[Az-Geocaching] How are AZ caches determined?

[Bill Tomlinson]

Thanks Brian and thanks Tim for your earlier response.

I'm aware of all of those issues.  I would have waited a day for those to
clear up, but this was a bit more odd.  Why would one of us get AZ credit
for a cache and not the other.  Also, those caches had all been logged by
other recently and were AZ.  TheWebbman did have four others that weren't in
before the crawl but I didn't include those in my question.

I was just curious.  Unfortunately, now I'm even more curious because after
this mornings crawl, those caches that were marked as out of state are now
marked AZ (I no longer have 4 out of state finds).

BTW, Brian, speaking of site updates, any idea what havoc the new .net
version of geocaching.com is going to cause you?  I know they were planning
on separating out the locationless due to the number crunch.  I assume
they'll be rolling that out soon since numbers are almost used up.  I'm sure
a number of us would be willing to help update azgeocaching.com.

Thanks again,
CacheLess
Bill Tomlinson

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[mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com] On Behalf Of Brian
Cluff
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 10:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] How are AZ caches determined?


Bill Tomlinson wrote:

>I found an out situation that appears to be an azgeocaching bug.  Am I 
>missing something?  TheWebbman and I did a Tucson run yesterday.  We 
>hit 44 caches in total, including a couple along the interstate between 
>Phoenix and Tucson as well as a few in the West valley.  Here are the 
>two oddities I noted.  First, all of the caches are in Arizona.  Most 
>are traditional with a few being virtual, but all have physical 
>coordinates well within AZ.  Even so, some were marked as out of state 
>on azgeocaching.  Odder still, even though we hit all of the same 
>caches, four of mine were tagged as out of state, while five were so 
>marked for TheWebbman.  Doesn't makes sense.  I haven't yet compared 
>the lists to see which caches didn't make the AZ site.
>  
>
AZ Caches are determined by what geocaching.com says are arizona caches. 
 There are some things that effect if they are actually in arizona or 
not.  The person placing the cache can screw up and say that it's in one 
state and have it actually be in another, or it can be a locationless 
cache that was started in another state, or was in out state and moved on.
There there are minor quirks that effect when showing up right away... 
The previously mentioned update cycles can make you have to wait 24 
hours to see the new caches show up (we only crawl once a day to 
minimize the impact on the official site),   logging an archived cache 
can also make you have to wait, as well as a cache getting archived 
doesn't always get put into the "archived" section of azgeocaching right 
away.  Updates to the official site that involve changes to the actual 
working of the site tend to really screw things up.  The there are just 
plain bugs... although we havent seen any of those in a while, and we 
havent made any changes in a while, that doesn't rule out their 
existance, but I doubt a bug in the site is the cause of your missing 
caches... it's more likely to be one of the previous examples. It's hard
work keeping up with the official site.... lucky for me that 
Jeremy hasn't made any changes to the official site in the last few 
months.  It has really been a blessing since I have been extremely short 
handed at work over the same time period.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek

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