Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions

WTF- new limit of only 10 challenges per day?!?!?!?!?!

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 01:15:52 +0000

This is unreasonable

Incorrect County Boundaries in United Kingdom / North West England

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:37:55 +0000

I have found some caches in Warrington (most recently on 19/9/2026 alongside some caches in Merseyside), and notice they appear to have counted towards my total for the county of Merseyside. This is incorrect - as shown by the Wikipedia page for Cheshire, the Unitary Authority of Warrington is part of Cheshire not Merseyside. I believe, though can't be sure, that Halton is also wrong.

Edit: See also the Open Street Map Relation for Cheshire, which also shows the same as below

For completeness, the following Unitary Authority areas are part of Cheshire:

Cheshire West & Cheshire
Cheshire East
Halton
Warrington

And the following District areas are part of Merseyside (Wikipedia link):

City of Liverpool
Sefton
Knowsley
St Helens
Wirral

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

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:19:31 +0000

The virtual GPS is extremely useful, and I also export the data to csv for further handling in Excel. All columns with their values are exported to the csv file, except the first "Found" column which always contain no data. (I guess it is because it contains a smiley icon).

If possible I would like some indication for found caches in the csv file. Now I have the workaround to use GSAK for the find indication (and my ound date if I am interested) and "synchronize" the GSAK output with project-GC output.

how do I get an ordered list of the number of finds of each of my hides

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 19:01:47 +0000

I would like to know which of my hides has the most finds. I would also like to see all my hides ranked by number of finds of each cache. I can't figure out how to do that.

Can I search for caches placed only in certain months without specifying the year?

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:35:55 +0000

Why is this not an old virtual?

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:00:27 +0000

The Old-Virtual Badgegen addon is awarded for finding a virtual cache hidden before 2006. So why does finding https://coord.info/GCHFRY not give that award?

I have found that cache, but my badgegen does not show it.

I would like to view my own finds for the period from July 19, 2026, to October 27, 2026 incl. AdLabs.

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:18:10 +0000

I would like to view my own finds for the period from July 19, 2026, to October 27, 2026. This should also include Adventure Labs. I have cached in Europe and the UK. How can I do this? Regards, michelmeister

Glitch with PGC or GC

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:48:12 +0000

I had a notification today that a FP was removed from a specific cache naming the cacher who removed it
I checked with the cacher as I suspected it may have been a glitch and he had not removed the FP and when it was all checked the log shows that he had awarded one and that it was still there.
So, no worries about FPs being removed - but why would I have had a notification to say this had occurred when it evidently had not - is this a glitch PGC end or GC end ?

My profile stats are no longer showing up on my Geocaching.com profile! Is something broken?

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:11:08 +0000

In the last few days, I notice that when I got to my geocaching profile, after the browser's activity spins for a minute or so, I get a blank box where an image of my Project GC stats used to be. If I click on the box, it goes to my profile stats on the Project GC website like always. Here's what is in the "About" section of my profile information:

<a href="https://project-gc.com/ProfileStats/LostSparky" target="_top"><img src="https://cdn2.project-gc.com/ProfileStatsImage/LostSparky" width="750"></a>

This happens on both Firefox and Chrome browsers. My OS is Windows 11 Pro 25H2.

I'm also seeing this on other peoples profiles as well (that use Project GC) - TwoKots and dugfresh, for example.

How often i can update my statistics as a Plus member?

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:15:03 +0000

I have a Plus but I can update my statistic every 24h only. I think the update with plus should be possible every hour or?

Challenge auto-checkers - Plus only?

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:02:37 +0000

Hi all.

Checkers are run against my finds for all challenges in the world - eventually. I can see that I qualify for challenges in countries I have never been to, for caches I personally have not run the challenge checker.

Is this a PGC Plus feature or is this available to all users?

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

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:44:42 +0000

Which provinces make up the regions of Myanmar, Burundi, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Palau?

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:51:18 +0000

Hi,

I'm building a small personal database of my geocaching data. I want region and county assignments that match Project-GC exactly, so that my numbers agree with your challenge checkers.

For almost every country I could reproduce your regions and counties from OpenStreetMap. For five countries, though, your regions don't seem to correspond to any administrative boundaries I can find in OSM (current or 2021) or in Natural Earth, and geocaching.com doesn't provide a state for caches there either:

Myanmar: Central, East, Lower, North, South, West
Burundi: Eastern, Northern, Southern, Western
Dominican Republic: Cibao, Este, Sur
Puerto Rico: Central, East, Metro, North, South, West
Palau: Babeldaob, North, Southwest, Southwest Islands

Could you tell me how these regions are defined? Ideally either which provinces/municipalities (or OSM relations) belong to each region, or the source you use for these polygons.

