Dear All,

I wanted to let everyone know that I recently created a GPS-based
Google mapping site for fishing. This site allows you to enter the
exact location (GPS long/long) where you caught a fish (or select it
on the map). The goal of the site is to allow users to track their
catches, a sort of fish diary. This should be able to help identify
the movement of fish from season to season and year to year.

The site also allows for groups to better communicate with people in
your fishing geography. I was hoping to get any feedback on how I
could make this site better. I am also hoping to add blackberry input
acces to allow for remote entry to the site. Here is the website:

www.myfishmaps.com (www-myfishmaps-com)

Any feedback would greatly appreciated - hope you join - it's free.

Best Regards,

mfmjt

In article ,
mfmjt <URL:mailto:bhlures@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I wanted to let everyone know that I recently created a GPS-based
> Google mapping site for fishing. This site allows you to enter the
> exact location (GPS long/long) where you caught a fish (or select it
> on the map). The goal of the site is to allow users to track their
> catches, a sort of fish diary. This should be able to help identify
> the movement of fish from season to season and year to year.
> 
> The site also allows for groups to better communicate with people in
> your fishing geography. I was hoping to get any feedback on how I
> could make this site better. I am also hoping to add blackberry input
> acces to allow for remote entry to the site. Here is the website:
> 
> www.myfishmaps.com (www-myfishmaps-com)
> 
> Any feedback would greatly appreciated - hope you join - it's free.

Perhaps you've forgotten that the commercial fishermen have gps too...

http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/recce/why1.html

Cheerio,

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Derek Moody wrote:
> 
> Perhaps you've forgotten that the commercial fishermen have gps too...
> 
> http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/recce/why1.html
> 
> Cheerio,
> 

Oh so true indeed. I can remember in the early 90's we used to tell 
everyone all our fish cam from a certain outcrop of rock. It was so 
funny to see so many anglers crowded onto that rock :)

Si

In article , eric the brave
<URL:mailto:etb@spamfoo.zapik.com> wrote:
> Derek Moody wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps you've forgotten that the commercial fishermen have gps too...
> > 
> > http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/recce/why1.html
> > 
> > Cheerio,
> > 
> 
> Oh so true indeed. I can remember in the early 90's we used to tell 
> everyone all our fish cam from a certain outcrop of rock. It was so 
> funny to see so many anglers crowded onto that rock :)

I don't advocate deceiving anyone.  Just be ambiguous enough that only
those willing to work at it a little will benefit, they would probably have
found the information in time anyway and they are (more) likely to be
considerate and capable anglers.

<ot>
I hear one of the angling papers has just run a feature article on one of my
regular free coarse fishing venues so I'll have to give it a miss for a
while :-(

It's another place where the fishing can be superb but most visitors won't
catch much unless they take time to recce it properly so it'll lose its
appeal in due course and I'll be able to go back.
</ot>

Sea fishing on *known* venues is a little different.  At least in the purely
ink and paper days there was a time lag.  I've known a venue produce well
for a month according to season and for the info to get back to the local
angling 'news' reporter and so into print. When we spotted a lot of activity
on the mark as we passed and stopped to investigate we were told inflated
stories of our own fishing of six to eight weeks before ... the fish had
gone with the season, the tides were wrong and most of the visitors were
using the wrong method so they weren't likely to catch much but I dare say
one or two more savvy ones had kept the clipping and filed it in next year's
diary for the next time the right conditions would recur.

The OP's site, assuming it worked as intended, would put those hordes on the
mark the very next day - now I don't mind helping people to catch a few but
I'm selfish enough to want to reap the benefit from my own efforts first.

Cheerio,

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