Counter per cache to see country origin of cacher

Question

I would like to have a feature that can count cachers origincountry. I have a cache in Thailand that lots of tourists find. It would be interesting to know where they are from. If you count the IP-adress it probably gets very wrong depending on which country they are in when they log...

I am thinking that maybe one can use the fact that every cacher has his home coordinates and that could be a value that can be used when programming.

Since I have no clue about programming I hope my theory, that I got from Zontjuven, is correct.

Kind regards

Geogubben

Comments

Nice idea, although it might be a bit resource-intensive.

How about a slightly different idea - a new statistic page, 'Percentage of finders not from cache's country' or something like that?

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this should have been comment expanding the original idea. It does not provide any answer nor implements solution.

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Thanks, not sure how I managed to do that. I've changed it now.

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The home coordinates cant be used. They are not publicly available and pgc can only access them when a user log in to pgc. Because they are not public they are only used on your own profile stats that only you can see. The "Nearest cache found" and "Furthest cache found" and perhaps some more data. I suspect that is is against the agreement with groundspeek to show the to other users.

But your idea is still possible because pgc tries to detect the home country and in som cases region from the users finds.

Answer 1

Similar ideas has been suggested a few times, and we have this noted on our idea list. Will most likely be made together with a few other things later on.

Comments

Ok. Txs for the answer. Sounds good to me.