@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 replaceby magma1447 - Checker news
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 Finnmarkby magma1447 - Checker news
It will affect those two as well. It's the same code, just different fields it filters/sorts on. How big the effect is one those I do not know though.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
It's probably a smart way to do it. Because querying for a single country probably is ~1 second per country. The number of countries can be reduced from 250 by looking at which unique countries the profile name has logged, but it might still be more than a hundred. Anyway, read my latest post. Using the other DB cluster makes it run fast enough, with lots of marginal. 6-7 seconds for oneby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Actually, I changed that. I added a new optional parameter to GetOldest/Lowest/Highest. alternativeDBCluster (bool) defaults to false. I edited this script to use it and set it to true. That should solve this issue. I can't explain exactly when it's faster to use it or not, since I don't always know myself. But the more data that needs to be processed and the less the DB indby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Found the issue. GetFinds() and GetHides() returned the region in field <i>region_pgc</i> instead of <i>region</i> as before. I have updated the api callbacks since the change wasn't intentional. Today's update of Project-GC was actually triggered by challenge checker scripts that uses the GetOldestCaches/GetHighestCaches/GetLowestCaches callbacks. I had someby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
@arisoft I was made aware of this one today. Is it because today's PGC updates that the script returns 0/48 for everyone I test (including the cache owner)? Or is it some changes you have made? I will try to understand it, but I have tested other scripts that uses PGC.GetOldestCaches, and they seem to work. Also, today's update is all about regions (as in the area size between countrby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
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
