Making a first release now. So in case anything is really broken, you know why.by magma1447 - Checker news
It seems like only four out of the five new attributes will be added today. We have no ETA of the fifth. The four that will be added today are: | id | group_id | attribute_name | has_no_option | base_filename | +----+----------+---------------------------------+---------------+-------------------+ | 69 | 6 | Bonus cache | 0 | bonby magma1447 - Checker news
There aren't images for the new attributes available yet. Until there is, which hopefully is later today, I will use the Cactus icon, since that attribute is obsolete.by magma1447 - Checker news
Later today there will be new attributes released on Geocaching.com. Please keep it secret until they are published at Geocaching.com. We haven't been allowed to announce it until today, otherwise we would have, since it potentially can have been relevant for new Challenges. There are five new attributes in pipeline. One of them are "Challenge", we have therefore removed our votby magma1447 - Checker news
Thank you for the link to the tag, it helped. There was a bug in minElevation and maxElevation parameters, sloppy copy/paste issue. I'll make a new release during the day.by magma1447 - Method requests
I'll try to look into it tomorrow!by magma1447 - Method requests
With much help from vogelbird I will now go through these. He was the one compiling the list, super helpful. script: https://project-gc.com/Tools/Challenges?edit&addTag&scriptId=982 link https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC868YK/42095 old config { "caches":8, "types":["Event Cache", "Cache In Trash Out Event", "Lost and Found Event Cachby magma1447 - Checker news
The new polygons are now imported. Project-GC is currently recalculating the location 2.5 million geocaches. I expect that to take more than a day.by magma1447 - Checker news
Quote from a user: "On a little bit of a separate subject, Alaska now has a new borough (county). Valdez-Cordova no longer exists as it was divided into 2 new census areas called Chugach and Copper River."by magma1447 - Checker news
I am currently running an update on polygon data for USA. Two years newer data, but there isn't a single name change or added/removed polygons. The reason I did it is because (at least) one county has been split in two. But our source doesn't have the change yet. Next year maybe.by magma1447 - Checker news
https://project-gc.com/Tools/Challenges?edit&addTag&scriptId=3588 https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8QMKK/51155 { "attr": [ "Available during winter" ] } { "attr": [ "Available in winter" ] } https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8MYAF/49865 { "attr": [ "Available during winter" ] } { "attr": [ "Availableby magma1447 - Checker news
During this process I did a screwup. I updated all tag configs to the same (and a broken string). A backup has now been restored. Only lost one change. A newly created tag. I'll look into that. UPDATE: The lost tag has been recreated.by magma1447 - Checker news
Vogelbird made me aware of three scripts with broken tags: https://project-gc.com/Tools/Challenges?edit&addTag&scriptId=982 https://project-gc.com/Tools/Challenges?edit&addTag&scriptId=1115 https://project-gc.com/Tools/Challenges?edit&addTag&scriptId=5032 From what I can see, no changes to the script/code is needed, only the configuration/tag. For script 5032 I wiby magma1447 - Checker news
It should be fixed now, I adjusted the configuration for that checker. Reference link to checker developers: https://project-gc.com/forum/read?6,42874,43055#msg-43055by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
From what I can see there is nothing wrong with the script itself, but some of the tags needs to be adjusted. From what I can see there are two affected tags, I can fix those. https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8G93J/46763 { "attr" : ["NOT Difficult climbing"] } will update to { "attr" : ["NOT Difficult climb"] } https://project-gc.com/Challenges/by magma1447 - Checker news
I'll look into this in 1-2 weeks. There are a few upstream changes coming "soon". These attributes should never exist as negative by the way. At least not according to the API data. | 2 | 2 | Access/parking fee | 0 | fee | | 3 | 2 | Climbing gear required | 0 | rappelling | | 4 | 2 | Boatby magma1447 - Checker news
It only lists the "positive names" because there are no negative ones. Project-GC never uses a name like "No parking available", if needed it would just say/show that the "Parking available" is unset. Neither does Geocaching.com? I am not sure this is data that should come from Project-GC since it's not Geocaching data. A good example would have to be shown tby magma1447 - Checker news
I don't think there are any official negative names? There are none listed in the api. From what I remember Project-GC doesn't express them differently when being negative.by magma1447 - Checker news
I might take a chance to make a global change using code. At least all attributes except "Boat" seems to have long names enough to not get any false positives. But if you find that something to change that shouldn't, you know why. Correction: No need to update them. It's just their text output that's affected.by magma1447 - Checker news
Correction: There is no need to update these. They can use old names in their output. UPDATED: 2 Access or parking fee => Access/parking fee Potentially affected challenge checker scripts: 551, 1190, 2599 UPDATED: 3 Climbing gear => Climbing gear required Potentially affected challenge checker scripts: 204, 551, 559, 596, 606, 607, 648, 696, 749, 892, 958, 975, 1048, 1050, 1100, 1by magma1447 - Checker news
We have seen reasons to update the attributes in the back-end a bit. With that we will also update them to the latest names used by HQ. These 40 attributes will have their names changed: (ID: X, old-name => new-name) ID: 2 Access or parking fee => Access/parking fee ID: 3 Climbing gear => Climbing gear required ID: 4 Boat => Boat required ID: 5 Scuba gear => Scuba gear requiby magma1447 - Checker news
The "quick" response was pure luck. I was looking for something else here and noticed it. Then I also had a task for today that included some waiting time, so I could jump a bit between the tasks. I just hope it works as it should. There is always a risk of missing something when copy/pasting too much.by magma1447 - Method requests
I have spent some time trying to track down where I read it. I can't find it. I did however get a confirm from a Geocacher that had asked HQ, who said it was ok.by magma1447 - Checker news
Two new methods added, I'll release them in a minute. GetHighestCaches() GetLowestCaches() They work more or less identical to GetOldestCaches(). I hope I didn't break anything with that one, moved quite a lot of code around. I have been running a checker using it in both Dev and Live, the result hasn't changed.by magma1447 - Method requests
If I recall correctly - Their documentation even says that you could/should log your own. Even sillier.by magma1447 - Checker news
Coordinates doesn't automatically get you the country, that's fairly complex and I am not sure that's a good route to walk either. However, it's likely that Project-GC will try to handle that at some point. But as long as they don't have a country field in HQs DB I don't think it's a good idea to use it. Mostly because it's not HQs intent. Yes, they mayby magma1447 - Checker news
I can't find that post either, even though I actually saw it this morning. I know I posted the DB schema definitions of the tables. There currently are no changes. I hope to be able to get the owner of them in the future, and maybe even coordinates. I don't know if they have coordinates for all or just some. Also, I don't know how relevant the coordinates actually are. Also,by magma1447 - Checker news
I have received "indications" on that Elevation generally/in some cases/in some forms are accepted for Challenges - Even though it's in direct violation of the Guidelines. In my opinion they should add a written exception, but there isn't. Anyway, that makes this request very reasonable. I'll see if I manage to get to the bottom of it today or tomorrow. Currently workiby magma1447 - Method requests
I could also ask HQ about their opinion. If they say that it shouldn't be allowed, elevation challenges can be denied already here in the process. Also they could make it clearer to their reviewers. What's your opinions on that? From my point of view - I am afraid to get more complaints about inaccurate elevation levels for mountains. They will never be exact without manually enteby magma1447 - Method requests
That's probably the reviewers fault, and maybe due to how the description is created. Continents isn't a real problem, if the description actually holds a full list of countries. Or at least it shouldn't be a problem then, in my opinion. Similar with Badges. A Challenge to get Diamond Rugged without further explanation I can understand a deny on. But if it's also describedby magma1447 - Method requests
