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First of all, I know that some of the topics have already been covered in other topics, but I think that since I'm going to talk about several topics, I'll just mention them in one topic.

First of all, I congratulate you on this project as it creates yet another set of objectives to achieve. I know that the project is in its early stages, so new resources will appear, including those that I will mention below, but it doesn't hurt to suggest them.

I will suggest and number the topics that could improve the area extremes system:
1- As it already exists with the extremes found where clicking on the icon and the cache appears, there could be in those that we have not found, thus making the search easier (it could be the same as those we found or even a special search, as this way it could be easier to find even the areas that we do not have in any of the extremes found).

2- As it happens to some geocachers, even I am currently the owner of some cache in Extremos and for that reason the icon is like I need to find it, but as it is not possible to find the caches themselves, I think they could refer to this with an icon in another color, for example.

3- As there is already the highest altitude extreme, why the lowest altitude extreme?

4- There could be a filter that allows us to include caches that are archived or not, for example the filters that exist in the D\T graph of type\size


Best regards Nelitoz

ago in Feature requests by Nelitoz (120 points)

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I want to second the notion that this addition is amazing.

I've noticed curious behavior with this feature.
You can use the 'map NEWS/Oldest' tool and you'll get different results from the 'Extremes by area' segment on profile stats.
 

Take Colorado for example: the 'map NEWS/Oldest' tool gives GCA52 geocache as the most east and the most south. This bad boy has posted coordinates of 00° 00.000 000° 00.000 in the ocean and lists itself as being in Colorado. It's archived now but I'm guessing it was a puzzle cache ending in Colorado that was made before the 2 mile rule.

Jump over to the 'Extremes by area' feature and GC5164 Where the wild things are (locationless) (made as an unknown cache) is the most east and the most south. Similarly this chap has posted coordinates out in the ocean at N 00° 00.007 W 010° 00.008 and lists itself as being in Colorado. This one isn't archived but is locked.

These are strange, rare and old type caches from the wild west days and I'm guessing they'll make coding a real headache. It seems like either their hidden final coordinates are being used to determine location, or the code is looking at what state the cache lists itself as being set in.

Whatever happens, this new feature is amazing and innovative. I hope my observations help the grand project.

Cheers,

CheekyBrit

ago by CheekyBrit (150 points)
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