Geocaching Australia

He is known in SA for logging many Groundspeak caches without having signed the log. After he did that on a small powertrail, the owner deleted all his logs for the powertrail. He then went back and stole all the caches in the powertrail in spite. He did show up at an event a couple years ago though...

So I went to grab the link to the log to paste here... The "view log" button is gone on all the logs from GC to. Not sure why that is missing? I was still able to find the view log page by pulling the log ID number from the "Like Log" button and editing the URL. (doing this on your own logs without ...

How do you delete your own logs on GCA now? (for Groundspeak caches) You used to be able to click the "Edit" on the top right of the log, then click delete. But the "Edit" button seems to be gone now? For context: there's a Groundspeak cache where my log over there got accidentally deleted so I re-l...

This was my attempt at explaining the problem a few years ago: https://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Uploading_logs#Log_Date_Issues The "time" of your log depends on what software or app you used to submit the log. However, they have since changed how logs on event caches work. The time on event logs ...

Sounds similar to the Wherigo reverse caches? Except that is is played through a browser instead of the Wherigo app. On the plus side, this removes a lot of the opportunities to cheat. On the downside, it only works if you have internet access wherever you are.

Groundspeak has this problem when making URLs. They deal with it by just removing any characters that aren't a-z,0-9 which can, and does occasionally, result in empty names. So there just needs to be a fallback to using the number id if there are no 'acceptable' characters in the name.

I'm confused.

The cache that is at "top days per find" will be the same cache that is at "bottom finds per day"? I think both of those will result in the same list of caches?

Would this work better if you flipped the division - ie. calculate days/finds instead of finds/days ? (and sort by largest days/finds value) You get the wrong result. 5000 days / 1 find = 5000. 5000 days / 2 finds 2500. This counts the wrong thing. That looks correct to me? One cache that averages ...

Actually thinking about it further, it'll always be skewed towards the newer caches. Since the average find rate across all caches is higher now than it was 10 years ago. (and presumably the find rate will keep increasing again once coronavirus is over)

That's quite interesting, not the results I was expecting. It does seem a little skewed towards the newer caches (even if you ignore the @home ones) so maybe the 30 day limit needs to be increased - eg. to 100 days? The difference between caches with most finds vs cache with highest find rate is qui...

I'm not sure of the right answer without some trial and error to see what gives sensible results. Probably just exclude archived caches since that solves a lot of the problems. Start date would be publish date if it available, hidden date if there is no publish date. End date is the current date. (e...

This might already exist but... (if so, where do I find it?) I was looking for a list of caches with the highest finds per day, is that possible? And also, the inverse of that: the caches with the least finds per day (or most days per find)? Would need to exclude caches with zero finds and new cache...

This graph seems to cause the server to hit the memory limit: https://geocaching.com.au/stats/cachers ... t_1000.png

And side question, is a graph of fastest 10,000 finds possible?

On the homepage, if you click on a state on the map, a request is made to:
https://geocaching.com.au/map-vic.png
(swap vic with whatever state you click on)

I'm not sure what the purpose of this request is, but currently it gives a 404 not found error which doesn't seem right.

I'd be interested to know the answer to this to. My 6 year old unit is due for replacement but there doesn't seem to have been a new model released for quite a while now.