Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions

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

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:06:46 +0000

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

I would like to see the mystery caches (that don't have a challenge attribute) that fill up my calendar.

It there a way to find this out? Maybe get a checker made?

Finding hidden date returns no results

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:20:45 +0000

I found how to look for a specific hidden date regardless of year by using the Map - Hidden Date Tool. I entered the date and my username and it said there were none. I wondered if it was looking for a cache that I had hidden on that date, so I put in a date that I knew I had hidden a cache on. Still said none found. There should be a way to find hidden dates without having to do it one year at a time.

How to use touchscreen control with map?

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:35:18 +0000

When I zoom the map with a touchscreen, it zooms the map image like it is a photo. Everything goes larger, including icons. When using a touchpad, it zooms and pans correctly. I am using Firefox. Is there anything I can do to make it work rationally?

Mystery cache symbols in GPS

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:14:39 +0000

Hello,

I recently discovered that when I create a GPX in Virtual GPS, transfer it to the GPS (Garmin H1), the symbols on mystery caches are changed from a standard question mark to a treasure chest in the GPS. All other symbols are the real standard symbols. I can't find them specifically in any list either, but they still work as a cache in some way in the map itself. Tried with and without choosing to correct the coordinates. Same result. Very strange.

However, if I download an individual mystery cache from GC.com, it becomes a real question mark symbol in the GPS.

This has not been a problem before and I have not updated the firmware in the GPS. Something seems to have happened in the GPX manufacturing here at PGC or what could it be? Anyone else having the same problem?

*Update*

I downloaded an older built GPX file to see how it worked and in it the symbols are now correctly displayed. This is strong evidence that something has gone wrong recently in the GPX file manufacturing process here.

No data in Virtual GPS

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:04:10 +0000

When looking at my Virtual GPS I'm not able to access the data table or change between different lists. Is there a way to reset this feature?

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

Lost cloned script

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:23:42 +0000

Hello I created a cloned script and didn't copy the link. Where can I find that.

Is there a way to search challenges by difficulty rating?

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:44:22 +0000

Is there a way to search challenges by difficulty rating? It's the bold number next to the skull and crossbones on the checker page which is calculated by Project-GC. This search feature would be helpful as I would like to complete my challenge difficulty grid.

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

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:03:57 +0000

Not sure if this is intentional or not, but I see the "Permanent link to this profile" functionality in the Profile Stats page has changed. It used to be a clickable link that took you straight to the page, but now it gives you a box to copy the URL. Whilst I can see the benefit of this, I would prefer having a direct link. Is it possible to restore this please (as well as keeping the copy URL box).

Lab Caches in Stats

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:43:36 +0000

Most cachers use their GC account to collect both caches and labs. Hence Project-GC Stats show Labs as a tab on their individual Profile Stats page. A minority opted out and have 2 accounts = one for the real deal (geocaches) and the other as a sock account for AdLabs only. To reflect the "footwork involved" making valid geocache finds, as opposed to carpark "geoart" AdLab counts.

Until this weekend - for the last two months or so, one can view "Lab Caches" stats on their sock accounts. For me its SurdiVisio_AL. I can see which months or days are low or too high. However if I disable "Lab Caches" for my SurdiVisio account (PjGC paid membership), then the Labs tab disappears from my SV-AL stats. Is this an unintended bug or functioning as designed?

How to unhide statistics?

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:34:30 +0000

On my profile stats-page I get the warning "Your statistics are not visible to others!" If I expand the settings below and uncheck the checkbox "Completely hide my statistics from others" and click on "Save" nothing happens. When I refresh the page the warning is still shown and the checkbox checked again.

Why do Project-GC need access to the Gallery?

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:21:23 +0000

Could someone please update the checker for GCBNNAD? Germany has 401 "districts" (Landkreise). Many thanks.

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:50:00 +0000

Could someone please update the checker for GCBNNAD? Germany has 401 "districts" (Landkreise). Many thanks.

Move caches in live map to a list

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:32:34 +0000

On the 'Project-gc Live Map', I can do amazing things with filtering, zooming, &c. However, I see no way of saving the results to a list, or a gpx, or doing anything at all other than admiring the pretty colors.

There is no lasso, no button to save... Is there any way to save the displayed caches?

Twist and Shout Challenge GCABG9C checker doesn't work. Can someone fix it?

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:17:41 +0000

The checker always times out when attempting to use it.

