Stats for Opencaching sites

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Stats for Opencaching sites

Post by tomaszg » Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:46 pm

Hi,

I'm developing a tool to compute various statistics related to Opencaching activity and a cache map. It supports all OC sites which use OKAPI. The tool itself is accompanied by a simple webpage to visualize the results and you can check it out here: http://tomaszg.pl/geo/.

It is still work in progress and especially all international features were not extensively tested. Myself, I use only OC.pl so many things may break. Also I still intend to add new features, so all ideas are welcome.

If anyone is interested to contribute, the source code is hosted at https://gitlab.com/tomaszg/geostat.
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Re: Stats for Opencaching sites

Post by TermiteHunter » Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:57 pm

Nice work there. I was impressed.
Worked fine for me with OCNA (we tend to prefer OpenCaching North America after we added the majority of the continent)
Thanks for including us.
Sorry I won't be able to help with the coding on GitHub but I will try to keep an eye on it there.

I will look into providing a link to your service on the OCNA site as well if you like.

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Re: Stats for Opencaching sites

Post by tomaszg » Fri Jan 31, 2020 8:21 am

Thanks. Of course, if you wish you can add the link wherever you want :)
TermiteHunter wrote:
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(we tend to prefer OpenCaching North America after we added the majority of the continent)
I need to check all places and introduce a consistent notation (upper/lower case, dots and so on. Maybe I'll replace the names with icons from https://wiki.opencaching.eu/index.php?title=Main_Page Quite a lot of things are still work in progress.

BTW. I didn't find a good map of North America to include. The one I found on Wikipedia uses non-trivial projection and I would need to extend the code to support that situation. Right now it supports only maps in the most stupid projection - i.e. equirectangular. That's why some maps are weirdly deformed.
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Re: Stats for Opencaching sites

Post by tomaszg » Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:25 am

Added a bit of stuff last month: display of "trail" instead of heatmap (works so-so), time range (i.e. limiting stats to caches found in a certain period), added stars next to names of recommended caches, and a few minor polishing things.
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Re: Stats for Opencaching sites

Post by DudleyGrunt » Fri May 22, 2020 9:37 pm

Very cool. The only issue I saw was the map couldn't be changed from Poland.
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Re: Stats for Opencaching sites

Post by DudleyGrunt » Fri May 22, 2020 9:42 pm

I figured out the map.
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Re: Stats for Opencaching sites

Post by DudleyGrunt » Sat May 23, 2020 2:32 pm

Am I missing a link on my own stats page that someone could click on to go back to the main page and enter their own name, etc?
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Re: Stats for Opencaching sites

Post by tomaszg » Sat May 23, 2020 2:34 pm

Oh, I didn't think to put the "back" link there. I assumed everyone would just use browser back button. Next time I'll be fiddling around I'll add that.
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Re: Stats for Opencaching sites

Post by DudleyGrunt » Sat May 23, 2020 7:30 pm

tomaszg wrote:
Sat May 23, 2020 2:34 pm
Oh, I didn't think to put the "back" link there. I assumed everyone would just use browser back button. Next time I'll be fiddling around I'll add that.
Cool. I was thinking that if I share my stats page and someone see it and would like to generate their own, it would be nice if there were a link they could click to get the main page.

Thanks.
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Re: Stats for Opencaching sites

Post by tomaszg » Sun May 24, 2020 9:35 am

I made the top header a link back to the main page.

BTW. I noticed something might be wrong with values returned by API for your site. For some reason in most cases the "region" is empty even though I can see it is set for that particular cache by viewing it via the webpage.
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