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

geo-html2gpx : funny date format in Log Data (2 replies)

seballa — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:03:38 -0400

Hi,

I am trying to get some gpx created by the geo* tool working with the ocm geocache manager. ocm would not import the gpx. When I skipped the logs with -l 0 it worked.

I found the date / time format in the log section is very funny and tried with different settings in the geochaning.com account and with DATEFMT 0 and 1 without success.

HERE IT IS RIGHT
2013-05-14T11:24:44Z
...
...
...
THATS FUNNY
5-2013-05T20:00:00Z

Thanks for any help

Seballa

geo-map: make "-a osm" more robust, remove obsolete map source(s) [patch applied] (1 reply)

Steve8x8 — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:49:28 -0400

I have found that OSM's server will often respond with an "overloaded, retry" message. The following patch (part of a local patch set against an earlier version of geo-*, but it should still work) tries to cope with that:

--- old/geo-map.sh 2013-01-09 17:07:21.000000000 +0100
+++ new/geo-map.sh 2013-02-25 18:28:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -2300,9 +2300,16 @@
URL="$URL&bbox=$LLlon,$LLlat,$URlon,$URlat"
URL="$URL&scale=$scale"
debug 1 "curl '$URL'"
- curl $CURL_OPTS -L -s -A "$UA" "$URL" > $OMAP
+ while true
+ do
+ curl $CURL_OPTS -L -s -A "$UA" "$URL" > $OMAP
# I'm a coward...
# cp $OMAP $IMAP
+ case `file $OMAP` in
+ *HTML*) echo -n "."; sleep 15 ;;
+ *) echo ""; break ;;
+ esac
+ done
convert -geometry ${MAPWIDTH}x${MAPHEIGHT}! $OMAP $IMAP
GOTFORMAT=png
;;

(Often it takes several tens of loops. I could imagine to progressively increase, or randomly choose the delay time.)

Also I have found that "osma" ("osmarender") is no longer supported, and "expedia" seems to be obsolete as well (and replaced by Bing Maps). Time to tidy up?

geo-nearest: need a country AND a state ! (1 reply)

feiticeir0 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:07:16 -0500

Hi !

I'm trying to use Viking to map and manage my geocaches, but every time i tell it to download geocaches, in the console i get the following error:

geo-nearest: need a country AND a state!
cat: /home/feiticeir0/.geo/caches/*html: No such file or directory

My .georc contents

PASSWORD=""
USERNAME=""
LAT=nxx.yy.yyy
LON=wxxx.yy.yyy
BABELFLAGS=-s
STATE=CB

Any help ?

Cheers,

Bruno

geo-pqs "finland" (5 replies)

witty — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:48:36 -0500

geo-pqs -l1000 "Finland"

returns:
--cut--
geo-demand -n1000 -T'01/01/1970-' -NFinland-00 "Finland" #0 caches
geo-demand -n1000 -T'01/01/1970-' -NFinland-01 "Finland" #0 caches
geo-demand -n1000 -T'01/01/1970-' -NFinland-02 "Finland" #0 caches
geo-demand -n1000 -T'01/01/1970-' -NFinland-03 "Finland" #0 caches
...
geo-demand -n1000 -T'01/01/1970-' -NFinland-82039 "Finland" #0 caches
=> kill
--cut--

any idea, why this does not work?

thanks
witty

geo-nearest join error with premium-member-only caches [solved] (2 replies)

hanoma — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:13:55 -0500

Hello,

the problem still exists here. I downloaded the newest tools-version today (geo-12-12-17-09-01-19.tar.gz). But still the join(ing) of the $CSVFILE and $XTRAFILE failes, because the CSVFILE contains all caches while the XTRAFILE doesn't contain the premium-members-only caches (e.g. Geocache-soc-regular).
I didn't make any entries about SOC in my .georc file.

With best regards
hanoma

Answer from Rick:
Works here.

