FR: Downloading Gallery images

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It would be nice if GB could download all images listed for a cache on demand.

E.g., while displaying a cache, the menu could hold another option to
display the gallery associated with this cache. If the images haven't been
downloaded yet (or additional gallery images are present on the website),
GB would then load the images (I guess they could be stored and cached in
the same directory as the HTML files) and present them to the user.

(seen that feature on the GroundSpeak iPhone-app, and believe it would be a
nice addition to GB)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by 2000...@googlemail.com on 6 Dec 2009 at 8:56

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Is this possible without disallowed page-scraping of geocaching.com?

Original comment by andpet@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2009 at 11:05

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Good question - one could argue that Groundspeak does it on its own app, too 
... :)
And, as it would only be done on demand, it shouldn't create much of a server 
load
... (initial download could be limited to one at a time, as requested by the 
user,
but caching on the SD)

Original comment by 2000...@googlemail.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 4:49

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Scraping is against the terms of service; it doesn't matter how much server 
load is involved.  Groundspeak's own 
apps are not bound by the same terms of service everyone else's apps are.

Original comment by stephen5...@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 5:15

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We can't break the terms of service. Sorry, it's not our choice.

In the long run I'd like to have a gallery for the pictures the user took in
association with each geocache. Then it should be possible to download 
(manually)
pictures from the cache page to that gallery. This is however not on a time 
scale
that makes it meaningful to add as a feature request.

Original comment by andpet@gmail.com on 7 Dec 2009 at 2:47

• Changed state: WontFix