Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions and answers in Feature requests

Answered: Why is the Found (Hittad) column in Virtual GPS always blank when you export to CSV

Sat, 07 Nov 2026 01:08:39 +0000

This has been fixed internally, and will be released at some point soon. The exported CSV will include separate "Found" and "Owned" columns at the beginning.

Answered: Vietnam Reorganized Provinces from 63 down to 34 in 2025. Can the provinces be redrawn for profile stats?

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:05:12 +0000

I'll look in to this, but it all depends on if the data is available in OSM or not.

Answered: Firefox plugin to show friends logs in geocache view.

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:11:55 +0000

I made an extension for exactly this, it puts your friends' logs at the top of every cache page (your own too if you want). Uses your actual geocaching.com friends list, not a VIP list. Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/geocaching-com-friends-logs/ , also on chrome, edge and opera.

Answered: Request for checker 64533

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:40:34 +0000

You might want to use https://project-gc.com/Challenges//108023 instead. It does approximately the same thing, only backwards. It has a list of cache types which it considers your "want list" and then shows you for each date what you need to log to complete all the types on your want list.

The current want list is "Traditional Cache", "Multi-Cache", "Mystery Cache", "EarthCache", "Letterbox Hybrid", "Wherigo Cache", "Virtual Cache", "Event Cache", "Lab Cache", and "Challenge Cache" (which is considered a cache type for this purpose even though it technically isn't).

If you want, I can tag a separate checker with the exact want list you need. The want list can also include sizes, difficulties and terrains.

Answered: Can I get cache types I have found pr country

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:09:55 +0000

You might want to use this not-a-checker tool: https://project-gc.com/Challenges//107154

It lists all countries where you found at least one geocache and all cache types you have found in each country.

Answered: Enhancement: NESW include Centroid

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:56:48 +0000

No, this is not possible. The MapNESW tool computes the extremes on-the-fly, and allows arbitrary filtering, eg. you can use it to find the northernmost Multi-cache in an area or the easternmost geocache with the "Tree climbing" attribute.

The centroid computation is far, far more expensive, and so we only compute it once per day and without any filters applied. This data is made available at https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapExtremes. (Incidentally, this is also why the MapExtremes tool doesn't allow any filtering of any kind.)

Filter the Virtual GPS list by your own finds

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:56:27 +0000

In my opinion, it would be a good idea if the Virtual GPS table could also be filtered by the “Found (by me)” property, so that you can, for example, exclude your own finds.

Souvenirs need categorising

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:57:04 +0000

I've got a growing number of uncategorised souvenirs, some going back over a month. Could someone look at these please? Thanks

https://project-gc.com/ProfileStats/Optimist%20on%20the%20run#Souvenirs

Answered: Badge for hosting events in different countries

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:23:16 +0000

I would personally be against such a badge.

When you are abroad you probably will not be able to make events larger than typical 30-minute 'meet and greet' events. So you would need to host many of them, and that would really promote quantity over quality...

Also you would probably not meet many geocachers at such events, you probably would even be alone in team of event hosts many times. As an example, in my home area, even though there are several active geocachers, many of recent meet and greet events hosted by cachers from abroad here were either attended only by event hosts, or I was the only event attendee other than the event hosts there.

Answered: Can you remove the notifier email's text directing you to the unsubscribe link?

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:50:35 +0000

We will consider this. But we also want to make it clear to users where to unsubscribe them. Some keeps pressing spam instead of unsubscribing or just deleting the notifier, and it is a very big issue.

Answered: Challenge checker

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:54:54 +0000

Challenge checker requests should be posted in the checker request forum after reading the pinned post there: https://project-gc.com/forum/read?8,8362

Custom lists on FTF tab

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:58:45 +0000

It would be great to be able to add custom lists to the FTF tab in Profile Stats. Currently, this is only possible on the Milestones tab and the Hiden tab.

For example, I would like to add a list of "real" FTFs that do not include all-day friendly FTFs or event FTFs.

Someone could add, for example, a list of STFs and TTFs.

Please :)

How to mark failed FTF so they don't show up in forgotten FTF

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:51:03 +0000

It would be helpful if there was a keyword or something we could add to logs that were *not* FTFs so they wouldn't show up in the forgotten FTF tool. We have sometimes used STF but that would be pretty language dependent. Perhaps a dedicated (*notFTF*) or something like that would be better.

If there's already a way to do this that would be great to know. We have quite a lot of FTF races we lost :)

Answered: Exclude Lab caches for search?

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:26:26 +0000

No, Lab caches doesn't show up in any of the tools on the site as that part of the system doesn't have access to lab caches. You can use a checker that's not an official challenge to check this, there are some different options listed here: https://project-gc.com/w/Tools_in_the_checker_system#Others

Answered: I would like to use the custom filter on this page https://project-gc.com/Tools/NeededFoundDates.

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:43:11 +0000

I'd say the easiest way currently would be to have a statistics-checker made. I couldn't find a script that can exclude attributes easily tho and I don't really have the time at the moment to fix this for you. Remind me in like two weeks if nobody have gotten it done before that!