$ geo-nearest -u Twinqe -p password N 51° 51.071 E 004° 21.473
geo-nearest: Basic Member: pay the $30/yr fee for Premium Member!
geo-nearest: Basic Member: doing it the REAL SLOW way!!!
GC3XHA4 51.85118 04.35788 Geocache-unfound-event
GC3CZ5E 51.85118 04.35770 Geocache-regular
GC2PG7F 51.85125 04.35755 Geocache-unknown
GC20MHD 51.85197 04.35217 Geocache-earth
GC2YZ26 51.85000 04.35167 Geocache-unknown
GCV6HT 51.85030 04.36432 Geocache-regular
GC254CF 51.85083 04.35083 Geocache-unknown
GC3WPQ4 51.84812 04.35178 Geocache-regular
GC2NZB4 51.85000 04.35000 Geocache-unknown
GC3TRZ1 51.84795 04.36422 Geocache-regular
GCV6HJ 51.85000 04.36667 Geocache-unknown
GC22QKR 00.00000 00.00000 Geocache-soc-regular
GCTTV4 51.85145 04.36917 Geocache-multi
GC33JJQ 51.84408 04.35520 Geocache-unknown
GC3WR3A 51.85333 04.34592 Geocache-unknown
GC181V6 51.84500 04.36667 Geocache-unknown
GC2RT3J 00.00000 00.00000 Geocache-soc-unknown
GC3E8FE 51.84800 04.34403 Geocache-regular
GC2RJ23 51.84218 04.35432 Geocache-regular

Please post on the forums.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Hanno Manninen wrote:

Hello Rick,
i've been using your tools in a cygwin installation on my windowsxp-pc for some time. They're very nice.
I'm not a premium member of gc.com. This has to be kept in mind when thinking about my actual problem.
Today i wanted to get some caches into a gpx-file for transfer to my gps-device. But the script geo-nearest didn't work the way it used to. There was not the normal output, but only some error messages like this one:
geo-nearest: Basic Member: pay the $30/yr fee for Premium Member!
geo-nearest: Basic Member: doing it the REAL SLOW way!!!
join: /tmp/geo812.csv:12: is not sorted: GC2Z8G0 GC2Z8G0 51.520317 6 .862017 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC2Z8G0 1.5 0 .0 Unknown
I found out, that the problem occured, because not all information about premium caches can be get as a non-premium member.
So the file geo.err.csv still contains all caches while the file geo.err.xtra doesn't contain any lines about premium caches. Because the files got a different number of lines, the join-command reports errors.
In the first file (geo.err.csv) all premium caches are listed with coodinates 0.000000 for N/S and W/E values.
For myself i found a workaround to get normal output again. I added two lines before the join-command in the script geo-nearest that filter premium caches (the ones with zero coordinates) out:
...
# Convert CSV into CSV with puzzles...
csv2csv $GEOMYSTERY < $CSVFILE2 > $CSVFILE

# take Premium Caches out of CSVFILE to avoid errors
cat $CSVFILE | grep -v "0.000000" > /tmp/kiki_abc
cp /tmp/kiki_abc $CSVFILE

# 01/07/12: NO --nocheck-order; it is wrong!
join -t ' ' $CSVFILE $XTRAFILE > $JOINFILE
...
Perhaps this will be helpfull in any way for the further development of your scripts.

geo-pqdownload: Unable to connect to gc.com [solved] (5 replies)

t2c — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:52:16 -0500

I’m using geo-pqdownload for a couple of months and it worked perfectly. But since a few weeks I always get the error message: geo-pqdownload: Unable to connect to gc.com

Today I noticed that there is a new version – so I changed from geo-12-10-17 to geo-12-11-15. But I still get the same error message.

I’m not using a proxy.

Could you please help me?

geo-pqs for a country [solved] (1 reply)

carlstein — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:31:48 -0400

The description of geo-pqs says Run PQ's to get all caches in a state or country".

When I run:

geo-pqs -D 1 "South Africa"

it terminates with:

geo-newest: need a country AND a state!

Is it possible to do an entire country?

geo-pqdownload My Find [solved] (2 replies)

carlstein — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:04:52 -0400

I have a set of PQ's which are spread throughout the week to download all caches in an area so I can keep an offline database up to date. I have set up a cron job to automatically do a daily download of all PQ's that are available. In order to avoid double-downloading, I set it to delete the PQ from the server once downloaded (-d). Every so often, I request the My Finds query. I did so recently for the first time since setting up my pqdownload system. Unfortunately, it seems that for some unexplained reason, geocaching.com does not allow for the online deletion of the My Finds PQ after downloading it. This means that my cron job is downloading the same query daily for a week until eventually geocaching removes it themselves.

