Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged hidden-months

Hidden Month Tool no results for may 2021

Fri, 28 May 2021 14:44:10 +0000

I wanted to lookup caches that are placed in May 2021

https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapHiddenMonth?profile_name=ardila.nl&location=N+52%C2%B0+19.000+E+006%C2%B0+07.000&max_distance=500&hidden_fromyyyy=2021&hidden_frommm=5&hidden_fromdd=1&hidden_toyyyy=2021&hidden_tomm=5&hidden_todd=28&submit=Filter

And it's not finding anything but I it least know https://coord.info/GC9BWB6 was published on 25/05/2021

So is this a bug or something by design?

Option in hidden month tool to filter finds by country or region to - or custom query to accomplish same

Sun, 19 Jul 2020 07:06:34 +0000

Can you add an option to the Hidden Month tool to only consider months 'found' if the caches are from a certain country or region? Or is there a custom filter that can be used to accomplish the same?

I'd like to use this option or custom query to create a list of caches to fulfill a challenge like https://coord.info/GC3T5TN (checker: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC3T5TN/2542), without having to go through each missing month one by one.

Are there any caches still in play that were hidden in October 2002?

Wed, 20 May 2020 18:22:29 +0000

I've been using the Hidden Month checker searching to see if I can find a cache hidden in October 2002 to fill my Jasmer month hidden calendar, but I can't find any in Europe. Is that correct? Are there any at all left in the world?

Future "Finds by hidden month" to be X'ed out.

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:43:44 +0000

Location: ProfileStats / Finds by hidden month

First four months of 2000 that are unavailable have an X on them. It would be a nice touch if also future months would have an X on them. So as of writing this on February 2020 that would be the last month of this year without an X until we arrive to the 1st of March when that X would be removed to be replaced by a number of finds (if any).

Can Project-GC find caches that were hidden in a specific month?

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 19:42:48 +0000

I know about the Hidden Month tool but I've already gotten the Jasmer. I'm looking for caches to complete loop #2. For instance, I'd like to find caches hidden in Oregon in December of 2004. Thanks!

Bug: Hidden month map shows found caches

Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:57:32 +0000

When setting hidden month loop to two or more, the map shows all caches that match the missing months profile, regardless of their found status. Yet finding a cache that I have already found does not help with achieving that loop. Please filter out the Found caches.

Map Hidden Date has the same problem.

map - hidden month

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:46:55 +0000

I am not sure if it is me - however when I tried to use this tool specifically to find a cache hidden in the month of November 2004 - in the UK (dates between 2004-11-01 and 2004-11-30)

it came up with no caches within this criteria - odd! there must be ?

I expanded it so no country was selected - still no caches

I then selected 2004-11-01 and 2010-11-30 (yes a very large selection - but proved my concern that there may be a bug as still - no caches !!

please advise

Loops show finds error

Thu, 10 May 2018 00:16:47 +0000

While answering a question about what a "loop" is in Map D/T Matrix, I looked at loop functionality in other grids.

The Map - Hidden Month and Map - Hidden date both suggest caches I have already found (icons have smileys on them) as caches that I should find to complete a loop (in my case check out profile "the Seagnoid", country "New Zealand", loop 8).

Please edit the loop query to exclude caches already found.

Map-D/T is working correctly.

Show missing hidden month for specific cache types

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:46:42 +0000

In my hidden month matrix, i have 4 month left to find in the year 2001. But in some other month, i just have found virtual caches (virtual, earthcache, webcam...) and no physical cache.

Now i want to search for physical caches in months where i only found virtuals.

I tried the Hidden Month map with a filter on all physical caches: didn't work. the result is only the 4 missing months.

Then, i tried a classic cache search via top logged cache, but with the filter physical caches and the specific month. It worked, but you have to search for every month again and again, because the months are not consecutive.

Is there are way to realise it in an easier way like to improve the filter in the hidden month search? Hope you understand what i want to do.

