+pittrfc Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Just wondering if there is a list of the cachers who have found a cache in the most US counties? I'm at 341 of 3142 and wanted to know where I stacked up. Thanks, Pittrfc Quote Link to comment
+coachstahly Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 (edited) Here's a thread that will provide some information for you. To my knowledge, IndyMagicMan was the only one who had found a cache in each US county (or the equivalent in some states) in the continental US as of 2016 but there were certainly others that were working on it. Edited December 17, 2019 by coachstahly Quote Link to comment
+coachstahly Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Here's a link to his profile that shows the .gif filling in, county by county. https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=38506752-8242-4728-b40b-749095f99ec2&wid=da03fdfc-3e8e-46e7-971b-1867477f4ce4&ds=2 Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 https://project-gc.com/Statistics/TopCountyFinders?profile_country=United+States&country=United+States&submit=Filter 1 Quote Link to comment
+schmittfamily Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 (edited) Total counties is available on project-gc https://project-gc.com/Statistics/TopCountyFinders?profile_country=United+States&country=United+States&submit=Filter There is someone listed with 3141 out 3142. I am assuming they are missing Kalawao county in Hawaii. (oops - too slow on the link so more info) Summary: 148 at over 1000 US counties 876 at over 500 US counties 1966 at over 341 US counties Note - it has the original poster listed at 340 counties. Edited December 17, 2019 by schmittfamily Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 15 hours ago, schmittfamily said: There is someone listed with 3141 out 3142. I am assuming they are missing Kalawao county in Hawaii. Yep. Their logs on the Alaska Borough and Census Area Challenge tell the story. That's some dedication. In many states it appears they limited themselves to one find per county. After going through all that, I'd want to snag as many "all counties in [state]" challenges as I could, but they only have Alaska. To each their own, I suppose. 1 Quote Link to comment
+STNolan Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 On 12/17/2019 at 12:21 PM, schmittfamily said: Total counties is available on project-gc https://project-gc.com/Statistics/TopCountyFinders?profile_country=United+States&country=United+States&submit=Filter There is someone listed with 3141 out 3142. I am assuming they are missing Kalawao county in Hawaii. (oops - too slow on the link so more info) Summary: 148 at over 1000 US counties 876 at over 500 US counties 1966 at over 341 US counties Note - it has the original poster listed at 340 counties. Huh; this was an interesting statistic! The numbers are much lower than I might have guessed. I'm sitting at 935 counties. I figured there would be at least a couple thousand people with more than me (based on general interest in the hobby) but I'm sitting at 176. New goal for 2020... break into the top 100! Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 Hmm, project-gc lists me at 623 while GSAK FSG shows 618. I wonder what the difference is... Quote Link to comment
+STNolan Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 15 hours ago, The Jester said: Hmm, project-gc lists me at 623 while GSAK FSG shows 618. I wonder what the difference is... Maybe there's a tie? GSAK might place you at the top of a 5 way tie and Project-GC could put you at the bottom of one. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 15 hours ago, The Jester said: Hmm, project-gc lists me at 623 while GSAK FSG shows 618. I wonder what the difference is... Project-GC and GSAK are using different county border files. Five caches on a border's edge might fall into different counties then. Hans Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 It seems they are using very different county border files. Project-GC says a total of 3142, GSAK say 3148. Anybody willing to go thru state by state to see where the differences lie? Quote Link to comment
+schmittfamily Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 I know project-gc and Groundspeak disagree on which state GC2018 is in. That pops up for us on the challenge checkers and effects our county count. I am not sure what GSAK uses but the first few things I would check are: 1. Does GSAK include American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana, American Virgin islands, and Minor Outlying Islands (My guess)? 2. Alaska 3. Louisiana Quote Link to comment
+pittrfc Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 Thanks all. After a road trip over Christmas, I picked up 34 new counties. Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 On 12/20/2019 at 9:46 PM, schmittfamily said: Does GSAK include American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana, American Virgin islands, and Minor Outlying Islands (My guess)? No, those are listed as their own separate "countries" for caching purposes. You can go to the old seek page (still a valuable tool for searching, though the newer search page is of course extremely useful) and use the "by Country" menu to see the list of all territories; it contains those. Quote Link to comment
+Vooruit! Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 GSAK looks at corrected coordinates. Very possible that some mystery caches have their published coordinates in one county, and the final coordinates in another. This could account for a difference between GSAK and Project GC. Quote Link to comment
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