1. Am I perhaps incorrect, and there is a way to delete that PQ after download?

2. If I am correct, is there a way to tell the pq-download not to download a query called My Finds?

I guess if neither of these works then I need to give my other queries some sort of referencable name, and set the geo-pqdownload -n switch accordingly.

Any advice?

geo-pqdownload - zip files not downloading [solved] (9 replies)

carlstein — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:52:11 -0400

I ran geo-pqdownload and it downloaded files for all my available pq's. Hence it is clearly managing to login to my account and download. However, on inspection the files are not the actual zip files. They are all only 2321 bytes in size.

$ geo-pqdownload -D 1
geo-pqdownload: curl  https://www.geocaching.com/login/default.aspx
geo-pqdownload: curl https://www.geocaching.com/login/default.aspx
geo-pqdownload: 8011254	http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/downloadpq.ashx?g=19daaa41-4bb0-41d6-b8d2-11029babadc4	Gauteng Micro 1
geo-pqdownload: Gauteng Micro 1.zip: HTML document text
$ ls -l
total 4
-rw-rw-rw- 1 carl carl 2321 2012-09-15 14:06 Gauteng Micro 1.zip

geo-common-ok missing [solved] (no replies)

z00k — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:28:36 -0400

In the current distribution the file geo-common-ok is missing. Otherwise thank you for the great progress this project is making!

z00k

geo-html2gpx Error [solved] (1 reply)

hanoma — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:06:08 -0400

Hello Rick,

i've been using your tools in a cygwin installation on my windowsxp-pc for some time. They're very nice. I haven't got a premium Membership at geocaching.com.
When i wanted to transfer some caches (gpx-file) to my gps device via the vantagePoint software of magellan it doesn't work any more. I found out, that it doesn't work, since there are two empty html-tags in the generated gpx-files (which where filled with data in the past - maybe Groundspeak changed some formats?):

When i edited the generated gpx-file and put some data into these two tags, the data transfer to my gps device worked fine again.

As i had a look at the script geo-html2gpx i found that one little change helped (due to a change in the HTML-Description of the geocache at geocaching.com:
/^ *by i replaced with
/^ *A cache by
Now the transfer works again.

Perhaps you could put this in some way into the next version of your very nice tools.

With best regards

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

Chris56 — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:40:13 -0400

Using the latest:
http://geo.rkkda.com/geo-12-08-06-21-20-59.tar.gz

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: BUG: gc.com changed the login page.

I did not change the .georc and it all worked before ... (Premium Member).
Of course I can interactively login to their website.
Any clues?

Regards,
Chris

geo-gpx: Have to be a subscriber! [solved] (5 replies)

witty — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:44:05 -0400

A script, where I download specific GC-Codes from time to time was working for over 2 years.
Suddenly I get "geo-gpx: Have to be a subscriber!" - although I'm premium member for years.

It worked until 2012-07-23 08:03 (GMT+1).
And definitly not worked since 2012-07-24 19:01 (GMT+1).

Any ideas?

thanks
michi

How to not include caches on Ignore list? [solved] (3 replies)

khaytsus — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:50:25 -0400

I have been wanting to simplify my downloading of PQ's for a while, downloading my whole state in 500 PQ chunks so I can procmail and run it through various scripts to output what I want is tedious to maintain on the geocaching.com side, the geo scripts look like it'll fix all that, thank you very much!!

I have a question, is it possible to filter the geo-pq by ignored status? There are several power trails in my state and I have zero interest in seeing them at any time and I have them marked as ignored on the website (another tedious process, I really wish they'd implement a Power Trail attribute so they can be easily filtered) but I don't see any way to do this in your tool, and I suspect it could be a factor in how the geocaching site handles ignores, but hoping that it's something that can be done.

