I am glad we didn't specify what year. :) But we obviously meant 2016. This has been down-prioritized due to other important work, including requirements from Geocaching HQ. We got that far that we started a thread here somewhere asking about feedback of what was needed. Since the input wasn't clear enough and everyone wanted different solutions and data it was postponed. The fact thby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
sloth96: Normally 1-2 days, but I forgot about it. I'll fix now.by magma1447 - Script development
Project-GC's definition of Europe is: $europe = array( 'Svalbard and Jan Mayen', 'Iceland', 'Norway', 'Sweden', 'Finland', 'Ireland', 'United Kingdom', 'Denmark', 'Netherlands', 'Belgium', 'Luxembourg', 'France', 'Andorra', 'Spain', 'Portuby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Just wanted to post a status follow up. States are done a long time ago. Counties are about 85% done, less than 300k left of the 2M+. I don't think there is any other country being this expensive to calculate. There are many factors for it, the amount of geocaches of course, but also the size and complexity of the polygons. The US polygon data is very precise which makes it expensive. Theby magma1447 - Checker news
No worries. I just hope that I didn't cause too much trouble with it. Glad you found and read this thread, now I know that they are useful, at least too some. I could have pointed out the potential issues though. I did realize and know myself that there could be missing modules. I told pinkunicorn who does the support and Target about it. Target was told mainly because we spoke about theby magma1447 - Checker news
Fixed. php5-curl was missing. I assume the checker needs to fetch a bookmark list or something else using http.by magma1447 - Checker news
It could definitely be the cause, I will look into it. Could be that some PHP-module or LUA-module is missing.by magma1447 - Checker news
Well, it's not actually new hardware to be honest. There is a new virtual machine installed, on one of the better KVM servers. Earlier all challenge checkers was executed on one virtual host, both those that are running automatically in the background and those executed interactively by users. Today a new virtual host has been installed. It has better CPUs and should therefore be fasteby magma1447 - Checker news
Updating geocache data is taking quite some time. This far about 50% of the regions/states has been updated, but only a few percent of the counties. Ones the states are done we can expect the counties to be twice as fast at least, but it really feels like it will take a week.by magma1447 - Checker news
Polygons will be imported for real today. It will take a day or so to convert the data. Meanwhile some caches might belong to the old county names and some to the new. Also with updated polygons we can assume that some borders has been adjusted and that some geocaches might switch state/county. The new polygons are a bit larger (not even 1%) indicating more vertices.by magma1447 - Checker news
Some sql magic says that there are 3145 unique county names when combining the old and new names. Some more SQL magic tells us which three has changed names. Old names: Petersburg Census Area (AK) Wade Hampton Census Area (AK) Shannon County (SD) New names: Kusilvak Census Area (AK) Oglala Lakota County (SD) Petersburg Borough (AK) Some guessing says this: Petersburg Census Area (by magma1447 - Checker news
A select distinct from polygons where country in (USA, tmpUSA) confirms that there are 51 even after that. No name changes.by magma1447 - Checker news
3142 counties both before and after. The mentioned Wade Hampton Census Area does not exist anymore, but Kusilvak Census Area does, as expected.by magma1447 - Checker news
New state names (I see no difference with my eyes): Number of regions: 51 Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Mby magma1447 - Checker news
Documenting former state names here: Number of regions: 51 Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnby magma1447 - Checker news
I will upgrade the USA polygons from version 2013 to version 2016 this week. I currently have a test version imported where I will try to see if there are any big changes. I have heard via http://project-gc.com/qa/?qa=11743/alaskan-wade-hampton-renamed-to-kusilvak-census-area&show=11750#a11750 that at least one county has changed its name.by magma1447 - Checker news
I think Mole125's answer covers the whole thing quite well. It will be done if it's either interesting enough, or easy enough. As he said, it's quite hard to say "no-one will fix this script" since it's a few script developers who doesn't have any real contact besides this forum. They do not have any communication about your script in between them. That saby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
An update of the Spanish polygons is in progress. The polygons are already there, the servers are currently calculating the location of the 80000 geocaches there. Differences that we noticed: * Some counties did not exist in our old polygons. Very unsure why, they should have been there. * Borders might have been slightly adjusted, nothing we could see clearly. But the data dump was 31 MB inby magma1447 - Checker news
Have you tried posting in the Checker request forum to see if anyone can help you creating the 9 tags and the script? Our intention has been to allow new script creators for a long time now. We have however been forced to prioritize other matters which I can not go into details about right now.by magma1447 - Miscellaneous
I agree, I usually do what you are saying like this: local filter = {} if conf.filter ~= nil then filter = conf.filter end and then I use that local filter variable when I call upon GetFinds() Example script: http://project-gc.com/Challenges//22344?edit&scriptId=1447 (funny the script has id 1447, considering my alias)by magma1447 - Script development
The QA question http://project-gc.com/qa/?qa=11511/reinach-ag-municipality-missing-on-project-com-switzerland has made us look into the Switzerland polygons. Project-GC does not technically support the fact that two counties within the same country has the same name. This was the fact for Switzerland. They will then in most cases be considered the same county, obviously the maps didn't geby magma1447 - Checker news
I have removed the cloned tag for you. Vogelbird was kind enough to notify me about the need and link this thread. Sorry for the wait, have been away over the weekend (attending a mega event).by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
The three tags has been disabled upon request.by magma1447 - Miscellaneous
I have disabled tag 5786 and 19864 upon the request of the volunteers.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Did you manage to fix it yourself after I gave you permissions?by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
The following three tags have one of the changed region names in the config: +-------+---------+ | id | creator | +-------+---------+ | 3072 | 360754 | | 17188 | 7462783 | | 21221 | 7462783 | +-------+---------+ The following five scripts matches the names: +------+---------+ | id | creator | +------+---------+ | 533 | 254729 | | 964 | 891244 | | 999 | 2481816 | | 100by magma1447 - Checker news
Added region polygons for Iceland. County polygons seems incomplete in OSM and has to wait (~54/76). We chose to use the international names for the regions instead of the local ones due to their non standard characters and low local geocaching activity. The following regions were added: Capital Region Southern Region Eastern Region Northeastern Region Southern Peninsula Northwesternby magma1447 - Checker news
Using the minVisitDate is probably against the guidelines for challenges. I believe it was against the former guidelines as well actually. All finds must count if I remember correct. You can double check that with your reviewer.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Formerly anyone using Project-GC could create tags. This was changed the last months to be permission based and we added everyone who owned an active tag into the list. Since your tag wasn't active, you did not get permissions. I saw two solutions to help you, either I updated the tag, but then you wouldn't be able to change it in the future either. Instead I gave you permissions toby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Today we found out that our names for regions in Spain did not match Geocaching.com. We have therefore renamed some of ours: 'Catalunya' => 'Cataluña' 'Comunidad de Madrid' => 'Comunidad de Madrid' 'Comunitat Valenciana' => 'Comunidad Valenciana' 'Canarias' => 'Islas Canarias' 'Illes Balears'by magma1447 - Checker news