Re: Checker Needed for GC8CFR1 Wellington County, ON

Hi there,

I'm looking for a challenge checker for GC8CFR1, Wonderful Wellington County Challenge. Cachers will need to have found a minimum of 25 caches in each of the 7 municipalities of Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Caches can be found on any day, any time, any amount per day, etc and all past finds count (as per the new guidelines).

I have included this link to help you see the different boundaries of Wellington County.

I hope my request is clear - if it doesn't make sense, please don't hesitate to ask.

Thank you so much for this! I admire the work you can do - I have no idea how you can turn municipal boundaries into a checker. :)

Oops! Forgot the link.
https://www.wellington.ca/en/discover/municipalboundaries.aspx

Unfortunately you can't use municipalities (or user defined polygons) as it's against rule 10 of the challenge cache guidelines:

Source of Criteria: Not Acceptable: Challenges based on geographic areas other than countries, states/provinces, counties (or their local equivalent). For example, user-defined mapping polygons, latitude/longitude, radius, etc.

Hi there,

I'm a bit confused because there are many recently published challenge caches that use municipalities to define cache finds. Here are three examples (the last one is about Wellington county):

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7PWCN

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7NHX8

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7JGNH

My intention was for my challenge to be very similar to this challenge but using Wellington County. If I were to reword it to be similar to this challenge, would it be accepted? https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7WFPG

For example:
25 finds in Minto
25 finds in Guelph
25 finds in Palmerston

If this is acceptable then I can be more specific with my write up.

All those challenges are for a number of finds in specific counties, not in municipalities that make up those counties. The first is allowed, the latter is not.

Hi there and thank you for your patience. I've reworked the challenge now to cachers will need to find a minimum of 1000 trads in Wellington County, Ontario.

Thank you for your time!

Here's a checker for you:

https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8CFR1/44575

Please test and let us know if it's suitable.

Thank you - it's great!

And thank you for taking the time to explain why my original challenge was not acceptable. I imagine it's frustrating explaining the rules to people so I appreciated your patience and professionalism.

Take care :)

Absolute pleasure.

I understand now. Thank you. I'll try to rework a new idea.