Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged logs

logs per area

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:31:10 +0000

I have seen that this feature has been requested before. however there is hardly any response. the overview has already this feature but only for the whole country. cant you just add more filters to the overview?

regions, log type, cache type, cache size, date hidden from date -> to date

or make it a feature of its own. cache logs per area

I have 2 caches that have duplicate finds, back when they were legal. Projet-GC does not count them.

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:46:23 +0000

Way back when having multiple logs on a cache were legal, 2005 and 2010, I attended two events that had a bonus cache associated with the event. The CO said to go ahead and log the event twice if I found the bonus cache, which I did. Project GC does not count those two multiple logs. Is there a way to get it to do so? Geocaching.com does count them in my total finds. Project-GC count is off by two.

Event from 2005 GCQA9K

Event from 2010 GC2D77G

Thanks

Terrible Ts

Is there a place to see "Finds per day"? Not logs but logs + lab stages

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 20:47:35 +0000

The current page only deals with logs. Would be cool to have the option to show logs, labs and labs + logs. Maybe like the current plot, but stack a lab plot over the log plot.

| O Total finds
| ____/\ O Logs
| / __ \
| / / \ \ /\
|/__/_____\__\__/__\________
Date -->

search your logs for ones marked 'great story'

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:51:01 +0000

It would be really fun to be able to search all your logs to see which ones were marked 'great story' or 'helpful'.

Project-GC Edited logs notifier - incorrect information about log type

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:52:42 +0000

Hello,

I think that this feature do not capture original log type correctly. I'm using it for a long time, but I don't remember if I've ever seen indication of changed type of log - it always says "Found it Found it" or "Write note Write note", even when player has changed the type of his log.

This is example, where I know 100% that player has changed Found it to Write note, because I asked him to do so. Project-GC is notifying me about Write note to Write note. Unfortunately, it seems to me that most important part of this feature does not work.

Can anyone verify and confirm, please? Is it possible to fix it?

Thank you.

Link to example log: https://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?code=GL1337NDZ

Edited logs notifier API problem?

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 05:27:29 +0000

Hello, for the last two weeks I've been receiving edited logs in a weird format. There is always §OPTOUT and some numbers instead of nickname and phrase "Content unavailable. This user has opted-out of sharing certain information with API Authorized Developers.". When I look at the profile, sometimes the users are inactive for some years and it doesn't seem they changed their logs ever.

Is it possible that there is some bug in this function?

Thank you!

Exclude logs from the Forgotten FTFs list?

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 12:58:50 +0000

My "Forgotten FTFs?"-list shows lots of logs that are STFs, TTFs or even other logs that are no FTFs.
Is it possible to mark these logs somehow so they don't pop up in this list anymore?

Can I as a lab cache owner see the logs that cachers left behind and how do I see them?

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:08:04 +0000

I’m a lab cache owner but I don’t know how to access the logs. Is it possible and can you tell me how. Also the lac cache does not show up in the stats of owned caches. Can that be fixed?

How can I list every cache that I’ve found in a specific country?

Sun, 29 Dec 2019 21:29:10 +0000

Is there a way to list every cache that I have found in another specific country? I know that there is a list of total numbers found under the maps but can’t find a way to list all the caches that I’ve found.

I’m particularly interested in finding out how many different cache types that I’ve found. I know there is a challenge cache checker for multiple countries x 8 types but I can’t find a way to list all types or caches in every country once you achieve the challenge.

Thanks in advance

Log length displaying as 0 for some logs

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 18:39:42 +0000

I'm aware the word count might differ depending on the counting method used, but PGC displays this log as my shortest log as having 0 words which is clearly wrong. For me this is the only log with this issue, but I wonder what causes it and whether there are other cachers whose stats may actually be affected by this.

thousand of false log

Sat, 17 Aug 2019 07:55:04 +0000

Why when you denounce a geocacher for logging thousands of caches falsely is not monitored and void the account?

List logs of a geocache with an icon showing if the user left a favorite point

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:04:35 +0000

I would love to watch the logs of geocaches with Icons showing

if the user left a favorite point and

if the user is currently a gc.com premium user.

It is currently possible to see the premium status directly next to the logs on gc.com-cachelistings but if I like to know who gave a favorite point there are only long, unsorted lists (hidden at "View Who Favorited"). Is is possible to implement such better log-lists on project-gc?

Deleting TB Rescue logs

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:46:35 +0000

Is there a function to delete any logs posted on TB Rescue by users (not owners)? My server timed out and looped 10 logs on one TB mission, wheep!

When a mission is taken down, where do my logs go if I want to delete them, they still show in the user graph in statistics.

Filter or notification for "Needs archived" (NA) logs

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 05:36:28 +0000

Is there the possibility to get information, which caches in a given area have recently been logged as "Needs Archived"?

What are your thoughts on new GS features?

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 04:53:14 +0000

GS is beta testing new features on e-logs in Canada and Norway. They've implemented a log file sort order by newest, oldest and best story. Also, there are options in the logs to select as Helpful or Great Story.

Have notification for edited logs on own caches stopped working?

Sun, 30 Sep 2018 17:48:52 +0000

I have up until recently received notifications from pgc on edited logs on my own caches very nicely. But now this function seems to have stopped. Last notification was on 16th of september. Anyone else experience the same scenario?

