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Hi folks.

So, scoring will shut down at 08:30am PST this morning. From then on, the balloons will float, and the map will update, but the leaderboards and records will remain at their final scores.

Unfortunately… I managed to shut it down at 08:30am UTC by mistake. Sorry. So the scoreboards will not have updated properly for the last 6 hours or so. No points have been lost. Just the displays wouldn’t have shown the correct scores. They are correct now.

Apologies for that. Good luck for the final hour.

Mark

To confirm, we have until 8:30 AM PST tomorrow to submit the visuals?


To confirm, we have until 8:30 AM PST tomorrow to submit the visuals?

That is correct!


It would be awesome to get ahold of the FME parts that made this work.  I’d love to set up a similar competition in our GIS group for the new year!


What a fun contest, thx for putting it together.  FME fan ‘Sask_UAV’ put up a good fight but came up a few km short and an airport too many :)


Thanks for the great contest, our team had a lot of fun with it.


Team Rocket’s balloon ended up close to Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Seems like a nice closure. :-)

Thanks for a very fun contest which didn’t need any FME wizarding skills to participate in! 


It would be awesome to get ahold of the FME parts that made this work.  I’d love to set up a similar competition in our GIS group for the new year!

I will see what I can do. I need to sanitize the code of all webhook tokens first, and there are a number of updates I’d like to make as well. You know how it is: the project works, but over time you start to notice how it ought to have been constructed!

But I’ll definitely get something out to you all, probably early in the new year. 


It would be awesome to get ahold of the FME parts that made this work.  I’d love to set up a similar competition in our GIS group for the new year!

I will see what I can do. I need to sanitize the code of all webhook tokens first, and there are a number of updates I’d like to make as well. You know how it is: the project works, but over time you start to notice how it ought to have been constructed!

But I’ll definitely get something out to you all, probably early in the new year. 

It would be interesting to have a mini hackathon to pull the setup apart and improve it.   Not to say you didn’t do a great job.  This was a lot of fun.  Though I stayed up far too late last night (early this morning)  working on the visualization workspace.


It would be awesome to get ahold of the FME parts that made this work.  I’d love to set up a similar competition in our GIS group for the new year!

I will see what I can do. I need to sanitize the code of all webhook tokens first, and there are a number of updates I’d like to make as well. You know how it is: the project works, but over time you start to notice how it ought to have been constructed!

But I’ll definitely get something out to you all, probably early in the new year. 

It would be interesting to have a mini hackathon to pull the setup apart and improve it.   Not to say you didn’t do a great job.  This was a lot of fun.  Though I stayed up far too late last night (early this morning)  working on the visualization workspace.

Are you planning to attend the Peak of Data Integration in May? We will be hosting a hackathon there… 🤔


It would be interesting to have a mini hackathon to pull the setup apart and improve it.   Not to say you didn’t do a great job.  This was a lot of fun.  Though I stayed up far too late last night (early this morning)  working on the visualization workspace.

Are you planning to attend the Peak of Data Integration in May? We will be hosting a hackathon there… 🤔

Sadly no.


Hi Mark

Great Contest.

I’d be interested in this metric.

“The closest balloon to where they started.”


What a nice surprise, apparently I got closest to Null Island!


Hi Mark

Great Contest.

I’d be interested in this metric.

“The closest balloon to where they started.”

Oh good one!


Hi Mark

Great Contest.

I’d be interested in this metric.

“The closest balloon to where they started.”

Hi ​@andrew_o - by my calculation, the worst “offender” is team geographix, who travelled 15,000km but ended up only 275km from where they started!

Your balloon travelled 29,500km and finished 1,680km from where you started.

I’ll check my results and then post a table to the stats page. I have to also decide who tops the leaderboard. Clearly teams that were within 1,000km of circumnavigating the globe did a good job, not a bad one!

Mark


Hi Mark

Great Contest.

I’d be interested in this metric.

“The closest balloon to where they started.”

Hi ​@andrew_o - by my calculation, the worst “offender” is team geographix, who travelled 15,000km but ended up only 275km from where they started!

Your balloon travelled 29,500km and finished 1,680km from where you started.

I’ll check my results and then post a table to the stats page. I have to also decide who tops the leaderboard. Clearly teams that were within 1,000km of circumnavigating the globe did a good job, not a bad one!

Mark

Split the ranks by whether the international date line crossings were an even or odd number (with zero being even)

Those that are odd will be circumnavigators and the closer they are to their the starting position the better.

Those that are even the closer they are, the less useful their travels were.