ACTIVITIES

[whimple]

Gentlemen and Ladies
May I bring your attention to the Italian site http://www.amicitreni.it and the subsequent http://www.allfreenet.it particularly in the way activities are shipped.
We have all spent many hours trying to find obscure stock whose zip file bears no relation to its WAG or ENG file, or ploughing through file numbers where the writer has been kind enough to identify them, but these Italian activities include a file which gives the web ID's of each piece of stock and thus it is just a couple of clicks to download it and no typing. Faced with a page of text to wade through or a page of self-finding web names, the former is a daunting prospect compared to the latter
Any comments from those dedicated activity creators

REG

[TractorBasher]

I think that the UKTS system of relating files does a great job, provided people take the time and trouble to use it properly. I have a database of all the files I've downloaded from the UKTS library so I know the exact file names and their ID numbers. My first activity which I released to the masses last week not only contains a Read Me with the files and IDs (listed separately to do a bulk search with), but is also related to each item of required stock, as well as optional items like cabview and sounds. If you are logged in to UKTS, you can just download any items that you don't have on your computer.

Greater use should be made of this excellent system, because it makes downloading so easy. You can get everything you need to get an activity, an item of rolling stock or a route, up and running in one visit. And the more people that use it, the better it becomes, because the relationships work both ways. If I link my activity to your route, then your route is linked to my activity.