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gaspode · Moderator

Can everyone entering new sites into the campsite database read and take note please?

I have had to reject around half of the 20 odd new entries on the campsite database so far today for one of two reasons. They are either duplicated or contain no map locations or addresses.
Can I ask you, before you enter a new site to:
1) Search the existing database to ensure the site you are about to enter isn't already there. (You should enter a "review" of the existing site if it's already in the database).
2) Ensure that you enter the full address of the site. The name of the town must be in the "Town" field (not elsewhere in the address) and it should be just the town name, not something like "5 miles from Barnsley".
3) Complete the map location section to position your site. This section appears after you save the site details and must be completed for the entry to be accepted.

Failure to comply with the above means that the site has to be rejected which is a great loss to the database. Unfortunately I'm unable to refer entries back to members to complete the missing sections so the whole entry is lost.

Can I also ask you to complete as many sections of the entry form as possible, too many entries are being submitted with very sparse content. It's particularly important to give a complete address and to complete the fields for disabled facilities and access for large M/Hs. It would also help if you would give a score rating for each site you have visited.

Please do not re-enter the site because it doesn't appear in the database immediately after you have entered it. Each site is checked by myself or one of the other moderators before it is included in the database which can result in a delay of up to 24 hrs. before it appears.

MicknPat

Grizzly

tokkalosh

Being one of the recent offenders I now fully appreciate Ken's request.

For the review I have just submitted I picked up a brochure from the site so that I was able to give lots of information. Unfortunately though it did not give a GPS position which would have been helpful Laughing

Motorhomersimpson · Moderator

Hi Tricia,

if you have the postcode of a UK campsite (which anyone entering would have) just put it into Multi-Map I have linked, once the page has loaded with the postcoded map the longitude/latitude and also grid reference is stated at the bottom.

ralph-dot

I have entered one or two sites lately and my method when entering new sites is:

Check the map to see if it is already there (I used to check the database but they are now all on the map).

Always try to enter the name the the campsite uses themselves (saves having two entries with similar name that are the same site).

If the campsite has a good website, I do not enter too much in General Information as it is all there but write "see website for more info"

Always remember to enter the type of place it is, Aire, CC site, Independent site, packing place, etc.

If I can not remember if the campsite has certain facilities I check there website to see what they have, also address, phone No, etc.

I fill in the nearest town or village but put the actual location in my write-up and on the map.

If I have a photo I add it, if I haven't I do not use a photo from another source but that's just me.

When placing the site on the map I use the Hybrid view, in a lot of cases I can see the site I am looking for.

ps

I do think that the place for entering the coordinates is confusing when you can just use the map.

Ralph

gaspode · Moderator

Hi MicknPat

I do try to PM the members but there are about 20 PMs in my outbox ATM, they simply don't pick them up most of the time and we can't just leave the entries in the ether hoping they might get back to us in a few days or weeks. Where an address is given I will add the map references (or one on the D/B admins) but all too often they don't supply an address either, just the name of the town. This is a fast moving operation, there have been another 7 entries arrived in my inbox within the last 1.5 hours.

Thanks for the advice Ralph, if everyone follows those instructions they won't go far wrong.

Duadua

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sallytrafic · Campsite DB Admin

Here are some pictures of the stages of entering Rivendale in Derbyshire you can click on them for greater detail.

They are

Having entered all the written details the map appears centered on UK

I click somewhere in the area of Derbyshire

I zoom in and see where I clicked

I click again much closer

I zoom again and find that I have it exactly confirmed - in this case by using the satellite image which here shows the actual layout of the site. I click on Save Location at top of map. Finished

For a site that I have been to I seldom take more stages than this but when you start out you may need more clicking a