Twinkle, twinkle, little cache...

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 21 June 09 6:39 pm

A clever Frenchman has generated a lovely video of the progression of caches placed in France, and generously published the Python source for it.

There's a Kiwi version on YouTube now, as well. (View it in HD and as large as you can!)

Would one of you computer whizkids like to do something similar for Oz? (I'm sure someone has a complete Australian GPX file)

(This stupid forum software will let me preview the code, but not submit it, but you can find the Python code at http://forum.geocaching-france.com/suje ... 610&page=2)

Mr Router · Post by **Mr Router** » 21 June 09 6:49 pm

The kiwi link does not work !

Damo. · Post by **Damo.** » 21 June 09 8:16 pm

Ooooo! Pretty.

http://dev.kiwimoose.com/nzcaches.avi
5.8mb file.

Bewilderbeest · Post by **Bewilderbeest** » 21 June 09 10:09 pm

Windows Media Player and Quicktime both refuse to play it

What's the trick?

Kiwi Moose · Post by **Kiwi Moose** » 21 June 09 10:49 pm

I'm not sure what the trick is, 180 odd requests and that's just from the one I've hosted on my box at home it just works. Try right-click the link, save the file and then try to open it. It's encoded with MPEG4 if that helps.

For a newer, slightly nicer version, try that kiwimoose url with nzcachesv2.avi instead or a more reliable Youtube version.

Al

rhinogeo · Post by **rhinogeo** » 21 June 09 11:36 pm

Bewilderbeest wrote:Windows Media Player and Quicktime both refuse to play it

What's the trick?

It works in Quicktime and VLC for me

... have you got the DivX codecs?

It is very cool - I'd like to see one for Oz

Post by **CraigRat** » 21 June 09 11:42 pm

I did something similar like this for tassie in 2005, funnily enough I went hunting for the code the other day to generate it to do another one.... cant find the code though, and I'm kind of sidetracked now by the shiny new server

<hmmm, would make a good render box.....

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Hopefully someone will do one of these soon, will be cool to watch!

squalid · Post by **squalid** » 22 June 09 9:45 pm

I quickly hacked the code to get one for VIC - that's all I've got in GSAK - so quick in fact, it still says France in the title...

Does anyone want to host the avi? I'll try to knock together a more professional looking one in the meantime...

Post by **caughtatwork** » 22 June 09 9:51 pm

I've already got one in PHP but I'm looking for a GIF to AVI converter.

As you can imagine the output is somewhat very large and you need to stream it to get the results otherwise you wait for ages.

squalid · Post by **squalid** » 22 June 09 9:53 pm

avi is 4 MB

squalid · Post by **squalid** » 22 June 09 10:28 pm

Here is a link for Victoria. Not taking any credit for the original code.

rhinogeo · Post by **rhinogeo** » 23 June 09 5:51 pm

squalid wrote:Here is a link for Victoria. Not taking any credit for the original code.

It's interesting to see the regional clusters grow around Benalla, Shep, Wang and Albury/Wodonga

I can pick out many caches I know

squalid · Post by **squalid** » 23 June 09 9:18 pm

I can pick our first two, but it gets a bit tricky after that. We plonked one in Fish Creek simply because back then it seemed to be in the centre of a huge void.

Post by **caughtatwork** » 23 June 09 9:45 pm

mtbikeroz · Post by **mtbikeroz** » 23 June 09 10:02 pm

VERY NICE, well done all concerned.(aka C@W)<p>

Amazing to watch regional cities, regional areas and specific outback highways all grow.