Answered: How to use touchscreen control with map?

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:54:42 +0000

When I zoom inside a map on my phone it zooms just the map. If I zoom outside the map it zooms the entire page. This seems like just like what you want. Thus this appears to be a problem with your phone or browser, not with the site. I'm using an iphone with Safari.

Logs on my caches

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:31:15 +0000

Hi!

As the owner of more than 800 listings and roughly 500 active caches, I often use the search function to look up players and their logs on my caches. I still rely partly on email for this, but unfortunately my inbox is full, so I have to delete logs, and this feature is becoming less and less useful. For example, using the bookmarks for my own caches, I can find out which caches were found by whom, but I can no longer view the logs for them. Would it be possible to consider a feature where I could enter a cacher’s nickname somewhere and get all their logs on my caches?

In closing, I want to thank you for the great work you’re doing. When you see how perfectly project-gc.com works compared to the official Geocaching platform, it’s almost unbelievable.

Thanks, Miroslav

Answered: Permanent link to this profile in Profile Stats no longer links directly

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:05:50 +0000

This was an intentional change, as the previous behaviour didn't really align with how "Share"/link functionality typically works on most websites (e.g. the coord.info/GCcode link on geocache pages).

We can add back a button to directly open the statistics -- but out of curiosity, is there any specific reason(s) you liked this behaviour?

Answered: Højeste/laveste fund. Statistikken viser bare de 10 højeste/laveste. Hvor ser man de næste 10?

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:45:17 +0000

You can use the toplists for Top Elevation and/or Top Elevation (lowest) for this.

If you add the filters "Exclude found/unfound/hides" and "Include or exclude disabled/archived/past events" you can get a list of just your finds sorted on elevation.

Highest: https://project-gc.com/Statistics/TopElevationGeocaches
Lowest: https://project-gc.com/Statistics/TopElevationGeocachesLowest

Answered: Map of D/T grids per area

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:38:05 +0000

This is available for countries at https://project-gc.com/Statistics/Overview

This data is pre-calculated as it would not be possible to calculate on request.

The easiest way to get the data you're asking for is doing a map compare for each D/T in the area or use virtual-gpses with creative filtering. Yes it takes time but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

Answered: Can the Checkers tell me the date I qualified?

Sun, 31 May 2026 22:22:19 +0000

No. That's a much more extensive calculation that requires much more "power" and it would not be reasonable.

You can use the filter "Log date" on the mapcompare to narrow down the search.

Answered: GCBQ5N4 - checker for HIDDEN geocaches in foreign countries

Mon, 18 May 2026 07:38:29 +0000

1) This challenge is absolutely not allowed according to the guidelines as you can't require hiding caches. One of the better guidelines IMO.

2) This is not the forum for challenge requests. They should be made here (after reading the linked post): https://project-gc.com/forum/read?8,8362

Answered: How do I find caches that I found that are archived

Fri, 15 May 2026 21:08:05 +0000

You can use the Map Compare tool, at https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapCompare.

Set your username in the first box, set "Show" to "Found by exactly one player", and then tick the box to include archived caches.

This will show active caches as well, but it is not possible to filter them out.

Answered: 81er Matrix in 2 verschiedenen Ländern voll

Thu, 07 May 2026 18:30:04 +0000

Hier ist der Checker. https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCBPER5/114755

Nächstes Mal bitte das Checker-Forum nutzen. https://project-gc.com/forum/list?8

Suggestion to new statistics

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:23:16 +0000

I have a suggestion to a new statistics:

An overview of active caches in a region, placed by year and number of you have found of those.

It is already possible to have an overview by caches in a region or city and you can filter by active caches and a period when they were placed.

For example: you have a choicebox with country and region, and then the result is a table by year:

Year	Active caches	Found by user
2000	8	6
2001	19	12
2002	35	16
2003	48	22
...	...	...
2025	1105	805

The idea for this statistics is when a logged the oldest caches for a specific region. When i found all of them from 2000, i logged those from 2001,... so at the moment i have found all the caches in my region places between 2000-2010 and i want to log those from 2011 this year.

Map of challenge caches

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:12:12 +0000

Feature request: please add filtering to list of Signed Challenges

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:38:06 +0000

With a lot of signed challenges it is difficult and time-consuming to go thru the list looking for cache size, DT, attributes etc. Is it possible to add filtering options to the page, eg. "Filter out/in all challenges requiring climbing gear".

Weekly Event Notifications Instead of Daily

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:25:32 +0000

Currently, event notification emails are sent once per day. For my use case, it would be sufficient to receive the notification email only once per week (for example, every Monday).

Since events have to be created at least 14 days in advance anyway, a daily notification feels unnecessary and could be reduced to a weekly summary.

Answered: How can I identify the specific geocaches that I need to complete the Jasmer Challenge

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:52:32 +0000

To complete the Jasmer challenge you need caches hidden a specific month, not a specific date. To find matching candidates for that, use https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapHiddenMonth

Answered: How do I get a yearly chart that shows a specific type of cache that I found for each day of the year?

