Why is "Map hidden date/month" showing already found caches

Question

Hi,

am I missing something or is there a bug in the "Map hidden date" and "Map hidden month" tools? If I filter for loops N+2 where N is amount of loops I have completed, it shows me caches that I've already found. Since there is no direct filter to allow hiding found caches, I consider this a bug - or maybe I don't understand how this is supposed to work? Thanks for any feedback or suggestions.

Example queries:

https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapHiddenDate?profile_name=VelkyBobik&country=Czechia&region=Jihomoravsk%C3%BD+kraj&loop=3&submit=Filter

https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapHiddenMonth?profile_name=VelkyBobik&country=Czechia&loop=2&submit=Filter

Results I get (partial):

Comments

I wanted to report this issue as well and stumbled onto this old post.
But I want to comment a bit further.

While I don't mind that caches I have found already are shown and I can toggle this on/off on the map, the page actually gives some misleading information.
When I use the Hidden Month for loop 2 and filter on Europe and only caches hidden in 2000 for example, it tells me that there are "5 potential new months (6 caches)".
In reality, I have already found and used 4 of them for the first Jasmer loop, so I can actually only get 2 new months (2 caches) for the second loop.
Is this something that can be changed ?

Answer 1

No, this is how the page works. You can use the controls under the G icon in the top left of the map to hide your already found caches.

Comments

Perfect, I was totally unaware of this button, thanks!