How do I find out how many different cache owners I have found caches from

Question

This may have been asked before but it didn't come up in the list

Is there something I have missed on the stats pages, (I am aware there is a top 40 but that is all I can see)

if not is there a way of finding out how many different COs there are from the caches that I have found

Thanks

Answer 1

First shot is challenge checker. For example, this one checks if you found caches from 1000 different owners, which you do:

https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5NVFE/15767

To get the particular number, it requires some modifications. I tagged the following, which requires 10000 owners (which would probably not work for a challenge, but shows the number):

https://project-gc.com/Challenges//54278

You have 4286.

Comments

Thank you - I did wonder about checkers - but was wondering if there was a find solution within tools - The reason for the asking is that I have my own chart that I have been running for years - this being the '1000th list' - I have noted whatever cache achieves the 1000th find, in many different ways. One of these I have just considered - 1000th Cache owner - obviously it seems, that was some time ago, so I'll have to figure a way to ascertain who that 1000th CO was

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@Jakuje - with https://project-gc.com/Challenges//54278
There seems to be no order in how it is listed
 is there a way of amending that, so it sorts by found date order
cheers

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@Deepdiggingmole
Here is a checker by found date for placed by
https://project-gc.com/Challenges//54283

Please be aware that when a CO has opted out you will not find a result back because his name is removed from the database

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Hi thanks for the link to the 10,000 COs checker - I guess you won't be able to do anything about this, however that checker looks for ANY different name - even if the same CO changes the name in the CO field that comes up on the list.
A well known puzzle setter round our way puts a different name in that field to link in with the theme of the puzzle - thus his caches appear on this list many times - so this isn't a list of unique COs  - just a list of different names in the CO field

I think this has been confirmed by Magma1447 below where he states my CO count is 3504 as opposed to the 4286 in the above checker output

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The checker for 1000 different COs does the same - it isnt searching for 1000 different COs just 1000 different names - I have checked this against one of the caches I noted in the output - the CO has changed the name.
That cache is part of a series near me - so for the one unique proper caching ID - it will appear on this list 22 times
So technically it is giving a false output
I am aware that in my first 1000 Uniques COs there have been 1240 different CO names - thus 240 of those caches are COs already accounted for but have changed the name - it means anyone close (or thinking they are close) may not be.

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Please note - I am not wanting to create hassle - I just happened to note the anomoly with these checkers

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The difference was known already but I followed the list given in the checker of Jakuje. But here is the checker based on owner_ID as per magma1447
https://project-gc.com/Challenges//54294

As a note:
In this output the owner_ID of a cacher who opts out is still shown in the list

Answer 2

We'll be adding a total just below the Top 40 list in Profile stats. You should be up to 3504 owners.

Comments

Thanks - I was confused by the conflicting counts as given in this thread - but have established why now

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To add some technical details to our coming change, and the number you got.
It's counting unique user IDs for the cache owner. So a cache owner changing name will still have the same ID. The same if the owner change the geocache's owner name into "Team Superheroes", it will still be the same ID.