Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged elevation-stats

Feature Request: Use corrected coordinates for Highest and Lowest Elevations stats section

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:32:29 +0000

Currently, the profile stats show the elevation of posted coordinates. This means that for most cachers, the lowest elevation list consists of mystery caches that have the posted coordinates in the sea. Making that part of statistics pretty much random.

E.g. On my profile, 9/10 caches in there show up as below sea level, although they are all actually above it.

Because PGC has the access to read corrected coordinates, I thought that maybe it's possible to implement that part of the stats to show them instead.

P.S. Alternatively, if for some reason this is not possible, could we get the option of manually excluding caches from only that part of stats, using a bookmark list?

P.P.S. Some people have raised the argument "But then I can just correct some cache coordinates to the middle of the ocean and get the deepest badge!"
This argument does not seem valid to me - bogus correcting like that would be no different than couch logging a random cache to claim some other badge - you are only cheating yourself this way, and it is not possible to enforce stopping it.
At the moment this stat is a bogus one for 90% of cachers anyway. By using corrected coordinates, it would become bogus for the 0.01% of cheaters, yes, but it would be correct for others. (Sorry for the rant)

GCADQCM Elevation Short By Over 2/3

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 02:37:48 +0000

Hi there,

I recently noticed that the Project-GC elevation for one of my caches, GCADQCM, is significantly off. PGC lists it at 641m, whereas its actual elevation is about 2100m. I understand that the elevation data can be off, but with this being such a significant difference I was wondering if it may be the result of a bug that can be fixed.

The cache is new, having been published just a month ago if that helps. Let me know if there's any other info you need!

Thanks,
-Bobby (garretslarrity)

Highest elevation

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:51:59 +0000

Hello,

I need to filter out which Swedish cachers have collected a minimum of 10 caches at an elevation higher than 3000 m

I assume this can be readily be done if one knows how to do it. Can somone please advise?

While I need to know the answer I’m more interested in learnig how to do it.

Thanks in advance,

Killakul