Norway 2024

Norway have had some major changes on the 1st of January this year. They are not implemented in Project-GC yet, but it's in progress. See this is a warning. Challenges that will be affected should probably be held of for a week or so.

Norway is going from 11 to 15 regions.
Norway is going from 356 to 357 counties.

These regions won't exist anymore:
* Viken
* Troms og Finnmark
* Vestfold og Telemark

These will be the new ones:
* Vestfold
* Buskerud
* Akershus
* Telemark
* Troms
* Finnmark
* Østfold

These counties will be renamed:
* Krødsherad
* Deatnu
* Kvam herad
* Kvinnherad
* Voss herad
* Guovdageaidnu
* Porsáŋgu
* Unjárga
* Ulvik herad
* Kárášjohka

These are the new counties (one more than above):
* Kvam
* Ulvik
* Voss
* Kvinn
* Kautokeino
* Nesseby
* Tana
* Karasjok
* Krøds
* Haram
* Porsanger

We will go through a few challenges before actually making a release with this. I will post in this thread again when we are moving forward. Again, see this as a warning.

Key for renaming of counties in the format of New = Old.

Kvam = Kvam herad
Ulvik = Ulvik herad
Voss = Voss herad
Kvinn = Kvinnherad
Kautokeino = Guovdageaidnu
Nesseby = Unjárga
Tana = Deatnu
Karasjok = Kárášjohka
Porsanger = Porsáŋgu

Haram is a new county that was previously part of Ålesund.

@Pleu have done a tremendous work (hopefully) and prepared a lot of fixes for Challenge checkers. Hopefully we'll import the new polygon data today.

During that import I will disable all challenge checker tags that needs fixing. Then we will apply fixes after the import is done, and also test them. In some cases it's changes in the tag config, in some cases we'll have to replace the script. In those cases we'll keep the tag, I will move it from one script to another in the DB. This will make sure the links in the cache descriptions, or elsewhere, keep working.

Import is in progress. Meanwhile these tags have been disabled:
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All those also have new configurations, and out of those these have been linked a new script:
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When the import is done I will enable those tags again, and @Pleu will test them out a bit.

Checker tags are now enabled again. The modified checkers haven't been tested yet. The servers are still assigning new regions and counties on the geocaches.

All checkers except one has been tested. Waiting on a data update for that one. It's not like they are thoroughly tested, but at least they work and seem to give a correct result.

These changes should be fully propagated on the servers within an hour from now.