Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged lab-caches

Country totals including labs

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:21:25 +0000

I know it's not supported by gc.com, but can there be a cache count by country including labs? Why are there no countries associated with labs? If the coords are available, isn't there a way to determine country?

Needed Found Dates for Adventure Labs

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 14:21:28 +0000

I can find a year calendar and a list of missing dates for all the different types, sizes, difficulties, and terrains by using the Needed Found Dates tools except Adventure Labs

I can see the empty days for finding Adventure Labs on the calendar in my profile stats under the Lab Caches tab.

How can I get a list of those days like in the Needed Found Dates tool?

Can Adventure Labs be added to the cache type filter?

Labcaches: List names of Adventures too

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:46:50 +0000

At https://project-gc.com/Profile/LabList just the names of Lab-Stages are listed. For a better overview and to differentiate duplicates (I already found 5 Stages called "Altes Rathaus" of different Adventures) please also list the Adventures' names.

GPX of found Adventure Labs

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:59:42 +0000

Hi,
I'm looking for a possibility to create a GPX file containing all Adventure Labs that I have found.
I saw that I can get a list of all Adventure Labs, but I didn't found the possibility to create a GPX file.

With best regards, Uwe

Have lab caches been changed to when they are added into the stats?

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 04:12:26 +0000

Have the way they are batched or added to the numbers changed recently?

I have noticed previously that Lab caches were always added to stats at the end of the day. Now it appears as if they aren't. Two of my milestones are now showing as lab caches when they were events previous to today.

Geocaching.com statistics vs. Project-GC statistics

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:10:07 +0000

When checking our statistics today we found out that our total finds at PGC are one more than the ones at geocaching.com. We saw @ PGC that there is one Adventure Lab Cache more counted than @ geocaching.com ... how is that possible? Thanks for your help!

How can I get "The Lab Cacher" badge to appear on my page?

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 04:25:45 +0000

I saw another user who has a badge option for "The Lab Cacher," a badge awarded for logging lab caches. That badge doesn't appear on my page. How can I get that badge also?

Challenge checker with Adventure Labs

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:48:03 +0000

According to the rules for creating challenge caches, it is not possible to create challenges related to waymarks, benchmarks, trackables and Adventure Lab (e.g. 366 days Adventure Lab challenge) (https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2016/05/return-of-challenge-caches/).
Is it then correct to count Adventure Lab finds towards the results of other challenge checkers?
As an example, I'll give this checker: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCABHX1/79476
Which actually counts the number of Adventure Lab finds towards the total number of finds and thus automatically adds additional loops.

Cache Karma wrong: my finds include Lab caches but finds of my hides don't

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 14:00:56 +0000

I think the cache karma in Hide stats is wrong.

The find count I received on my caches doesn't include Lab caches, but my finds count does. This makes the number wrong. I understand that getting hidden Labs data is a problem, but then the sum of my finds shouldn't include them too.

Tab for LAB Caches is lost

Tue, 02 May 2023 17:29:09 +0000

Hello, since some days the Tab for LAB Caches is lost. Why? Or do i have to make some changes i

Do lab caches also count for the busy cacher badge?

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 19:33:27 +0000

I guess without it there is no "honest" way to achieve Diamond for an individual geocacher. I'm a paid member.

List of labs from my statics gone

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:03:48 +0000

Hi, there was a useful list of all the Labs I discovered in the stats (https://project-gc.com/Profile/ProfileStats#LabCaches). Now I only see time charts and a calendar. Where has the list of all Labs found moved to? How would it be possible to retrieve it? Thanks for replay.

A full list of found lab caches not visible in the Lab caches tab in profile stats (like used to be)?

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 06:52:05 +0000

A full list of found Lab caches is not visible in the Lab caches tab like used to be. I have checked my membership and it is ok.

Is it possible to edit milestones? Despite my best efforts, project-gc picked a lab cache anyway.

Tue, 24 May 2022 11:32:58 +0000

I specifically logged physical/virtual caches in the field along with the lab caches so that the the virtual I was working on would be #7000 and show a German flag. Afterwards, I went and did the lab caches that I walked past while completing the virtual. It worked on the geocaching.com profile but on project-gc it picked a random lab cache anyway... Not sure if this is a bug or not.

I'm just hoping someone has advice on how to fix it. It's kinda heartbreaking to not see a little German flag next to my 7000th milestone... It wouldn't be so bad if lab caches had country data.

