Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged uk

Error in Counties in Wales and Scotland

Fri, 21 May 2021 12:56:17 +0000

Hope this hasn't already been raised, can't see anything about the UK here though there appears to be similar resolved issue with Germany. On the UK maps, going onto Regions: Southern Scotland gives me "7 of 0 counties logged" though the coloured sections on the map work, though the non-completed counties are grey not white. The Northern Scotland region is also wrong, as it displays 4 of 32, which is not the right number of counties, and the ones in Southern Scotland also show in white, not coloured in as would be correct. The same issue (with different numbers obviously) is also true with North Wales and South Wales (2 out of 0 in North Wales, 4 out of 22 in South Wales). Also, is there meant to be any logic to the order the regions, didn't they use to be in alphabetical order?

Northerm Ireland is badly assigned to the country

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 21:44:34 +0000

Hi

I found caches in Northern Ireland, but the map is empty. Why?

Thx for answer

koc256

Is Bath in the UK in the Avon county?

Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:34:37 +0000

I did a couple of caches in the city of Bath yesterday. When I downloaded them into GSAK they showed as being in the county of Avon.

If I look at the county map of the U.K. In Tools/Map countues Bath is shown as part of Somerset county.

A Google search of the county Avon was not very useful. I understand the UK does not have defined county borders. Is this one of the anomalies?

Map regions broken for UK

Thu, 07 Apr 2016 09:38:12 +0000

I was so eager to try the new UK regions and ran into a site error:

http://project-gc.com/Tools/MapRegions?profile_name=NamelessGuy&country=United+Kingdom&submit=Filter

The Map Regions work for every country I tried, except UK. It returns the following error:

Page broken, this should not happen. If this error persists for more than 24 hours, please report it.

Keep the new UK polygon data?

Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:36:47 +0000

This week we have updated polygon data for the United Kingdom. This included updating data for Scotland which had old and very broken data before, and for Wales.

It also ended up with some changes for England. We have used the data from OpenStreetMap as we normally do. For all other countries we use the data defined as administrative borders. Their data is described here, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative.

The OSM data can be viewed online here, https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/

We know many argue for using ceremonial borders for UK. Our tools doesn't allow that today and it would be quite a lot of work. Our old data didn't use them either, so there is no difference for this case. All other countries use the administrative borders, so it's a way more consistent with the rest of the world.

Considering we are using Metropolitan and non-metropolitan, the data we have now should be as correct as OSM has it. The future changes should then be minor, and only change if OSM changes their data (not live, it's still a manual task).

The question is, should we keep this data, or use the old data? Remember, using the old data will ruin the data of Scotland again.

We also just fixed a bug with the maps in Profile stats. If they rendered weirdly for you, hold down shift or ctrl while refreshing the page and it should fix itself.

Feel free to leave a comment about your thoughts.

Missing counties UK

Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:09:14 +0000

There is a big mess now in the UK map.

Many found counties are now grey instead of green and if I click on the loser look, they are not even light grey, but dark grey, like a different region.

What's happened to the UK counties map?

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:40:15 +0000

The UK Counties Map seems to have changed quite a lot. In 'Map Counties', some counties like South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire seem to have been split up into smaller sections (which are NOT counties), and West Midlands (which wasn't a county anyway) has been similarly cut up.

However, the counties map on the Profile Stats 'Maps' tab is the same as it always was, but with bits greyed out where I previously had loads of finds - such as South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

I realise the mapping info is taken from somewhere else, and isn't good for the UK anyway, but can it please please please be kept consistent?

Northern Ireland is not green on my maps anymore!?

Mon, 09 Nov 2015 08:56:06 +0000

I already cached in Ireland and the UK. Until a few weeks ago when I last checked my maps on my Statistic profile the complete island of Ireland and the UK were green.

But now Northern Ireland is suddenly white again. I didn't actually do a cache in the North of Ireland but before it belonged to the UK.

So I checked the profile of another cacher who did several caches in Ulster, Ireland and it is white on his map as well.

So I guess it might be a problem with some of the latest polygon updates?

Otherwise where do I have to log a cache to get this area green again?

Did Northern Ireland vote for independence lately? ;-)

Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:28:22 +0000

I learned, that Project GC relies on how Groundspeak defines countries for consistency reasons, which is great.

And on the face of this I also learned, that Groundspeak defines Northern Ireland as an independent country (and not part of the UK), when I spotted this little white on my Map of Europe today. ;-)

I just found a JPEG in my archive of this Map of Europe from 2015-08 which I downloaded ... and by that time the whole of the UK was coloured in green, including Norther Ireland ... and today it's white.

Did the guys from GC.com change anything lately or did I miss any info that Belfast & Co. recently became independent!? ;-)

All best,
Dirk.

PS: Well, it would be quite a tough job to get to Belfast...