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Waypoint Distance Measurement


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Wondering if anyone has figured out a way to grab waypoints from a cache page to compare distances.

 

Here is the senerio.

 

People can log my Vacman geocoins on my site, and for a couple of years I was able to track the distances these coins traveled. Now that GC requires a user to be logged in to view WP info, it will no longer work My system is now broken (in this regard only). I hate to take this feature off my site, but I might have to if I can't figure another way to do it.

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I believe your site was crawling through the Geocaching.com page. That's a violation of the terms of use.

Hmm - Crawling almost implies trawling...

 

The way it worked before is that a coin would be logged, and my script would look up the wapoint for the last cache the coins was in as well as the new one, get the lat/lon from that page then I used my own algo to compute distances...

 

I guess it could be construed as a crawl - all of two pages when a coin is logged (about 2 a week).

 

Oh well - guess it will have to go... Heck, I would even be willing to pay to have access to this ability....

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I guess it could be construed as a crawl - all of two pages when a coin is logged (about 2 a week).

How did your old app work with Members Only caches, where you have always needed to be logged in?

 

If it's only a couple of caches a week, then there are several easy solutions for you. One is to manually put the coords into a database that your app can use from then on. Two caches a week doesn't seem like a big imposition.

 

But easier still, you can just add the caches that your coins visit to a bookmark list, and get the PQ of that list delivered to you every week. Then you have all the coords automatically.

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I guess it could be construed as a crawl - all of two pages when a coin is logged (about 2 a week).

How did your old app work with Members Only caches, where you have always needed to be logged in?

 

If it's only a couple of caches a week, then there are several easy solutions for you. One is to manually put the coords into a database that your app can use from then on. Two caches a week doesn't seem like a big imposition.

 

But easier still, you can just add the caches that your coins visit to a bookmark list, and get the PQ of that list delivered to you every week. Then you have all the coords automatically.

I actually had it scripted so it would send me an e-mail if it recieved a strange response from the GC site. I then would manually retrieve the info.

 

For now I have simply deleted this feature. No big deal...

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