As a cross-check, I'd also like to confirm two countries where I assumed the official grouping:

Thailand: the six regions follow the official six-region scheme (e.g. Chon Buri in Eastern, Phetchaburi in Western).
Malaysia: Malaysia Timur = Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan; Semenanjung Malaysia = all other states.

Thanks a lot for Project-GC and for any pointers!

Best regards,

Steven

how do I figure out if I have found 1 cache in 5 states in 1 day?

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:57:50 +0000

Request for checker 64533

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:36:33 +0000

Request for https://project-gc.com/Challenges//64533 . The checker is very useful and I use it to see what caches I'm still missing on my cache calendar. However, by the time you reach april or later, I need to scroll up and down just to see what exact date the cell with caches is meant for.

Would it be possible to copy the bar with the days of the month in between each of the months? That would prevent the need to scroll constantly and would make it clear in an instant what day we're viewing. Maybe this could be done for other calendar checkers as well?

Thanks in advance!

Can I get cache types I have found pr country

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:18:03 +0000

In GSAK you can get a FSG extension that will show you how many different cache types you have in each country (list for all countries you have cached in.)

Why are the Mega's we've attended not seen in the challenge checkers ?

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:33:42 +0000

On profile stats i have attended 5 Mega events what is correct.
But on Challenge Checkers we only see two !
How come and why ?

How do I change the color of the 161-meter circles for multi-caches on the Live Map?

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:23:01 +0000

Enhancement: NESW include Centroid

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:47:42 +0000

The report https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapNESW includes 6 of the 7 geographical extremes. Centroid is missing. Yes I can effectively get the data from elsewhere in Project-GC, but really, it belongs here.

Could we get it added please. At least for the country/region/county, if not for the centre/radius.

Especially as I am now working on extremes as a personal challenge!

How can I calculate the rarest DT combinations in my area?

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:57:55 +0000

I would like to find out the statistical distribution of DT combinations in my region, to find out the rarest types.

Is there a way of doing this in Project GC please?

Thanks in advance

Karma - what does it really mean

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:14:49 +0000

I was perusing my stats as you do and spotted the karma figure again and pondered over the figure and what it really means and does it reflect an imbalance.
I was told some time ago that to be a good cacher you have to have a high karma value. That simply means you have to have many more cachers log finds on your caches than you have finds of your own
Well - my karma figure is only 0.47 and I am not too bothered by that - I have just under 100 caches out there all in a rural area (so not a tremendous footfall compared to places like capital cities) - all have FPs and the FP count I have on mine gives the FP index figure of 23.9% of premium logs meaning nearly 1 in 4 PM cachers give an FP on one or other of my caches - I am quite chuffed with that - as a CO that is my karma figure.
So going back to the imbalance I mentioned - I took a look at two other cachers specifically because of what they have out there, to show what I mean
1) CO 'A' who has over 3000 caches owned - has a karma figure of 6.69 - over 14 times my figure - well no wonder, with that many caches he is potentially going to get 30 times the number of find logs than I have - though his FP index is only 4.3%
2) CO 'B' who has just over 100 caches but a few of these (around 6) are in a big city - these 6 between them account for half the find logs he has got - unsurprising in the big city they will attract the far greater footfall particularly from foreign visitors. His Karma is 8.11 and because of where they are they attract FPs and his index is 25.3%

So not belittleing the effort put into any of this - for the cacher who places fewer caches in a rural area the footfall will be much lower and as an active finder this will mean the karma will always be low - pushing out so many caches will always push the number of finders up and the CO could be just as active if not more in finding caches but the balance with the karma is so different. Seems to suggest to push your karma up you should either pump out a load of caches (which to be honest will also mean poor quality) to get the 'find of your caches' rate up more - or you just don't go out finding any caches which will slowly push the karma up as cachers find your caches.
Equally the cacher who puts out caches in a rural location will get so much less footfall than even a single cache in a big city and despite the appreciation through FPs for those rural caches - the karma balance is still weighed towards the COs caches in big cities simply because of the footfall.

So what is that figure really for, and what do folk strive for if at the end of the day it doesn't really matter that you have a very low score yet your contribution is really appreciated. I guess what I am saying is that karma figure is not really required as it can muddy the waters when other folk look at them (and they do) and then compare them

Where can I find the counties map under the state map.

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:58:31 +0000

Its been awhile since i last looked. Trying to fill in the counties map for Florida. I use to be able to find it but the data format looks different. I found under statistics tag and found the map tag but it doesn't give me the map break down by county. Help please.

