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

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.

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

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:17:42 +0000

For example, if I need a cache that we placed on 5/3/2000 anywhere in the United States, what do I do?

Thanks.

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

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:23:55 +0000

Block Parties included in Badges

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:36:15 +0000

Wouldn't it be a great idea to include Block Parties in the badge? For example, in Mega-

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

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

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:47:39 +0000

hi, i put the title and gc # in checker search and did not find one for this challenge. is there something else that would work to help narrow down the caches? thanks

Extremes-by-area Feature request - Use historical data

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:19:20 +0000

I find the "Extremes-by-area" statistic very interesting. It's comparable to the GeoTrophy. Unfortunately, it doesn't take historical data into account.

In PGC, I only found the oldest, highest, most found, and most favorite in Denmark. However, I also found the northernmost, westernmost, and southernmost—at least as they were at that time. It would be good to include these as well, since the statistics otherwise constantly change.

Uli

request : add treasures to profile stats

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:20:39 +0000

negate filter

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:49:21 +0000

I want to store all caches in a given country into a VGPS. However I cannot get more than 1000 caches from the MapCompare list, which is already lower than the considered maximum of 10000 caches for the map.

So I wanted to ask if a filter can be negated, specifically I want to filter caches NOT already on a VGPS

Revise or even remove the "Author" badge

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:48:03 +0000

Hi, could you please revise or even remove the "Author" badge?

It's annoying, especially now with AI, where people write tons of text just to get and keep this badge.

I'm not exempt from this; I write just as much nonsense for this badge.

How about simply removing the badge or changing it so that instead of the average, a certain number of entries (x) must be reached? For example, to get the highest badge, one could write x log entries of 100 words each. Perhaps this could improve log entries again?

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

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 02:29:10 +0000

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?

nach Schwierigkeit der Challenge suchen

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:27:27 +0000

Wir kann ich Challenge Cache nach Schwierigkeit der Challenge suchen?

lg Franz

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

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:36:50 +0000

I have read the procedure Project-GC uses to auto check the challenges nearby your home address in this topic: Auto-challenge-checkers

Now am I planning a trip to Sweden and I was wondering if it possible to let project-GC check if you fulfill challenges in a particular region? It is mentioned as a future topic, but I understand it is hard to complete all wishes at the same time to this site.

Thank you for your help,

Greetings GonzAlex

Karte D/T-Matrix

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:38:24 +0000

Hallo,

mit der Karte D/T-Matrix ist es leider nicht möglich, eine spezifische D/T-Matrix zu untersuchen. Wenn ich beispielsweise alle in Frage kommenden Virtuals suche, um die 81er-Matrix der Virtuals zu füllen, geht das damit m. E. nicht.

Es wäre cool, wenn es eine solche Möglichkeit gäbe.

VG Stefan

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.

Add Event Date to Map-Popup

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:41:02 +0000

Hey,

Is it possible to display the event date in the popup for event caches on the live map/map view?

This would make it much easier to find relevant events for a visit to a particular region directly on the map.

Cheers, P!X3L

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

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:07:25 +0000

In Maps tab, have types per country listed

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:10:42 +0000

It would be great to have data on both the number of types per country, and a list of the types per country on my Profile stats page. I think these would fit best on the 'Maps' tab, but not sure where in the page layout - perhaps a number and the type icons in the brown header band under the country name?

Having a notification email when I full fill a challenge.

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:15:59 +0000

Hi

I whant to have an email when I fullfil a challenge cache in which I have made a note earlier. How do I set this up?

Thanks

Trjor/ Troels

Filter Top Logs Received on log date

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:59:49 +0000

Earlier you could see who had recieved most logs this year for exempel. Can´t find that filter anymore. Just published date but that is not what I´m looking for.

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

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:57:48 +0000

It was very useful to find an area me and my caching partner could go caching together.

With the split into the view of Caches NONE found, and the view of caches EITHER OR found, we are missing the joint view, which was most useful.

Please bring it back?...

Needed Hidden Dates tool please!

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:38:42 +0000

Under Tools/Other you can find the Needed Found Dates tool, which I find very helpful.

But there is no equivalent Needed Hidden Dates tool, and with so many Challenges now asking for those I would really like a tool to help me identify the dates I need.

Yes, I know there is the Map Hidden Dates tool, but it doesn't work properly, and it would be good if you could select a date on it (if it was working properly)

Is it possible to generate a list of "Top Countries in a day"?

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:50:22 +0000

My self and 3 others recently did a blat around Europe, including caching in 10 different countries in a single day.

Is it possible to see if any other person (both from our own country, and also maybe worldwide) have done more?

(PS I am aware that some other people have done more, but not aware if anyone else from NZ has done better than us)

I can´t no longer find the filter for loops on the map for DT-matrix.

