Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged compare-map

only show mysteries with corrected coordinates on map

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 15:43:52 +0000

Is there a way to only show mystery caches which have corrected coordinates in Live Map or Map Compare?

Scenario Tour Planning:

- solo: using Live Map to identify interesting area, however besides Tradis, Multis, LBs, I'm only interested in mysteries which have been already solved, i.e. have corrected coordinates or challenges fulfilled. Is there any way to omit unsolved mysteries on the map?

- team: using Map Compare to identify interesting area, however besides Tradis, Multis, LBs, I'm only interested in mysteries which have been already solved (by at least one buddy), i.e. have corrected coordinates or challenges fulfilled.
Is there any way to omit unsolved mysteries on the map?

Bug: invalid name match from custom filters

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:44:24 +0000

I created a custom filter that, among other parameters, included a cache owners name. However I used a capital letter, effectivly mis-spelled the name. When I ran map compare with this custom filter it matched to ALL cache owners.

Entering an invalid name should still return all caches with the specified cache owner - i.e. it should return no rows.

Feature request: Show corrected in Map Compare

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 03:25:10 +0000

When planning my trips I often start with Map Compare.However I do not like to clutter my GPX with puzzle caches I have not yet solved, so I would like to have a map compare view that excludes unsolved puzzles to help plan my trip and my gpx file.

Could we have a new Map Compare filter "Puzzles without corrected coordinates: Include/exclude" (default = include)

Of course, this also applies to multis, but this is a much smaller problem as most multis are easily solved in the field.

Would make sense as a premium only feature.

Map compare Bookmark List

Sun, 12 May 2019 03:21:50 +0000

I an unable to use the Bookmark List Filter on the Map Compare. When I put my caching name in the box and click “Get”, the list is blank. What am I missing?

Feature request: Support decimal numbers in Center/radius filter

Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:14:55 +0000

Map Compare is a lovely tool. However, when the cache density is especially high in an area there are a lot of caches included each time you bump the radius of the search up by 1 km.

If you enter a decimal number (by either using the dot ('.') or the comma (',') character, it will be rounded down to the nearest integer.

My request is to support the entering of decimal numbers into the radius field (and indeed other distance fields as well) instead of just integers. That, or permit us to enter radius in meters as an integer ;)

VGPS controls on LiveMap?

Wed, 09 May 2018 08:12:56 +0000

Could the VGPS controls available on Map Compare be replicated on LiveMap?

Currently it looks like the only way to add caches to the Virtual GPS is to add them one by one by clicking each icon.

I find the tool to circle and capture several caches on the map is particularly useful: however it only exists on Map Compare.

Would that be feasible to implement on LiveMap?

Blank Icons in Maps - Missing Cache Types

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:22:06 +0000

I'm seeing some issues with general site slowness/timeouts and missing profile sections (Cumulative Finds by month, Finds by year cache placed, Finds to date) since the upgrade but the big issue for me is most (multi-caches and earthcaches seem to work on the live map) of the cache icons on both the live map and map compare are blank squares, they do not show any cache type or show a broken image. I saw someone reported the same type of issue with FP notification emails but not sure if this is related? Using the latest version of Chrome/Win 7, tried disabling Tampermonkey scripts with no effect.

Elevation filter for map compare

Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:39:28 +0000

Since the data exists on other pages, would it be possible to have a filter for high/low elevation for map compare?

I.e. Elevation: [2000]m to [5000]m. Meters in free text.

compare maps table limited to 3000 rows

Sun, 25 Sep 2016 12:04:27 +0000

The table on compare maps is limited to 3000 rows, but the map is not. Can I limit the search on the map to 3000 finds from a user defined center so I know which cache is being added to my virtual GPS? At the moment I would like to add all the caches i a county that I have not found, but as there are almost 9000 caches there is no way to tell in advance which of the caches on the map that will go into the virtual GPS.

Is there another tool to add more than 3000 caches at a time to a virtual GPS? The live map does not have a filter for the area that I am interested in, or more precise - I can't find any filter.

On map compare some caches are missed out

Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:18:00 +0000

When I only filter after my username and tick one found the map shows only 427 caches instead of 493 caches. (Possibly archived ones missing, but then there should be 453 according to my profile stats)

map compare filter by "virtual gps"

Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:27:07 +0000

Using the tool "map compare" does allow filtering by a defined "virtual GPS". This is done by selecting one on its given name.

When filter is activated and closed, the filter summary only shows some id (I guess the internal reference), but not the name anymore. Editing the filter again shows again its name.

map compare paying member compare to non-paying member

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:40:26 +0000

As a paying member the map compare feature is great. I'm currently looking to plan various night caching trips and noted that my friend who is a non-paying member's stats aren't updated. Now of course I knew that as a non-paying member his stats are only updated once a week.

My question is: Is there a specific day of the week and time (including timezone or expressed as UTC) of day that the non-paying member's stats are updated. I appreciate that a routine that runs to update stats may take a good few hours to run thus you cannot be specific about the time but a rough estimate would be of great help.