I cloned a tag from GC8PV4G to use on GCBY013 and lost the connection. Can it be retrieved

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:14:01 +0000

how do i get badges?

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:16:55 +0000

Is Project GC having an issue? It won't bring up profile info.

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:12:54 +0000

Profile Stats not loading. It times out and says to report an issue.

New Issue with the PGC Greasemonkey script???

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:06:35 +0000

all of a sudden, some of the functionality of the script seems to be not working.... For example:

1. The Hints are no longer automatically decrypted.

2. Right before the user logs, I no longer see the options to select "My Logs" or "Friends".

Did something change? I see the issue with both Chrome and Tampermonkey AND with Firefox and Violentmonkey. I have the latest greasemonkey script (3.0.7) on both browser extensions.

Hidden Date Calendar

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:37:51 +0000

A while back someone shared a checker with me that gave a calendar for every single year, starting in 2000. Each calendar showed the hidden dates of caches I had found. It is not associated with any challenge, it was simply for information purposes.

If there is a way to show a hidden dates found calendar for a specific year, I'll take that as well. I know of the Map Hidden Date tool, but I want to see the calendar.

"lost" extreme Top Elevation

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:24:36 +0000

My understanding of how the extremes on Project-GC work was that tonce you have claimed it, it remains permanently, regardless of whether any cache later surpasses "your find" in it's particular category.

In my home district, there is a cache at an elevation of 709 metres that has been there since 2008. I found it on 29 May 2026, and it was recorded as the highest cache in the district at that time. On 23 August 2026, a new cache was published at an elevation of 716 metres. The new "Top Elevation". BUT/AND the Top Elevation extreme for my district is now missing from my statistics.

I have a feeling that something like this has already happened to me at least once before, but in this case I am absolutely certain. I can verify exactly which cache it was, what its elevation was, that its elevation has not been changed, when I logged it, and which cache has now replaced it as the highest one.

Is this a bug, or are extremes actually supposed to be overwritten and disappear like this? If that is how it works ... why would I deliberately make a detour to find an extreme in a foreign country, only to lose it later simply because someone publishes a new cache that surpasses it?

I would appreciate clarification on how this is supposed to work.

update: wilson score is so dynamic thing that it's loosing any meaning whatsoever this way (?)

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

Badge for hosting events in different countries

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:54:33 +0000

I realize there is a badge for hosting events, but I think it would be neat if one was awarded for hosting events in different countries. Is this something that could be considered? Sorry if this was asked/requested before, but nothing came up when I searched.

Potential memory leak issue in Coming Events tool?

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:26:48 +0000

Starting today, the event list in Coming Events tool started taking much longer time to load than previously. In addition, while it is loading, RAM memory usage increases significantly, reaching up to 2 GB before the list loads, suggesting that there might be a memory leak issue there.

This does not seem to happen on other map tools, such as Map Compare, Map DT Matrix or Map Extremes, only Coming Events tool.

Using Chrome browser on a Windows 10 22H2 PC.

I always seem to miss the ‘Back to top’ button here.

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:33:19 +0000

I actually always find myself missing the ‘Back to top’ button here.

It’s not a big deal in itself, but once you’ve scrolled right to the bottom, a button like that would be really handy, if not essential.

Greetings from Cologne

ThLiers

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

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:47:25 +0000

At the top of the notifier emails there is some text which tells you to look at the bottom of the email for the unsubscribe link. Can this be removed? It is superfluous, and means notifications on my Garmin watch have this text first, rather than the information about the newly published cache. Only a limited amount of text is sent to the watch, and often it cuts off before the important bit

Is it possible to get a .csv of my geocache finds?

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:31:37 +0000

I am working a lot with google sheets to track my geocaching. I know you can download .csv files from the Virtual GPS, but is it possible to get a .csv file of my geocache finds? I think the Virtual GPS has a limit to the number of lines in can export.

Checker for cache GCBX72P

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:22:25 +0000

Hello and please process the checker for cache GCBX72P with the following conditions:
a) participation in at least 77 CITO - year does not matter
b) at least one row of the matrix with values greater than 7
c) at least one column of the matrix with 7 values greater than 7
For example, see the attached image
Thanks in advance and have a nice day Jirka aka jcenda

Hi, I need some help with a challenge checker for my cache GCBTBZ6.

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:26:24 +0000

Hi,

I need some help with a challenge checker for my cache GCBTBZ6.

My challenge is the same type as GC9DE8W – Zubříkova Challenge 100 x D5/T5 (Czechia), which uses a Project-GC checker for finding 100 D5/T5 caches.

