I have for many years talked to various people about using Sailwave to send handicap results back to a central database via Sailwave on an international basis. I have a design now and it will appear in Sailwave soon, but one essential precursor is a list of Sailwave standard class names and IDs.
To that end please do feel free to contribute classes to the new class database here:-
http://www.sailwave.com/home/home.php
You can transfer ownership of the class to somebody else at a later date.
You'll see there is a field called Parent ID. This is essentially for those classes whereby it's useful to have a specific rating but also a rating for the class as a whole. For example F18 and Nacra F18. The parent class of the Nacra F18 would be F18. This can also be used in development classes on an age basis, for example for Cherubs.
The idea of the database is that ratings will be updated every N days and be available for download at any time on an international, national (MNA) or venue basis. Probably regional as well using a tags system.
Sailwave will collect class, elapsed time, date and venue information only. No personal sailor information will be collected. It will be a very easy process. The contributor will need to be logged into the Sailwave website and will be the visible owner of the results.
NB: You will not need to use Sailwave class names in your series (unless you want to) - there'll be a mapping phase when doing the returns which will get cached so you don't have to do it the next time etc.
The raw data will also be available if allowed by the contributor.
Please also feel free to add venues to the web site as each return must reference a Sailwave venue ID.
http://www.sailwave.com/home/home.php
Proposed return data taken from currently separately scored fleets:-
Unique Race ID (Sailwave does this now in fact)
Date and time
Sailwave Venue ID
Sailwave User ID
N * {Sailwave Class ID,Elapsed time,Laps}
