I have been wondering for a while how the map works. Specifically, how does it get all the geocaching waypoints? Is there an automated routine that scans the site, are they all entered manually or is the situation somewhere between these two? I am wondering this because there are a number of new caches that the system does not know about, such as The Koonung Trail and Pretty as a Button, both hidden on 23 June.
Also, IÂ’m interested in how the system converts our normal coordinates into those required by the online maps, such as cacheway? How should we correct errors in the system? I think that I have noticed more, but certainly Flax-en Beauty is in the wrong place on your map and all the external ones it links to.
Thanks for your excellent service,
Peter
Map, Editable landmarks and Search - Beta testing [closed]
it's semi-automatic - we just upload .loc files
we just uploaded the latest files and those caches are now on here
the conversions used are pretty standard datum conversions
flax-en beuaty had the wrong coords because they were initially wrong on the secondary site (see the first log by muzza). we don't re-scan caches, so the incorrect coords stayed on our system
we hope to decentralise the cache management so geocaching australia users can update this type of stuff in the future
we just uploaded the latest files and those caches are now on here
the conversions used are pretty standard datum conversions
flax-en beuaty had the wrong coords because they were initially wrong on the secondary site (see the first log by muzza). we don't re-scan caches, so the incorrect coords stayed on our system
we hope to decentralise the cache management so geocaching australia users can update this type of stuff in the future