geo-*- Rick Richardson's Linux Tools for Geocaching

BUG: gc.com changed the login page. (1 reply)

happyhibo — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:02:23 -0400

Hello,

When I try to use any of these tools I get this message:

BUG: gc.com changed the login page.

In the morning it works fine.
Just now comes the error.

Have GC.COm change the Page?

Cu HH

geo-nearest: curl: returned /dev/null for '/tmp/geo-login.html' [solved; put CURL_OPTS="--sslv3" in ~/.georc] (5 replies)

benbergman — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:14:57 -0400

When I try to use any of these tools I get this message:

geo-nearest: curl: returned /dev/null for '/tmp/geo-login.html'

With -D1

$ geo-nearest -D1
geo-nearest: curl https://www.geocaching.com/login/default.aspx
geo-nearest: curl https://www.geocaching.com/login/default.aspx
geo-nearest: curl: returned /dev/null for '/tmp/geo-login.html'

I have tried with multiple gc.com accounts. I used these tools successfully at work, but I can't seem to get them working on my home computer. At work I use Ubuntu and at home I use Arch Linux. I did not find anything when I searched the forum. Any help is much appreciated. These tools are exactly what I've been looking for, so I am excited to start using them.

OsmaRender maps abandoned (no replies)

Steve8x8 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:11:41 -0400

At some point in the past few weeks, OsmaRender maps (geo-map type 21) have become unavailable, and OSM forums suggest they won't come back.
Currently, www.openstreetmap.org offers four map layers:
- Standard (= Mapnik)
- Cycle Map
- Transport Map
- MapQuest Open
of which only the Standard one is supported (as type 20) by geo-map.

The transition from Mapnik tiles to other map tiles is easy:
Mapnik: http://$x.tile.openstreetmap.org/$zoom/$column/$row.png
CycleMap: http://$x.tile.opencyclemap.org/cycle/$zoom/$column/$row.png
TransportMap: http://$x.tile2.opencyclemap.org/transport/$zoom/$column/$row.png
MapQuestOpen: http://otile$y.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/osm/$zoom/$column/$row.png
(with x={a,b,c}, y={1,2,3,4}, all tiles being 256x256 in size)

but I don't know whether there's an export URL.
(The interface says "standard layer", which may suggest there isn't. At least not on the main site.)

BTW, exported images seem to be returned from parent.tile.openstreetmap.org now,
but URLs like
http://parent.tile.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/export?bbox=13,52,14,53&scale=1000000&format=png and
http://tile.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/export?bbox=13,52,14,53&scale=1000000&format=png
seem to be equivalent (still).

Problem with geo-demand using GC code [solved] (1 reply)

cor9957 — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:50:58 -0500

Hi,

I'm probably missing something very simple but I have no idea what, maybe somebody can point my in the right direction.
This command works just fine: "geo-demand -n 400 -q notfound,active,traditional,multi,earth" but when I add a GC code at the end of the command like this "geo-demand -n 400 -q notfound,active,traditional,multi,earth GC1FT3E" the command is accepted without an error, but the PQ is not created.
When I look at the PQ page I see the previous PQ's that geo-demand created, but not the one with the GC code at the end.

Thank for any help you can give me.

Cor.

hash2sdt() (1 reply)

Steve8x8 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:38:02 -0500

Hi Rick,

nice to see that GeoToad's S/D/T decoding algorithm has found its way into geo-* after about a year ;) Let's hope the guys at GroundSpeak won't find out too fast...

Cheers, S

\x13 characters [solved] (1 reply)

z00k — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:13:59 -0500

I don't know whether this is actually a bug (i.e. what the gpx specification says) but my Garmin device has a problem with the character \x13 which occurs for example in GC1KVEK (it seems to just ignore the file from the respective cache on). So I have a script to remove these. Perhaps geo-gpx2html might already do that.

In the cache in question, the character occurs in an html comment, so another option (in the particular case) would be to strip comments.

geo-demand how to limit to one state with coordinates? [solved] (2 replies)

jerry — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:20:38 -0500

I live right on a state line.

When I run

geo-demand lat lon  (or more simply, just geo-demand)

It of course creates a pq with the 500 nearest caches, with no regard to the state, expected and desired behavior in most cases.

But, if I try to run

geo-demand state

It returns caches in the state, but by date order (so it returns the 500 oldest caches in the state). Expected and desired behavior in most cases.

I don't see any way to create a lat/lon (or home based) pq that is limited to one state?

Running

geo-demand lat long state

just dumps the help screen.

Is there a way to do this?

BUG: gc.com changed the login page [solved] (6 replies)

gewoon_wij — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:51:09 -0500

Hi,

When I try to use any command, the text: "BUG: gc.com changed the login page" appears... Is it so that GC.COM changed the login page yesterday??

