garenkreiz

40 days and counting since the bug report, it's still there!

The order of the pictures on my log pages is back to normal, with the first uploaded picture first, consistent with the order on the cache page. Thanks to Groundspeak for correcting the bug.

I opened a tracker to another issue that may be related but appeared recently : reverse order for the pictures in the log pages

In my case, galleries and cache pages seem to be fine (I'm only using the website to upload pictures). The bug appears only in the log page.

My last 2 logs http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=de881951-adda-4296-899b-66fde268fc7e http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=3294576c-afb5-46fc-9a0d-560a0238eeea for example. But all my logs are affected including the older ones like http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=b10706c3-a343-41e3-846e-de01ba28ae46

In the pages displaying a log, the order of the images recently changed (in the past 2 weeks). The images used to be sorted in the upload order, the same order that is used when a log is displayed as part of a cache page. The Next Image button thus doesn't work as expected as in fact it links to an image that was uploaded previously to the current one. Users were used to have the images sorted in the chronological order in the log description and page description and in the reverse order (latest first) in the images' gallery. The situation is now inconsistent.

Quick status on the adoption of this kind of visualisation : it has been used for France but also Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Czech Republic, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Europe. Asia, Africa, Antartica, South-America, are you there? A new version of the script, more powerful but a bit more complicated to used, is available on GitHub/GarenKreiz/Geocaching-Animation. The videos can now be decorated with images and logo, coastline and borders, travels of a given geocacher.

I support this view. It shouldn't be difficult to implement using the log date as a default one for uploaded pictures or alternatively just reusing the date set for the previous uploaded picture. I think it would also benefit Groundspeak as changing the date after uploading a picture requires 2 additional web pages with the picture in it thus inducing an additional workload on the servers and the network connections!

Thanks for this promotion of my video!