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:45:08 +0000

I can´t no longer find the filter for loops on the map for DT-matrix. Why os it gone?

live map circles

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:03:34 +0000

Number of FTFs per country

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:01:06 +0000

We really enjoy chasing FTFs and I love Project-GC statistics. What I feel is missing from the FTF statistics is a list of countries where we've already logged an FTF. Currently, there's only a visual map representation.

I’d love to see a table or list of countries with at least one FTF, including at least the number of FTFs per country and — optionally — what percentage of my total FTFs each country represents. In the Maps tab, there is at least some form of a list below the world/continent map, sorted from the highest number of (general) finds to the lowest.

Is there already a way to see this data somewhere on Project-GC? If not, I’d love to suggest it as a future improvement.

How/where do I see, which cache is the oldest/with most fp etc ..to fullfill the "extreme"?

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:40:56 +0000

Live Map functionality request: select area and save to Virtual GPS

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:53:13 +0000

I know that in some of the map tools (like map of challenge caches) there is the "area selection tool" as well as "save to VGPS button" However, for Live map, for some reason, these are missing. Would it be possible to get those to Live map as well?

If it is of any use, I often travel to remote places and it'd help to gather all the caches of particular area (not necessarily full country/region but user selected area) via VGPS to GPX to c:geo which of course can also be done by other means, but this just could be the most convenient I think.

Count GC block party as Mega Event

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:10:20 +0000

Hi,

I have small hint. Geocaching understand Block Party same as Mega event. As per rules for this year almost all traditional Czech Mega events transformed to Block Party. See:
https://www.geocaching.com/play/results?st=N+49%C2%B048.000+E%E2%80%8A15%C2%B028.000&ot=query&oid=-1&r=120&ct=453%2C4738%2C3774%2C1304

That result in fact, we are not able to grow in amount of mega events etc.

Thank you

Hvorfor er Pico de Tide ikke en "extreme", når det er Spaniens højeste bjerga.

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:11:43 +0000

publish event calendar for Home Assistant

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:16:01 +0000

In the latest release of Home Assistant support for remote calendars were introduced
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/remote_calendar/

"Known limitations :The integration does not provide the ability to connect to an resource that requires authentication or special headers."

Would it be possible for PGC to export the same information that can be found using the link https://project-gc.com/User/Events in a format supported and accessible by Home Assistant?

Because it would be so cool :D

Profile/need maintenance? Is it possible to add a parameter to select the number of DNF before triggering

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 07:05:40 +0000

Would be great to add to the page Profile/need maintenance a parameter to select the minimum number of DNF to enter the list. For the moment ass soon there is one (1) 'need maintenance' it enter the list, i agree, but ass soon there is one (1) 'dnf' it is also included in the list. Would be great to have a parameter to select how many DNF before being counted for list. In my search for cache thet need maintenance i generally do not react before there is 3 consecutive dnf on the cache. Would be great also to have the same filter capabilities than in any other filter to select the type of cache as the tradi may require 3 dnf before being inspected, but for a multi, for the satisfaction of searcher, it could be reduced to 1 dnf before having a look.

As hider, what is your opinion. As developper, would it be so difficult to add this parameter? Have a great day all!

Total regions

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:11:07 +0000

Feature request:

Is it possible to add total found regions next to total found countries on the world map?

Many thanks

suggestion of the extreme area system

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:54:52 +0000

First of all, I know that some of the topics have already been covered in other topics, but I think that since I'm going to talk about several topics, I'll just mention them in one topic.

First of all, I congratulate you on this project as it creates yet another set of objectives to achieve. I know that the project is in its early stages, so new resources will appear, including those that I will mention below, but it doesn't hurt to suggest them.

I will suggest and number the topics that could improve the area extremes system:
1- As it already exists with the extremes found where clicking on the icon and the cache appears, there could be in those that we have not found, thus making the search easier (it could be the same as those we found or even a special search, as this way it could be easier to find even the areas that we do not have in any of the extremes found).

2- As it happens to some geocachers, even I am currently the owner of some cache in Extremos and for that reason the icon is like I need to find it, but as it is not possible to find the caches themselves, I think they could refer to this with an icon in another color, for example.

3- As there is already the highest altitude extreme, why the lowest altitude extreme?

4- There could be a filter that allows us to include caches that are archived or not, for example the filters that exist in the D\T graph of type\size

Best regards Nelitoz

FTF on events

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:24:52 +0000

Hey all,

I know that FTF is not a 'thing' for Groundspeak, but is very much a hotly contested thing in my region of New Zealand, and I'm sure would be in other places too.

However, there's 1 aspect which really irritates me, and that's people being able to claim FTF on events, including CITO. I'm not talking about some kind of raffle for the right to claim a FTF (although I still think that's wrong) but rather that people can and do regularly claim a FTF on an event when events are not 'found' but 'attended'.

I also know that this topic has been broached before, but that was 3 years ago and I'm interested in seeing if there's a shift in opinion from the decision makers at PGC?

