Wannasurf on Google EarthMar 11, 2009: Wannasurf.com has just open its surf spot database to Google Earth tool. Install Google Earth V5 and launch it. You can zoom in and see the spots. To get more information on each surf spot, click the wave icon. A popup will show the best available picture, GPS information, and a link to the full description of the surf spot.
Wannasurf.com database has 8 000 surf spots but for now, only half of them have a GPS location and are shown on the Google maps. You are welcome to help us adding GPS location to all spots!
Enjoy and contribute!
Wannasurf team
8 000 spots !Mar 11, 2009: Wannasurf has now more than 8 000 spots in its database. Thanks for all your contributions.
Post edited by: admin, at: 2009/03/11 20:11
Local Editors wantedJul 09, 2008: As you may (or may not) know - this site is done by a couple of us, in our spare time. Which obviously means we don't have any spare time, and don't surf enough.:(
You may also notice, that if you send in a new spot, update or whatever - it doesn't appear immediately, or sometimes never. We have a backlog of some 11000 surf spots submitted, but not moderated. Now many of these are doubles of existing spots, hoax spots, rubbish tec. - and need to be moderated.
If you know a region(s) or country(s) well, and have some spare time to contribute - send "admin" a PM (if you want to be discrete) or reply to this message - we are going to set up a limited number of local-editor accounts.
Trip maps & your GPS waypointsMay 16, 2008: Hi folks,
Wannasurf now offers two new great features:
- Surf Trip maps: If you have logged surf sessions from surf spots that have GPS coordinates; your surf trip now displays a map with all your logged spots!
- My Surf Spots GPS file: You can download from the "My Surfed Spots" page the GPS waypoints file of your own spots. This includes GPX/PCX5 formats for your GPS device and KML format for Google Earth.
Enjoy and contribute!
Wannasurf team
Re:Server migrationMay 07, 2008: Hi,
The database migration is now completed. We apologize for interruptions that may have occurred these last 3 days.
The next step is now the upgrade of the main web server (which is overloaded) in three weeks...
Enjoy and contribute!
Wannasurf team