Ultimately I'd like to use the geo-pqs tool to tell me the date ranges to put that into the website, but it'd have to exclude Ignores or I'll have PQ's that don't fill up the 1000 in reality because of a large portion of them being marked to not include Ignored caches. And if I use the geo-pqs's tool to directly download PQs per your examples in the help, I think I'd get all of those ignored caches in the results.

Thanks again for the tools, I've only scraped the surface of them so far, hopefully I haven't missed something obvious.

geo-html2gpx error (cygwin) (2 replies)

supersigma — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 06:04:31 -0400

I am a basic member on gc.con using cygwin on windows 7.

I extracted printable html files from gc.com with geo-nearest. I can see that the *.html files exist in the html folder.

When i try to convert to gpx, i receive an error when using the following command:

geo-html2gpx -l 0 html/*.html > geo-nearest_5.gpx

Error message:

0 [main] gawk 192 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487
awk: cmd. line:1711: (FILENAME=- FNR=2312) fatal: cannot create child process for `date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S' (fork: Resource temporarily unavailable)

Similar error when trying:

geo-html2gpx -b -l 5 html/*.html > geo-nearest_5.gpx

Error:

0 [main] gawk 5224 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487
awk: cmd. line:1711: (FILENAME=- FNR=2131) fatal: cannot create child process for `date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S' (fork: Resource temporarily unavailable)
GPX: XML parse error at line 5 of '-' : no element found

I also tried only one html file at a time, with similar results.

What I can see though, is that when I open the html file in a browser, there is a lot of seemingly garbage information at the bottom of the html page.

Can you please assist?

Proxy problem: Unable to connect to gc.com [solved] (3 replies)

supersigma — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 09:12:35 -0400

Hi There,

I am a new user of the Geo-tools. I am using Windows and Installed Cygwin. I got everything installed correctly (I think), but I can't connect to gc.com due to a proxy server. The proxy server require authentication, e.g. when using lynx I must everytime enter my username and password.

Can anyone please help with commands to set up the proxy server and authentication so that the geo-tools can work (e.g. so that a command like "geo-newest" would connect to gc.com and not give the error "Unable to connect to gc.com")?

Any help would be highly appreciated.

WD Schutte

problem with geo-2tangogps [solved] (3 replies)

1gwk — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:02:56 -0400

geo-2tangogps creates db, but doesn't insert caches to db

ubuntu natty with latest updates,

# geo-nearest -o tabsep > caches
# wc -l caches
20 caches
# head -1 caches
0 GC2FF3W Raumalainen kuva-arvoitus by M(EE) http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?log=y&wp=GC2FF3W Geocache-ifound-unknown 61.1 21.5 16349076781966859862 61.1N 21.5E N61.1 E21.5 N E -328083986.719160F -99999999.000000M 40442.875000 1285102800 0.0 0.0 Unknown Unknown Cache 0.000000 0.000000 M(EE) & timoa 20100921 hint 20120531

# ./bin/geo-2tangogps -i tabsep -s -f -P -S caches
# cd .foxtrotgps/
# sqlite3 poi.db
SQLite version 3.7.4
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite> .tables
poi
sqlite> select * from poi;
sqlite> .quit
# ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 rha rha 2048 2012-06-05 22:48 poi.db
# strings poi.db
SQLite format 3
tablepoipoi
CREATE TABLE poi (
idmd5 TEXT,
lat REAL,
lon REAL,
visibility REAL,
cat REAL,
subcat REAL,
keywords TEXT,
desc TEXT,
price_range REAL,
extended_open REAL,
creator TEXT,
bookmarked REAL,
user_rating REAL,
rating REAL,
user_comment TEXT)

an ideas?

Problem with locale [solved] (2 replies)

Skelli — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:57:33 -0400

stefan@debian64:~$ geo-nearest -n10 -f 
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

[...]

stefan@debian64:~$ LANG=en_US geo-nearest -n10 -f 
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LANG = "en_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

[...]

I have the problem with all geo-tools comands.

My System is Debian squeeze

stefan@debian64:~$ locale
LANG=de_DE.utf8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.utf8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.utf8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.utf8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ALL=

My english is not so good

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.