Bastiaan

Error when encountering a premium-only cach with geo-nearest and basic membership [solved] (1 reply)

divan90 — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:37:08 -0500

Hi,

geo-nearest fails for me when it happens to find a premium-only cache while I have only a basic account (yet). The error occurs in line 1400 of geo-common-gc, when trying to join the .csv and .xtra file. This is because the premium-only cache only turns up in $CSVFILE (as a line like GC2AA34 0.000 0.000 ...) and not in $XTRAFILE, which causes join to complain and the script to abort.

I have a quick workaround attached, which simply tells join to ignore unmatched lines. However, I believe it were possible to filter those caches out some time before. I just don't quite understand the code there yet to attempt it by myself.

There's one additional complication here, though: geo-nearest fails reliably as described when issuing the same query (same location) again and again. However, it happened to me that a subsequent query didn't fail (reliably if repeated), when in between the querys I either issued a query for another location, or just opened the failing premium-only cache in a browser (URL like http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC2AA34). Don't know how to make sense of that.

--- upstream/geo-12-01-06-02-37-49/geo-common-gc	2011-12-27 01:47:45.000000000 +0100
+++ geo/geo-common-gc	2012-01-07 11:07:52.025671512 +0100
@@ -1397,7 +1397,7 @@
     # Convert CSV into CSV with puzzles...
     csv2csv $GEOMYSTERY < $CSVFILE2 > $CSVFILE
 
-    join -t '	' $CSVFILE $XTRAFILE > $JOINFILE
+    join --nocheck-order -t '	' $CSVFILE $XTRAFILE > $JOINFILE
     if [ $? != 0 ]; then
 	cp $CSVFILE /tmp/geo.err.csv
 	cp $XTRAFILE /tmp/geo.err.xtra

Edit: Output of geo-nearest attached. There are three caches in geo.err.csv that don't show up in geo.err.xtra. geo-nearest was calles as

geo-nearest -H "$DIR/html" -s -n50 52.523369 13.475888

missing dependency in Makefile [solved] (no replies)

divan90 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:16:32 -0500

Hi,

after I changed a source line in geo-common-gc (line 1400, to try if the tab in "join -d '\t'" was the reason for my join error), the geo-correct-coords executable script didn't get updated as expected by running make (geo-correct-coords.sh includes geo-common-gc). Also, it didn't get removed bt make clean.

Fix:

--- geo-11-12-26-18-48-32/Makefile	2011-12-19 17:33:19.000000000 +0100
+++ geo/Makefile	2012-01-05 16:07:50.782465359 +0100
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@
 oc-nearest: geo-common geo-common-oc geo-common-gpsdrive Makefile
 oc-newest: geo-common geo-common-oc geo-common-gpsdrive Makefile
 ll2maidenhead: geo-common Makefile
+geo-correct-coords: geo-common geo-common-gc
 
 geo-images: images Makefile
 	find images -type f | sed '/CVS/d' | \
@@ -344,6 +345,7 @@
 	rm -f ll2maidenhead
 	rm -f geo-cs-html2db
 	rm -f geo-demand-cs geo-newest-cs
+	rm -f geo-correct-coords
 	rm -f *.tar.gz
 	rm -f Readme
 	rm -f tomtom-*.png

Using procmail to grab notifications and parse gc code (no replies)

turner.curtis — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:08:59 -0500

Hey guys,

Never realized there was a forum here. Well on to the subject at hand... A fellow caching friend and I have created some scripts to use procmail to snatch incoming publish notifications and send to a php script which parses the gc code and hand off to a modified shell script of Rick's to grab the cache page info which it then hands back to the php script to send the modified notification onward.

If anyone is interested in the procmail recipe, our php or modified script of Rick's let me know and I will post a tarball.

@Rick thanks for all the time and effort you put in to creating such useful scripts and publishing them for us to molest.

Error in geo-nearest [solved] (2 replies)

Talos — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:40:22 -0500

Hi,

I wanted to get the nearest caches, that I didn't already have found. First I tried

# geo-nearest -n10 -Xifound -H .

and it worked. After that I wanted to get more results:

# geo-nearest -n15 -Xifound -H .
geo-nearest: Basic Member: pay the $30/yr fee for Premium Member!
geo-nearest: Basic Member: doing it the REAL SLOW way!!!
join: file 1 is not in sorted order
join: file 2 is not in sorted order
geo-nearest: joined file error: see join /tmp/geo.err.{csv,xtra}

I used geo-11-12-12-18-16-06.tar.gz for this.

geo-html2gpx does not demask [solved] (3 replies)

z00k — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:41:47 -0500

For some reason the html files on geocaching.com do not mask umlauts (i.e. ö does not become ö etc.). On the other hand the logs are masked and because they are arguments to some scripts even doubly masked (i.e. ö becomes ö or alternatively ö).
geo-html2gpx writes that unchanged into the gpx-file, which confuses my GPS device.

tools ignore options [solved; works here] (4 replies)

z00k — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:40:27 -0500

I have the impression that on my computer the tools ignore any argument passed to them. Concretely if I do

geo-nearest -H somefolder

the html files will be stored in the default folder ~/.geo/caches.

