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Sat, 12 March 2011 09:43   |
Firefly
Messages: 98
Registered: May 2008
Location: Augusta, Maine
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A proposal:
Let us get the discounts we deserve under the myriad of laws using a 50-state catalog/database of the relevant statutes that we can show to the toll trolls. This may be simultaneously-
* Carried in our laptops
* Accessed online
* Printed in a single or multiple sheets at a time to suite regional travel
* As an all-inclusive catalog of all states regulations.
Online access could be controlled to member/non-member accounts with as little or as much information as determined by the hosts (us).
This type of thing could also be used to publish our brain trust of experience-proven technical data - complete with pictures - and could accommodate member's annotations.
I use FileMaker Pro for a relational database and can easily put together a portable catalog of pictures showing scanned images & documents and is searchable, sortable, etc. and can distribute it as a standalone application (no license required).
Didn't I read some time ago that Dan does FMP too? I have always thought that we (as a community) could use such a database as a collective technical library; this could be available on a subscription basis on the web and/or carried on our laptops and distributed via CD/DVD and updated online.
Think of all of the questions for noobs that could be answered quickly and consistently. This is a forward-looking concept for when our generations pass the torch, we can be assured that future generations will have the resources we enjoy today.
Mark Scoble, Lunenburg, MA - 1973 23' Palm Beach Stretched to 32' and in residence at the GMC Co-Op in Orlando, FL
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