We could probably improve that tool for a year, but we think it's good enough as is. I am the creator of that checker and I have fulfilled two 360-challenges with that tools. Showing geocaches for all sectors isn't really feasible. For someone who has quite a few degrees left it would lead to creating a map of 100,000 geocaches for some challenges. Your web browser would not approve.by magma1447 - Miscellaneous
It would definitely be a nice feature. But imagine a run like that for Germany for example. The checker might take ~15 seconds to run per user, depending on what kind of checker it is. There are (or has been) almost one million geocachers in Germany. Such run would take months. An alternative would of course be to run it on the 1000 most active geocachers. But it's also those who are mby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
This has been implemented now, though not tested yet. The release will wait upon http://project-gc.com/forum/read?5,4168 since it's in the same commit.by magma1447 - Method requests
Since we are not reading here often enough we believe this is a good workflow for requesting methods. Write a post here about the request. Explain as much as you feel necessary, purpose, expected parameters and so forth. Hopefully there will be some feedback from others. Depending on how much feedback it could be smart to summarize it all in one post or adjust the initial request. Ones thingsby magma1447 - Method requests
A patch has been created. It's currently included with the http://project-gc.com/forum/read?6,7273 commit so I will hold off the release. I assume it's not urgent since I am quite late on it anyway.by magma1447 - Method requests
Let me first explain how GetOldest() work right now. Simply put, it's a SELECT * FROM geocaches ORDER BY hidden, cacheId LIMIT x In other words, for those who don't speak SQL. It fetches limit geocaches ordered by the hidden date, and then the cache-id. The problem here is that the max limit is 100 (actually it's 1000, newly changed). Since a challenge must include archived gby magma1447 - Checker news
I am sorry for the late response. I actually haven't seen the request, which is quite bad. I should watch this subforum, but that isn't possible in the forum engine. I know there are a few patches and/or addons for that. I will look into if we can fix something. I will prepare a patch for this.by magma1447 - Method requests
I will gladly add this filter. Remind me if it's not done in a week. I will do it together with some other updates (a post on the forum coming soon).by magma1447 - Method requests
There is now way to parse what you see. The challenge checkers works with raw data and a challenge are not allowed to be based on home location. Such challenge that you suggest will not be possible/allowed.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
It is very unlikely that the reviewers will approve three challenges being so similar in the same area. https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=206 QuotePlease do not submit a challenge cache in an area where a very similar or identical challenge cache already exists. http://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=787by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Currently in the process of updating polygons for Canada. All counties starting with Division and then a number will get a new/real name. The sources for the names are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Alberta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Manitoba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_census_divisions_of_Newfoundland_and_Labrador https://eby magma1447 - Checker news
Seems that colibris7 accidentally hit the report button instead of the reply button. Also seems like it's satisfying; "that this is the checker y require tank you"by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Today we got informed that two counties in Niedersachsen has merged. Quoting the information we got: "The two "Landkreise" 'Göttingen' and 'Osterode am Harz' merged an became just 'Landkreis Göttingen'." We have confirmed that the change exists in OpenStreetMap and imported their latest data. We could not see any other changes with our eyes wby magma1447 - Checker news
I personally screw up today and disabled all tags, and set all of the comments to the same value. A backup was then restored, but the last 45 minutes of data was lost (for checker tags only). That means edited, created and removed tags. Also the number of runs per tag was lost, but I assume no one will notice that. This happened a few minutes before 10:00 UTC. It took 15 minutes to restoreby magma1447 - Checker news
No worries. I don't know where the thread is myself, and it might only have been visible to script developers. As I mentioned, I doubt that a challenge like this can be published with today's guidelines, but I might be wrong. But if it's not allowed, there is no point in "setting the standard", otherwise I do agree with you. The best solution in my personal opinionby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
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
