Over 1000 scripts created this year. :) I also think quite a few script owners are maintaining their scripts to the level that they wouldn't mind reducing the amount of code by using such functions. But I could be wrong. But based on the feedback here, it doesn't seem like many care about it. We have been getting pushed about this multiple times though, by more than one script devby magma1447 - Checker news
We are considering adding a lua-pgc library with common LUA functions that any script can use. As a proof of concept I implemented PGC_GeocacheTypeIcon(type) today (not available in production). It would return html to show a geocache type icon, with proper title and such. I am looking for suggestions for other very common functions that are identical between many scripts, that we could adoptby magma1447 - Checker news
bmuzzin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looks like it's working now with: > https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC93V0N/102709 > > https://coord.info/GC6E7GW > Now shows up on that list (it has T=1.5). Thanks! Both for finding the actual issue, and testing.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
bmuzzin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It appears to be an issue with the database query > - and if so, creating any new checker won't fix > the problem. > > All caches returned from PGC.GetFavorites, with a > terrain filter seem to round the inputs to whole > numbers. Thus, anything with a x.5 terrain will > not show up. Foby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
New version: --[[ Geocaching Birthday Geocache Challenge Checker This script validates whether a geocacher has completed a "birthday geocache" challenge. A birthday geocache is one where the geocache was found on the same month/day it was hidden, but in a different year (hence the "age" calculation). The checker supports: - Finding a minimum number of birthday geoby magma1447 - Script development
Original: local args={...} conf = args[1].config local filter = {} filter.country = conf.country filter.region = conf.region filter.county = conf.county filter.minVisitDate = conf.minVisitDate filter.maxVisitDate = conf.maxVisitDate filter.minHiddenDate = conf.minHiddenDate filter.maxHiddenDate = conf.maxHiddenDate filter.types = conf.types filter.sizes = conf.sizes filter.diffby magma1447 - Script development
I just want to make people aware of how useful AI can be. A question was raised on Facebook regarding a challenge checker that didn't give the expected result. During research I found at least two issues. 1) A bug in the checker giving confusing output. 2) The cloned tag not matching the challenge requirements. To understand what was happening (not my script) I wanted to document theby magma1447 - Script development
I will update the polygon data for Finland today. The only difference is that Pertunmaa has been removed. It's now a part of Mäntyharju. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertunmaa I found this tag that mentions Pertunmaa. tagId:36283 creator:arisoft gccode:GC4D505 scriptEnabled:1 tagEnabled:1 country:Finland But if I understand the challenge correctly it won't realby magma1447 - Checker news
vogelbird contacted me ~2 weeks ago regarding Belgium. They have merged a couple of counties. Quote At ths map of PGC we still have a total of 581 counties. Since 01-01-2025 Belgium has 565 counties Antwerpen and Borsbeek merged into Antwerpen (59518) Bastogne and Bertogne merged into Bastogne (2426390) Beveren, Kruibeke and Zwijndrecht merged into Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht (18493532)by magma1447 - Checker news
QuotesapienIs there any way I, as a joe user of PGC, can see how many checker runs have happened in the background on those 2 checkers recently? No. Quotesapien I find it interesting that during that 2 weeks, I've published a new challenge and it "got" its difficulty level within 6 days. From what I remember in the past, the longest that took was about 2 weeks hence why I continby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
I will push an update to the USA polygon data today. There is a single update that's relevant to challenge checkers. Chesterfield County in Virginia is currently named Chesterfield County (VA) (Virginia), but should have been named Chesterfield County (VA). This update fixes that. Besides that it should only be minor border updates. I could only find one affected challenge checker (3361).by magma1447 - Checker news
The challenge difficulty score is based on challenge checker runs. Automatic by Project-GC or manual på its users. Geocaching HQ recently renamed Aland Islands to Åland Islands. During the time when there was a discrepency in the data a lot of faulty results were created. Due to that fact all runs on checkers related to this country has been purged from the system. It doesn't have to be rby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
Seems like Geocaching HQ changed the name of Aland Islands to Åland Islands. Don't miss that if you are making new tags. I just updated ~60 scripts and ~500 tags. It wasn't super fun. :) EDIT: This post has been updated to say Åland Islands instead of the misspelled Åsland Islands.by magma1447 - Checker news
I think the bug actually is that it can be removed. When the web UI showing the delete button was create there was no reason to not show the button when one owns the tag. Since cloning didn't exist back then. Also the API backend only checks that one owns it.by magma1447 - Miscellaneous
A lot of checker tags had been missed so I did a couple of more today. modified: tags/00000000-00000999/976.json modified: tags/00010000-00010999/10386.json modified: tags/00011000-00011999/11020.json modified: tags/00011000-00011999/11021.json modified: tags/00011000-00011999/11023.json modified: tags/00011000-00011999/11024.json modified: tags/00011000-00011999/1by magma1447 - Checker news
Geocaching HQ recently announced that they had updated polygon data for three countries. Forum thread Project-GC today attacked this "problem". For Finland and Norway there are no changes in Project-GC due to this. But since we were looking at it we also updated our data to the latest OpenStreetMap polygon data. There should be zero name changes, but could be slight border changes.by magma1447 - Checker news
I am not surprised that reviewers rejected it. Or, they should at least ask HQ. But I am actually surprised that HQ rejected it. I'm my opinion it's within Guidelines. But I guess they didn't like the concept then, or are afraid of where it will head. A lot of time wasted then. :(by magma1447 - Checker news
All events should be refreshed now. It went faster than I hoped for.by magma1447 - Checker news
There are ~120,000 (25%) events left to refresh the data for. Since the newest ones have been refreshed first I would assume that the date you have found is the break point for when this feature was added by HQ, and that there won't be any new ones found.by magma1447 - Checker news
If you do, and remember, please post the outcome. I have a personal interest as well.by magma1447 - Checker news
