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I need to find caches with cache owners names beginning with certain numbers to qualify for an old challenge cache. I need only three more numbers, and there are no cache owners whose names begin with those numbers in my province! Is there a way to search for that in another province or state? Using project-GC?
in Miscellaneous by QuiltinAnnie (150 points)

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To do this go to Home > dashboard > quicklinks. In the wild card search enter something like this:

@profile_name ^2*|^r* @country "new zealand" @region "south island" @county marlborough

This searches for all cache owners that start with a 2 or an R in the in the given country/region/county. Note the use of quotes surrounding components that have spaces. The ^ can be found above the 6 on a qwerty keyboard, and the | (pipe) is above the enter key. The | can be used anywhere, so you could have @county malborough|canterbury if you wished, which means marlborough or canterbury.

Note that you may want to use the field @placed_by instead of @profile_name, depending on what the challenge requires.

At the bottom of the resulting table you can present the caches on a map to help you choose which to target.
by the Seagnoid (Expert) (46.3k points)
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Haven't seen that in project-gc.

With the live-map feature (https://project-gc.com/Tools/LiveMap) and then special filtering you can filter for special cachenames. But not for cachowner names.

Have you've seen https://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx  There you can search for cacheowner-names

by supertwinfan (19.6k points)
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If you use this filter for the top list of who has the most hidden geocaches in a specified region, you can search through this list.  Depending on how small the region is, you might get some luck.

https://project-gc.com/Statistics/TopHidden

Unfortunately if you put a single letter in the profile name field, this doesn't limit to the initial letter, but does reduce to usernames with that letter somewhere in the name, so filters a little for you.

Hope that helps.

by Geo_Bro (310 points)
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