Je ne vois pas le Badge Lab

Mon, 02 May 2022 13:22:03 +0000

Bonjour,

Je précise que je suis Premium que j'ai parcouru 458 Adventure Lab et que j'ai vérifié dans la configuration de mon profil (pas de case à cocher correspondante...?) et que j'ai parcouru tout le forum à ce sujet.

Merci par avance

Glitch in profile: it sometimes - but not always - displays incorrect find total because of mishandling of lab caches

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 23:14:41 +0000

This glitch report is similar to https://project-gc.com/qa/?qa=27904/profile-stats-with-double-counted-lab-caches but that discussion did not really get to the heart of the problem.

Most days, my profile total find counts are correctly displayed and are in sync with what Geocaching.com shows. But some days -- perhaps one or two days a week -- the total is incorrect because it shows that I have 20 more "total" caches than I in fact do. It appears that the system -- only on some days -- adds the lab caches to a find count that already includes the lab caches. I have taken screen shots that I could forward if helpful.

So, for example, today my profile page correctly shows 1705 total finds (ignoring the 1 cache logged today that has not yet appeared on the profile):

bejs has logged 1685 different geocaches, plus 20 lab caches, a total of 1705 unique finds Data from 2022-04-18

These are the same numbers that Geocaching.com shows. BUT a few days ago, my profile page incorrectly showed:

bejs has logged 1691 different geocaches, plus 20 lab caches, a total of 1711 unique finds Data from 2022-04-15

And on that day, Geocaching.com correctly reported that in fact I had 1671 finds plus the 20 lab caches, for a total of 1691 finds.

So a few days ago, Project-GC (incorrectly) reported that I had more finds than it (correctly) reports today, but I have NOT deleted any finds in the past few days.

I have observed this behavior for months, and have viewed the incorrect profile stats on a number of different devices. In other words, if I have seen the incorrect numbers on my phone, I have checked on my computer and also found the incorrect (and too high) numbers. As noted, I can send screen shots of the posting from a few days ago.

Thanks for all the work you do on Project-GC! bejs

Why is there a date difference for Labcaches by Found date?

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 14:13:16 +0000

When I looked at my LabCaches statistics in Profile stats I found a discrepancy. The number of unique dates in the header is 84. But under the calender it says "82 found dates, out of 366 (22.4%)". What is the cause of this? Are these dates fetch from different sources? (82 corresponds with the calender shown.)

Why do Adventure Labs show up in the "most icons in a day" field

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 02:59:54 +0000

Hello,

I noticed recently after doing Eleven (11) icons in one day that included an adventure lab that it has not been reflected in my "most icons in a day" stat.

The adventure labs were found mid to late afternoon Pacific Time and I know there has been some issue with GMT taking precedent in the timing on these.

Is this something that you are/will be looking into?
Thank you in advance for the help.

trekkerdmc

static html download - lab caches are missing in some statistics

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:30:19 +0000

As of today 2021-04-16 the static export is missing the lab caches in some statistics, e.g. "Tab Finds / Most cache types in a day:" or "Tab Milestones / First cache by cache type".

The tab LabCaches seems to be okay though.

Minor bug: Lab cache FTFs

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 18:23:34 +0000

Under the sections Statistics > Profile Statistics > FTF > First FTF by Cache Type and FTF by Type the page states including n lab caches, which is my total lab cache find count.

Firstly, most of the lab caches I have found are not FTFs, so this figure is incorrect, and secondly, PGC is unable to determine FTFs in lab caches so the statement should not be included anyway.

Please remove Including n lab caches. It has no meaning here.

Do lab caches count to "most distinct caches in one day"?

Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:09:15 +0000

Hey guys,

I am planning to find the 11 different caches in one day and I am wondering if Lab Caches counts.

I already completed a few Lab Caches but they are not listed in my milestones-list like any other cache type I found for the first time.

Thank you for your efforts!

Include Lab Caches Box Become Unchecked for Anyone Else?

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 17:41:31 +0000

Not quite sure if there was some sort of server reset, something changed, or my membership had a sudden blip in it but all of a sudden I had noticed my Lab Caches were no longer being included in my stats. I had to go and re-check the box for including lab caches in the statistics. Anyone else encounter this recently? Not a big deal, just was a bit of a surprise when I arrived at my stats today.