GC7D3PC checker is no longer qualifying previously accepted low elevations (-1000 to 0)

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:15:36 +0000

My checker (https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC7D2PC/29050) is no longer qualifying previously accepted low elevations (-1000 to 0):

baloop

before: 1. GC95BJE, 2. GC62JPJ, 3. GC50C11, 4. GC95BM1, 5. GC509ME, 6. GC99073, 7. GC95BJV, 8. GC50C24, 9.GC95BJT, 10. GC2TQ9N, 11. GC95BGZ, 12. GC62JQ1, 13. GC95BM5, 14. GC9906P, 15. GC49X7J, 16. GC999B9, 17. GC50C0M, 18. GC5ERJW, 19. GC95BJC, 20. GC509JY,

after: 20 * -1000-0: GC49X7J, GC62JPJ, GC49986, GC999B9, GC95BJV, GC95BJE, GC295AQ, GC2TQ9N, GC5ERJW, GC5ERNR,

Aronel

before: 20 * -1000-0: GC58QBK, GC58H8A, GC5JNDM, GC9B0RW, GC234BX, GC7KRF8, GC8NFP6, GC62JPJ, GC1KKMX, GC6YAND, GC62JQ1, GC31B28, GC1GA93, GC2HTZA, GC90551, GC21A86, GC6ZC84, GC5PCRA, GC58BW3, GC2M0FA,

after: 20 * -1000-0: GC1GA93, GC7KRF8, GC62JPJ, GC1KKMX, GC51NVR, GC5JNDM, GC234BX,

Order of caches in a day for statistics is incorrect

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:05:34 +0000

On the statistics page it is clearly stated that "Adventure Lab caches are sorted last for each day due to technical limitations and differences between various logging methods of geocaches.". However that seems to be untrue. The statistics page claims that my 17000th cache find was a lab cache found on 29th of June. After looking at this statistic, I logged several "real" caches on the same day, which should now be placed before the lab caches and make my 17000th find a "real" cache. That did not happen after regenerating the statistics, though. The 17000th find remains the same lab-cache as shown before.

So based on those observations, I would assume that the info that lab caches are always sorted last for a day is incorrect. Can somone confirm this bug or explain the behaviour?

nach welchen Kriterien wird "die höchste Fund-Prozentzahl"ausgewertet?

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:45:45 +0000

Die Auswertung bei der Stadt Braunschweig ergibt die gleiche Fund Prozentzahl bei

User "GeoTschorny" und User "Floh1967".

Dies, obwohl "GeoTschorny" 3 Funde mehr in Braunschweig gefunden hat.

Wie kommt dies zu stande?

Lieben Dank Andreas

Find count not updating for specific cache

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:33:07 +0000

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but on my finds tab, the count for one of my caches, GC7X1XH, has been incorrect for several days. It should be 187 finds, but PGC still shows it at 186. I've refreshed that cache in self support several times, done a complete refresh of all my finds, and regenerated my statistics, all without success. There don't appear to be any duplicate logs. Any reason for this?

How many active geocaches in a country, at a past date

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:57:47 +0000

Is there a way to check how many active geocaches there were in a country or area for a past date? Knowing that there is a way of "turning back the time" for user stats - e.g. https://project-gc.com/Statistics/ProfileStats?llh=2025-10-30 I was wondering if there is also a way to see how many in an area at a specified date.

Landkreis Karte

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:09:28 +0000

wenn ich auf einen Landkreis gehe, werden mir die Cache in dem Landkreis nicht mehr gezeigt.

Die Funktion fand ich sehr hilfreich wenn ich auf Reisen bin, konnte ich im Vorfeld sehen, ob ich an Cache vorbei komme

Challenges im VGPS sammeln

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:39:07 +0000

Hallo zusammen,
Um signierte Challenges in eine GPX-Datei zu exportieren, habe ich mit Google folgende Möglichkeit gefunden:

Öffne die Übersichtsseite deiner signierten Challenges auf Project-GC Signed Challenges.
Setze am Tabellenkopf ganz rechts ein Häkchen, um alle Caches auszuwählen.
Der erste Punkt ist soweit klar; ich habe eine gute gefüllte Liste.
Am zweiten Punkt scheitere ich, da ich keine Möglichkeit sehe, das besagte Häkchen am Tabellenkopf zu setzen.
Was mache ich falsch?
Vielen Dank für einen Tipp.

Challenge Checkers no longer have green check mark when I qualify on geocaching webpage

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:10:35 +0000

I have the firefox browser extension added and in the menu I have "Add challenge checkers' option checked. I am no longer seeing the green check mark on the checker as I once did. Did something change or do I need to change another setting. Even after I run the checker manually and pass I still do not get the green check mark on the geocaching.com web page.

Pourquoi un écart de PF entre mon compte et project-gc.com ?

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:05:43 +0000

6900 PF reçus sur géocaching

6000 seulement sur project-gc.com

Profile Stats, FTF tab - average D & T improperly calculated?

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:14:51 +0000

The average difficulty and average terrain in the FTF tab of Profile Stats seems to be improperly calculated (at least in my stats) - both seem to be rounded down to nearest whole number while in the Finds tab they are rounded to two decimal places.

