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[SecretSquirrel-BJC]

bugger - it was worth a shot

[canary]

Why does my "Most Northern (etc.) Cache Found / Attempted" on my General Statistics page show movable caches at loactions where they were placed by others after I found them?

It does not do this on my Centroids Statistics page.

[caughtatwork]

'cos they use different code
This has been commented on as being confusing a few times, so I'll make a change tonight to remove moveable caches from the most N, S, E, W caches found as well.

[canary]

Thanks.

[caughtatwork]

Done.

[Trigg-A-Nomics]

The GPX for GA1869 and other mystery cache gpx exports give the geocache type as Other when it should be Unknown as per the cache page.

This is causing me grief when importing into GSAK as Moveables are also tagged as Other.

[caughtatwork]

Be very careful.
Do NOT equate the GC cache types with GCA cache types.
Unknown / mystery cache comes up as "Unknown Cache" in the GC GPX files and "Other" in the GCA GPX files.
Even if we changed "Other" to something else, they are not necessarily treated the same in GSAK.

Note the xsd schema for GCA is http://geocaching.com.au/geocache/1/geocache.xsd
The type is enumerated and the value "Unknown" is not known.

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						<xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
							<xsd:enumeration value="Traditional"/>
							<xsd:enumeration value="Multi"/>
							<xsd:enumeration value="Virtual"/>
							<xsd:enumeration value="Webcam"/>
							<xsd:enumeration value="Event"/>
							<xsd:enumeration value="Other"/>
							<xsd:enumeration value="Locationless"/>
							<xsd:enumeration value="benchmark"/>
						</xsd:restriction>

It "may" be possible to change it.
Careful consideration needs to be given to whether or not GSAK will handle it properly.
Not only the latest version of GSAK, but it also needs to work or fail gracefully for older versions.

At this stage, I am not expecting that this will change, but I will run some testing (when I get the time) and see if this can be addressed.

I should point out that despite it not appearing as you expect, this is not necessarily a fault.

[CraigRat]

It should work better now, Unknown/Mystery types should load with the correct cache type now.

Let me know if it doesn't work for you by replying in this thread.

[Zalgariath]

Nope that worked! Just updated a single GCA Mystery and it now bears the GC '?' Symbol

[caughtatwork]

Isn't he a clever little poppet

[Trigg-A-Nomics]

It should work better now, Unknown/Mystery types should load with the correct cache type now.

Awesome work!

I keep my GC & GCA caches in separate databases in GSAK. I just wanted some way to distinguish between GCA Moveables and GCA Mysteries/Unknowns. (Amaze is currently SA's only GCA Unknown cache!) All sorted!

[SecretSquirrel-BJC]

thanks whoever.

[caughtatwork]

thanks whoever.

You're welcome
Hope it brought a smile to your face.

[setsujoku]

Just an observation.

When GCA caches are being archived by "reviewers" (in this case Snuva), the cache shows up on GCA as being archived by Geocaching Australia, but when the notification comes through on the twitter feed that the cache has been archived, it shows that Snuva has archived the cache, rather than Geocaching Australia.

Not really an issue, but just an observation that probably not much could be done about

[caughtatwork]

Thanks.
Will have a look tonight.
We had the twitter feed off for a while as snipr.com was acting up.
As we've only recently added a few terminators to the list, we've missed that one.