Extremes by area: Why did already found "Most central" caches disappear from the statistics?

Question

In my PGC profile stats I had some extreme finds (extremes by area). Today I was surprised by the absence of all "most central" icons.

I checked, if there are new caches published, closer to the geographical center coordinate of that area, but there were no changes.

Will that issue be fixed? Or maybe PGC uses another method to determine the most central cache?

Answer 1

Project-GC determined that there was a bug in the process through which "most central" caches were calculated. For example, the central coordinates for Uppsala, Sweden were calculated to be approximately here:

Similarly, the centroid of Spain was calculated to be where the blue pin is, when the red pin is the generally-accepted center.

 

We apologize for this error. 

I will also mention that we recently released the tool "Map Extremes" at https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapExtremes. Using this tool, you can put onto a map the extreme geocaches in any country/region/county (or multiple) as you please.