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:57:56 +0000

If you are a paying member of Project-GC, then the Needed found dates tool can do this. Otherwise, a Challenge checker like this one might be useful for you.

Answered: Extremes by area enhancement request: Show extreme when hovering also for those you do not qualify

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:11:08 +0000

A tool is now available on staging to paying members of Project-GC. It is still in its infancy; we are happy to hear feedback if it does not function how you expect it to.

https://staging.project-gc.com/Tools/MapExtremes

Answered: nach Schwierigkeit der Challenge suchen

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:29:28 +0000

ich habe diesen englischen thread zum thema gefunden:

https://project-gc.com/qa/?qa=30045/challenge-difficulties-grid-on-the-challenges-tab

Answered: Block Parties included in Badges

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:27:41 +0000

Yes, we're planning to make that change later.

logs per area

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:31:10 +0000

I have seen that this feature has been requested before. however there is hardly any response. the overview has already this feature but only for the whole country. cant you just add more filters to the overview?

regions, log type, cache type, cache size, date hidden from date -> to date

or make it a feature of its own. cache logs per area

Answered: Extremes-by-area Feature request - Use historical data

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:12:32 +0000

The whole point of Project-GC is current statistics and current data. If you want historical statistics you're free to keep track of that yourself or use a tool that allows that instead.

Answered: is there a checker that would work for this? https://coord.info/GC2VWH2 thanks and happy new year

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:56:48 +0000

Here is the link to a checker

https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC2VWH2/109856

Please test and reply

Answered: request : add treasures to profile stats

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:04:26 +0000

This is not currently possible because Geocaching.com does not provide us with the data or the authorization to process the data.

Answered: What is wrong with the Top FTF Streaks (Months)? My streak of 254 months has disappeared.

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:30:34 +0000

it seems everything is removed. Did you quit and remove data?

Answered: negate filter

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:11:50 +0000

If you use the VGPS-control inside the map you can add all caches that are on the map so I don't really understand what you need the filter for? Just don't use the list if there are more caches than in the list. Or add some filters to make multiple searches for what you're asking for. For example you can use a hidden date as a cut off, or make a couple of searches based on different cache types.

Answered: Revise or even remove the "Author" badge

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:49:24 +0000

The problem with this badge, as I have pointed out before, is that it is based on an average value. This means that with a high number of finds, is it almost impossible to go up or down a level. As such, it becomes meaningless and therefore I would also support its removal.

Feature request - add "most central cache" to the N/E/S/W/Oldest tool

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:04:21 +0000

As PGC presumably knows what the most central cache is for each country/region/county for the extreme caches module, could this be added to the existing tool please?

Answered: Is it possible to automatically check challenges in a region or country?

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:11:09 +0000

No, there's no tool for what you're describing. The solution would be to change your home coordinates to whatever area you plan to travel too. However, you should check that the checkers hasn't been run already first. The auto-challenge-checkers run in the hundreds each month so you have likely covered a larger area than you think. There also was some recent work to increase the amount of auto-challenge-checkers run per user each day.

Answered: Karte D/T-Matrix

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:50:58 +0000

Es gibt schon eine solche Möglichkeit. Hier ist ein Beispiel: https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapMatrix?pre_pr_profileName=Maxipimpf&pre_ts_type%5B%5D=Virtual+Cache&post_crc_country=Germany&post_crc_region=Rheinland-Pfalz&submit=Filter

(Der Unterschied zwischen Pre-filter und Post-filter ist hier wichtig.)

Voreinstellung bei "Nächste Events": warum ist das "bis-Datum" auf das Tagesdatum voreingestellt?

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:46:25 +0000

Bei jeder Abfrage muss dies im Gegensatz zu früher geändert werdem auf unendlich. Das macht die Anwendung umständlicher.

Answered: Add Event Date to Map-Popup

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:53:17 +0000

Die Seite Werkzeug -> Nächste Events ist für genau dieser Fall.

Answered: In Maps tab, have types per country listed

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:06:50 +0000

While you are waiting for that, you can find the information you are looking for here: https://project-gc.com/Challenges//26427

Answered: Missing cache lookup for D/T only works for the next matrix. Can they be added for other matrices (optional)?

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:57:04 +0000

This sounds like you would like to add the Loop filter.

Answered: Having a notification email when I full fill a challenge.

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:28:02 +0000

At present, I do not believe there is a way to receive an email when you qualify for a Challenge.

If you are a paying member of Project-GC, you can occasionally check the page https://project-gc.com/Profile/SignedChallenges and see if any green checkmarks appear in the rigthmost column.

Answered: Filter Top Logs Received on log date

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:20:52 +0000

I will create an Issue in our bug tracker for this. Hopefully a fix is live a week from now.

Answered: The most useful feature of map compare to show caches none, or only one found is gone.. Why???

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:50:15 +0000

Turn on "multi select" and you can choose multiple options on the same map just like before.