The point being is that I would be better able to determine where to go if I check the stats just after they are updated. I can (and do) use my friend's stats page on geocaching.com to check any they have done recently and often just ask as well (I know that actually asking someone vs using a computer tool is so last century). However it is a lot easier to plan things and create GPX files using a computer than having to manually adjust.

Found by others, not found by me?

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:21:50 +0000

I like to go geocaching with a few of my friends. However, sometimes, they can't make it, and I'll go geocaching by myself. In order to not interfere with future trips with my friends, I in these cases like to find caches that one or more of them have already found but I have not found - that way, we can still go find the caches, none of us have found, together at a later date.

However, I can't seem to find a way to display these caches on project-gc.com - even using custom filters. The only way I have found so far is to make a bookmark list of all the caches, my friends have found, and use this as an ignore bookmark list in "Map Compare". But this list will quickly become out of date.

Is there a smarter way to display caches that are unfound by me but found by one or two of specifically listed profiles?

compare-map: Filter Bookmarklist

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:39:10 +0000

I want to use the bookmarklist filter, but the get command doesn't work. The pulldown list remains empty. It doesn't matter if the bookmark list is public, shared or not.

The VGPS bookmarklist-import works.

Feature Request: Map Compare - separate out Comparee's hides

Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:49:37 +0000

When I run map compare to compare my stats with a friends, I'm looking to see what caches we haven't done. However there are ones they have done I haven't because they are my caches and vice versa ones they haven't done because they are their caches.

In the map compare could you exclude from the stats caches that were hidden by either cacher being compared. Or include an extra stats line.

So instead of:

20 caches only X has logged

24 caches only Y has logged

have perhaps something like:

15 caches only X has logged - they have logged 5 caches belonging to Y

12 caches only Y has logged - they have logged 12 caches belonging to X

Even better if it said "they have logged 5 caches belonging to Y (62% of Y's caches)".

Tools (e.g. comparing different user or D/T-Matrix finder) don't work, neither in Chrome nor in Firefox 36

Wed, 01 Apr 2015 19:25:13 +0000

Map Compare, åäö used as aao when filtering on cache name

Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:59:50 +0000

When using Map Compare, if I use the filter "Cache name" to filter caches with for example "sänd" in it, I get matches on "sand" and vice versa. "såg" will get hits on "saga" and so on.

public API to search for geocaches

Wed, 25 Feb 2015 06:58:51 +0000

Another from more or less stupid ideas about "what to do if everything will be done". Having website with all these stuff is just great, but to have public API, accessible from mobile application (I don't think you plan to create whole new mobile application, or?) to search for caches around with some advanced use cases that are not provided by geoching website or their "API".

Use case I have in my mind:

Search from coordinates similar to "Map Compare" to return list of caches around that neither of group or some of group didn't find. This can be handy to have when you are caching with friends and without preparation and you don't want to download every cache, check it for logs or downloading caches for all the people and doing some aggregation on client side.

I don't think this would be too much work, because you have all the sql queries, but the only thing missing is to define API and expose it. I can think about some JSON with list of caches with additional flags who found it if required.

Setting center of Center/Radius by clicking on map

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:29:49 +0000

Hello!

Ever so often I would like to define the center of the Center/Radius feature by directly clicking on the map. That would be really cool and helpful, if that would be possible, because sometimes the center of the circle cannot be defined by any name because it is in the middle of nowhere.

Right now it works if I have the coordinates of the center point, which can be entered, but that requires me to find those coordinates first in another programme/website. So this is rather a convinience feature request.

Thanks,
Christian

Map Compare: Remember last map

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 13:24:54 +0000

On Map Compare I choose OSM as my map background. But every time I change the filter the map is redrawn with Google Maps as default.

Please make my choice of map "sticky".

Feature-Request: On Map Compare also display cache owner in popup cache info

Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:46:37 +0000

Right now, when you click on a cache on Map Compare an info pops up with some cache details.

Could you please also add the cache owner to this info?

Right now, if I want to know who has hidden a cache, I have to click the cache name and another window opens with the listing. Adding the cache owner name to the short info, would save a lot of time.

Thanks!

Feature Request: Show only caches owned by user on Map Compare

Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:49:47 +0000

Feature Request: Show ONLY caches OWNED by user on Map Compare

Combine "compare map" and "favourite search"

Fri, 16 Jan 2015 12:53:18 +0000

I'm missing one feature: The posibility to combine the "favourite search" with "compare map", or maybe there exists a way that I just haven't found yet.

When would this be useful? When I'm planning a trip with a friend to an area whe both me and him/her already has logged some caches. Then we would like to filer out.. the best caches that niether of us have found before.

Today I can search for caches that niether of us have found (compare map), and the best caches in the area (favourite, favorite %, wilson) but I can't combine these two results in some way?