Why is there no Africa map?

Question

We have continent maps for Europe, Asia and South America. North America does not make much sense unless you include Central America, but Africa would make a lot of sense.

Answer 1

Are you referring to the maps in "Profile stats"? If so: have you found caches in at least three African countries? If not then the answer is easy: the continent maps are only shown if you have found caches in at least three (if I am not mistaken) countries of the continent in question.

Comments

wasn't aware that 3 countries are required to bring up a continent map, but it kind of makes sense.

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Can you clarify where did you find that you need to have three countries to show the continent map? I did not find it mentioned anywhere.

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I do not have a clear confirmation, either. That’s why I wrote "if I am not mistaken". I just see that I get the Asia map with 3 countries there, but the TO does not get an Africa map with only 1 country. I don’t get a North America map with 2 countries, either, so I assume that 3 countries is the threshold that triggers showing the map.

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would fit to my memory of Asia "appearing" suddenly after I had more countries

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Yes, this is how it works. I'm not entirely sure about the number three, but you definitely need finds in more than one country for a continent map to appear (but I also think it's three).

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The number might be different per continent/continental region:

I have:
North America - Canada only - 1 country -> continental map
Asia - UAE and Japan - 2 countries -> continental map (came after I had Japan)
Oceania - New Zealand - 1 country -> continental map

Answer 2

Just to note that since this question was asked and since my answer of 23 October the algorithm apparently has changed. I now get continent maps also for continents where I have found caches only in one country.

Thanks a lot for this update!

Comments

Even today I still don’t get an Africa map with one country found there. All other continents I have more than 3 countries, so cannot tell if Africa is special. I get Oceania with two countries found

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That’y strange, because I get the Africa map with (so far) only one country found there. (North America: 2/42, Asia: 3/54.) Africa seems to behave just as the other continents. As said, it seems to be a very recent change, so maybe your statistics have not yet updated?

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strange indeed. I am paying member, so the statistic gets daily updates. Anyway, not soooo important. Thanks anyhow for commenting on this.

Answer 3

Having logged finds in South Africa in the meantime I have to correct myself in as far as the Africa map seems to behave slightly odd, indeed:

Before my recent finds the map showed correctly 1/53 countries found.

Now, having added South Africa it still says "1/53 country found in Africa" in the line above the map, but underneath the map it correctly lists both countries, however not in the standard order (according to number of finds): South Africa comes first with (currently) 22 logged finds, Spain/Islas Canarias second with 168 finds. The latter ones are also not plotted green on the map.

I assume the problem lies with the special circumstances regarding the islands. Contrary to other colonial / oversees territories they don‘t have top level ("country") status on geocaching.com and hence PGC, therefore I am very impressed that PGC correctly identifies them (and just them, not the rest of Spain) as being geographically part of Africa. Thanks a lot for this! Having this in mind I don’t know whether the tiny issues with the Africa map described above could be solved?

Answer 4

I think you may need to clarify what you mean by "there is no Africa map". Livemap (for instance) works fine for Africa:

https://project-gc.com/Tools/LiveMap#c=30.00192,31.26675;z=11

Were is it that you are lacking a map for Africa within Project-GC ?

Answer 5

When I travel to other countries I grab in my phone in c:geo the caches, because is better and gps is ok in this countries.

Comments

How is this answering the original question?