[Az-Geocaching] Kudos Snaptek dudes!

[Brian Cluff]

Tim Giron wrote:
> Some of you may not have noticed but there was a decent amount of data cleanup done on the azgeocaching.com site this past week:
> 
> 1. All caches in the database got their lats and lons back
> 2. The log dates that were incorrectly showing 2005 vs. 2004 were fixed
> 
> There may be some other things that I didn't see, but I just wanted to give a shout out to Brian and/or Jason for their efforts.
> 
> My listings are just about perfect, now.  Since I can only corroborate my data, your mileage may vary.

Thanks, we should be down to just the missing caches.  Thats a part of 
the code that just plain needs to be written... again.
Any for those of you that have forgotten what happened last time I did that.
At one point Jason and I got together and wrote a nice little program 
that would fetch a cache off the geocaching site, check if it was in 
Arizona and not already listed in the system, and if everything checked 
out OK... add it to the system for future inclusion in the stats. That 
seemed to work OK, so I moved on to trying to automate the system so 
that it would detect archived caches and move them to the proper 
location.  My code worked nicely and did was it was supposed to, but it 
had a bug in it.  The first day there was no caches to archive at all, 
the code got confused and proceeded to erase the entire az-geocaching 
backend, leaving us with no data at all, and no way to get any more.  Of 
course I DID have a backup, but I hadn't backed up within the last month 
or so, and the old code was completely worthless for getting new data 
because of geocaching.com also going through a fairly major change, so I 
opted to just rewrite the whole thing from scratch.  That turned out to 
be the right thing to do, but due to the lack of time to do it it took 
several months to get us back up and running, and now the site is much 
more versatile and easier to use.

Anyway, to get back to my point.... I'll backup the site before I try to 
add those features again, since I'm not quite sure exactly what the bug 
was because it also deleted itself :)

Brian Cluff
AzGeocaching.com
Team Snaptek