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Re: Checker Needed for GC8CFR1 Wellington County, ON

[Resolved] Checker Needed for GC8CFR1 Wellington County, ON
August 21, 2019 05:52PM
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. :)
Re: Checker Needed for GC8CFR1 Wellington County, ON
August 21, 2019 07:01PM
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.
Re: Checker Needed for GC8CFR1 Wellington County, ON
August 21, 2019 07:15PM
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.
Re: Checker Needed for GC8CFR1 Wellington County, ON
August 21, 2019 07:21PM
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.
Re: Checker Needed for GC8CFR1 Wellington County, ON
August 22, 2019 12:08AM
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!
Re: Checker Needed for GC8CFR1 Wellington County, ON
August 22, 2019 06:25AM
Here's a checker for you:

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

Please test and let us know if it's suitable.
Re: Checker Needed for GC8CFR1 Wellington County, ON
August 22, 2019 01:42PM
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 :)
Re: Checker Needed for GC8CFR1 Wellington County, ON
August 22, 2019 04:28PM
Absolute pleasure.
Re: Checker Needed for GC8CFR1 Wellington County, ON
August 21, 2019 07:23PM
I understand now. Thank you. I'll try to rework a new idea.
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