ju66l3r Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 From the release notes: The Travel bug distance calculation has changed. Jeremy, can you please elaborate on this change? What exactly is different now? Just curious, because I have a relatively long-lived TB and I'm wondering what will be different about its mileage now. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Just the code behind has changed. Nothing else has. Link to comment
+the hermit crabs Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Just the code behind has changed. Nothing else has. The display of incremental cache-to-cache mileage has also changed (it's gone). Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 (edited) I could be wrong here, but I think the TB page used to dynamically calculate the mileage whenever the page was viewed. There is a "recalculate mileage" option but it never seemed to be needed. I could delete previous logs and the mileage would always update correctly without having to manually recalculate it. Now, since all the logs are not shown, dynamically calculating the mileage can't work. They have to calculate it and save it in the database. I would assume when a log is added or deleted it would trigger a recalculation. In case something goes wrong with that, the menu item would prove useful. Maybe that menu item to recalculate was added long ago in anticipation of this newer change to not show all the logs So if I'm right, the actual mileage shouldn't change, just *when* it is calculated. Edit for bad speeling. Edited January 18, 2006 by Lil Devil Link to comment
+ed777 Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 (edited) Just the code behind has changed. Nothing else has. The display of incremental cache-to-cache mileage has also changed (it's gone). What is going on with the mileage between caches? Is this being looked at? Is it gone for good? This issue has been brought up several times, but I don't think anything has been said about it by anyone at Groundspeak. Thanks, - ed777 Edited January 18, 2006 by ed777 Link to comment
+RubberToes Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 The display of incremental cache-to-cache mileage has also changed (it's gone). I, too, hope this is not permanent. Distance moved between caches is one of the most interesting things about the TB logs. Link to comment
+blackjack65 Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Jermemy Irish wrote, in the Geocaching Announcements forum that There will be a few days before the distance calculations update correctly so please be patient. Link to comment
Jeremy Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Guess no one reads the announcements. *sigh* Link to comment
ju66l3r Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 (edited) Guess no one reads the announcements. *sigh* They would if they were in a more obvious spot: ? Just an idea... EDIT: Also to point out the silliness of claiming _no one_ reads the announcements...in a thread quoting the announcement text as pretext to the question it asked... Edited January 19, 2006 by ju66l3r Link to comment
+ed777 Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Jermemy Irish wrote, in the Geocaching Announcements forum thatThere will be a few days before the distance calculations update correctly so please be patient. Thanks for the info. I hadn't seen the "annoncement". I will now patiently wait. - ed777 Link to comment
+AtlantaGal Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Jermemy Irish wrote, in the Geocaching Announcements forum thatThere will be a few days before the distance calculations update correctly so please be patient. I didn't see this either. I hope it will be retroactive tho. I have placed several TBs and the milages for them have not been calculated at all. Link to comment
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