The method can still be used if the script merges the CA and NA upon need. And we agree Central America isn't a continent, but after discussions, and suggestions, we went ahead with the task. We feel that the pros outweighs the cons.by magma1447 - Checker news
First off the callback method GetContinentDefinitions() should be fixed in the next release, which should happen today. Then Project-GC is also updating its Continent definitions. This should not affect any existing challenge checkers since no scripts uses GetContinentDefinitions(). I don't believe there is a need to update and challenges either. In my opinion a challenge description shouby magma1447 - Checker news
Not sure why it wasn't exposed. But a better answer has just been posted in https://project-gc.com/forum/read?4,52692by magma1447 - Method requests
A very old topic, which I accidentally stumbled upon now. It's correct that it didn't work. When implementing a new callback method there are basically three things: * Comments above the function, that's being read by Doxygen, which then generates the documentation. This existed. * The function/code itself. This existed as well. * A mapping of PHP functions usable by the LUAby magma1447 - Script development
For the challenge difficulty to be calculated the system requires that the checker has been run successfully at least 1000 times. This includes runs from our background services, the so called auto-challenge-checkers. So 1000 isn't a lot, normally. The three challenges you have published recently seem to have 800-900 each. This is low after such long time. The difficulty calculations areby magma1447 - Miscellaneous
We had a support ticket that two counties in Vietnam belonged to the wrong region. Our data was from early 2021 and OSM has been updated since then. I will run an update today. The scripts I have didn't find any affected challenges, and I would assume there aren't any either. But all counties will be renamed. I assume it's more proper spellings. Old: * Bac Lieu province * Bby magma1447 - Checker news
I have now fixed everything on above list in PGC's end.by magma1447 - Checker news
I made a second update to United States last week, which I forgot to post about here. Connecticut have changed their county scheme entirely. They formerly had 8 counties, now they have 9 ones. Former ones: * Fairfield County (CT) * Hartford County (CT) * Litchfield County (CT) * Middlesex County (CT) * New Haven County (CT) * New London County (CT) * Tolland County (CT) * Windham Coby magma1447 - Checker news
Working on updating polygon data for United States. No intentional changes, just aiming to get the latest updates. But I found a few counties which had names which haven't been intentional. I plan to correct those. Coconino County (AZ) (Arizona) -> Coconino County (AZ) Kane County (UT) (Utah) -> Kane County (UT) Kankakee County (IL) (Illinois) -> Kankakee County (IL) Ketchiby magma1447 - Checker news
Counties * Brielle * Hellevoetsluis * Westvoorne has been merged into * Voorne aan Zee This change will happen in Project-GC the coming days (maybe even today). Potentially affected challenge checkers: Potentially affected challenge checker scripts: (source code matches a region/county that has been removed/added/moved) - Potentially affected challenge checker tags: (configby magma1447 - Checker news
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 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
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 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
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 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
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