And if I do

geo-html2gpx -l 10 *.html > some_file.gpx

I get all the complete logs.

geo-html2gpx: Bad country for danish caches [solved] (2 replies)

Dr. Muggel — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:15:22 -0400

Hello,

geo-html2gpx creates a bad country name for danish caches. For example:


    0-2007-00T00:00:00.0000000-07:00
    GC14QH2
    Moses&#248;en by team_schaefer, Traditional Cache" title="Traditional Cache (1.5/1.5)
    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC14QH2;
    Moses&#248;en
    Geocache|Traditional Cache" title="Traditional Cache
...
      In Denmark
      Denmark

With the string "In Denmark" the GCStatistic tool doesn't find the right country. It seems it comes from a tag in the html file:

In Denmark

but I don't know why danish caches contain this tag (and if this is true for all danish caches).

Best regards

Dr. Muggel

geo-html2gpx: Invalid cache creation date [solved; see the manual page] (6 replies)

Dr. Muggel — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:30:36 -0400

the geo-html2gpx tool creates invalid times for the caches (maybe not in all countries...):

a danish cache:


    0-2007-00T00:00:00.0000000-07:00
    GC13RYK

a german cache:


    0-2008-00T00:00:00.0000000-07:00
    GC1FDNN

a norwegian cache:


    0-2008-00T00:00:00.0000000-07:00
    GC1B96E

Best regards

Dr. Muggel

gpx file does not contain logs [solved] (2 replies)

Dr. Muggel — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:52:42 -0400

hello,

i fetched my found caches by
XYZ:~/geocaching/found> geo-found -H . -L log -n1000
(Basic Member)

the output looked a little bit strange: at first it shows my 39 found caches - after then a lot of Geocache messages.
Nevertheless, after this the directory contains 39 html files each with the complete log entries - and the log directory remains empty.

so i tried:
XYZ:~/geocaching/found> geo-html2gpx *l >found.gpx

but the result doesn't contain the log entries. Using -u -l -ul or -bul doesn't change anything (except formatting in the -b case).
because i didn't found a similar report i think that i do something wrong. but where is my mistake?

thx in advance

Dr. Muggel

geo-nearest gives date: invalid date `12am 27/06/2011' error [solved] (2 replies)

JGeo — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:00:48 -0400

Hi,
Since recently, I get all this sort of errors
date: invalid date `12am 27/06/2011'
when using geo-nearest. I guess it has to do with the new option of GC.com to have the user decide in which format he likes to have the dates presented.
Could de script be made robust for this change?
Kind regards,
Jan-Gerard

TGT is blank [solved; checking for arabian sea caches!] (2 replies)

Dr. Muggel — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:45:05 -0400

If I try to get some caches in norway I always get:

muggel@XYZ:~/geocaching/norge> geo-nearest -n1000 -H 8/ e8.94200 n62.553000
geo-nearest: TGT is blank!

If I do a request without parameters the program starts to download. I'm not a premium member of gc and I've updatet your software today.
What goes wrong? What can I do to retrieve cache information.

TIA

dr. muggel

login fail [OSX, solved] (9 replies)

ludowique — Tue, 31 May 2011 01:20:03 -0400

hi,
i always get

Login username/password does not match.

Neither using -p and -u nor double checking the .georc helped so far. But i can login on geocaching.com.
What am i doing wrong?

Tanks!

geo-nearest does not output HTML files... [solved] (2 replies)

smartboyathome — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:11:41 -0400

I am a new user to the geo-* tools, and because today was such a nice day I decided to give this a try and see if it would work on my GPS since I hadn't done geocaching for a while and moved. However, I can't get it to output HTML files to use with geo-html2gpx, even after specifying the -H flag. Folders created with that flag end up empty. Instead, I see a lot of geo.* files in /tmp. In addition, I also tried using -ogarmin -O/dev/ttyUSB0 (I have a Garmin etrex Ventrure HC), and it didn't add the waypoints to my device.

Perhaps I don't understand how to use these tools, or perhaps it is a bug. Could someone explain how this works and which it is? Oh, and I am a basic user on geocaching.com.

geo-myfinds with many PQs (4 replies)

witty — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:06:22 -0400

Hi,

some weeks ago I created a lot of PQs (30) on GC. Since then the geo-myfinds does not "push the MyFinds"-button.
I did not change anything in my cron.