I feel that the average D & T should also be rounded to two decimal places in the FTF tab, and I even recall that that might have been the case previously.

Problems with counting of visits to my caches? A deviation relative to Cache Owner Dash. surprises me.

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:44:26 +0000

I discovered a shot time ago that I could find the number of visitors to my caches on Cache Owner Dashboard, and they fit reasonably with the numbers on Project-PC. As expected there were som misfit, simply because the Project-GC needs some time to update the number.

But I started to follow these numbers, and there seem to be a certain misfit that is slowly growing, and the misfit seems to be completely independent of if I have had 50 visits on a day, or if it was a day with hardly any visits.

At the moment Cache Owner Dashboard claims 52555 visits, whereas the very recent update on "Hides" on Project-PC gives me 52527, a difference of 28. I got close to 40 visits today, but the last one was 4-5 hours before the update.

I would not have been to worried about this alone, there may be some delay somewhere. But the difference seems to be slowly increasing, and it was also close to 20 a few days ago, when bad weather gave few visits on my caches.

So is this real difference, or something that will "heal itself" with a bit of patience?

Martin Ystenes

Y? O!

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

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:24:59 +0000

D/T matrix of a specific cache type

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:55:57 +0000

I am wondering if there is a place I can see a d/t matrix of all the caches in a specific area for a specific type of cache.

For example. I would like to see the D/T matrix for all the challenge caches in Michigan.

Is that possible?

i cloned a checker, now i can't get it to open

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:59:48 +0000

I cloned a checker from GCBPHAV for my cache GCBRM81.

I copied the tag when the popup was on the screen, but when I search for it, I can't find it.

When I cloned it, it did not have challenge anywhere in the title or on the page, but was a mystery. I have added challenge on the page and to the title. What am I doing wrong?

This is the link that I copied

/Challenges/GCBRM81/116385

Is there a tool that suggests local caches that I have not found for hidden months for jasmer

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:08:35 +0000

Paid member stats not refreshed since 29 May

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:14:04 +0000

Hi all, I'm a paid member but my stats are stuck at 29 May (or before). The tool on the stats page says "Using data up to 2026-06-09". On a couple of previous days I've also tried clicking the "Regenerate my statistics now" button with no resulting update. I wondered if it's to do with the recent chages to Settings at geocaching.com or if it's a problem at this end? Thank you for your time, elfre :-)

What's with SARCRZY?

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:46:00 +0000

I have a charter member checker, and someone reported that it did not pick up SARCRZY's hides. So I did some digging.

SARCRZY's profile id is 69108 but when I run PGC.ProfileName2Id it returns null, so the checker does not pick up their hides. In other areas on PGC's site SARCRZY is reported as an anonymous user.

Has PGC lost SARCRZY's profile id is is there something unusual about SARCRZY?

What counts as a longer log? I'm trying to up my stats for the author badge but I don't understand how this badge works.

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:04:03 +0000

81 grid no longer complete?

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:05:44 +0000

Hello, I am wondering if there is a way to tell which cache was changed in the D/T rating to cause the new hole in my grid or perhaps my cache log was removed and I would like to determine if that is the case. thank you

366 year streak

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:20:15 +0000

I cannot find a challenge checker using UK finds only also where ALs do not count towards the challenge.

Is it possible to create this challenge?

Map of D/T grids per area

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:14:19 +0000

When I look at the tools already available under Statistics | General | Cache Stats, I see things like "Geocache types per area", "Geocache sizes per area", "FP per area", and "FP per D/T", but there is no such tool as "D/T per area".

I want to propose a new tool to visualize the number of complete D/T grids available in a specific area (country/region/county, depending on user's choice). It should be based not on finds of a particular user but on all active geocaches in that area. As a possible implementation, it could show a map in which regions are colored according to the maximal number of D/T matrices per country/region/county and showing the rarest D/T combinations for every country/region/county.

The practical use for such a tool would be, for example, to convince reviewers that enough caches exist in a given region to justify a D/T-matrix based challenge. If I want to publish a challenge to complete the D/T-matrix in a single county, seeing how many caches are available there for every D/T combination is currently impossible with the available tools. If this is implemented, one could also see in which regions a D/T matrix is possible to complete at all, and which specific combinations are missing.

At the moment I can do this for countries and regions by creating a Location filter in c:geo, but that works only for single D/T combinations, requiring a lot of manual work. It also doesn't work at all for counties because county is not included in the location field in c:geo.

Can the Checkers tell me the date I qualified?

