Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

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Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by mtrax » 06 February 15 6:53 am

Over the last few weeks I'm seeing these in my daily emails
Eg
Sense of Fore!boding by Fore! (Aranda) 11.56km North
   GCA: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc1evk8
   Other: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=gc1evk8
   Google Map: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc1evk8.gmap
   Changes:
     - Name: Sense of Fore!boding  -> Sense of Fore!boding

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by caughtatwork » 09 February 15 9:04 am

According to our change table, the value had a trailing space and now it doesn't.

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by mtrax » 09 February 15 10:31 am

there must be alot of these happening is it the user changing this or some sort of clean up?

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by caughtatwork » 09 February 15 12:30 pm

I don't know. Do you have any other examples?

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by mtrax » 09 February 15 12:53 pm

here is a bunch more...
note I haven't got any in the last few days..

Changed Caches:
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#3-Meandering Mirrabei by specimenX (Amaroo) 21.45km North
GCA: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc469yk
Other: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=gc469yk
Google Map: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc469yk.gmap
Changes:
- Name: #3-Meandering Mirrabei -> #3-Meandering Mirrabei

=========================================================
#5-Meandering Mirrabei by specimenX (Ngunnawal) 21.8km North
GCA: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc469yv
Other: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=gc469yv
Google Map: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc469yv.gmap
Changes:
- Name: #5-Meandering Mirrabei -> #5-Meandering Mirrabei

=========================================================
Perseverance by Truffla Trees (Wallaroo) 22.06km North
GCA: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc4rbtm
Other: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=gc4rbtm
Google Map: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc4rbtm.gmap
Changes:
- Name: Perseverance -> Perseverance

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Basil\'s 4th of July by Agent Basil (Red Hill) 7.27km North East
GCA: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc4fpka
Other: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... wp=gc4fpka
Google Map: http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gc4fpka.gmap
Changes:
- Name: Basil\'s 4th of July -> Basil\'s 4th of July

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by Agent Basil » 09 February 15 1:26 pm

I haven't touched "4th of July" listing in any way if that helps

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by mtrax » 09 February 15 1:46 pm

if thats the case I assume the GC.com feed is now truncating the name data now?

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by caughtatwork » 09 February 15 2:40 pm

From the current GPX file:
<groundspeak:name>Basil's 4th of July </groundspeak:name>

Note the additional space at the end of the name. That wasn't there the last time the file was loaded.

The may have been trimmed the last time it was loaded and not this time, depending on the source of the material. i.e. A GPX file from GS, or a GPX file from GSAK, or something else.

How useful is this information anyway? Should we keep it or ignore it?

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by mtrax » 09 February 15 2:43 pm

yes I would ignore any whitespace changes..
ie before/after name

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by Richary » 09 February 15 8:48 pm

If the emails are occurring on a Friday morning then it is possible it is somehow related to my export of caches for ACT/NSW from GSAK. In an effort to help keep logs and stats up to date since the automated work stopped (I read the faeries have decided to have a holiday due to server load :shock: ) I have been taking my weekly PQs which come in on a Wednesday and Thursday night, filtering out for anything GC that hasn't updated, copying that to a new database and doing a get geocache data in GSAK to catch any archived logs which I then import here. I then filter on anything logged in the last 9 days, copy that to another database, delete logs older than 9 days and generate 3 GPX files which seems to cover all the ones with new logs. This generally happens on Thursday night but might occasionally be Friday.

However I'm not changing the export settings each week so I don't know why it would be changing the name from week to week, the export settings for waypoint name is simply %Code and cache description is %Name. Perhaps someone else is doing the same as me but with slightly different GSAK settings leading to the variation? Maybe a rogue space before or after the %Name which wouldn't be visible on the screen (I have just checked and mine definitely doesn't).

If I am somehow causing problems I am happy to stop and just import anything I have found straight from the Groundspeak GPX file for each cache so my stats stay correct.

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by crew 153 » 10 February 15 12:36 pm

I also do an update of ACT caches on a Sunday night. I run 2 PQs which are sett to capture any logs in the previous 7 days. I import these directly to GCA and then into my GSAK database where I check to see if there have been 5 new logs added to the caches in that period and for any that have 5 new logs I run a "Recent logs" command to get the last 200 logs on those caches and then create a GPX file for them and import that to GCA.

Like Richary, I do not manipulate the cache name at all before importing and just use %Name and %Code in the settings.

I also run all the other states (and NZ) using the same method at some time during the week.

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by mtrax » 10 February 15 12:40 pm

hopefully C@W can suppress theses changes from daily cache alert list

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by Richary » 10 February 15 6:30 pm

It's probably worth noting in troubleshooting that I haven't seen the same symptom occurring in the feed here in Sydney, so if crew 153 is doing the NSW feed as well during the week then it doesn't appear his and my uploads are clashing (unless he is doing it the same night as me).

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by mtrax » 11 February 15 6:58 am

Fyi Got some more this morning :arrow:
Just in case you uploaded some more gpx files

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Re: Daily alert with cache name changes which aren't changed

Post by crew 153 » 11 February 15 9:19 am

I believe that C@W recently changed the feed program to allow the update of the cache name field as it was not being done before. Possibly there are caches out there that are still catching up to previous errors. It would be interesting to see if the same caches keep re-occurring in notifications.

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