So do you think, that the reason are the 30 PQs on the html-page to be parsed?

thanks
witty

Problem connecting to gc.com [cygwin ONLY; solved] (8 replies)

HelgeLarsen — Mon, 09 May 2011 17:37:57 -0400

I have been running this tool for some time and it has always been working perfect.

After the last change to gc.com, I updated this fantastic tool, but now I only get:
geo-nearest: Unable to connect to gc.com

It is the same no matter what command I try to run.

Any idea what my problem can be?

Running on Windows XP with CygWin

Regards
HelgeLarsen

Enhancement to geo-pqdownload (1 reply)

anakhanz — Fri, 06 May 2011 12:04:23 -0400

Attached is a diff which adds the following features which IMHO make geo-pqdownload more useful to be run as cron job.
The additional features are:

Option to set the output folder
Option to insert the date into the front of file names that the pq's are saved as
Option to replace spaces in the file names that the pq's are saved as with underscores

It would be great if these could be added to the distributed script.

geo-html2gpx Error (xml parse error) [solved] (1 reply)

ludowique — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 04:08:38 -0400

Hi,

theres an Error while trying to parse a html (fetched with ge-nearest). Could you fix this please?

I'm running Mac OS 10.6 and the latest Version of the geo-* bundle.

$ geo-html2gpx -b *.html > caches.gpx
GPX: XML parse error at line 64 of '-' : not well-formed (invalid token)

Thanks!

geo-html2gpx Error (awk invalid Option) on OSX [solved] (1 reply)

ludowique — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:08:00 -0400

$ geo-html2gpx GC2Q85K.html > caches.gpx

awk: invalid -v option

on a Mac OS 10.6.7
can you fix this please?

geo-gpx XML parse error [solved; subscriber-only] (3 replies)

ludowique — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:57:23 -0400

me again,

$ geo-gpx -ogpx -OGC1Z3DA.gpx GC1Z3DA
GPX: XML parse error at line 8 of '-' : not well-formed (invalid token)

in general: i just want to get these two (partly) different instructions get to work: (both in german, but the commands are selfexplaining)
http://www.ulrichklose.de/logbuch/cachebox_mit_gpx-dateien_befuellen
and
http://blog.p-mt.net/archives/353

could not retrieve web page [Basic Member; solved] (1 reply)

ludowique — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:19:34 -0400

hi,

i have now another Problem:

$ geo-nearest -n 5 -H geonearest
geo-nearest: Basic Member: pay the $30/yr fee for Premium Member!
geo-nearest: Basic Member: doing it the REAL SLOW way!!!
GC28RBM 52.73877 13.48032 Geocache-unknown
GC28RBJ 52.74247 13.49390 Geocache-regular
GC2FCPM 52.73540 13.47560 Geocache-multi
GC1RC2Q 52.73205 13.49257 Geocache-regular
GC2Q85K 52.73575 13.49952 Geocache-unknown
GC1Z3DA 52.73305 13.49980 Geocache-multi
geo-nearest: Could not retrieve web page for cache GC28RBM
geo-nearest: Could not retrieve web page for cache GC28RBJ
geo-nearest: Could not retrieve web page for cache GC2FCPM
geo-nearest: Could not retrieve web page for cache GC1RC2Q
geo-nearest: Could not retrieve web page for cache GC2Q85K
geo-nearest: Could not retrieve web page for cache GC1Z3DA

~/.geo/caches/GC1Z3DA.html

I've putted this file here: {censored}

no coordinates [Mac OSX; solved] (7 replies)

ludowique — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:29:28 -0400

When i type "geo-nearest -n 5" i get 5 entries - but their coordinates are always like "GC1Z3DA 00.00000 00.00000 Geocache-multi" i tried to change my home coordinats in .georc but theres no effect by changing these.
My System is a Mac OS 10.6, I'm using the latest Version an all additional Tools are up to date.
What do i wrong?

oc-nearest broke after 3/20 [solved; use -c] (2 replies)

jerry — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:09:49 -0400

Command I'm using:

oc-nearest -ogpx -n1000 -Oochome.gpx

Some time after the 3/20 update, this only returns about 130 caches, in no particular order that I can tell.

I restored and complied

geo-11-03-20-05-43-24.tar.gz

and it works correctly again, returning 1000 as expected.

With current version:

-rw-rw-r--   1 jerry jerry  296019 Apr  4 03:19 ochome.gpx
[jerry@turtle4 gc]$ cat ochome.gpx | grep "OX" | wc -l
130

With 3/20 version:

-rw-rw-r--   1 jerry jerry 2568380 Apr  4 03:34 ochome.gpx
[jerry@turtle4 gc]$ cat ochome.gpx | grep "OX" | wc -l
1000