Enhancement request -- add adventure lab cache totals to the Statistics Tool "top finders"

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:32:44 +0000

I understand the issues with including adventure lab data in reports and queries, but it would seem, since adventure lab totals are shown on the Geocaching.com cacher home page, it should not be impossible to include them in the "top finders" query. Or, if that is not desired for some reason, to create another statistics query which does include them. The question came to light since a cacher here in New Mexico created a "power trail" dedicated to the top cachers in the state, but the numbers (and rankings, in some cases) are off since lab cache finds are not included. There are cachers here who have over 900 lab cache finds, while others have none.

overzichtskaart met labcaches

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 06:57:45 +0000

Is er een mogelijkheid om een kaart te maken waar alle labcaches zichtbaar op zijn?

Voor zover ik weet is dat nu alleen zichtbaar op je telefoon.

Kann man gefundene/gelöste Labcaches ausblenden

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:07:31 +0000

Die Karte der Labcaches wird immer unübersichtlicher, da diese wie Pilze aus dem Boden sprießen. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit, gefundene/gelöste Labcaches auszublenden?

Group Lab-Caches

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:35:56 +0000

It should be possible to group LabCaches in https://project-gc.com/Statistics/ProfileStats#LabCaches
by "Adventure title" or "Adventure link" part after "goto" as shown in https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/erlangen-krimi

E.g. as an additional sortable column.

LabCaches aren't showing

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:56:36 +0000

My LabCaches tab disappeared today, I'm pretty sure that it was there yesterday, and they aren't counted in my stats. I've checked the settings and double checked that I've checked the box to include lab caches. Also, I've already run a new data fetch through the self-help center, but it's still gone... Does anyone else experience this and how can this be resolved?

Are logs for Adventure Lab Caches considered in FTF-List?

Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:40:53 +0000

Are logs for Adventure Lab Caches considered in FTF-List?

Formatting of tags also {*FTF*} {FTF} [FTF] ?

Math Error in the Header of Profile Stats

Sun, 06 Sep 2020 21:32:32 +0000

I believe Lab Caches are on the move in GC-Project. Here a glitch that appeared today

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ue_ldgmnuJV2hZMC9oagy7tuR3cQ1Q-/view?usp=drivesdk

It used to show x different plus y Labs = x+y Now it shows x+y=x

Would PGC be able to place all AL locations on one map?

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 01:51:24 +0000

Hope for more information about integration of Adventure Labs in GC.com

Sun, 26 Jul 2020 06:17:36 +0000

Hope we get some more news soon what that means in detail.
Do A-Labs get a GC code like LC or AL (AdventureLab) ? Do A-labcaches get coordinates and we get all the statistics like "normal" caches - like country, height, nearest...

Great would be an integration in all kinds of maps as we just could see normal caches AND an AdventureLab within a map.

Perhaps we all can collect some feature requests so it would be much easier for GC to fullfil some "like to have"

Segregation of lab caches causing differences with geocaching.com

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:22:32 +0000

I have to believe there's a reason Project-GC segregates out the number of lab cache finds, rather than grouping them in with all other finds like geocaching.com does.

Given the boost in the number of labs, the discrepancy between the number of finds on Project-GC vs. geocaching.com is growing over time, changing ever-dramatically the distance between milestones on the 2 sites.

I would love to see the lab-cache distinction done away with to harmonize with geocaching.com.

Can this be done? If there's opposition, can you explain it to inform the masses?

Thanks!

Lab-Caches von andere Benutzer sichtbar?

Sun, 12 Jul 2020 10:35:03 +0000

Kann man nicht die Lab-Caches von andere Benutzer sehen? Meine Lab-Caches kann ich nur selbst sehen..

Filtering LAB cache in the statistic

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:32:31 +0000

It would be interest to add type of cache "LAB" to "Statistic - Find stats - Top Finders" to the "Cache type / size" list for filtering.

Adventure Lab finds not appearing in “needed found dates” tool

Sat, 30 May 2020 22:28:24 +0000

My adventure lab finds are correctly appearing in my geocaching.com stats and ProjectGC stats (finds by found date) but do not appear in the “Needed Found dates” tool.

Examples from my stats are the 8th Feb and 28th Feb. The 8th Feb is correctly shown as 14 finds in my geocaching.com stats but incorrectly shown as 9 finds in the Needed Found Dates tool.

The 28th Feb is also incorrect. My finds =12 but are incorrectly shown in Needed Found Dates as 7.

I found other references to issues with adventure lab dates due to the timing of logs, but my issue is that the information is correct at source (geocaching.com stats) and also in one Project GC stat (finds by found date) but wrong in another ProjectGC stat (Needed Found Dates).

The Find Stats "Top finders" does not include lab caches, can they be added?

