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Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli

[Resolved] GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 28, 2016 04:30PM
Hi all,

this topic is a checker request for the cache GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli;

The purpose of the challenge is to repeat the visit to the area done by rich young European aristocrats in the seventeenth century.

The check shall verify if the searcher logged 3 physical cache (traditional, mystery, multi, etc. .) distributed in 3 different polygones:
-at least one physical cache in the city of Naples;
-at least one physical cache in the area of Vesuvius;
-at least one physical cache in the archaeological sites of Pompeii OR Herculaneum;

Actually the polygones are 4, but last two are alternative each other;
all tlhe 4 polygones are showed with pictures in the listing of the cache.

The challenge was published on December 2014, and 39 people found it since then; unfortunately not all of them are perfectly matching the criteria, because in few cases founders logged one earthcache instead of 3 physical caches.

I assume the checker shall be a combinations of criteria related to a subset of "types" in a polygone, but considering two polygones are mandatory, and other two are in alternative each other;
something can look like:
{
"polygon": {Naples, Vesuvius, [Pompei, Herculaneum]},
"findsPerPolygon": 1,
"findsTotal": 3,
"types": [
"Traditional Cache, Mystery chache, Multi cache, Letterbox hybrid"
]
}

Can you help me?
Thanks a lot!
Davide, AKA Vesuviano
Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 28, 2016 06:43PM
I'm sorry but this challenge is not allowed anymore under the new guidelines http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=206

10. Source of Criteria - Not Acceptable
Challenges based on geographic areas other than countries, states/provinces, counties (or their local equivalent).
For example, user-defined mapping polygons, latitude/longitude, radius, etc. (updated Aug 2016)
Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 29, 2016 07:42AM
Thanks vogelbird,
I was not aware of the August update!
Regards
Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 29, 2016 09:34AM
It is an old Grandfathered challenge
Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 29, 2016 09:51AM
Thanks Target, I forgot to check this
Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 29, 2016 01:29PM
Polygons ready for uploading
Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 29, 2016 01:34PM
Hi vogelbird,

thanks for your work on going.

I have a question:
can the area of polygons be changed after the checker is released?

I'm thinking in case one of them shall be enlarged to allow caches hidden in a park.
Thank you
Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 29, 2016 01:41PM
I took the boundaries from OSM for Municipalita di Napoli and Parco Nazionale del Vesuvio

And look at the caches in Ercolano (Herculano), Pompeii and placed a boundary around them.
But in any case we can always change those.
Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 29, 2016 01:49PM
Very kind of you vogelbird :) !
Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 29, 2016 08:01PM
Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 30, 2016 07:22AM
Hi vogelbird,

I'm simply impressed...
I made few minutes of happy testing of the checker, and it looks working perfectly!

Congrats for your coding skills!
Thanks a lot for your work!
Re: GC5H7KA - Challenge: Grand Tour a Napoli
September 30, 2016 08:21AM
FYI,
I updated the listing of the cache with a reference to your checker and credits to you:
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5H7KA_challenge-grand-tour-a-napoli

thanks again!
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