Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged extremes-by-area

Extremes by area: Why did already found "Most central" caches disappear from the statistics?

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:41:16 +0000

In my PGC profile stats I had some extreme finds (extremes by area). Today I was surprised by the absence of all "most central" icons.

I checked, if there are new caches published, closer to the geographical center coordinate of that area, but there were no changes.

Will that issue be fixed? Or maybe PGC uses another method to determine the most central cache?

Extremes-by-area Feature request - Use historical data

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:19:20 +0000

I find the "Extremes-by-area" statistic very interesting. It's comparable to the GeoTrophy. Unfortunately, it doesn't take historical data into account.

In PGC, I only found the oldest, highest, most found, and most favorite in Denmark. However, I also found the northernmost, westernmost, and southernmost—at least as they were at that time. It would be good to include these as well, since the statistics otherwise constantly change.

Uli

Feature request - add "most central cache" to the N/E/S/W/Oldest tool

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:04:21 +0000

As PGC presumably knows what the most central cache is for each country/region/county for the extreme caches module, could this be added to the existing tool please?

Extremes by area - the most central cache

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:08:27 +0000

There is new (?) category of extreme by area and that is the most central cache.

I know how to find all other types by any country/county but here i don't know where to find it; don't know any easy way nor any long and painful one

Is it possible to see what caches are currently the "extreme one"?

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:03:26 +0000

For me for example, what cache is oldest in county "Hlavní město Praha"?

Is there a way how to quickly find out?

Extremes by area has mismatching units and values

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:35:34 +0000

My settings are for imperial units. When I hover on the highest icon, it displays the value in meters, but displays the units as feet.

For example, for Williamson County, Texas, United States, it shows cache GCB6GG9 as 376 ft.

Using https://project-gc.com/Statistics/TopElevation?profile_name=j2dad&country=United+States&region=Texas&county=Williamson+County+(TX)&hidearchived=on&submit=Filter, it shows the same cache as 1234 (ft) which I believe is correct.

Extremes by area: counties removed?

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:31:55 +0000

Some weeks ago gemany had 16 states and every state some counties. Now the counties are gone. Only for me? Will they show up again?

suggestion of the extreme area system

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:54:52 +0000

First of all, I know that some of the topics have already been covered in other topics, but I think that since I'm going to talk about several topics, I'll just mention them in one topic.

First of all, I congratulate you on this project as it creates yet another set of objectives to achieve. I know that the project is in its early stages, so new resources will appear, including those that I will mention below, but it doesn't hurt to suggest them.

I will suggest and number the topics that could improve the area extremes system:
1- As it already exists with the extremes found where clicking on the icon and the cache appears, there could be in those that we have not found, thus making the search easier (it could be the same as those we found or even a special search, as this way it could be easier to find even the areas that we do not have in any of the extremes found).

2- As it happens to some geocachers, even I am currently the owner of some cache in Extremos and for that reason the icon is like I need to find it, but as it is not possible to find the caches themselves, I think they could refer to this with an icon in another color, for example.

3- As there is already the highest altitude extreme, why the lowest altitude extreme?

4- There could be a filter that allows us to include caches that are archived or not, for example the filters that exist in the D\T graph of type\size

Best regards Nelitoz

Extremes by area question

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 06:32:17 +0000

I've got a question regarding the southmost Cache of my hometown Bremen:

I found this one, that's officially the southmost cache here: https://coord.info/GC92PGX (Bremens Zipfelcache Süd), but it's not shown in my table.

I looked in the stats of a more veteran cacher from this area, and he's got the upwards arrow for this one: https://coord.info/GC2QD7D (Feuchtgebiet), an archived cache.

So far, so fine, it's archived since 7 years, before I was in that area.

But...

The north coordinates of the Zipfelcache are N 53° 00.858', while the north coordinates of Feuchtgebiet were N 53° 00.954', so I wonder, in which coordinates system .954 is farther south than .858. How comes, that this is not shown correctly?

regarding the new extremes by area stats what if you own the cache that qualifies?

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:04:45 +0000

should you qualify for the stat if you own the cache?

Extremes by area enhancement request: Show extreme when hovering also for those you do not qualify

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:02:01 +0000

Today the Extremes for areas, which you have logged, do show up when you hoover the symbol in profile statistics.

But I think it would be good if you would see the extreme geocache for an area/type when you hover also for those that you do not qualify. That would mean that it would simplify finding these extremes in a future trip.

I assume the information is available as it is checked if you do qualify, so it is probably easy to add.

((Edited: Corrected "hoover" to "hover"))

Extremes by area enhancement request

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:49:19 +0000

I love the new Finds > Extremes table but I have a problem. I own the cache with the most favourites so cannot qualify for this.

Could we have the table show not only most extreme caches found, but also if they are owned. Owned caches are, of course, not finds, so should be marked in with a different colour, perhaps grey.

Alternatively, perhaps show the extreme caches of cache owners that are not me. In other words I might see the second most favourited cache. This would give different result for different people, so is not preferred.

And now Project-GC has given me more geocaching objectives... As if I didn't have enough already!