16 22:51:00    Hello Marianne, you can add mountains which are not in the same way as cities. Go to the report writing forumlar and on the right hand site is a blue "globo land" icon. Click on it and suggest the mountain. It will be added as "globo land" you found inside your profile and included into the data base. About the illogical part. I am not familar with the mountains in indonesia, it might take a while till we adjust some places, just like with the cities. Best regards, Andy Reply    Reply with quote    Contact andreas   marianne Premium account Joined: Sep 03 Points: 20248 Posts: 349 Posted: 2004-12-17 09:55:00    I requested to add this mountain: Tangkuban Perahu to the data base. And I made a mistake. I added it the first time as a city. The reason is that when I got the bar to fill in my entry, I clicked on "mountain" then I got another menu and had to select country etc. I did not realise that I had to click 'mountain' again, because the little dot in the marker had gone back to 'city'. If more people make this mistake, your database will be in chaos. Hope this is explained clearly enough. Marianne --- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson Reply    Reply with quote    Contact marianne   ravinderkumarsi Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 14003 Posts: 451 Posted: 2004-12-18 08:38:00    hii andy congrats for creating such a huge database of mountains i really appreciate the hard work and effort done in doing so and cross checking it ravi --- at bangalore /back 2 globo after a long Reply    Reply with quote    Contact ravinderkumarsi   marianne Premium account Joined: Sep 03 Points: 20248 Posts: 349 Posted: 2004-12-18 10:28:00    Just to let you know that I entered two mountains as new mountains, not yet included in the database. i got an email back telling me that these were not cities. I eneterd them as mountains not as cities. Marianne --- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson Reply    Reply with quote    Contact marianne   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2004-12-20 18:32:00    Two usefull sites for checking mountain names (also alternative names), locations, hights and other data are: http://www.peakbagger.com/ http://www.peakware.com/encyclopedia/ --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan   Page: 1 2