Useless but kind of interesting little WP Plotter from C@W

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Useless but kind of interesting little WP Plotter from C@W

Post by caughtatwork » 01 March 06 7:48 pm

Not sure what forum to put this in, so as it's software but not GCA specific I chose this one.

On occasion I like to see where I've cached before. I can do that quite easily with Ozi, etc, but if I wanted to put a picture up on my website that shows where Ive found caches, then I would have to make a new picture each time I find new caches.

I also like to stickybeak at where others may have cached. It serves no really useful purpose, I just find it kind of interesting.

So, I came up with this idea.

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This solution is directed at people who want to display an image of where they have cached in near real time (well, probably a day late at the best).

This is not a final solution, so please don't call it directly to your site just yet. It's highly likely that the final name will change so it will end up with a broken image.

You can play with it here:
http://www.caughtatwork.net/geocaching/wpplotter/

Please note that due to certain constraints (beyond my control), you MUST supply the cacher name with the correct case.

ie. caughtatwork will work. CaughtAtWork will NOT work and will indicate you should check the caching name.

Enter your own caching name and see if it works for you.

Have fun and please tell me whether you can see any immediate improvements. Note that I probably won't increase the size of the images any more, so that will be the final level of granularity (artefacts included).

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Post by Nosugrefs » 01 March 06 7:54 pm

It works really well caughtatwork. I had all the right red splodges in all the right places in all the right sizes relative to numbers. Very cute. well done.

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Post by Map Monkey » 01 March 06 8:10 pm

Nice 8)

Now i know what you've been up to with that other thread :twisted:

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Post by caughtatwork » 01 March 06 8:40 pm

agsmky wrote:Nice 8)

Now i know what you've been up to with that other thread :twisted:

Agsmky
Yeah, that just happened at the right time too.
It's a great view of your expedition I reckon.

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Post by acts2youthgroup » 01 March 06 8:54 pm

I love all off the stats stuff you come out with, you do a great job.
Here is a bit of a personal request, I would like to see the time frame on reaching a 1000 caches for all those that have achieved this milestone.
Yes I admit it I am a stats junkie.

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Post by caughtatwork » 01 March 06 9:06 pm

Just for you acts2.
Pipped by 4 days (all things being equal and all finds coming through on time).

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Post by acts2youthgroup » 01 March 06 9:17 pm

Thanks I knew Dak did it faster, but I just wanted to see where every one else was siting.

Like I said I love stats.
Great work

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Post by CraigRat » 01 March 06 9:51 pm

I'd like to claim prior art and 50% of all revenue raised from your...oh...waity... nevermind.

http://craigrat.cachegurus.com/staticpa ... 3051152985

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Seriously good stuff there c@w!!

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Post by CraigRat » 01 March 06 9:58 pm

Heres a challenge...some kind of density plot over the top of the map....

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Post by caughtatwork » 01 March 06 10:05 pm

BWHAHAHAHA!

Sorry, I didn't know you'd already done something like this otherwise I would have stolen, um, asked nicely for your code :D

Looks like brillant minds think alike.

What is this density thing you speak of?
Keep in mind that I don't have access to everything.
Normally I don't have access to lat/long co-ords. I kind of work around that with this solution in a little bit of a sleazy way (but I'm sure the owners won't mind).

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Post by Papa Bear_Left » 01 March 06 10:15 pm

Hmm... our world map is here. (Link rather than image to avoid stressing C@W's bandwidth)

The NSW, SA, WA and NZ conglomerations make sense, as do the few in Arizona. The blip in Tassie is a moveable cache in some traffic, so that's OK.

However, there's a persistent blip off the coast of Africa that's a bit puzzling, and some others in the mid-ocean that seem to come and go.

Any thoughts on what they could be?

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Post by Geof » 01 March 06 10:34 pm

Very nice :) Theres one in Sydney I can't ever remember doing. Would that be "That's the Trig" locationless maybe?

I'v been thinking for some time that a good graph to add would be the ratio of caches one owns that are archived excluding events. ie a muggle resistance rating of ones caches.

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Post by Cached » 01 March 06 11:24 pm

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Cool! You can see the interstate highways, dubbo, sydney, melbourne, adelaide and tassie!

Very impressed!

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Post by ideology » 02 March 06 7:40 am

wow, excellent stuff!

bear_left, you can see what the supurious dots are by using the google earth log link from your cacher page. they mainly seem to be some caches called "tricky" which for some reason we don't have the correct coordinates and are therefore passing c@w incorrect data

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Post by Suitman » 02 March 06 7:47 am

Cached wrote:Cool! You can see the interstate highways, dubbo, sydney, melbourne, adelaide and tassie!

Very impressed!
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Great work Caught@Work!

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