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in Miscellaneous by 1976Holle (100 points)
Google translate: You meet the logging conditions, if in your personal statistics, the distance to your most northern, southern, eastern and western Fund in total is at least 4000km.
PGC does not have access to your home coordinates, so it is not possible to create such checker: http://forum.project-gc.com/viewtopic.php?t=80&p=405#p405
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The challenge has a problem when it don't define if the exclusion list by gc.com for travelling/wrong cord caches shall be used or not. It will matte alot a cache physically located in the Czech Republic has its coordinates at the antipode on the other side of the earth. A find on it and another cache near that cache will qualify you with 20 000 km found distance even if you only have logged two caches 161 meter apart
 
 
I am also surprised that is was allowed because challenges "One should not have to 'give up' finding other geocaches to achieve a challenge cache's requirements."  And the distance from home to N E S W will do that.
example: If your current most E find is fart to the north of your home and a new found is marginally more to the east but on the same N as your home coordinates the distance will decrease.
And you have to give up finds to meat the requirement.
If only Lat distance of N S and long distance of E W is used it would be ok.
 
 
A complete checker is impossible without the home coordinates. 
The most N E S W caches are independent of home coordinates. At least N and S is and depending of the definition of E and W they might also be.
 
A checker that shows ok in som cases could be made if the distance between N and S, E and W is used. A min distance will be known but your distance depend on your home coordinates.
by Target. (Expert) (104k points)
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