Hi A few months ago I wrote a small program to create an animation film showing the . I then published my program in a French geocaching forum and it spawned similar initiatives in other countries. As this forum closed, I'm posting here to publish an improved open source version of my Python script. It can process GPX files (as generated for pocket queries) or tabular CSV files (as exported by programs like GSAK). It tries to find, for a given area, when caches appeared and when they became unavailable or were archived. When given an additional argument, if the cache database contain the result of a "My Finds" queries, it can display a crude approximation of the travels of the geocacher when placing or searching caches. There is room for improvements like displaying the true history of each cache but it would require to process all the logs. Feel free to use it and modify it. Feedback providing links to videos generated for different countries would be appreciated. GarenKreiz #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: iso-latin-1 -*- # Generation of an animation film showing the development of geocaches in France # Generation d'une animation montrant le développement des géocaches en France # # Copyright GarenKreiz at geocaching.com or on YouTube # Auteur GarenKreiz sur geocaching.com ou sur YouTube # # Example: # http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQEG5hvDyGs # Requires: # Python environment (tested with version 2.6.5) # GPXParser module from http://pinguin.ds.mpg.de/~ihrke/wiki/index.php/GPXParser.py # PIL the Python Imaging Library to generate the images of the animation # mencoder from MPlayer package to generate the video from images # GPX file or CSV export file containing the caches' information (see loadFromCSV method) # Notes: # Many thanks to VNC (www.geocaching-france.com) and eolas (www.mides.fr) for the data on France # If you use this program, I'd appreciate to hear from you! # # Licence: # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. # import os import re import sys import time import math import string import GPXParser from PIL import Image from PIL import ImageDraw from PIL import ImageFont currentCountry = 'France' # bounding rectangle of the country or state # limites de la France metropolitaine + Corse maxLatCountry = 51.08917 # dunes du Perroquet, Bray-Dunes près de Zuydcoote minLatCountry = 41.33333 # cap di u Beccu, Iles Lavezzi, Corse minLonCountry = -5.15083 # phare de Nividic, Ouessant maxLonCountry = 9.56000 # plage Fiorentine, Alistro, Corse scaleXY = (75,107) # adapt to fit video size and preserve X/Y ratio xSize,ySize=1120,1080 # size of output image bigPixels = 1 # draw big pixels (2x2), otherwise (1x1) # cache types ARCHIVED = 0 ACTIVE = 1 UNAVAILABLE = 2 EVENT = 3 TRACK = 4 def getDistance(lat1, lng1, lat2, lng2): # # calculate the distance (air) in km between 2 points given their coordinates # # circumference at equator in km circ = 24830.0 * 1.609344 lat1,lng1 = math.radians(lat1),math.radians(lng1) lat2,lng2 = math.radians(lat2),math.radians(lng2) a = lng1 - lng2 if a < 0.0: a = -a if a > math.pi: a = 2.0 * math.pi - a angle = math.acos(math.sin(lat2) * math.sin(lat1) +\ math.cos(lat2) * math.cos(lat1) * math.cos(a)) distance = circ * angle / (2.0 * math.pi) return distance class GCAnimation: def __init__(self,(scaleX,scaleY),minLon,maxLon,minLat,maxLat): if os.name <> 'posix': # Windows fonts fontPath = "c:\Windows\Fonts\ARIAL.TTF" fontPathFixed = "c:\Windows\Fonts\COURBD.TTF" else: # Linux fonts fontPath = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf" fontPathFixed = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf" self.fontArial = ImageFont.truetype ( fontPath, 40 ) self.fontArialMedium = ImageFont.truetype ( fontPath, 32 ) self.fontArialSmall = ImageFont.truetype ( fontPath, 24 ) self.fontFixed = ImageFont.truetype ( fontPathFixed, 32 ) self.scaleX,self.scaleY = scaleX,scaleY self.XMinLon,self.XMaxLon = (minLon - 0.05),(maxLon + 0.15) self.YMinLat,self.YMaxLat = (minLat - 0.1),(maxLat + 0.1) self.LX = int((self.XMaxLon-self.XMinLon)*self.scaleX) self.LY = int((self.YMaxLat-self.YMinLat)*self.scaleY) if (self.LX < xSize) and (self.LY < ySize): self.LX,self.LY = xSize,ySize self.imResult = Image.new('RGB',(self.LX,self.LY),0) imDraw = ImageDraw.Draw(self.imResult) imDraw.text((30,5), "Géocaches en France" , font=self.fontArial, fill="red") imDraw.text((35,50), "animation: GarenKreiz" , font=self.fontArialSmall, fill="red") imDraw.text((35,80), "musique: Pedro Collares (Gothic)", font=self.fontArialSmall, fill="red") imDraw.text((36,110), "licence: CC BY-NC-SA" , font=self.fontArialSmall, fill="red") self.allWpts = {} # list of all GC waypoints # animation of the creation or disparition of a cache : list of pixels to lighten up for each animation frame # the position is relative to the location of the cache # 0 : cache archiving, 1: cache activation self.flashAnimation = { 0: { # circles getting smaller 0: [(-8,+8),(+8,+8),(-8,-8),(+8,-8),(-9,+9),(+9,+9),(-9,-9),(+9,-9),(-11,0),(+11,0),(0,-11),(0,+11)], 1: [(-8,+8),(+8,+8),(-8,-8),(+8,-8),(-10,0),(+10,0),(0,-10),(0,+10)], 2: [(-7,+7),(+7,+7),(-7,-7),(+7,-7),(-8,+8),(+8,+8),(-8,-8),(+8,-8),(-10,0),(+10,0),(0,-10),(0,+10)], 3: [(-7,+7),(+7,+7),(-7,-7),(+7,-7),(-9,0),(+9,0),(0,-9),(0,+9)], 4: [(-6,+6),(+6,+6),(-6,-6),(+6,-6),(-7,+7),(+7,+7),(-7,-7),(+7,-7),(-9,0),(+9,0),(0,-9),(0,+9)], 5: [(-6,+6),(+6,+6),(-6,-6),(+6,-6),(-8,0),(+8,0),(0,-8),(0,+8)], 6: [(-5,+5),(+5,+5),(-5,-5),(+5,-5),(-6,+6),(+6,+6),(-6,-6),(+6,-6),(-8,0),(+8,0),(0,-8),(0,+8)], 7: [(-5,+5),(+5,+5),(-5,-5),(+5,-5),(-7,0),(+7,0),(0,-7),(0,+7)], 8: [(-4,+4),(+4,+4),(-4,-4),(+4,-4),(-5,+5),(+5,+5),(-5,-5),(+5,-5),(-7,0),(+7,0),(0,-7),(0,+7)], 9: [(-4,+4),(+4,+4),(-4,-4),(+4,-4),(-5,0),(+5,0),(0,-5),(0,+5)], 10: [(-3,+3),(+3,+3),(-3,-3),(+3,-3),(-4,+4),(+4,+4),(-4,-4),(+4,-4),(-5,0),(+5,0),(0,-5),(0,+5)], 11: [(-3,+3),(+3,+3),(-3,-3),(+3,-3),(-4,0),(+4,0),(0,-4),(0,+4)], 12: [(-2,+2),(+2,+2),(-2,-2),(+2,-2),(-3,+3),(+3,+3),(-3,-3),(+3,-3),(-4,0),(+4,0),(0,-4),(0,+4)], 13: [(-2,+2),(+2,+2),(-2,-2),(+2,-2),(-3,0),(+3,0),(0,-3),(0,+3)], 14: [(-1,+1),(+1,+1),(-1,-1),(+1,-1),(-2,+2),(+2,+2),(-2,-2),(+2,-2),(-3,0),(+3,0),(0,-3),(0,+3)], 15: [(-1,+1),(+1,+1),(-1,-1),(+1,-1)], 16: [(-1,+1),(+1,+1),(-1,-1),(+1,-1)], }, 1: { # blinking star 0: [(-1,0),(+1,0),(0,-1),(0,+1)], 1: [(-2,0),(-1,0),(+1,0),(+2,0),(0,-2),(0,-1),(0,+1),(0,+2)], 2: [(-2,0),(-1,0),(+1,0),(+2,0),(0,-2),(0,-1),(0,+1),(0,+2),(-3,0),(+3,0),(0,-3),(0,+3)], 3: [(-2,0),(-1,0),(+1,0),(+2,0),(0,-2),(0,-1),(0,+1),(0,+2),(-3,0),(+3,0),(0,-3),(0,+3),(-5,0),(+5,0),(0,-5),(0,+5)], 4: [(-2,0),(-1,0),(+1,0),(+2,0),(0,-2),(0,-1),(0,+1),(0,+2),(-3,0),(+3,0),(0,-3),(0,+3)], 5: [(-2,0),(-1,0),(+1,0),(+2,0),(0,-2),(0,-1),(0,+1),(0,+2)], 6: [(-1,0),(+1,0),(0,-1),(0,+1)], 7: [], 8: [], 9: [], 10: [], 11: [], 12: [], 13: [], 14: [], 15: [], 16: [], }, } # 0,255,0 : green - 0,255,255 : light blue - 255,0,0 : red # 255,255,0 : yellow - 255,0,255 : purple - 0,0,255 : blue self.flashColor = { ARCHIVED : (255,0,255), # purple for archiving ACTIVE : (255,255,0), # yellow for creation } self.cacheColor = { ARCHIVED : (255,0,0), # red ACTIVE : (0,255,255), # light blue UNAVAILABLE : (255,102,0), # orange EVENT : (0,255,0), # green TRACK : (255,0,255), # purple } self.flashCursor = 0 self.flashLength = len(self.flashAnimation[0]) self.flashList = {} for active in range(0,2): self.flashList[active] = {} for i in range(0,self.flashLength): self.flashList[active][i] = [] def drawPoint(self,active,x,y): self.imResult.putpixel((x,y),self.cacheColor[active]) if bigPixels == 1: self.imResult.putpixel((x+1,y),self.cacheColor[active]) self.imResult.putpixel((x,y+1),self.cacheColor[active]) self.imResult.putpixel((x+1,y+1),self.cacheColor[active]) def newItem(self,name,lat,lon,active,eventTime): try: if not (lat,lon,name,active) in self.allWpts[eventTime]: self.allWpts[eventTime].append((lat,lon,name,active)) self.nAddedCaches += 1 except: self.allWpts[eventTime] = [(lat,lon,name,active)] self.nAddedCaches += 1 return def convertDate(self,dateString): if dateString <> "": strTime = dateString+" 00:00:01Z" return int(time.mktime(time.strptime(strTime, "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%SZ"))) else: return 0 def loadFromCSV(self,myCSV,minLon,maxLon,minLat,maxLat,geocacher=None): # Fields included in the GSAK view used to export to CSV # Code,Cache Type,Note,Last4Logs,Last Log,Waypoint Name,Placed By,Placed,Last Found,Found,Country,Lat,Lon,Status,Url,Found by me,Owner Id print 'Processing',myCSV fInput = open(myCSV,'r') if geocacher <> None: geocacher = geocacher.upper() self.nAddedCaches = 0 l = fInput.readline() while l <> '': fields = re.sub('[\n\r]*','',l) fields = re.sub('","','|',fields[1:-1]) # getting rid of all double quotes used by GSAK fields = string.split(fields,"|") (name,cacheType,note,last4logs,dateLastLog,wpName,placedBy,datePlaced,dateLastFound,found,country,latitude,longitude,status,url,dateFoundByMe,ownerId) = fields if name == "Code": # first line of headers in export file of GSAK l = fInput.readline() continue elif country <> currentCountry: print '!!! Pb cache outside',currentCountry,':',name l = fInput.readline() continue if cacheType == "Event Cache" or cacheType == "Cache In Trash Out Event": status = EVENT # Event cache elif status == 'X': status = ARCHIVED # Archived elif status == 'T': status = UNAVAILABLE # Temporarily unavailable else: status = ACTIVE # Active cache lat,lon = float(latitude),float(longitude) if (lat > maxLat) or (lat < minLat) or \ (lon > maxLon) or (lon < minLon) or (country <> currentCountry and country <> ''): print '!!! Pb point outside the drawing zone:',name l = fInput.readline() continue cacheTime = self.convertDate(datePlaced) lastFoundTime = self.convertDate(dateLastFound) lastLogTime = self.convertDate(dateLastLog) foundByMeTime = self.convertDate(dateFoundByMe) if status <> EVENT: # a non-event cache is active for a while after being placed self.newItem(name,lat,lon,1,cacheTime) if status <> ACTIVE: # the cache isn't active anymore if lastLogTime == 0: lastLogTime = cacheTime + 24*3600 self.newItem(name,lat,lon,status,lastLogTime) else: self.newItem(name,lat,lon,status,cacheTime) if geocacher <> None: if foundByMeTime <> 0: self.newItem(name,lat,lon,TRACK,foundByMeTime) if re.search(geocacher,placedBy.upper()): self.newItem(name,lat,lon,TRACK,cacheTime) l = fInput.readline() fInput.close() print 'Added caches:',self.nAddedCaches def loadFromGPX(self,myGPX,minLon,maxLon,minLat,maxLat,status=ACTIVE): self.foundWpts = {} self.nAddedCaches = 0 for p in myGPX.wpts: lat,lon = p.lat,p.lon try: country = p.attribs['Groundspeak:country'] except: country = '' if (lat > maxLat) or (lat < minLat) or \ (lon > maxLon) or (lon < minLon) or (country <> 'France' and country <> ''): print '!!! Pb point outside the drawing area :', p.attribs['name'], lat, lon continue name = p.attribs['name'] strTime = p.attribs['time'] cacheTime = int(time.mktime(time.strptime(strTime, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"))) if p.attribs['type'] == 'Geocache|Event Cache' or p.attribs['type'] == 'Geocache|Cache In Trash Out Event': cacheStatus = EVENT else: cacheStatus = status if cacheStatus == ACTIVE: try: result = self.foundWpts[name] # cache already listed as inactive, don't activate it except: self.foundWpts[name] = cacheStatus else: self.foundWpts[name] = cacheStatus self.newItem(name,lat,lon,cacheStatus,cacheTime) print 'Added caches',self.nAddedCaches print 'Caches :',len(self.foundWpts) def generateFlash(self,myImage,LX,LY,nDays,cacheTime,nbCaches, distance): box = myImage.crop((0,0,self.LX,self.LY)) imTemp = Image.new('RGB',(self.LX,self.LY),0) imTemp.paste(box,(0,0,self.LX,self.LY)) for status in range(0,2): for i in range(0,self.flashLength): for (dx,dy) in self.flashAnimation[status][(i-self.flashCursor)%self.flashLength]: for (x,y) in self.flashList[status][i]: try: imTemp.putpixel((x+dx,y+dy),self.flashColor[status]) # yellow flash: cache activation, purple one for archiving except: print '!!! Pb writing pixel', nDays, x+dx, y+dy # next step on the animation of the flash self.flashCursor = (self.flashCursor - 1) % self.flashLength for status in range(0,2): self.flashList[status][self.flashCursor] = [] imTempDraw = ImageDraw.Draw(imTemp) text = time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y",time.localtime(cacheTime))+" : %5d caches"%nbCaches if distance > 0: text = text+" %.0f kms"%distance imTempDraw.text((200,self.LY-45), text, font=self.fontFixed, fill="blue") imTemp.save('map%04d.png'%nDays,"PNG") def generateImages(self, tracing): today = time.time() # misc counters nDays = 0 nActiveCaches = 0 nInactiveCaches = 0 nCaches = 0 cacheTimes = self.allWpts.keys() cacheTimes.sort() # initialize the time of the current frame to the first date previousTime = cacheTimes[0] # variables to display the geocacher's moves latOld,lonOld = 0.0,0.0 xOld,yOld = 0,0 distance = 0 for cacheTime in cacheTimes: # don't display future dates corresponding to future events if cacheTime > today: cacheTime = today break # generate intermediate images for each days between last cache day and current day for catchingTime in range(previousTime+24*3600, cacheTime, 24*3600): nDays= nDays + 1 self.generateFlash(self.imResult,self.LX,self.LY,nDays,catchingTime,nCaches,distance) nDays = nDays + 1 if tracing: print '.', for (lat,lon,name,status) in self.allWpts[cacheTime]: x = int(self.scaleX*(lon-self.XMinLon)) y = int(self.scaleY*(self.YMaxLat-lat)) if status == UNAVAILABLE or status == ACTIVE: nActiveCaches += 1 self.flashList[1][self.flashCursor].append((x,y)) elif status == ARCHIVED: nInactiveCaches += 1 self.flashList[0][self.flashCursor].append((x,y)) if status == ACTIVE or status == EVENT: # active caches or events nCaches = nCaches + 1 try: if status == TRACK: # drawing moves of a geocacher draw = ImageDraw.Draw(self.imResult) if (xOld,yOld) <> (0,0): draw.line([(xOld, yOld),(x,y)], self.cacheColor[TRACK]) distance += getDistance(latOld,lonOld,lat,lon) del draw xOld,yOld = x,y latOld,lonOld = lat,lon else: self.drawPoint(status,x,y) except Exception, msg: print '!!! Pb point outside the drawing area:',lat, lon, name, x, y, msg self.generateFlash(self.imResult,self.LX,self.LY,nDays,cacheTime,nCaches, distance) previousTime = cacheTime # display the final situation during a few seconds for i in range(nDays,nDays+100): self.generateFlash(self.imResult,self.LX,self.LY,i,cacheTime,nCaches, distance) # final view of all caches self.imResult.save('Geocaching_France.jpg') self.imResult.save('Geocaching_France.png',"PNG") print '' print 'Processed ', nCaches, 'caches' print 'Processed ', nActiveCaches, 'active caches' print 'Processed ', nInactiveCaches, 'inactive caches' if __name__=='__main__': myAnimation = GCAnimation(scaleXY,minLonCountry,maxLonCountry,minLatCountry,maxLatCountry) nbArgs = len(sys.argv) if nbArgs == 1: print 'Usage: python generationAnimation.py <active_caches.gpx> [ ... <archived_caches.gpx> ]' print 'Usage: python generationAnimation.py <gsak_extract.csv> [ <name of geocacher> ]' else: if sys.argv[1][-4:].lower() == '.gpx': # process GPX containing active cache for i in range(1,nbArgs): try: print "Processing ", sys.argv[i] myGPX = GPXParser.GPXParser(sys.argv[i]) print 'Waypoints found :',len(myGPX.wpts) if nbArgs > 2 and i == nbArgs-1: myAnimation.loadFromGPX(myGPX,minLonCountry,maxLonCountry,minLatCountry,maxLatCountry,status=ARCHIVED) else: myAnimation.loadFromGPX(myGPX,minLonCountry,maxLonCountry,minLatCountry,maxLatCountry,status=ACTIVE) except Exception, msg: print '!!! Pb parsing file',sys.argv[i], msg sys.exit() else: if nbArgs > 2: myAnimation.loadFromCSV(sys.argv[1],minLonCountry,maxLonCountry,minLatCountry,maxLatCountry,geocacher=sys.argv[2]) else: myAnimation.loadFromCSV(sys.argv[1],minLonCountry,maxLonCountry,minLatCountry,maxLatCountry,geocacher=None) myAnimation.generateImages(tracing=True) print 'That\'s all folks!' print 'Next step : mencoder "mf://map*.png" -mf fps=24 -o Film.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vf scale=1120:1080' print 'Next step : mencoder "mf://@listPNG.txt" -mf fps=24 -o Film.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vf scale=1120:1080'