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 - Checker requests
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 - Checker requests
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 - Checker requests
There will soon be an update of polygon data for Switzerland. I few counties have been merged. I do not know which to be honest. Data from the compare script (live data vs coming data). LIVE Country areas: count=1 geom4326=41,281 km² geom4326_landonly=412,812 km² TEST Country areas: count=1 geom4326=41,281 km² geom4326_landonly=412,812 km² LIVE Region areas: count=26 geom4326=41by magma1447 - Checker news
JakeDot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Should this still be the case? I have found caches > in mainland Spain as well as both Ceuta and > Melilla, but Spain isn't listed under Africa on my > ProfileStats Maps. Seems like that patch was lost when rewriting the maps 1-2 years ago. We missed the code and didn't keep it. It's notby magma1447 - Checker news
The mentioned script should be fixed now. PGC.ProfileId2Name() returns false (or null? dont' recall) whenever it can't return data. The LUA script then tried to concatenate that value with a string which LUA doesn't allow. The owner was only relevant for the output. I wrapped the output line of code in an if statement using dash as username (and no link) whenever the owner waby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Updated Iceland today. The only relevant change should be that the county Vestmannaeyjar was added (a group of islands south of mainland).by magma1447 - Checker news
Updating polygon data for Germany. Learned today that County/Landkreis Eisenach was merged with another last summer. This should be the only change with the new data. LIVE Country areas: count=1 geom4326=381,456 km² geom4326_landonly=3,576,479 km² TEST Country areas: count=1 geom4326=381,456 km² geom4326_landonly=3,576,485 km² LIVE Region areas: count=16 geom4326=381,456 km² gby magma1447 - Checker news
Wow, popular script. I just moved 753 tags. Thank you for 1) making us aware, 2) forking and fixing.by magma1447 - Checker news
Thanks. Just write the ID of the former and new script and I can transfer tags. But not until tomorrow, bedtime here.by magma1447 - Checker news
There are two ways to fix this. Either I edit his script for him, or someone makes a fixed fork and I move all tags from his script to the new one.by magma1447 - Checker news
Next week I will release an update for GetFinds(). For geocaches where the owner have had their account deleted at Geocaching.com the owner-id is today set to 1 and name to . This is something Geocaching.com has added a while back. This thread makes us aware that not all scripts handles that, which is understandable. There are two approaches to go here. Either scripts has to handle the magby magma1447 - Checker news
Project-GC will release a backend fix next week. The downside is that it might break a lot of other checker scripts. That's something we will have to tackle then.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Can you give us an example of when it gives the wrong result? A geocacher's name where the result is the wrong result.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Today I will update USA's polygon data with OSM data from 2020-04-04 (Y-M-D). From what I can see there are no changes. But since it's a big country I wanted to inform you anyway. In case you hear something, you know what it could be. Here is the output of the compare script between live and a test import. LIVE Country areas: count=1 geom4326=10,318,021 km² geom4326_landonly=94by magma1447 - Checker news
I had a user report an issue with one of my Challenges, which turned out to be a bug in a script. This bug affected a few other tags as well. The script is Generic calendar checker. The issue was that it automatically includes labs. But the backend labs feature does not support filtering. The script tried to be smart about this and did not intend to include any labs finds when for example dby magma1447 - Checker news
Couldn't find anything related to the name Vaala. Tag 22182 potentially, hard time to read the config in my phone.by magma1447 - Checker news
Currently in the process of updating polygon data for Finland. The only relevant change that's happening is that a county gets moved from one region into another. The information we have from a user is that this was supposed have happened in 2016. Project-GC used OSM data from April 2021, but that data was outdated. We are now importing fresh data which seems to be correct. Quote Countyby magma1447 - Checker news
That script seems fine. I'll use it. Got a tag now, https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC9RWNR/68251 You can close this if you don't have any input for me. :)by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Found https://project-gc.com/Tools/Challenges?edit&addTag&scriptId=1525 now. Is that one of the better ones for this, or are there others that does a better job for my requirement?by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
GC-Code: GC9RWNR Quoting from my cache description. Quote The requirement for this particular challenge is to have 3 complete calendar months where you have logged at least a Traditional geocache per day. It does not have to be consecutive days, neither does the year matter. The months does not have to be consecutive either, so you can use January, Mars and September for example. If you use Fby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Thanks. A great tag which does what it should and has clear output.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Thanks. A great tag which does what it should and has clear output.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Thanks, it works. It's not the most beautiful one, but it does what it needs to. I'll add it and submit my challenge during the day.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Thanks, looks great! I have added them to my cache descriptions and resubmitted.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
This is two requests in one (super similar). The only difference is that the first is for Difficulty and the second is for Terrain. GC-Code: GC9R12W Quote The requirement is to have logged every unique difficulty rating (1.0, 1.5, 2.0 ... 5.0) on day 1-28 for each month. In other words, you have to log a find for each difficulty rating on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd ... 28st. It's not requiredby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
