GPX Files [closed]

TEAM LANDCRUISER · Post by **TEAM LANDCRUISER** » 04 February 05 4:34 pm

I've just downloaded and opened the latest WA.gpx file in GSAK and it lists three caches now, although one of the caches is an old (2002) archived cache of Team Pathfinders. I'm not sure if this is a bug or an error?

Gunn Parker · Post by **Gunn Parker** » 04 February 05 4:43 pm

Thats the same as I got.

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 04 February 05 5:24 pm

that's what we get too

perhaps team pathfinders was playing around with transferring a cache to gca and used an old cache

we want the system to be open, so we have deliberately included archived caches in gpx files

TEAM LANDCRUISER · Post by **TEAM LANDCRUISER** » 04 February 05 5:38 pm

Yes I agree leave the archived in there .. we love our history!<p>It was just the gc cache that I thought was strange ... but as you say it could be 'the blonde'

playing with the new tools. That thought didn't occur to me

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 05 February 05 11:51 am

I haven't looked at the GPX's yet - but is there one for all of Australia?

I might not cache everywhere, but I collect all the information for interests sake.

While there are such a small amount of caches included in the GPX, would this be easy enough to do?

Thanks

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 05 February 05 4:28 pm

there isn't one for australia because we are trying to keep bandwidth down
we will be moving them to a different server with lots of bandwidth so we could do one then
unlike the secondary site, we include all caches and all logs, so they get quite large! the nsw one is already 450k and we've only got a handful of caches listed at present

Richary · Post by **Richary** » 05 February 05 5:42 pm

ideology wrote:unlike the secondary site, we include all caches and all logs, so they get quite large! the nsw one is already 450k and we've only got a handful of caches listed at present

I'm wondering if that might limit how usable they are to some people? Not everyone is on broadband so once they get over 1-2MB they are getting a bit too big to download. Perhaps once the page is setup to generate your own queries that would be an option that is selectable, all or only last 4 logs.</p>

Once we have the cache in GSAK we only really need the logs since the last time the file was generated to get all the history.

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 05 February 05 5:49 pm

Hi

I know, I know, I know I should know this, but can someone please point me to the link so as I can download the gpx files. Can't find the thread

Thanks
Andrew

swampgecko · Post by **swampgecko** » 05 February 05 5:51 pm

try this link... it's the one I use.. I have it bookmarked too

Aushiker · Post by **Aushiker** » 05 February 05 5:57 pm

swampgecko wrote:try this link... it's the one I use.. I have it bookmarked too

Thankyou kind sir.

Andrew

aussiecoder · Post by **aussiecoder** » 05 February 05 9:51 pm

If size is a problem, why not zip them - being XML and text they'd shrink right down !

I've done this before on web sites that need to download large text files.

You can be super smart and zip "on the fly" or "on demand" or batched up waiting for downloads.

Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 07 February 05 8:20 am

Great idea aussiecoder, I've done on they fly compression before and it works a treat for this sort of data. Most underrated HTTP extension there is, I reckon.

I'll make a note of it.

- Rog