CacheStats 1.0

[Mofongo]

Doug,
Nice job on this cool little program!! I will have to play with it more this weekend, but I think you have a winner here.

Mofongo

[jthorson]

I find the program interesting because of what it tells me about me :wink:.

One surprise was that I had found a cache in Utah. The Utah cache is actually a traveling cache that is currently in Utah (“Going to a Brewers Game Traveling Cache”). I found it when it was in Germantown.

@abcdmCachers wrote:

@Johnny Cache wrote:

When did you say you’d have the upgrade that lists totals for Wisconsin counties?

I actually considered this, and spent maybe a grand total of 5 minutes looking for a public domain file containing coordinates/vectors/line segments or whatever for county borders. Not even sure if such a thing exists, but if someone knows of one, let me know and I’ll look into it.

My first thought is to use the Tiger database built by the US government which has rivers, cities, parks and yada yada and political boundaries as line segments.

[jthorson]

This has the relevant Tiger files

The ascii ones are at the bottom. The numbers are in dd.dddddd coordinate format.

[greyhounder]

Fun program, and very well done!

Bec

[Green Bay Paddlers]

This program is slick. I’ve got it downloaded and I’ve messed around with it a number of times this week.

My wife and I have been caching since January of 2003, but it looks like it will be YEARS before we hit 200 caches! 🙂

[ThatGuy]

Fun app. I’ve got another stat category in mind:

Firsts:
First [cachetype] (traditional, multi, virtual, event, puzzle)
First in [state]
First TB found/placed/owned
First GeoCoin found/placed/owned
First cache placed

I find these sorts of things interesting.

[greyhounder]

Any chance of Mac compatibility?

Bec

[Jeremy]

@greyhounder wrote:

Any chance of Mac compatibility?

Since it is written in C# for the .NET framework, the answer is that it would be difficult to port it to another operating system.

If I ever get the “My Finds” pocket query parser for the WGA site done/working, you will be able to get some of the same statistics that the CacheStats program provides from basically any web browser. Not sure if stuff like the goal projection calculator will be replicated on the site, but it would be easy to provide the basic stuff like rates, history, milestone dates, etc.

[abcdmCachers]

In answer to last few posts:
Regarding other categories, good idea. One way would be to allow users to add their own custom categories in the favorites section, which is on my todo list for the next version. Note that the “my finds” query doesn’t include data for TBs or coins, so those stats wouldn’t be able to be calculated.

Regarding support for the Mac, there is a project called Mono whose charter is to port the .NET framework to other operating systems (Max OS X is one). I know nothing about it, other than that it’s there. If someone wants look into it, here is the website:
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

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