I cloned the checker from GC9DE8W because Project-GC says that an existing checker with the same configuration can be cloned to another GC-Code.

However, I seem to have ended up with the wrong/incorrect tag association. My reviewer says:

“The Project-GC checker is not for this cache. Please create a checker specifically for this cache.”

I tried to clone it again, but Project-GC now gives me:

“GC-Code already seems to be tagged with a checker”

I cannot create or edit checker tags myself, so I think my GC-Code GCBTBZ6 is already associated with the incorrect clone/tag.

Could you please help me fix this?

What I would like is simply a new checker/tag using the same checker script and configuration as GC9DE8W, but specifically associated with my cache GCBTBZ6.

The original checker I cloned is for:
GC9DE8W – Zubříkova Challenge 100 x D5/T5 (Czechia)

My cache is:
GCBTBZ6

I don't need a new checker script; the existing checker works for my challenge. I only need the checker/tag to be correctly associated with GCBTBZ6 so that the reviewer can verify that it is specifically for my cache.

Thank you very much for your help!

Challenge checker corrupt

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:21:56 +0000

There is one checker that have stopped working for me (and som other nicks) but works for others. It doesn’t matter who is logged in. It does not work for me or boviken but for Quite_Frankly. Maybe there is some underlying log that is making the result corrupt?

https://project-gc.com/Challenges//39378

Adoption - Owner

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:22:08 +0000

Hi,

is it possible to identify which caches have been adopted by another user over-time?

Thanks,

Wolv

Geachte wij willen een chalange maken en hebben begrepen dat we dat hier ergens moeten doen.

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:03:45 +0000

Graag willen wij een chelange maken en hebben begrepen dat we dit via Project GC.

Aangezien we dit voor het eerst doen kunnen we wel wat hulp gebruiken om dit te klaren.

Bedankt alvast Geo Groet GPS Roefel.

self-support refresh number of finds

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:56:44 +0000

Challenge checker

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:15:33 +0000

Hi! I would like to create a 350 Virtual cache challenge but I need to include a checker in it, the cache GC is GCBVWG7

Checker issue

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:00:41 +0000

Hi

There seems to be an issue with this checker for our 7 days of the week matrix challenge GCBNHK7 as Ive been informed it allows D/T finds from any country, it should only allow UK finds please could you investigate and create a new one to reflect the challenge.

<p><a href="https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCBNHK7/114099"><img alt="PGC Checker" src="https://project-gc.com/Images/Checker/114099" title="Project-GC Challenge checker" /></a></p>

Thanks

Stephen

Gps position

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:46:19 +0000

I want to see the GPS position in the map project GC app. So we can see which municipality we are in. Is this possible?.

Best regards.

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 :)

Server error on change of custom lists in Profile Stats

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:14:21 +0000

Changing the custom lists in Profile Stats is ending up with server error.

Internal server error (6a7c7cbb228b95.64656846)

Internal server error (6a7c7ee9ce2269.22255894)

I set up two lists in past. One from GC codes in Hides and one from a bookmark in Milestones. Even then it was problematic, but after various attempts it worked. Now I'm trying to add one cache to the GC codes list, I don't change anything else and it doesn't work. Even if I change the list to bookmark-based.

I found a similar issue from February, which has not been closed.

Help with a quick edit to a tag

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:43:29 +0000

Hi there - when I cloned a mini jasmer challenge I didn't realize the tag wasn't just for one year and excluded some events.
Here's the checker: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCBNDJF/113971
How do I get the tag updated to just:

{
    "start_date": "2003-01-01",
    "end_date": "2003-12-31"
}

Regular Profile Stats and Profile Stats including drafts mix up

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:09:16 +0000

Hi, I really appreciate the option to view statistics including uploaded drafts using the includeDrafts=1 URL flag. I think there's a bug in there, though.

I have both versions of the statistics open in two browser tabs:

The problem is that I often see the same variant displayed on both pages. Sometimes I regenerate the statistics for one variant, and that variant then appears in both panels at both URLs. Other times, I refresh the panel with the other variant, and that one overwrites the first one.

But sometimes it works as it should, and I see the correct version at every address. I can't say what determines whether it works correctly or not.

The problem is the same when using other URLs, including

I also think very few people use this feature. When I mention it to someone, they're surprised they didn't know about it. That's because there's no GUI toggle or link on the statistics page.

Highest Cache in Region Saarland is wrong

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:50:41 +0000

The highest Cache for the map extreme is GC296B5 (674 m) but GCX8R8 is 694 m high. The reason is that the box in Project GC is in Rheinland Pfalz, but Geocaching list it in Saarland (It is located near the offical Mark "highest Point in Saarland)

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 :)