Elevations of all geocaches will be updated the coming two weeks. The service provider we use has made major improvements and we therefore chose to update all our data. Primarily they have new sources which much better accuracy, but there is also some improvements in math for interpolations. The countries that will be improved the most are: * Denmark * Finland * France * Germany * Hong Koby magma1447 - Checker news
Adding 5 regions to this country. Formerly there was none according to Project-GC. Nothing should be affected by that I assume.by magma1447 - Checker news
If the beams/colored sectors doesn't extend to the border it is because there are no geocaches. The checker works as its intended to.by magma1447 - Miscellaneous
Updated polygons for South Korea. I let the names change to the latest in OSM since I don't think it affects anything. Otherwise I sometimes rename them to the old names to make it easier for the challenge checkers and such. There are three half relevant changes: * Ansan-si renamed to Ansan * Gwangmyeong-si renamed to Gwangmyeong * County moved from region (id=73311,osmId:-7816959) tby magma1447 - Checker news
The new polygons are in place. Now assigning 2.8 M geocaches their updated region/county.by magma1447 - Checker news
There are also some minor border changes, which is the real reason to the update. But those shouldn't affect anything but a few geocaches here and there.by magma1447 - Checker news
Will update USA polygon data today. I will start soon (within the hour) and it will progress for most of the day. The only relevant changes I have seen are these: * Black Hawk County (IA) (Iowa) renamed to Black Hawk County (IA) (double suffix fixed) * Green County (KY) (Kentucky) renamed to Green County (KY) (double suffix fixed) * Kenai Peninsula (AK) (Alaska) renamed to Kenai Peninsula (by magma1447 - Checker news
The import of polygons has completed. Now I will start a few jobs that will update the county names and such. That will probably require a few hours (maybe 5-10h). Meanwhile both old and new will exist.by magma1447 - Checker news
vogelbird Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When will the updates go live ! It's in progress. It will take a few hours. But hopefully before midnight our tz.by magma1447 - Checker news
Upon user feedback we are now updating Switzerland as well. Known changes: Quote Aargau * Burg merged with Menziken, into Menziken. * Herznach and Ueken merged into Herznach-Ueken Bern * Diemerswil merged with Münchenbuchsee, into Münchenbuchsee Jura * Damphreux and Lugnez merged into Damphreux-Lugnez * La Chaux-des-Breuleux and Les Breuleux merged into Les Breuleux St. Gallenby magma1447 - Checker news
Canada's current definitions are from 2021-03-15 (YMD). Today I will start updating it to newer data. Canada was also the only country that didn't use OSM only. It was a mix of OSM and some census data. With the new version this will be fixed. OSM didn't have the polygons needed two years ago. The update includes some changes though. Quote Northwest Territories * Removed Behchby magma1447 - Checker news
It seems to me that it's updated everywhere in the code base. But the doxygen document was never regenerated. We'll fix that in the near future.by magma1447 - Script development
I assume it was moved by mistake as well. I moved it back for you.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
The method can still be used if the script merges the CA and NA upon need. And we agree Central America isn't a continent, but after discussions, and suggestions, we went ahead with the task. We feel that the pros outweighs the cons.by magma1447 - Checker news
First off the callback method GetContinentDefinitions() should be fixed in the next release, which should happen today. Then Project-GC is also updating its Continent definitions. This should not affect any existing challenge checkers since no scripts uses GetContinentDefinitions(). I don't believe there is a need to update and challenges either. In my opinion a challenge description shouby magma1447 - Checker news
Not sure why it wasn't exposed. But a better answer has just been posted in https://project-gc.com/forum/read?4,52692by magma1447 - Method requests
A very old topic, which I accidentally stumbled upon now. It's correct that it didn't work. When implementing a new callback method there are basically three things: * Comments above the function, that's being read by Doxygen, which then generates the documentation. This existed. * The function/code itself. This existed as well. * A mapping of PHP functions usable by the LUAby magma1447 - Script development
For the challenge difficulty to be calculated the system requires that the checker has been run successfully at least 1000 times. This includes runs from our background services, the so called auto-challenge-checkers. So 1000 isn't a lot, normally. The three challenges you have published recently seem to have 800-900 each. This is low after such long time. The difficulty calculations areby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
We had a support ticket that two counties in Vietnam belonged to the wrong region. Our data was from early 2021 and OSM has been updated since then. I will run an update today. The scripts I have didn't find any affected challenges, and I would assume there aren't any either. But all counties will be renamed. I assume it's more proper spellings. Old: * Bac Lieu province * Bby magma1447 - Checker news
I have now fixed everything on above list in PGC's end.by magma1447 - Checker news
I made a second update to United States last week, which I forgot to post about here. Connecticut have changed their county scheme entirely. They formerly had 8 counties, now they have 9 ones. Former ones: * Fairfield County (CT) * Hartford County (CT) * Litchfield County (CT) * Middlesex County (CT) * New Haven County (CT) * New London County (CT) * Tolland County (CT) * Windham Coby magma1447 - Checker news
Working on updating polygon data for United States. No intentional changes, just aiming to get the latest updates. But I found a few counties which had names which haven't been intentional. I plan to correct those. Coconino County (AZ) (Arizona) -> Coconino County (AZ) Kane County (UT) (Utah) -> Kane County (UT) Kankakee County (IL) (Illinois) -> Kankakee County (IL) Ketchiby magma1447 - Checker news
Counties * Brielle * Hellevoetsluis * Westvoorne has been merged into * Voorne aan Zee This change will happen in Project-GC the coming days (maybe even today). Potentially affected challenge checkers: Potentially affected challenge checker scripts: (source code matches a region/county that has been removed/added/moved) - Potentially affected challenge checker tags: (configby magma1447 - Checker news
After a week of discussions with a local geocacher from Colombia I have decided to update the polygon data for the country. It's a major update. Current region definitions will be thrown out. The current counties will be promoted to regions, which are a more proper match for what they really are. As counties there will be a mix of municipalities and "sub-regions", a bit dependinby magma1447 - Checker news
During today and tomorrow I will update the polygon data for USA to whatever was in OpenStreetMap in the beginning of December. There should be zero changes in names and such, just minor border changes. For the name changes that has been applied in OSM I renamed them back to what Project-GC already has, to avoid disrupting and scripts/tags. The process to import the polygon data is ~4 hours. Tby magma1447 - Checker news
A spelling error has been found in one of the region names. Sothern Thailand should of course be Southern Thailand. I will rename it during the day.by magma1447 - Checker news
I am in the process of removing the county "Le Léman (VS)" in region "Valais". It's not a real county, covers water only. In a lake where the rest isn't covered. Only two geocaches exists in the area: geocaching@pgc-db-05/geocaching> select gccode, region, county, archived from caches_view where country = 'Switzerland' and county = 'Le Léman (VSby magma1447 - Checker news
All such owners has now been removed from the database. The only user-id owning geocaches that doesn't exist in the user-table is owner-id 1. Let's hope it stays that way, so I didn't miss any case.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
That seems to be a case of data being obsolete/old in Project-GC. And also "out of sync". When I updated the data for GCNXZ7 the owner_id change to 1. So Project-GC has this far, somehow, found that the user 264059 doesn't exist anymore. At that time it doesn't update any geocaches though. Unrelated to that, the geocache will be updated at a certain point, and then the APIby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Hügh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looks like cache.owner_id is no longer `nil` if > the cache owner is a . This > contradicts > https://project-gc.com/forum/read?6,61592. > Further, PGC.ProfileId2Name returns `false` if the > supplied `id` refers to a . > > I've fixed my script, but I suspect that the other > script haby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
