One very positive thing from that project, though - it demonstrates the capacity to expand out the AUK site. I imagine FF will be along to add his pearls of wisdom banality
I'm no longer a board member but this all sounds very reasonable, very positive, to me. I feel sure that if it looked as good as it sounds, AUK would be happy to link it in to the AUK site in a fairly intimate way. After all they can always unlink it if they don't like what is going on, or if there seem to be negative comments, or it would be technically quite simple for each Organiser to nominate whether or not they wish to participate, on a per-event basis.
One practical hint here - if each event is a 'topic' then the easiest way to link that to, say, the AUK Calendar page for that event, is by the Event Number which is the part after the hyphen - so if the event is say number 10-345 in AUK's listings, if the Guidebook site had a topic named 345, or with a hidden field that could be used in a URL - that would link in very easily. That way the link is 'sticky' year on year, and is zero-maintenance.
BTW I do know that Peter is working on restructuring the whole AUK website, and making it a bit more wikified in the process I think - but its a huge job because he inherited (from me) a Byzantine structure that isn't easy to unravel! Plus he has other things AUK-related on his plate as well.
If the GPX file originates from the GPS unit from the organiser it'll be more accurate as the organiser's route sheet (own experience).
To be pedantic here - I do agree with what Ivo is saying - but the most accurate GPX (from the point of view of following the road exactly) is one that is generated from a map such as Google maps, not one that has been recorded. An Org's recorded track may wander around a bit, under trees, and may include unscheduled pee-breaks!!
I think its very reasonable these days to hope that the more clued-up Organisers would provide a
track - however I no longer think it's such a good idea to provide a route file, because these really are better left up to the individual riders to write their own, everyone has a different way of doing it.