Sun, 31 May 2026 21:40:16 +0000

I'm struggling to find the date I qualifed for each challenge. Separate of the checker, I've attempted using map compare and building a list of caches I have with the attribute in question however I cannot bring in date I found each cache to determine which date I actually qualified. Is there any easy way to just have the checker tell me the date? The issue is negative attributes, I can do the regular attributes using geocaching.com

A checker 75 found on the Aland Islands please. All types excluding ALCs.

Fri, 29 May 2026 16:37:10 +0000

A checker 75 found on the Aland Islands please. All types excluding ALCs.

Lua Checker for distance from home coordinates

Fri, 29 May 2026 09:01:11 +0000

Hallo,

I'm looking for a Lua-Checker to create a checker for me.

The cacher had to find caches in the different distances of the geocache-statistics, to solve the Challenge.

Would someone be so kind to help me?

Wrong challenge checker for GCB9PM3

Thu, 28 May 2026 12:47:43 +0000

Two challenge checkers are assigned to GCB9PM3:

102897 is the correct one
102936 is not checking this challenge and should be removed

How do I find a filter for caches with specifik attributes?

Thu, 28 May 2026 09:16:23 +0000

I need to document how many caches with a specific attribute there are in Sweden. How can I find that number?

Map Not Found Caches does not show unfound caches

Thu, 28 May 2026 07:20:52 +0000

I have several caches in Poland that have not yet been found. I noticed that they don't appear on the "Map Not Found Caches" in Project GC. Is this a bug or is there something I overlooked? Here is the list of GC codes that I can't see on the map: GCBQGK3, GCBN15X, GCBN15X, GCBN14D, GCBN147, GCBN13N, GCBN133, GCBN133, GCBN12D, GCBN121, GCBN10Y, GCBN10Q, GCBN10D, GCBN0ZT.

Coordonate in personnal note became corrected coordonate

Tue, 19 May 2026 21:58:24 +0000

In my personnal note in geocaching, I put some coordinate as a try. When I create a virtual gps table, I find out that those coordonates appear as corrected coordonate but it is not the case. I get pictures but I don't see how I can sent them.

paying member getting timed out

Tue, 19 May 2026 18:41:51 +0000

I am a paid member and have done a statistic request over 10 times and still get timed out. Why? What's the point?

When I create a route, can I show it on a map after? Can I export it

Tue, 19 May 2026 15:29:24 +0000

Basic member owners can't verify Challenge checkers with PolyChecker because of Premium caches

Sun, 17 May 2026 23:14:57 +0000

I have a challenge cache where you have to find caches in certain map regions. The challenge checker uses the genericPolyChecker https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC58381/18168.

I wanted to verify a cacher that logged my cache and saw, that when I use the checker with his name it shows the challenge as not fulfilled. With some cross reference and checking different users I found, that the checker won't show a region as fullfilled, if there only was a premium cache found, as I am only Basic member. I am pretty sure, that worked before.

Since basic members can log premium caches, this seems off and especially as I am the owner of the cache and I wanted to verify a log.

GCBQ5N4 - checker for HIDDEN geocaches in foreign countries

Sun, 17 May 2026 22:00:47 +0000

I need a challenge checker for getting a result of hidden geocaches by a user NOT in his own country. Example, I am german and hided already geocaches in more than 5 countries. I want to create a challenge Geocache which request for example 2 or 3 foreign countries of the owner where he/she has already HIDDEN a geocache (events and LABs should NOT be accepted, ECs are ok)

Could you please write me such a challenge checker?

Ältester Geocache im Kanton Solothurn

Sun, 17 May 2026 17:56:25 +0000

Issues sharing virtual gps with other paid members

Fri, 15 May 2026 18:54:10 +0000

I shared my virtual gps with a friend, he got the "conversation" that it was shared with him, but when he goes to view it by clicking on the link it gives him a completely different virtual gps with a different name and I don't have any virtual gps' with that name. He sent me a video showing me this weird issue, I could try to share if that would be helpful. And now I just had another friend tell me the same exact thing happened to her - a mutual friend shared a virutal gps with both of us. I had no issues getting to it and seeing it, but she could not get to it.

A follow up, I just went to a recent "conversation" and clicked on the link, it took me to a completely different virtual gps than the one in the shared "conversation". Tried again with a different "conversation" and it took me to the previous conversation's link. Its like the links do not match up with the conversations? Went to another older "conversation" and it also took me to a completely different virtual gps than the one it should have been tied to.

Let me know how I can help solve this issue.

An additional side note but it may be related, when I'm in virtual gps and I switch to a different virtual gps, the virtual gps up on the bar across the top of the page does not update to the new virtual gps I'm sitting on unless I refresh the page. I'll try to attach a photo, but I think I had issues doing so last time.

An update has removed the project-GC link that adds county info to cache pages. how do I get it back?

Wed, 13 May 2026 23:45:29 +0000