I have added a new option to GetFinds(), it's still undocumented, but it's coming. excludeDupFinds = true can now be set in the second argument of PGC.GetFinds(). It will then remove all duplicate Found logs of the same Geocache, keeping only the first. Sorted by visitdate, log_id. Example: PGC.GetFinds(12345678, { "excludeDupFinds": true }) This makes it easier to solvby magma1447 - Checker news
Importing the new polygons now, to get the name corrections in there. I will have to do another import in a week to get a proper polygon for the country itself, but that shouldn't affect anything but visuals on maps. And probably not even possible to see the difference anyway.by magma1447 - Checker news
There are also these name changes, that are more of corrections. It must be some form of mistake on my part that they have a double suffix today. [*] Carroll County (IL) (Illinois) -> Carroll County (IL) [*] Carroll County (MD) (Maryland) -> Carroll County (MD) [*] Lee County (IL) (Illinois) -> Lee County (IL) [*] Morgan County (WV) (West Virginia) -> Morgan County (WV) [*] Souby magma1447 - Checker news
It's done. Project-GC is in progress of updating. Meanwhile both version will exist and create weird cases. Everything should be in place within 24h.by magma1447 - Checker news
I have a qualified guess that Bergen in Limburg was named "Bergen" only before. It's not perfect, but I can do it like that again.by magma1447 - Checker news
There seems to be one more difference. The site currently has these two: [*] Bergen (Limburg) [*] Bergen (Noord-Holland) Do you know what they were called before? I can dig up a backup configuration and figure it out. But maybe you can see it in some checker config? If I rename the second one to "Bergen (NH)" as suggested, the first one can be named "Bergen" only. Bby magma1447 - Checker news
Not sure how I could have missed that. If you wish, I could also update the name so that it's the same as earlier. A bit late since you already updated all your tags. But if there are many others it might be a smoother solution. The new name sounds slightly clearer though. I let you decide. :)by magma1447 - Checker news
I will update the polygon data for USA as well. There has been some renames in OSM, but I will rename them in Project-GC when importing, to make it easier for everyone. The only change I can see is that county Valdez-Cordova (AK) in Alaska will be split into two: [*] Chugach (AK) [*] Copper River (AK) The final import will take at least one more week until it happens. Waiting on polygon dby magma1447 - Checker news
Received this by a support ticket: Quote Changes as of 1-1-2022: -Heerhugowaard, Langedijk merged into Dijk en Waard -Boxmeer, Cuijk, Grave, Mill en Sint Hubert, Sint Anthonis, merged into Land van Cuijk -Landerd, Uden merged into Maashorst -Beemster has merged into the already existing Purmerend. OSM seems to do exactly what the above says. Import is in progress.by magma1447 - Checker news
This QA thread told us that Latvia has been updating their administrative borders. It turns out the difference is huge. Around 50 counties removed, and 3 new ones. Regions not affected. I used this search to find all Challenges in Latvia. If I didn't miss any, it's these two that are likely to be affected: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6PPPX_latgale-challenge-cache-lielaby magma1447 - Checker news
HQ has removed the old exception list with traveling geocaches and similar (BM1A6W6). A new list (with same/similar) content has been created on another account (BMAFMJR). In the future, make sure you refer to the correct list with the Challenge checkers. Tomorrow I will try to search and replace all occurrences of the old BM-code to the new one. Both inside the scripts, and the tags. There arby magma1447 - Checker news
The documentation for the distance callbacks (DistanceVincenty and DistanceHaversine) used to say that the script had to handle nil values for latitude longitude, which will happen with premium only geocaches for non premium users. However, latitude and longitude is in that case FALSE and not NIL. I have corrected the documentation (with the coming release). I have also added so that the distaby magma1447 - Checker news
We could also consider moving the data to the Wiki pages where anyone can edit them, and replace Targets sticky post with a post that links relevant Wiki-posts.by magma1447 - Checker news
I updated the linked post. I believe the missing attribute 68 is getting closer to be released.by magma1447 - Checker news
To be honest I am not 100% sure what has been the issue. But the data has now been updated again. Sorry that I missed fixing one of them. There were two places to update for that one, and one for the other. I of course missed that. Anyway. I just ran the user "Michel-Angelo" and he is getting Prescott and Russel on his list. Regarding Groundspeak and counties. Groundspeak does notby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
