User apears in wrong country

Question

In the statistic "FTF streak month", It looks like the user: *Danne*
is located in Denmark - On the user profile, it states it's Halmstad (Sweden)

Probarbly some auto discovery that went wrong - A bit wird because there are a lot more finds in sweden, than any other country.

Comments

The reason is that the location is determined from finds and there might be problem.
My guess it that he have recently have a trip to Denmark  with and pgc interpreterat it as living there.
My guess of the problem is that the caches have few recent finds in Halmstad since he have logged almost all caches there. And most finds will be during caching trips.
The algorithm likely need a change for caches where the cacher has many finds and no caches left nere their home.
An idea would perhaps to take recent hides into consideration.

The reason for determinering it by finds and not by home coordinates is that you don't need to set that coordinate and it is not available if you don't authenticate on pgc

Answer 1

Project-GC guesses home country, and in some cases regions for users. In this case, Project-GC guesses Sweden, but the mentioned user has overrided this in his settings at Project-GC. He has chosen to be located in Denmark.

I hope it's obvious why we have this option in the settings. Why he has decided to choose the wrong country I do not know, but I can imagine a few possible reasons behind it.

Comments

It could also be that he has moved to Denmark and that he forgot to update his profile on geocaching.com? That would make the override on project-gc the correct one.

The trouble with inconsistent data such as this is that it is difficult to know which one is correct :)