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by caughtatwork
19 October 23 4:25 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Discussion of new LGA zones
Replies: 3
Views: 13076

Discussion of new LGA zones

As per the announcement, we have created a new set of LGA zones based on the latest information in the Open Street Maps database. We know this data is not perfect, but we use what is free and open :-) Some anomalies that are present at the moment: Fort Denison and in Sydney Harbour and Shark Island ...
by caughtatwork
19 October 23 12:51 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: What's new on Geocaching Australia
Replies: 759
Views: 679741

Re: What's new on Geocaching Australia

You may have seen recently there has been some forum discussion around Local Government Areas. The development team have been hard at work generating data for a full refresh of the LGA's for Australia and New Zealand including some of the combined off-shore islands. These have just been loaded and a...
by caughtatwork
11 October 23 5:03 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Update of NSW Local Government Areas
Replies: 15
Views: 23897

Re: Update of NSW Local Government Areas

Super Secret Stuff! For the moment, I'm going with Mount Buller which covers Mount Stirling. If I get time and interest I'll look into what I can source. My challenge will be misaligned data from multiple datasets. I very strongly suspect that the data used for almost all sources is the ABS data. Th...
by caughtatwork
11 October 23 12:30 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Update of NSW Local Government Areas
Replies: 15
Views: 23897

Re: Update of NSW Local Government Areas

We have Mount Buller which covers Mount Stirling as the "missing piece" from Mansfield. French Island is an L9 ACT is an L4 Various islands are L4 Lord Howe Island is an L9 Huon Valley (Tasmania) also covers Macquarie Island which seems very weird, so we'll spilt those. Yulara and Ayers Rock Airport...
by caughtatwork
10 October 23 9:22 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Update of NSW Local Government Areas
Replies: 15
Views: 23897

Re: Update of NSW Local Government Areas

Hmmm, can't find Mount Buller Alpine Resort. It's blank in the OSM data and the ABS data is not the same shape. I might have to just cut that shape from Mansfield and call it Buller.
by caughtatwork
10 October 23 8:28 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Update of NSW Local Government Areas
Replies: 15
Views: 23897

Re: Update of NSW Local Government Areas

Nice, thanks. Good to know that is the case. We might seek to align ourselves to that data to minimise inconsistencies between sites planning LGA's.
by caughtatwork
09 October 23 5:42 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Update of NSW Local Government Areas
Replies: 15
Views: 23897

Re: Update of NSW Local Government Areas

Thanks for that. There is inconsistency (as there always is) between different maps and details. e.g. Ku-ring-gai in OSM "owns" the land near the Roseville Bridge, but other data from the ABS and Google Maps says that land is actually "owned" by Northern Beaches. It appears that there may be a discr...
by caughtatwork
09 October 23 1:21 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Update of NSW Local Government Areas
Replies: 15
Views: 23897

Re: Update of NSW Local Government Areas

Could you point to the source? We're open to using anything we can that is free and open.
by caughtatwork
09 October 23 8:27 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Update of NSW Local Government Areas
Replies: 15
Views: 23897

Re: Update of NSW Local Government Areas

Thanks. It looks like Jerilderi and Murrumbidgee are now one large LGA called Murrumbidgee. I'll get an update later this afternoon. We do know that some of the new LGA's don't fit perfectly with the existing LGA's, as they are from different sources. We get overlaps :-( We're also looking into refr...
by caughtatwork
02 October 23 11:12 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Report Site Issues Here
Replies: 625
Views: 618718

Re: Report Site Issues Here

Ask DEZ055, it's his challenge. The way it's been coded. We identify all of the the caches for a GeoArt Series which have not been archived. If there are 0 caches which are not archived, then the series is excluded from the challenge. We then get all of the finds you have on caches in the series whi...
by caughtatwork
02 October 23 8:43 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Report Site Issues Here
Replies: 625
Views: 618718

Re: Report Site Issues Here

https://geocaching.com.au/cache/GA27404 Archived GeoArt caches (include the whole series if they are all archived) are not included in this challenge. This was DEZ055's challenge request: if a cache is Archived in the series, then it doesn’t count toward the number of caches needed to complete the s...
by caughtatwork
25 September 23 9:32 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Report Site Issues Here
Replies: 625
Views: 618718

Re: Report Site Issues Here

Thanks for your report. This was a inconsistent error of my making which has now been fixed. Basically the incorrect waypoint (GAnnnn) number was being passed along through the process. Depending on whether the waypoint was subsequently used in the challenge, it would return the incorrect codeword. ...
by caughtatwork
20 September 23 9:13 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Armchair cacher
Replies: 1
Views: 20449

Re: Armchair cacher

He's brute forcing the codewords. I will change all of his logs to Notes.
by caughtatwork
15 September 23 9:40 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Welcome to our newest developer - MattyRx
Replies: 5
Views: 11893

Welcome to our newest developer - MattyRx

I would like you to extend a warm welcome to our newest developer. He is not a new member at Geocaching Australia but after a semi-random discussion about dZ games and the like, we discovered a joint passion for learning and programming and he has offered to step into our vacancy and help out where ...
by caughtatwork
14 September 23 9:56 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Challenge Cache
Replies: 25
Views: 24437

Re: Challenge Cache

To everyone who was successful in their Challenge Cache entry, your cache listing and challenge checker have been created and transferred to you. You should have received a PM this morning explaining where to find your listing and what you next need to do to get your cache listing live. If you have ...