Howdy, I reset the checker for 22 and it does timeout for you. The earlier link still works. An update of that script with a longer time out is here. https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC9F8F4/62686 It still times out for you.by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Folks are still trying to find a continuity graph that is acceptable to HQ. So this probably goes on the back burner.by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Here is a quick attempt. https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC9F8F4/62684 21 Caches in 21 years in 21 different areas. The Canadian territories were already in the old version. I think I got all the US territories as several are separate countries in geocaching speak.by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Please check out https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC9F1ME/62680 I am not sure it is using the correct electoral college. I copies from another script.by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Quick thing. When you write this up, you might want to specify the year the election is run. The electoral college distribution changes every 10 years with the Census and specifying the "current" will create a maintenance issue for the script.by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Howdy, I maintain a couple of variation on Jasmer checkers and am thinking of adding a check to see if they are found already. With this information the checker could override the end date and get rid of the long list of people who "do not meet the requirements" because they found it ages ago. The snippet I am thinking of adding to mine looks like: --deal with already foundby sloth96 - Script development
Would it have been easier to use Generic County checker with a filter set for the counties and a limit of 25?by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
This seems to be a violation of the custom location rule Challenges based on geographic areas other than countries, states/provinces, counties (or their local equivalent). Examples: user-defined mapping polygons, latitude/longitude, radius, etc. Look under Guideline 10. Sorry.by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
If this was disassociated from the badge and merely read have your first find more than 10 years ago, would it be acceptable?by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
So I have been kicking the tired on this version of GetOldestCaches. It appears to work generally ok. Sometimes it does appear to return more caches than the limit. Functionally this does not seem to matter for me. However I am moderately concerned this has a performance impact. A sample script is here https://project-gc.com/Challenges//62550 Thanksby sloth96 - Method requests
Local to me there are some jasmers for Massachusetts and New Hampshire called month-by-month challenges. These are basically Jasmer challenges except only for a smaller area. The checkers for these include the calibration for months not in available. As this could change over time, it seemed appropriate to find away around it. Examples below show this. Right now it only works for single Jasmeby sloth96 - Script development
So thinking a bit philosophically, there is nothing to keep someone from putting up another "questionable" series somewhere in Sweden or anyplace else. Once the challenge is created all the rules to create an "easy" path to it are available and therefore easier to create. This just seems like an escalating arms race. Other challenges have seen this before. My guess is tby sloth96 - Script development
There appears to be different mapping layers on the geocaching maps that show county lines. OpenStreetMap Default, OpenStreetMap German Style, OpenStreetMap Black and White, and ESRI NatGeoWorldMap all appear to have county lines available. (If your instance does not have them try changing the browser as Edge, Chrome, and Firefox all appear to have different layers available.) The map I am usinby sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
This is the sort of checker I am experimenting with. There are certainly optimizations to be made to this one to reduce the number of calls but the functionality is basically there. https://project-gc.com/Challenges//62459by sloth96 - Method requests
I believe the county boundaries shown on geocaching.com are also from open street map.by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Let me experiment further with using this to make an "adaptive jasmer" for filters where some months are missing or a small number of caches away from missing. A virtual jasmer is such an example: Find a virtual cache in each month since the start of caching that has a virtual cache. Or a Large Jasmer is also such an example. Also regional checkers like https://project-gc.com/Challengby sloth96 - Method requests
According to this map on geocaching.com the border is tight against the Kings County shore. It seems you would need to find another cache.by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Much appreciated. I will test tomorrow. I reallyby sloth96 - Method requests
There appears to be an issue using GetOldestCaches when there is a minHiddenDate set in the filter. When it is set the following error appears: Error 8, lua_callbacks.php:1525 Undefined variable: minHiddenDate Example of working code can be seen here:https://project-gc.com/Challenges//62414 Non-working code is https://project-gc.com/Challenges//62415 The working code uses testfilterby sloth96 - Method requests
https://project-gc.com/forum/read?4,53808,53808#msg-53808 Dr. Acorn's adviceby sloth96 - Method requests
Dr. Acorn got me over the hump. I am still frustrated that I cannot request the entire world for something like a jasmer by month. I am also finding it is a slow API. It seems to be a 4 to 5 seconds per call which for a Jasmer could be on the order of 200 for a complete newbie or rare cache type. It would be nice if it sped up be a factor of 20 or more. My guess is that some intermediate tabby sloth96 - Method requests
I am looking to create a more flexible version of the Jasmer checker that automatically identifies if there are any caches available in that time window. Some challenges such as the massachusetts month by month with this checker play games with adjusting the windows. Checker seen here. https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC2KN9X/35021 However unlike the Massachusetts challenge, I would like tby sloth96 - Method requests
After testing I cannot get GetNumCachesInArea() to work.by sloth96 - Method requests
When trying to use GetNumCachesInArea, it seems to return a boolean instead of an integer. Am I missing something here? sample code at https://project-gc.com/Challenges//62392by sloth96 - Script development
Has this been fixed?by sloth96 - Script development
Any feedback on the checker?by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
Yes, you need to have started creating the cache before we can build the checker.by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)
Howdy, Neat idea for a challenge. Can you check with your reviewer that this concept is acceptable? It follows the edge of the guidelines in a way that could go either way. Thanks.by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (completed)
No. We may only be able to show one cache and that callay be buggy as it is likely untested.by sloth96 - ARCHIVE Checker requests (impossible)