My mistake that Prescott and Russell didn't get properly fixed. I will work that out now. It will however take another 24 hours. However. Since the challenge checker uses the same name as the county has in Project-GC, this isn't the issue. The county could be called "Heaven", as long as it has the same name in both Project-GC and the checker. I think we need to understanby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
It's hopefully because it's in progress. The location of all geocaches in Canada, including archived, is ve recalculated.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
@str8upcacher: Just wanted to inform you that the update has been delayed. Adding the fixed data caused some issues and I didn't notice it at the time. I have just restarted the task and will try to be better to monitor it this time. The issue is that it's a handful of tasks that needs to run, and with some of them taking hours it's easy to lose track of it. When starting it yesby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
The geocache data will be fixed as well. Everything should be automatic.by magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
@sumbloke: Thanks for making us aware. It's indeed typos. I'll just close the ticket and consider it answered here. Feel free to reply to the auto-reply of the ticket if there is something else. Here is a full list of all counties that has been manually named (130 of them), https://pastebin.com/XGtbdsr1 If anyone should notice that there are more spelling errors, please feel freeby magma1447 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
@sloth96 Absolutely, I agree, good argument. And it would have been nice if HQ actually had arguments like that. But I also agree with your flip side. Sometimes COs actually could need some discouragement on that topic. And also on the other hand, many challenge discourages low ratings then, which should be at least as big of an issue. But it also seems that geocaches are getting higher and hiby magma1447 - Script development
@pieterix Thank you for the information. I took a shortcut when doing it, I added hard coded options to the three scripts I wanted to use (which were already my own). One parameter per setup I wanted to avoid. For example noParkAndGrab: true. However, HQ doesn't seem too fond of the idea and I don't really see their point yet. Even though prejudices doesn't exist I wanted to scaby magma1447 - Script development
This is only by part related to script development, but since I am BOFH I guess I can do what I want? This post is related to this thread. The conclusion is that I wish to create a challenge where a certain (or a pair of) attribute doesn't count. Imagine for example "Full D/T on geocaches not requiring boat", though that's not my plan. But it's simpler to understand.by magma1447 - Script development
@Sloth96 - No there isn't. But I don't believe that most of these series has been created to intentionally ruin challenges, at least not as a target. Therefore I hope that they leave their attributes as they are and that at least not too many series will be created with the sole attempt to ruin the game. I am still waiting to get approval from reviewers though. It's not crystalby magma1447 - Script development
Seems like I did, on one of three. Thank you for informing me, especially since I have a challenge in queue based on the script.by magma1447 - Script development
I believe I found another way around my problem, which makes it less of a bookkeeping challenge, and also simpler/faster. I include geocaches that the PT-attribute and also all geocaches that has the combination Special tool required an No tree climbing, a combination that is very common on the full D/T series, at least in Sweden (since they almost always are 50% pole fishing). I'll leaveby magma1447 - Script development
I have a small issues, which has lead to a thought. I would like to create a challenge to have Full D/T of Multis (or maybe 80 unique D/Ts). My issue is that in Sweden, there are 153 Swedes who has full D/T with Multis. However, almost every single one of them has it from a stupid cache series where I know 90% of the canisters has quite fake rating, I have logged the series myself. If I excludby magma1447 - Script development
I have now released the code. Not tested, but it was very minor changes so I am quite confident it will work. I didn't really get this part. I interpret it as you wish me to change something. If so, please explain again. QuoteI started going down this road as an alternative to using GetNumCachesInArea to create a jasmer checker that will automatically notice missing months. Like GetNumCaby magma1447 - Method requests
Parameter requiredFP was broken as well.by magma1447 - Method requests
