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s4xton · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 2:00 pm Post subject: Lakers Map

How difficult would it be....

To scrape the coordinates of all the caches that are known to have Lakers game pieces and generate a map?

If we don't have something public of this type, Rickrich will do it on his own and school us all (assuming he's playing)... unless die-hard gamers manually check all the caches on the recent activity list...

It might be useful for non-metro players as well, so they don't have to check 100 cache pages associated with pieces when there might only be 2-3 in their 40 mile radius.

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-Aaron

towlebooth · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 2:39 pm Post subject:

I'd like this too. . .

If someone donated the code we could pretty it up and host it.

Lyverbird · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject:

Yes! Please.
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towlebooth · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 3:01 pm Post subject:

Here's an interium solution I could do tonight.

I'll add a town/city field to the grab & drop forms. That way we can capture/display the location of the cache the laker is in. Sound good?

Lyverbird · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject:

Ecellent.

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rickrich · Geocacher Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 673

Chad, if you can provide me with a URL that contains a tab-separated text file with the various information about the laker (lat, lon, name, etc), I will whip together a shell script to create a map from it. I'd rather start from an easy tab-separated text file than scrape the information. Since you run this joint, there is no reason to scrape the HTML and turn it back into a databasey thing so I can process it.

PS.

Actually, I guess you only know the cache name and laker name. Whatever, I can get
lat/lon. Just put whatever info you know about the laker in a tab separated text file.

towlebooth · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject:

RJ · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject:

I think a map is a great idea. I like the idea of a clickable state and/or metro map with all the lakers on them.
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rickrich · Geocacher Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 673

Yeah, my guess is that we will need two maps. One of the metro "potential energy well", and one of the state. I'll make both clickable.

towlebooth · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:26 am Post subject:

I'll get my part done tonight.

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RJ · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 4:58 am Post subject:

Nice spread! If it's anything like that sample rickrich, it's gonna be cool. Thanks for doing that.
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towlebooth · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 9:16 am Post subject:

Very nice rickrich! Please make the statewide truly statewide (go to the Canadian, Iowa, and Dakotas borders). I will be dropping off Lakers this weekend which would be in MN but off the map.

I will be incorporating the maps into the look and feel of the website tonight. rr, could you take a moment and explain to me (in a private email/PM) how I get the code set up on the mngca server (i&i) and also how to fire it off from a php file? That way it can be updated everytime a laker is moved.

Thanks again - this is sweet!

s4xton · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 10:28 am Post subject:

Rickrich and Towlebooth - thanks for making this happen. This is very, very cool.

Towlebooth - if these maps work like Rickrich's other maps, it should dynamically show more of Minnesota if there are laker pieces in other parts of the states.

-Aaron

towlebooth · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject: