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in Miscellaneous by DMPB (240 points)
I suspect it is hard because after a resent  post I cant find  asked to changes the counties because what PGC uses as counties is not what someone living in the UK consider a county. Look at some map like mapcompare or map counties.
for example Leicester is not in the county of Leicestershire but a separate within.
If the counties that PGC uses is what the CO mean it it quite easy to create a checker or write a script if necessary.
 If you have to combine caches in for example Leicester and Leicestershire. A script probably has to be written.
If the counties are incorrect polygons has to be created an a script written. I have no idea if the code to check that the caches is inside a county is fast enough. There are caches in the UK with then of thousand of finds
I have had to solve the same problem for another UK challenge.  Fortunately I already had my own custom script for this challenge so I just implemented a lookup from the administrative English county list that Project-GC uses to the geographic list that the challenge needed.

http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5MV39/16094

If I get a chance I will try to implement a custom script for the challenge above, otherwise other script writers are welcome to copy my lookup function.

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I have implemented a custom checker script for this based on my English county lookup function

http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5MHMA/16237

Please give it a try and select this answer if you are happy.

by Winter Foxes (1.1k points)
selected by DMPB
The CO has contacted me and is happy with the checker I implemented so this is closed
Thank you very much for your help with this.  We have run the checker and find that we have the 1000 traditionals and 100 multis we need but are 9 unknowns short so we have a bit of work to do!  At least we know what is required.
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