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geo location leader boards

I would suggest to create more granular ranking system.
Who cares whether my ranking is 18 548 or even 10 958 ???
But if you would be able to see that your are the first in your town, in top 5 for the region, perhaps in top 10 in country that is different story for motivating people.
Here I attach one Ted talk which confirms that this kind of motivation really works: http://on.ted.com/AlexLaskey
I understand that there might be legal obstacles for collecting sensitive info, but this can be fixed by single email or web page popup with new offer. Someone might say, ok people will agree to location info gathering, but what if they don't set their location properly?
This can be fixed based on the IP they are using.
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Re: geo location leader boards

Anything that motivates people to crunch, or crunch more, merits consideration.

Ranking, by Country, in RunTime, Points and Results is already available Statistics>>By Geography for both AllTime and Daily.

It is a longstanding policy that members have to opt-in, by selecting their country in My Grid>>My Profile

I suspect that anything involving use of IP location data would contravene the IBM guidelines under which WCG operates.

WCG tech time for development of "wish list" suggestions is severely limited and comes after bringing new projects online, expansion to include Android devices etc etc.

The extension of Badges to reflect increased computing power is just one example of a worthy suggestion that has been bubbling around for some years without attracting any priority.
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Re: geo location leader boards

Thank you very much for your reply.
I am aware of Statistics>>By Geography but to be honest that is not granular at all. One can not even see where he ranks up within a country. Not to mention region in country or single city.
Please correct me if I am wrong
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Re: geo location leader boards

I confess I have no idea what you mean by "granular" d oh
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Re: geo location leader boards

WCG members have the option of declaring a nationality. So many refused to right from the start that it quickly became obvious that many of our members have an ideological aversion to declaring any address other than the world as a whole.

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Re: geo location leader boards

In my sig you can see where I rank in my country (GB) for time,points and results etc.....
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Re: geo location leader boards

It would be nice if you can navigate me how can I find out where I rank within my country (In my profile I selected my country).

What I wanted to say is that it would be nice to see the ranking more in detail. Not only where do you rank globally and within country but also within region of country and within particular cities.
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Re: geo location leader boards

Your country is identified as Slovakia

Your ranking in Slovakia Alltime and Daily (yesterday's production) is:

			      AllTime	Daily	
RunTime 96 19

Points 57 16

Results 48 56

1,125 members identify their country as Slovakia Yesterday 126 members in Slovakia were active
It would be nice if you can navigate me how can I find out where I rank within my country

Statistics>>By Geography then select Slovakia from the drop down menu Individual Country Statistics:

Then click one of the following 6 options:
		Total Run Time 	        All-Time 	Yesterday 
Points Generated All-Time Yesterday
Results Returned All-Time Yesterday

Select the option to display number of results by page - 10, 25, 50, 100, 200
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Re: geo location leader boards

Thank you gentlemen.
It's not exactly what I was hoping for, but at least I can see my ranking within country.
Perhaps someone from development will take this as good idea and will implement more detailed geo location leaderboards in future.
Thanks again
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Re: geo location leader boards

Some people have devices that are located in different locations. IP address would not reflect the user's location. Since mobile devices are also used here, all you would have is where the device was when it last checked in. But again, with multiple devices a user would look to be in multiple locations at once. I don't see how this would be helpful.

I agree that it may seem more rewarding or challenging to have a smaller region to break down, but it is not a simple thing to do nor is it really feasible.
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