Reward: Bikeway challenge trail in California

Question

I would like to see checkers for every challenge in the Challenge Bikeway trail in California, USA. The challenges can easily be found on the challenge map.

I have looked through many of them, and they all seem to be very easy to write checkers for. It would be enjoyable to see a whole challenge trail covered with checkers. Might be the first?

And since I am the owner of Project-GC, I will even add two rewards on this task. When every challenge in the trail has a checker, excluding those where it's technically not possible, I will send 1 year of membership to Project-GC to these persons:

• The one who created the most tags for the trail.
• The one who created the last tag for the trail.

(it can be the same person, and he/she will then receive 2*1 year)

Answer in this thread when you want to claim your rewards!

PS! It's appreciated if you also post an answer for every checker you have created, so that I/we can feel the progress.

UPDATE:

These are not included in the contest, since we see them as technically impossible.

• Challenge Bikeway: Top 20 Favorites
• Challenge Bikeway: 100 Trackables Logged Challenge
• Challenge Bikeway: The Blue Ribbon Challenge
• Challenge Bikeway: Geo-Art Challeng

These are the only 3 missing now, and they should be possible: GC4FF33, GC5E2QP, GC44TT7

COMPLETED, rewards on their way

Comments

12 of 25 tagged
Most of the untagged one have a popular requirement but demand a number of different types and the existing scripts cant check for that. At least the scripts I have looked at

Impossible today
Challenge Bikeway: Top 20 Favorites   Not possible with current API
Challenge Bikeway: 100 Trackables Logged Challenge   Not possible with current API
Challenge Bikeway: The Blue Ribbon Challenge   Not possible with current API
Challenge Bikeway: The Year Challenge no way to autodetect if the numer in the name i a year: checking for 4 numbers with non numbers on the side are possible

"Possible" but need a lot of of manual work and updateing
Challenge Bikeway: Geo-Art Challenge No automatic check for Geo-Art can be done without manula make a list of all possible caches


Maby ok and created
Challenge Bikeway: 100+ Challenges Challenge:
http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC44V4R/1948
All Unknown with the word "CHALLENGE" in the name are considered a challenge. Gives false possitive. A blacklist is possible for bad caches


Unclear definition
Welcome to Challenge Bikeway are the cases on "Welcome to" important?
the taged on check for case but can easy be changed

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Just to be clear, as I wrote, "When every challenge in the trail has a checker". Therefore no memberships has been handed out yet. This was with the exception for those where it isn't possible due to different reasons, and I do agree with Target on those 6 he has listed. About 50% of the caches are still missing checkers. :)

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I would suggest, that there are 4 missing :-)

Challenge Bikeway: The Year Challenge

"[...] find 15 caches that have a YEAR listed in the title. [...] It has to be in the range of 2000 to 2014 (updated 11/22/14) and cannot be the part of a larger number but can be part of a date. [...]"

I think, "can be part of a date" can be interperted as "standalone number with 4 digits ranging from 2000 to 2014".

I could - heretically - even count +1 for "GC5HZY4 Two thousand words" :-)

my-point-of-view-regex: ^[0-9]20[00|01|02|03|04|05|06|07|08|09|10|11|12|13|14]^[0-9]

Maybe someone could ask the owner?

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Weird, I just replied, but it didn't work.

Anyway. I haven't really read about this one before, I just trusted Target. :)

I would say that it should work fine just as you say, at least with the regexp. Using "Two thousand" might be to push it, I can't find any logs with that either.

I will remove this cache from the exception list.

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Maybe the reply didn't work because I moved my "answer" to "comments" ;-)

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Ah, most likely why. I got very confused at least.

Answer 1

And this should have been the last checker/tag for the trail (*hint*)

Answer 2

I've created a checker for Challenge Bikeway: 25+ Favorites Challenge here: http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC44V4E/2294

Answer 3

I've created a checker for Challenge Bikeway: 50+ "CACHE" Challenge here: http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC44TTF/2297

Answer 4

I've created a checker for Challenge Bikeway: The J.O.Y. Challenge here: http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC44V5N/2750

Answer 5

I've created a checker for Challenge Bikeway: An Easy Place To PARK! here:  http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4G270/2927

Answer 6

Checker created for Challenge Bikeway: The 4444 Challenge
http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4E2AR/4279

Answer 7

Checker created for Challenge Bikeway: The Year Challenge

http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4G27B/6926

Answer 8

Checker created for Challenge Bikeway: Lone Letters & Numbers

http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC4FF33/7351

Comments

Looks like the script is disabled?

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Yes, I worked on it to be more universally usable :-)
Should be enabled now.

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"Verify tag" on "Challenge Bikeway: Lone Letters & Numbers" shows "Not ok" for cacher leelelee. leelelee is the owner of the mentioned cache GC51V22 with the lone letter Z and has not logged a find on this one. So the checker is right, phew, slightly sweating now...

Answer 9

Checker created for Challenge Bikeway: Non-Traditional Alpha-Numeric

http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC44TT7/7295

Answer 10

Checker created for Challenge Bikeway: Alpha Counties

http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5E2QP/6869

Comments

The tags are not visible if disables either. Could nice to have a working tag to look at.

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The config is the same, but I enabled the tag just for the sake of nicer output for users with not as many finds as a bit more than 10000.

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I have set a limit to 30000 finds. This should be enough to get a succesful check. Alamogul runs well, as you can see.

Profile name     Log date     Result     Log entry
CarlottaP    2014-12-12    OK    Link
oaknest    2014-12-12    OK    Link
Team Psychopuppy    2014-11-02    OK    Link
J5 Crew    2014-11-02    OK    Link
bthomas    2014-10-25    OK    Link
camper248    2014-10-12    OK    Link
JoyfulNomad    2014-10-09    OK    Link
BerkeleyBoomers    2014-10-05    OK    Link
Alamogul    2014-10-03    OK    Link

All other top 10 profiles run in less than 10 secs with memory less than 100MB. mado-germany must have a bad cache type distribution among the counties they found caches.

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After i fixing a bug where the code did not remove used types and sorting the types array i got the memory usage and speed down to the levels before backtrack was inplimented
The result can be found here. The changes in in the lines 225-240.

http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5E2QP/7748

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Thanks a lot for your improvements.
Now it looks like a really good algorighm for cartesian product challenges. This would have been a long walk without your encouragement and input.