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:35:13 +0000

The Find stats "Top finders" does not include lab caches (which they do on geocaching (.) Com ) is there a reason ? If not, can this be changed to include lab caches on project too?

Needed found dates tool for loops does not include lab-caches, can they be added?

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 06:09:58 +0000

Needed found dates tool for loops does not include lab-caches (which statistics at geocaching (.) com does) is there a reason? If not, can this be changed to include lab-caches?

This mean a challenge needing for example 10 finds on each day can not be fulfilled with lab-caches using a Project GC checker (which is required on all challenges). It would be fulfilled according to statistics at geocaching (.) com, but that statistics would be “overruled” by the Project GC checker.

Lab caches appear to be counted twice

Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:26:55 +0000

I may have just refreshed my profile in the middle of a synch or something, but it appears lab caches are being counted twice for me right now.

Before today, I had 9,832 total finds, 27 of which were lab caches. (I went out and found 1 mystery cache and 5 adventure labs, so now 9,836 total, but not relevant.)

Currently my project-gc profile reads that I have 9,832 caches, plus 27 lab caches, for a total of 9859 finds. Not so much.

This may just be a temporary error, but I'm posting in case it does not go away.

Leap day add-on not showing for Lab Cacher badge

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:59:35 +0000

I did 5 lab caches late in the afternoon (Pacific Time) on Feb 29. I do not have the add-on for Leap Day for the Lab Cacher badge. Please fix!

I don't see the Lab Cacher badge on my profile

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:27:40 +0000

I was just looking through the All Badges page in the wiki, and realized that the Lab Cacher badge is not showing on my profile stats page. Is it broken? Or has it been removed?

Overview map for Lap-Caches?

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:59:00 +0000

Is it technically possible to add an overview map for Lab-Caches in ProjectGC? In the statistics the Lab-Cache-Finds of a user are also displayed.
I do not mean the physical locations of the lab caches, only the "Geocache Adventures" flags, as shown in the screenshot.
It would be a great thing, because you can plan your tour better.
And you rarely look at the app when you search for "real" Caches

cache owner badge not including events?

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:39:36 +0000

Hi Team,

I see that the amount mentioned at the cache owner badge is much lower now than it used to be on the old version of BadgeGen. From looking at the details, I gather that events I organised are no longer included as caches I own. Is there a plan to add the events again?

And on top of that, are lab caches that I created (going to be) included? I can't see that from the details yet.

Thank you!

LabCache logging date

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 10:53:29 +0000

Yesterday, I logged a LabCache in the morning in Brussels (Belgium). Since I am currently doing a streak, the purpose of that cache was logging it on February 8th. After logging it, I checked the GC-site, and saw the cache was dated on February 7th. It seems Seattle-time is used indeed. The strange thing however is, when I checked my LabCache founds on the Labs-page (https://labs.geocaching.com/logs) the cache is dated on February 8th. So Groundspeak seems to have the right date, but on the website another date is used. On Project-GC, the 'real' found date is used (February 8th), which now leads to the situation that the calendars on GC.com and Project-GC have different numbers on these dates. This very confusing I think...Probably not something PGC can solve, but it seems it's best to take Seattle time into account when logging Labs, otherwise both calendars will not show the same numbers of caches for these dates anymore...

is it possible to show what lab cache adventure each of the finds is associated with?

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 03:06:21 +0000

My Profile stats > Hides > Adventure labs

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:06:39 +0000

Hi,

On My profile stats there's a [Hides] tab.
Are there any plans or is it possible to include my own labcaches on that page as well?

I've got a PGC and GC payed membership if that matters.

Thank you, PGC, for the unique locationless lab adventure.

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 02:04:26 +0000

A smart and fun way to advertise and introduce geocachers to the excellent resource. It was fun.

Do lab-caches count for the "the diverse casher" badge?

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:49:34 +0000

Tout est dit dans le titre : est-ce que les labs sont comptabilisées pour le badge "The diverse cacher" ?

Merci

Everything is said in the title: are labs counted for the badge "The diverse casher"?

Thank you

Do all locations in an adventure lab have to be visited in a specific order

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:42:41 +0000

Remove lab caches from Milestones

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:32:46 +0000

Hello,
I would like to remove lab caches from the milestones (100th 1000th ....) but leave them in other statistics.

I this possible? on geocaching.com I can edit the milestone caches.

LabCaches not included in Stats anymore?

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:56:56 +0000

Although my Project-GC-membership is valid until somewhere next year, I noticed that my LabCaches are not included in my Profile Stats (yearly totals, calendar, ...) anymore. Is this a bug?