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Geocacher Clock

Post by Cached » 19 October 10 12:31 pm

I'm loving the clock! I've put my time together and uploaded it, and was chuffed to see it wander through at 11:11 this morning.

I'm a bit concerned that the locationless seems to encourage people to take photo's of clocks showing the time - and that they really aren't clear! Can we have some sort of peer review on it?

I think this is the line causing the confusion - "Take a photograph of you along with a time piece clearly showing the time." Afterwards it gets clearer, but it seems to suggest taking a pic of a clock - and at least one of them isn't on the time advertised!

Keep up the good work - love the innovation (no matter where it's stolen from!)

Seems I've got the bug again,

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Re: Geocacher Clock

Post by caughtatwork » 19 October 10 1:07 pm

Updated a bit.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga2610
Is that a bit better?

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Re: Geocacher Clock

Post by Cached » 19 October 10 3:29 pm

Yep, much better. Takes the "real clock" impression out of it.

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Post by nomad_penguin » 20 October 10 12:46 pm

Now that I have looked at them all, I think we (or someone) should be able to remove the ones that make no sense (that is, no time displayed).

I loved steptoe's efforts. Now I just need to plan my image ...

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Re: Geocacher Clock

Post by caughtatwork » 20 October 10 1:01 pm

Well, damn, I was really hoping people wouldn't do that.
I'll remove the non-clocky ones tonight and see what we can do about monitoring the images.

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Re: Geocacher Clock

Post by gmj3191 » 20 October 10 1:55 pm

Peter,
I tried to improve my pic for 13:18 but accidentally uploaded one to 1:18.
Even though I deleted it, I think 1:18 has been taken off the "available list".
Could you fix please?
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Re: Geocacher Clock

Post by caughtatwork » 20 October 10 2:01 pm

http://geocaching.com.au/clock/
1:18 is still showing as belonging to you.
Can you try to delete it again.
There may be a bug in the deleter.

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Re: Geocacher Clock

Post by gmj3191 » 20 October 10 4:59 pm

I deleted the one there, and then added it back for 13:18 and all good now.
Between us we fixed it :-" (Might have just been me recovering from my earlier error shhh)

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Post by Cached » 20 October 10 5:52 pm

C@W - Maybe it needs to be a little more dummy proof - something along the lines of

DON'T JUST TAKE A PICTURE OF THE TIME ON A CLOCK OR YOUR GPS.

That might do it.

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Post by caughtatwork » 20 October 10 6:38 pm

gmj3191 wrote:I deleted the one there, and then added it back for 13:18 and all good now.
Between us we fixed it :-" (Might have just been me recovering from my earlier error shhh)
Excellent. I was just about to fire up my debugger.

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Post by caughtatwork » 20 October 10 6:39 pm

Cached wrote:C@W - Maybe it needs to be a little more dummy proof - something along the lines of

DON'T JUST TAKE A PICTURE OF THE TIME ON A CLOCK OR YOUR GPS.

That might do it.
I was hoping it wasn't that hard, but maybe I be wrong :-(

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Re: Geocacher Clock

Post by gmj3191 » 20 October 10 6:49 pm

OK, to keep the serenity at a sufficient level, I deleted the outstanding portrait of myself with GPS showing the time
and attempted to upload a new picture, but the original photo keeps reappearing, so it looks like the thing does have bugs.

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Re: Geocacher Clock

Post by gmj3191 » 20 October 10 6:57 pm

My apologies, I had to reboot for something else, and I tried this again and it worked.
Must have been a browser cache related problem or just a browser bug, as the files had different names,
Anyway, all sweet now thanks.

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Re: Geocacher Clock

Post by Cached » 20 October 10 7:00 pm

caughtatwork wrote:
Cached wrote:C@W - Maybe it needs to be a little more dummy proof - something along the lines of

DON'T JUST TAKE A PICTURE OF THE TIME ON A CLOCK OR YOUR GPS.

That might do it.
I was hoping it wasn't that hard, but maybe I be wrong :-(
Unfortunately, think you were :cry:

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