Glitch in numerous challenge checkers due to replacement of US Connecticut's 8 historic counties with 9 new "COGs"

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:36:30 +0000

Hi, PCG has recently worked on (and perhaps completed?) the shift from 8 historic counties in Connecticut to 9 "councils of government" - see thread. Here is a helpful map that shows the boundaries of both the old counties and new COGs. Both the Map County tool and some challenge checkers have caught up with the change, prominently including the Connecticut County Challenge Cache (which, amusingly, a couple of years ago I qualified for and claimed with 8 counties, but now would not qualify because none of my CT finds happen to fall into the new 9th COG).

That CT county challenge checker correctly shows that I have a find in the "Capitol Region COG" (which encompasses all of the old "Hartford County," including the City of Hartford, the capitol of CT). It lists my find of GC1D8DR, which is in the old Hartford County as well as the new Capitol Region COG. I also have a number of other finds in that county/COG, such as GC8W248.

But, many (perhaps all?) of the US "State Capitol Challenge" checkers, using different scripts and tagging, have not caught up. For example, GC7W7ZZ checker, GC9MBK7 checker, and GC7KRYF checker all omit my find in Hartford County/Capitol Region COG. I have looked at a few other county-based challenges, and for example "finds in 100 counties" type of challenges seem to include the new COGs.

My guess is that those checkers are hard coded/tagged to look for a find in "Hartford County," but that county no longer exists in the Project-GC system. I could flag this glitch to each of those checkers, but there are at least 20 state capital/capitol-based challenges in the US (just based on looking at the titles of the challenges). So I am hoping there is a more systematic way to fix this problem.

Thanks for the great work everyone does on PGC, and challenges in particular. bejs

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Glitch in numerous challenge checkers due to replacement of US Connecticut's 8 historic counties with 9 new "COGs"