Yes, I'm aware that omitting any 'attended' logs from the FTF list will upset a small number of people, but i would hazard a guess that it would greatly please an awful lot more.

What do people think? Would you be interested in a more level playing field when it come to seeing how you're doing compared to your peers?

Cheers.

Challenge owner dashboard

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:49:43 +0000

Hi,

I thought he PGC browser plugin would warn me when someone logged one of my challenges and I visited the page.

Another cacher warned me that someone who did not fullfill the requirements to log my challenges did log them.

Is there a easy way like with the cache owner dashboard on GC.com to get a overview of challenge caches I own and people who might not fullfill the requirements?

Why does'nt I have the USA country souvenir as I have logged gc9FAVE on 23/7/2023

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:45:13 +0000

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

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:02:01 +0000

Today the Extremes for areas, which you have logged, do show up when you hoover the symbol in profile statistics.

But I think it would be good if you would see the extreme geocache for an area/type when you hover also for those that you do not qualify. That would mean that it would simplify finding these extremes in a future trip.

I assume the information is available as it is checked if you do qualify, so it is probably easy to add.

((Edited: Corrected "hoover" to "hover"))

Treasure icon collection similar to souvenirs

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 02:00:58 +0000

Groundspeak have instigated a treasure collection for an indefinite period. They are specifying a different category from souvenirs. Is there any way to summarise wins/awards in the same manner as souvenirs?

Extremes by area enhancement request

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:49:19 +0000

I love the new Finds > Extremes table but I have a problem. I own the cache with the most favourites so cannot qualify for this.

Could we have the table show not only most extreme caches found, but also if they are owned. Owned caches are, of course, not finds, so should be marked in with a different colour, perhaps grey.

Alternatively, perhaps show the extreme caches of cache owners that are not me. In other words I might see the second most favourited cache. This would give different result for different people, so is not preferred.

And now Project-GC has given me more geocaching objectives... As if I didn't have enough already!

Country totals including labs

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:21:25 +0000

I know it's not supported by gc.com, but can there be a cache count by country including labs? Why are there no countries associated with labs? If the coords are available, isn't there a way to determine country?

Samoa country badge

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:31:03 +0000

On the BadgeGen page in my stats it says I have achieved 95 country badges, but I have cached in 96 countries. For some reason, Samoa is not included and still has a 'wooden' country badge, rather than a normal one. This is the case for many years already. Is there any particular reason for this?

We have leagues for most dt by type. IE Most Earthcache unique dt to 81

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:43:14 +0000

We have the league for most dt loops but it doesn’t appear filterable on cache types. There is a league for unique dt by type in one day but not more generally. IE I cannot see how to view all the people from uk who have a full dt grid in earthcaches or virtuals or multis letterbox etc. I can if I view in one day but then no one has so I need the time frame more open.

Thanks for looking.

New feature: Add a multi-select option in challenge-maps (to allow selecting multiple states within 1 country)

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:06:51 +0000

Hi, my specific issue was discussed back in 2023 at Map of Challenge Checkers hanging in some cases when requesting all of United States - PGC freezes when asking for a maps of challenge caches from the entire U.S. The only way to get the entire U.S. is to do 51 separate state-by-state searches. A couple of us discussed possible solutions, including:

Activate the multi-state selection capability on the map page, to allow me to click on more than one state at a time. If I am traveling to one part of a country, I would like to be able to do one search covering multiple states (rather than 10 or 20 separate searches). If one can create multi-state maps, anyone can can keep all searches under the current server capacity limits.

While this capability is a critical need in the U.S., it would also be very valuable for any cacher traveling through their own country or to other countries. [For the US, a very inelegant and single-country stop-gap measure would be to create a somewhat arbitrary country of "United States (Western States)" and "United States (Eastern States)" to essentially divide the US into two pieces.]

Would love to get a sense of whether others would value the multi-state capability. Thanks, bejs

Add type filter to Hidden Month on profile stats

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:00:42 +0000

I have found the addition of type/size filters on the various tables on my profile stats to be super useful, but was wondering if it was possible (and/or desirable to more than just myself) that the hidden month table have the same option? Personally, size would be interesting but not super important, type I would find incredible useful though.

edit: Additionally, it would be incredibly useful if there was a way for the cache type filter on the map hidden month tool to then only use that type when calculating what month(s) are missing

Feature request list with votes and status

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:04:15 +0000

I Stumbled upon a request from 2014
https://project-gc.com/qa/?qa=785/favo-and-favo-karma-owners-top-lists&show=785#q785

That has 12 votes (not sure if it high or not) and i wondered if there is a table with all the requests

table fields could be:

name (first five words of question), Category(hides, finds, maps, favorites, etc - some sort of list), year suggested (year posted), number of votes, Status(implanted, pending implantation, dropped, contemplated, can't be done, etc), Status Date(year/month)