Site Update May 14, 2014

[Corfman Clan]

Hi,

The site was updated today to include the three California DGP regions of Death Valley, Mojave, and Salton Sea along with the Trans-Pecos region of Texas. It may take awhile for the caches in those regions to start showing up in LonelyCache due to a Geocaching Live API issue that Groundspeak is troubleshooting.

In order to incorporate the four regions, major changes to the way LonelyCache collects geocache data were made and this the first step in migrating LonelyCache away from its dependence on pocket queries to discover new caches. For more information see this thread.

Enjoy,
Russell

[desert dawg]

Welcome Cali cachers but, Ouch, suffering growing pains here on this one.. I dropped six places in the LCP cache wide leaderboard... best all around..

[Corfman Clan]

Yep, one of the side effects of expansion is that suddenly some people have more points than they did before.

Not all the data for California and Texas have been collected yet so the affect on the current leader boards may be misleading. Currently there are just over 1800 caches that haven't been fully updated. When the leader boards where generated, I believe there was over 5000 caches that hadn't been fully updated. All caches that haven't been fully updated will have inflated point values.

The way LonelyCache works is it will update caches that need a full update first, next it will perform updates over the new grid (each grid section is updated once a week), and finally it will update any caches that haven't been updated in a week.

Hopefully, everything will be up to date when the leader boards are updated for tomorrow. I expect this will be the case, especially since Groundspeak has resolved the Geocaching.com Live API issue I mentioned above.

[Taz]

I just noticed one of my hides pop up on my profile as well as finds, thanks for adding those areas of Cali, it helps offsett the stuff going on in AZ

[Corfman Clan]

Welcome Cali cachers but, Ouch, suffering growing pains here on this one.. I dropped six places in the LCP cache wide leaderboard... best all around..

How many places did you gain back today? There's some power trails (e.g., route 66) that were added to LonelyCache and they weren't yet fully updated when the stats were first run so there were hundreds of caches worth 10-11 points instead of less than one. So the last several people that did them received thousands of points instead of a few hundred. That's all been taken care of now.

[geost4fun]

Thanks for all your time in getting the new area added to the LCP. I had about a half a dozen caches in California that I had put a bit of effort into so it was nice to get those points back. You have really done an excellent job with this site.