Checker for California Million Mile Challenge GC481CX

Question

Found caches with a total distance from your home coordinates of at least one million miles.  That is the sum of the one way as the crow flies distance from your home to each found cache.

You may demonstrate this logging requirement any way you see fit but you must provide reasonable documentation that you meet the requirement.

Answer 1

The checker API does not expose home coordinaes as it works today, therefore, it's not possible to create such checker.

Neither is it decided if we will in the future. Creating such challenges is against the current guidelines. Also, such checker could only be run for those we have the home coordinates for, and then only on themselves due to integrity.

Answer 2

An alternative way to check this, which should be very accurate is using the "Finds distance from home" table in your Project-GC profile, at the bottom of the list the average distance is diplayed. Mulitplying this distance by your total number of finds should give you an exact value (depending on exaclty how Project-GC determines this number).

It's not a checker, but still an easy and accurate way to do it without GSAK.

For example, our aveage distance is 566 km and we have 1797 finds according to Project-GC. 566 x 1797 = 1,017,102 km or 632,133 miles.