[Resolved] Need a challenge checker made for GC5GPTF Explorer 160 Challenge cache.

Need a challenge checker made for GC5GPTF Explorer 160 Challenge cache.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2018 07:33PM by keorats. (view changes)

I will see what I can do to build the polygon checker but it wii take a couple of days

Thanks, much appreciated.

Here is the link to the checker https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5GPTF/31228

Please confirm that this is the checker you require

Thank you for the checker, it is the one I required.
Cheers
Keorats

Hi vogelbird

There appears to be a bug with this checker (I'm the cache owner by the way). Somebody logged the cache this evening (BaSHful) and he said that the GSAK macro results in 181 squares whereas the Project-GC one results in 182. We don't know where the extra one is coming from. He has an image of the GSAK results on his website (the link is http://www.15ddv.me.uk/geo/chal/explorer_challenges.html#160)

I've tried running the Project-GC one with BaSHful as the name, so that I could check which one is wrong. I've confirmed that it does give 182 as the answer just as he says. The example log doesn't give the full set of 182 though - it stops at the line "SU 99 68: GC4F934 - 6 Egham's Wildlife W". This line is incomplete (it should be "Walk" instead of "W") Has it reached a character limit?

Hopefully it will be fairly simple to sort out these problems

Thanks in anticipation
Colincactus

I have contacted you directly

HI Vogelbird
Thanks for sending me the full text file. I’ve compared it with the GSAK result on BaSHful’s website and found the difference. Its this one:
TQ 09 67: GC684TQ - Aranea (2016-11-02)

I’ve confirmed that Bashful has found it so it looks like the bug is in the GSAK macro rather than with the Checker you wrote.

Interestingly BaSHful DNF’ed this cache (on 24 Dec 2015) before later finding it (on 2 Nov 2016), so it could well be that that is what the GSAK macro isn’t coping with.

Thanks for your help
Colincactus