"In your hands, the birth of a new day... " (Limahl)

23 November 2009

Map frustrations


Having trouble loading up my stats at itsnotaboutthenumbers.com, which means that my usual county map is not updating.

In desperation, I've turned to "UK Geocachers" for the time being. Their county map is interesting in some respects, not least for its acknowledgement of Rutland as a county (and it also breaks up Dyfed, where I have amassed my largest amount of caches).

However, the colours on the new map do not relate to a specific number of cache finds - they change apparently of their own free will to reflect a rough proportion of finds for each county, with no indication of the thresholds one must pass to change the colours of the counties. I.E. there is no Key to the map - pretty much a hanging offence as far as I'm concerned.

One last gripe, this new map barely highlights the counties where I have found 1 cache. On the old map, it was sky blue. It was a light colour, but at least it was distinct enough to register on the eye. This new map barely shows my new gains in Lancashire, Derbyshire and Cornwall at all. Bah. I think the problem with itsnotaboutthenumbers something to do with zip files and virus checkers on my own computer. Humph.