Question

Is there a way to make a checker for the Florida DeLorme Challenge (GC5702R)?

Answer 1

I have updated my script for checking polygons with the required data for the florida challenge. I also extended the functionality to handle the special cases with multiple areas on one page a little nicer and fixed a bug when an area had multiple polygons.

Here is the checker script:

http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5702R/2004

Comments

Thank you! Very nice checker.

Answer 2

I would expect lillfiluren to fix this one as well. He has a script that aims to solve the Delorme challenges. But many of them have two problems:

• Special rules that makes them differ from others, like "no events", or "may not use the same cache twice when pages are overlapping". Things like that makes it complicated and a lot more work.
• Most of them do not have any polygon data. There is no delorme-book into the Project-GC-servers, so that issue has to be solved as well in some way.

But I would expect this to be solved with time, but there probably are a few hours of work per Delorme challenge that has special rules.

Comments

When I do it right, it is probably not a few hours, more like 30 minutes, the problem is that I forget how to do it right. This time I think I will document somewhere. I'll take it as a challenge to set up a new delorme challenge in less than an hour (if the rules are not too weird).

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OK, it took a little over an hour... link in separate answer.