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Don't confuse charge out rates with labour rates. It'll just depress you.

[caughtatwork]

Don't confuse charge out rates with labour rates. It'll just depress you.

I'm already depressed. As a consulting IT Project Manager I get to see all of the finances on my projects. Including my own. The difference makes me sad

[budgietas]

Hi. Just found mayoralties on the stats page. Can't find any reference in the wiki.

[caughtatwork]

Hi. Just found mayoralties on the stats page. Can't find any reference in the wiki.

You're quick That only went live about 4:00pm today.
Now that the cat is out of the bag (as it were) here are the details.

http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Mayoralties

Mayoralities are based on the concept from FourSquare.

If you are the cacher with the most GCA finds for a locale/state/country combination and that count is >= 10, then you are declared the mayor of that locale. If there is a draw for the same number of finds, the one who has the latest find gets to be mayor. i.e. The newcomer usurps the old guy.

Locationless caches and moveable caches do not contribute to the mayoral status as locationless don't have a location to be mayor of and moveable caches, well, move.

Examples.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga0804
Neribil has 10 GCA finds in Ulverstone and as the highest finder, gets to be the mayor.
You can see the current mayor next to the Mayoral Crown

http://geocaching.com.au/cacher/statist ... ayoralties
He (she, it) is also the mayor of a few other areas.

http://geocaching.com.au/cacher/Neribil
You can also see that Neribil is a mayor on the "bling line" on their cacher page.

You can see whether you are a mayor by going to your cacher page and the under Statistics you can select Mayoralties.
Are you a mayor yet?
Can you usurp the incumbent and take over the mayoral role for a locale?

Only 16 people (so far) have mayoralties, so they're not exactly common, but then if everyone was a mayor, then no-one would be.

Neribil
Roostaman
TeamSwampy
pjmpjm
rogerw3
OldSaint
psychokat
pwags
Fuddley
Cheesy pigs
Team Canary
2y'stassies
Posspet Boys
strike-a-light
norkmeister
Team Natty Dean

Development time around 5 hours or $375.00

[pwags]

Hi. Just found mayoralties on the stats page. Can't find any reference in the wiki.

Mayoralities are based on the concept from FourSquare.

If you are the cacher with the most GCA finds for a locale/state/country combination and that count is >= 10, then you are declared the mayor of that locale. If there is a draw for the same number of finds, the one who has the latest find gets to be mayor. i.e. The newcomer usurps the old guy.

Now that I am the newly-appointed mayor of Melbourne's CBD, where can I collect my mayoral robes and chauffeur-driven car?

[caughtatwork]

Hi. Just found mayoralties on the stats page. Can't find any reference in the wiki.

Mayoralities are based on the concept from FourSquare.

If you are the cacher with the most GCA finds for a locale/state/country combination and that count is >= 10, then you are declared the mayor of that locale. If there is a draw for the same number of finds, the one who has the latest find gets to be mayor. i.e. The newcomer usurps the old guy.

Now that I am the newly-appointed mayor of Melbourne's CBD, where can I collect my mayoral robes and chauffeur-driven car?

I am so going to find 2 Museum caches, just to get a ahead of you, Mr. Lord Mayor.
Nooooooooooooooo! There are no more caches in that locale that I can find. How much can I pay someone to hide a few, let me find them, then archive them before pwags gets there?

[pwags]

Hi. Just found mayoralties on the stats page. Can't find any reference in the wiki.

Mayoralities are based on the concept from FourSquare.

If you are the cacher with the most GCA finds for a locale/state/country combination and that count is >= 10, then you are declared the mayor of that locale. If there is a draw for the same number of finds, the one who has the latest find gets to be mayor. i.e. The newcomer usurps the old guy.

Now that I am the newly-appointed mayor of Melbourne's CBD, where can I collect my mayoral robes and chauffeur-driven car?

I am so going to find 2 Museum caches, just to get a ahead of you, Mr. Lord Mayor.

Haha - this will add to the rivalry, which has to be good for GCA caches!

Is there any way we can see the count of finds for each cacher in each locality? How easily can we check our "mayoral potential" in other locations?

[pwags]

Nooooooooooooooo! There are no more caches in that locale that I can find. How much can I pay someone to hide a few, let me find them, then archive them before pwags gets there?

I can always move "MetroGnome" into that locality if you want another GCA challenge?

[caughtatwork]

Nooooooooooooooo! There are no more caches in that locale that I can find. How much can I pay someone to hide a few, let me find them, then archive them before pwags gets there?

I can always move "MetroGnome" into that locality if you want another GCA challenge?

Moveable caches don't count.

[Zalgariath]

Awesome! Can we generate a list (maybe state by state) of all the regions so we can see who is on what count or will this amount of crunching kill the interwebs?

[caughtatwork]

Is there any way we can see the count of finds for each cacher in each locality? How easily can we check our "mayoral potential" in other locations?

Trouble with the first one is that there are 3,645 distinct locales that have GCA caches. The time to trawl them all to find the mayoral candidates would be lengthy. As people hide new caches, both in AU/NZ and the rest of the world, the volume of locales goes up. i.e. We would need to check Abbeywood, Abbotsbury, Abercrombie Caves, Aberdeen, Aberglasslyn, Abergowrie through Zanthus and Zeehan to work out who has the highest find rate in those locales.

For an individual cacher (like yourself) that's probably doable. Let me play.

[Laighside Legends]

Do burke and wills count?
What about trigs?

[pwags]

Do burke and wills count?

They must - I guess that's how I managed to get my mayoral status, as there are plenty of them in Melbourne's CBD, and not many other GCA caches there.

[canary]

Hi. Just found mayoralties on the stats page. Can't find any reference in the wiki.

You're quick That only went live about 4:00pm today.
Now that the cat is out of the bag (as it were) here are the details.

http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Mayoralties

Mayoralities are based on the concept from FourSquare.

If you are the cacher with the most GCA finds for a locale/state/country combination and that count is >= 10, then you are declared the mayor of that locale. If there is a draw for the same number of finds, the one who has the latest find gets to be mayor. i.e. The newcomer usurps the old guy.

Locationless caches and moveable caches do not contribute to the mayoral status as locationless don't have a location to be mayor of and moveable caches, well, move.

Examples.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga0804
Neribil has 10 GCA finds in Ulverstone and as the highest finder, gets to be the mayor.
You can see the current mayor next to the Mayoral Crown

http://geocaching.com.au/cacher/statist ... ayoralties
He (she, it) is also the mayor of a few other areas.

http://geocaching.com.au/cacher/Neribil
You can also see that Neribil is a mayor on the "bling line" on their cacher page.

You can see whether you are a mayor by going to your cacher page and the under Statistics you can select Mayoralties.
Are you a mayor yet?
Can you usurp the incumbent and take over the mayoral role for a locale?

Only 16 people (so far) have mayoralties, so they're not exactly common, but then if everyone was a mayor, then no-one would be.

Neribil
Roostaman
TeamSwampy
pjmpjm
rogerw3
OldSaint
psychokat
pwags
Fuddley
Cheesy pigs
Team Canary
2y'stassies
Posspet Boys
strike-a-light
norkmeister
Team Natty Dean

As Mayor of Leura, can I boss pjmpjm around? Order him to clean up my house? Wash my car?

Oh, I'm going power mad on Day 1!

Long may I reign!

[budgietas]

Maybe something similar could be done for hiders - this would encourage more gca listings as well.

Without the hiders nobody would get such status!