Extremes by area - Project-gc.com profile stats

[+CheekyBrit]

In case you haven't heard, an innovative new feature has just dropped on project-gc.com: Extremes by area.
This is a segment shown in the profile stats tab that shows you a breakdown of areas you've geocached in (countries and states) showing if you've found the 8 extremes: The oldest, highest, most favorited, most logged, northmost, eastmost, southmost, and westmost caches. Super super cool tool that's worth checking out. It gives seasoned geocachers another goal to shoot toward.

 

[+CheekyBrit]

I've noticed curious behavior with this feature.
You can use the 'map NEWS/Oldest' tool and you'll get different results from the 'Extremes by area' segment on profile stats.

Take Colorado for example: the 'map NEWS/Oldest' tool gives GCA52 geocache as the most east and the most south. This bad boy has posted coordinates of 00° 00.000 000° 00.000 in the ocean and lists itself as being in Colorado. It's archived now but I'm guessing it was a puzzle cache ending in Colorado that was made before the 2 mile rule.

Jump over to the 'Extremes by area' feature and GC5164 Where the wild things are (locationless) (made as an unknown cache) is the most east and the most south. Similarly this chap has posted coordinates out in the ocean at N 00° 00.007 W 010° 00.008 and lists itself as being in Colorado. This one isn't archived but is locked.

These are strange, rare and old type caches from the wild west days and I'm guessing they'll make coding a real headache. It seems like either their hidden final coordinates are being used to determine location, or the code is looking at what state the cache lists itself as being set in.

Whatever happens, this new feature is amazing and innovative. I hope my observations help the grand project. Eventually I'd like to make a challenge based on finding X extremes or getting extreme points, but I recon I'll need a list of caches that ARE the extremes, or at the very least wait until the feature has had time to work the kinks out. North, East, South and West seem to be the biggest hurdle and it's a kinda hard list to put together manually, having tried for some U.S. states.

Cheers,
CheekyBrit.

[+MNTA]

Would be really nice if they could tell you which active caches qualify.  Sounds like if you qualify at any time in the past you still keep the achievement if another cache exceeds qualifications, which is nice. 

 

Also get rid of the dumb locationless caches skews the USA/Washington/King County most found and most favorited.

 

Definitely a cool feature and like you said gives you something extra to work for. My last day of my vacation to the Cayman Islands had a couple of hours to waste before flying out and managed to make two finds to qualify for the western and southern most caches. Tried for what I thought was the northern most Oregon cache today but unfortunately DNF and will have try again only next trip to the beach.

 

Next we will start seeing challenge caches though got a few more finds to qualify at a county level let alone region/country before I can hide one.

 

[+sallysomd]

About the new Extremes by area. Ive just noticed it and I cannot find what the icons mean--i assume heart means "most favorited", but cant figure out the rest. So I just want to verify, that there is no where that will tell you what the caches are they are referring to?

[+The Leprechauns]

@sallysomd, Hover your mouse over each icon to see what it means.  And, if you've found one of the extremes, hovering over its icon will tell you which cache it was.

 

Left to right, the icons are for:

Oldest

Northernmost

Easternmost

Southernmost

Westernmost

Highest

Most Finds

Most Favorite Points

 

I've got 91 Country and Region extremes "colored in."  It is fun to add new ones, like when I found the oldest cache in three states during a vacation roadtrip last week.  I agree with @MNTA that it would be nice to see what the qualifying caches are, so that I could target them, but there's other ways of getting the information.

 

[+MNTA]

Today found my counties eastern most cache aptly named

Taking a trip to nowhere 

GC2JWW4