A USE COUNTER FOR THE USATF COURSE SEARCH ENGINE?
The course registrar does a whale of a lot of work to make the USATF course search engine work. I am not sure how Gene does it, but what I did was:
1) Put the just-received certificates in a pile and type in a line of data for each course.
2) Change the codes when various courses get replaced.
3) Feed the maps through the scanner and get a set of numbered files. Rename each file with the proper course ID.
4) Feed the certificates through the scanner and rename the resulting files.
5) File the certificates in a file cabinet.
6) Say “whew.”
7) Send files to USATF every so often
As a result we have a pretty good system of making course lists and maps available. This results from a lot of hard work. Is the benefit worth the cost? We have no way to know, as the course search engine has no counter.
It’s always nice to be able to know whether one’s work is paying off. I wonder what would have to be done to get a hit counter installed on the course search engine?
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