Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged cache-owner

Bug: Checker owner_id on adopted caches.

Wed, 07 May 2025 10:06:30 +0000

I have a checker, https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC55AHK/920, that checks for cache owners that are members of a list stored within the checker - charter members. However it looks like it does not correctly process caches that are adopted.

For example, CherokeeThree has found https://coord.info/GCA3FC which was owned by Peter but is now owned by wreckdiver. When the checker is run for CherokeeThree it shows he has not found any of wreckdiver's caches.

The checker is correctly set to use the owner_id (as opposed to using placed_by) and so should be picking up wreckdiver as the owner.

Could you take a look please?

Request for a Cache Maintenance Badge

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 02:43:40 +0000

I enjoy doing cache maintenance and getting the troops in order. It’s almost as good as finding caches. I think it would be great to raise the profile of the green maintenance spanner to a level equivalent to that of a smiley.

Would it be possible to have your green spanners as part of your stats, and have a reward badge on BadgeGen too? I think this would be cool way to promote cache maintenance - it would be a win-win for COs and seekers.

I note that there were some comments previously about frequent maintenance suggesting a poorly designed cache - but I would argue that no cache can ever be maintenance free. There is always cache creep, full logbooks, wet contents, torn ziplock bags, rubbish and damage to containers that affect every single cache. Regular, pro-active maintenance is the sign of a committed CO, and it would be great to see this recognised.

Exclude error logged owned caches for caches transfer by Groundspeak to me by the original owner

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 03:56:00 +0000

Project-GC has no way of telling the difference between a cache I created myself and one that I have adopted from someone else. So the Find Bad Logs add those in logged owned cache list but they are not a real bad log. But may be is it possible to add a feature to exclude cache adopted. May be it is possible to verify the logs of a logged owned cache to check if there is a Write Note log with this part of text "was transferred from" added by Groundspeak when a cache was transferred. So, the cache can be removed from the logged owned caches list generated by Projet-gc.

Logged owned caches identify for a owner transfert cache ?

Sun, 02 Jan 2022 03:29:28 +0000

In my profile I see that I have a lot of logged owned caches but those caches are caches transfer by Groundspeak to me by the original owner. Is it normal ?

Show percentage of found caches by cache owner

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 01:37:44 +0000

I would like a statistic tool for showing how many caches I have found from each cache owner, and the percentage of their total active caches that totals for.

How can I find listings with banners?

Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:39:07 +0000

Some owners of caches offer a banner for download after successful find of the cache. I'm a fan of banners and want to find listings with banners. Is a tool available in PGC or has anybody any idea how I could manage that search?

Thanx a lot for your help in advance

eltopo00

How do I find out how many different cache owners I have found caches from

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:46:28 +0000

This may have been asked before but it didn't come up in the list

Is there something I have missed on the stats pages, (I am aware there is a top 40 but that is all I can see)

if not is there a way of finding out how many different COs there are from the caches that I have found

Thanks

New stats for owners about performed maintenance, how often, average per time / cache etc.?

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:46:33 +0000

I'm wondering if a few additional profile stats on the "hides" tab about owner's maintenance would be interesting for some people?

Just like "days since last maintenance" or total number of maintenance, average per time / per cache (wo events) etc.

Some more might be interesting and perhaps wouldn't be a great effort to calculate and add?

Discrepancy in "hides"-tab between basic member and paying member

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 20:46:15 +0000

A friend of mine (Grubenhex) and I frequently share the information about our statisitcs. recently I (being a paid member) looked up her statistiks about her finds seeing 70 caches with about 15888 finds and 899 FP's. At the same time my friend (being a basic member) looked up the same page with her account. She only saw owning 58 caches with 12146 finds and 583 FP's.

How can this happen?? Her GC-Profile shows 70 caches in her posession!

A few days ago she adopted a bunch of caches and the twelve missing caches did not show up a finde in the timeframe between adpotion and regeneration of the stats. I assume the stats will build up to the figures I can see with my account once the caches receive some new logs. it's confusing

But anyway - there seems to be a bur in the way you collect the stats if a basic member or a paying mamber is doing (the same) inquiry.

pictures see https://coord.info/GL1134DWE

regards

Andreas aka andi_ilvese

How do I search for caches by cache owners beginning with specific numbers?

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:59:19 +0000

I am trying to complete the alphanumeric cache owner challenge and am missing caches hidden by COs starting with 6 and 9. I am trying to search for any possible caches that fit that category but cannot figure out how to filter by CO name. Can anyone offer help?