Profile Stats - Oldest Cache found

Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:10:36 +0000

Is it possible for caches with a hidden date prior to May 2000 to be ignored in the table of Oldest caches found in Profile Stats?

In my view Oldest caches should be on the actual date hidden not on some fictitious date set by the cache owner. While it is impossible to determine which caches have fictitious hidden dates this change will at least eliminate the obvious ones.

>>>> edited date to May 2000

Month Placed Search Filter

Sat, 04 Jun 2016 21:21:10 +0000

Would love to see you add a filter to month placed that allows me to search by cache type.

This exists but it only looks for that type of cache in months with no finds, what I would like is similar to the Fizzy Grid search where I can see a Multi/Unknown/Traditional cache grid where it identifies if I found a multi placed in each month.

Basically just a Jasmer grid by cache type - have I found a traditional placed in each month? an unknown? a multi?

Finds by hidden month: current month is 1 as soon as month starts.

Sat, 04 Jun 2016 06:56:44 +0000

In the "Finds by hidden month"-table as soon as a new month starts the table shows 1 find for the new month, even if you have not found any cache yet hidden in the new month. E.g. my table already shows 1 find for June 2016 although I have a couple of days backlog in logging my finds and certainly have not found, let alone logged yet any cache hidden in June 2016.

As far as I can see, at the start of the new month 1 is deducted from the statistics for the penultimate month (i.e. currently May 2016).

As this cannot be feature is has to be a bug, right?

Possible improvements in hidden month tool

Mon, 24 Aug 2015 06:22:04 +0000

When searching for loop 2 of the map hidden month I found two possible "nice to have" improvements:

1. Caches I have already found is shown, unlike in other similar functions. This is obviously a minor problem.

2. If I get more than 1000 hits, there is no "warning" about this, like in similar functions.

Profile stats order: "Oldest found" and "Finds by hidden month"

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:53:17 +0000

The presentation order of Profile Stets shows "Oldest caches found", then two other unrelated tables, and then "Finds by Hidden Month".

Oldest caches are related to Finds by Hidden Month so it would be nice if the Hidden month table appeared first, and then the oldest caches straight afterwards please? When i read the Hidden month table then I'm wondering which caches people have found for their older finds so this order flows better.

zoom does not work on map if result set is only one cache

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:01:25 +0000

I just looked at my "Hidden Months" map today. I narrowed it down to my resident county, which yields only one cache.

http://project-gc.com/Tools/MapHiddenMonth?profile_name=Funky_Boris&country=Denmark&region=Midtjylland&county=%C3%85rhus&submit=Filter

The problem is that the map then shows a zoom in on the cache. That's ok, since it does not need to show any other caches. The zoomed in map, however, is not particularly helpful since it only shows some obscure road name that I don't recognize. I thought it could be remedied by zooming out. This is where I hit upon what I consider a bug:

Zoom out does not work on the map if there is only one resulting cache.

It turns out, however, that if you pan the map first, the zoom out functionality resumes. It took me a while to figure that one out.

I realize that this might not be top priority. I just thought that it maybe one of the easy ones you can look into on a slow day :)

Finds by hidden month incorrect

Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:32:28 +0000

If I look at the "Finds by hidden month" section on my profile, it states that I've found two caches published in January 2015.

The problem is that I haven't logged any caches in 2015 yet, so how can I have found caches published then?

Bug? Or am I overlooking something?

Is there a way to use the "Hidden Month" feature without my profile?

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 03:27:52 +0000

I'm trying to generically search for caches hidden in a given month at a certain location, but because I've already found a cache in the selected month, the hidden month tool gives no results. Is there a "clean" way to do this? Or do I need to use a profile that has zero finds?

Small bug in hidden months tool

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:32:20 +0000

I tried to filter out recent months.

You can select an invalid date as the hidden date to, like 31 September. This results in no cache found. This confused me for a while until I realised my mistake. It would be better if it gave an error

Tony