+Peanuthead Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 Hey, check this out: http://stats.guk2.com/cachers/view_cachers...der=found.count Think we could get the webmaster at www.geocacheuk.com to do the same for all cachers who have found caches in: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming? We could have our own Northwest forum stats! Quote Link to comment
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 are they entered manually like keenpeople? Quote Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 (edited) server not responding... well at least it sounded like a good idea... Edited July 13, 2004 by ralann Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 (edited) can't get in either. Keenpeople is good enough for me. manual data entry is a minus, but otherwise it is a well-done site. Edited July 13, 2004 by evergreenhiker! Quote Link to comment
+Teasel Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Sorry about that. That page didn't like all the sudden attention! I've added a couple of extra indexes, so it should be better behaved now. The above link returns a list of all >5000 UK cachers, with the least experienced at the top. For a better flavour of what the UK cacher stats provide, try listing the top 100 and click on a cacher name to get detailed stats for that team. The database is updated automatically in two different ways. Firstly, pocket queries are emailed to the server. With only about 4700 caches in the UK, it doesn't take too many queries! Doing a large chunk of the US would require correspondingly more, but that's not a major problem. The second method of updating the database is to download the cache details web pages from GC.com. This is becoming progressively more difficult, as each new tweak to GC.com seems to add an extra obstacle (eg session cookies, removing the cacher IDs used in pocket queries from the web pages etc). However, this is necessary, in order to get around the problems with pocket queries (mainly the limit on 5 recent logs, but there are one or two bugs to overcome too). On G:UK we trickle feed the database by downloading a cache or two every minute. Any more than that and it'd start to put strain on GC.com, which we don't want to do. This could have implications for any Northwest stats pages and you might have to choose which web pages to grab more carefully. Other features like the interactive map, the plain static map, or the London Underground map are obviously UK specific, but anyone who wants to convert them for other countries is welcome to borrow my code. The most difficult bit of writing the G:UK stats pages was getting permission from GC.com to use their data. So I'd strongly suggest this should be your starting point. Cheers, Ian Quote Link to comment
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