Is there any way to find the ?th placed cache.

Question

How can I find out (for example) what the 100,000th cache is or the 1,000,000th cache?

Comments

ordered by what? By the GC code number (all didn't get published), or by publication date? Or by the "hidden date"?

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By Publication date.

Answer 1

I don't think there is a way to find it at the moment. Even though it would be possible to sort caches by publish date, you would not find that precisely, because there are hundreds of new caches published daily, but logs are just saying which day is it, not which time (in most of the cases). PGC has some sense of publish date to select or sort, but it would require listing and sorting of millions of geocaches to get these approximate results. Moreover, it would not reflect the retracted caches, that are never more accessible from web nor from API, but indisputably were published.

Comments

I think it is possible to order by date since all longs have a id that is unique and always increase for a new log.
That is the metod that is used to determine your long order in a singel day.

It should be possible to sort all publish logs by that value.  
To sort by date will result in incorrect result since the logs have local dates. A example is that a cache publish on hour after midnight in Europe and a cache publish one hour before midnight in the US would have a later date for the Europe cache  then the US but it would still be publish before the US cache.

Sorting by log id is better for the order but there might be the problem that they are only increasing for a single user and not for all users depending on the design of servers at groundspeek