And, Yes, I know there are edited logs after that, I am still a paying member (membership payed until 2022) and I have checked that notification for edited logs still is ticked under my settings on project-gc.

Tampermonkey Extension - Found logs per country according to Project-GC.com

Sun, 10 Sep 2017 09:16:04 +0000

Hello, Project-gc.com Tampermonkey extension is very useful on cache page. Especially Found logs per country according to Project-GC.com - the country flags with number of cache loggers per country, shown above cache page logbook.

It would be great and useful, if the flag would be clickable - filtering logs from particular country.

Finding own logs

Fri, 14 Apr 2017 18:12:20 +0000

Hello guys :o)

I habe a somewhat weird question (as usual) ;o)
I want to make a fotoblog about my geocaching adventures and want , among other infos, add my own log to each found cache page.
What I wonder now is, does anyone of you know, if there probably a GSAK macro exists, which can find your log. I am asking, because batchgen can find your log and count the words. so i wonder, if it possible, what i am searching.
Thanks in advance for your help and infos

Wottles
P.S: I hope that was understandable, my English is pretty lousy ;o)

Edited Logs Notifier - include genuine log

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:26:33 +0000

I'm appreciating and gladly using all of the PGC features, especially since I've turned paying member few years ago. You are getting closer to the perfection.

My concern at this moment are the logs edited on the geocaches I own. Even though there are not really much of them. Do not considere this any request, please. Rather a pure question.

Would it be technically possible to include the genuine logs in the emails sent by the "Edited logs notification"?

Well, I know, I can compare the new, edited log with the genuine one, saved in my mailbox. Still it would spare my time, if I saw both in one email and so I could get the info immediately and get the clue, what and why has it been changed. Especially if it happens with few years' old logs.

I found one older related question: http://project-gc.com/qa/?qa=152/why-doesnt-edited-log-notification-show-original-log&show=152#q152, but this one was asked and answered in September 2014. And really much has changed on GC and PGC sites since then.

Thanks.

Groundspeak denies multiple FI logs

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 06:47:10 +0000

Maybe you catched new change of rules (valid from 8th May 2017)

Cache owners will no longer be able to log a Find, DNF, Webcam Photo Taken, Needs Archived, or Needs Maintenance on their owned caches. However, event owners can log an Attended or Will Attend on their own events.
Players will no longer be able to log more than 1 (one) Find, Attended, Webcam Photo Taken, or Will Attend per cache. Players will still be able to change a Write Note to a Find if they have not already logged a Find on the cache.

These changes are not retroactive. Past logs are not affected.

So until that date we can clean logs with perfect tool Find Bad Logs from Project-GC and then will be everything watched by Groundspek directliy (finaly).

Did PGC stop this tool or it still remains in menu ?

A bigger "who favours who" tool/section?

Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:30:00 +0000

Sometimes, I read a username in found logs, logbooks or will attend logs, maybe even in a listing as the cache owner or a name tag during an event and I am wondering, if I already had contact with them, when the username seems familiar.

What I think would be useful is an extended tool in the manner of the "who favourites who" tool. "Who logged whose caches" maybe. I want to enter two usernames and get a result which shows me, who logged which caches of the other (or maybe dnf'ed too) and vice versa.

If this is generally possible consider this a feature request. If there is a way to do this already (without GSAK) I would like to know how. :-)

Listing generator

Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:42:00 +0000

I found a generator listing here. Anyone have more tips for generators? Thank you.

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Friends - Activity Monitoring

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 14:39:52 +0000

[ENGLISH]

Hello,

There is already functionality to add friends on PGC.
But a feature that is reported for a long time never happened: the GC activity of our friends.

It would be interesting to create a "Live Feed" sorted by date would be listed the various activities of our friends: published new cache, cache disabled / archived, logs found-it / dnf / note, owner maintenance, etc.

One can imagine it this way:

[09/07/2016] <FRIEND01> has found the cache <cacheName>
[LOG + PICTURE]
[09/07/2016] <FRIEND02> has not found the cache <cacheName>
[LOG + PICTURE]
[09/06/2016] <FRIEND01> has published the cache <cacheName>
[LOG + PICTURE]
[09/04/2016] <FRIEND03> has found the cache <cacheName>
[LOG + PICTURE]

This is a feature I've been waiting and it would track our friends, encourage new addicts, and read the fine logs some still do.

Thanks :-)

[FRANCAIS]

Bonjour,

Il existe déjà la fonctionnalité pour ajouter des amis sur PGC.
Mais une fonctionnalité qui est signalée depuis longtemps n'est jamais arrivée : l'activité GC de nos amis.

Il serait intéressant de créer une page "Live Feed" triée par date où serait listées les différentes activités de nos amis : nouvelle cache publiée, cache désactivée/archivée, logs found-it/dnf/note, logs maintenance, etc.

On peut imaginer cela de cette façon :

[07/09/2016] <AMI01> a trouvé la cache <CACHENAME>
[LOG + PHOTO]
[07/09/2016] <AMI02> n'a pas trouvé la cache <CACHENAME>
[LOG + PHOTO]
[06/09/2016] <AMI01> a publié la cache <CACHENAME>
[LOG + PHOTO]
[04/09/2016] <AMI03> a trouvé la cache <CACHENAME>
[LOG + PHOTO]

C'est une fonctionnalité que j'attends depuis longtemps et ça permettrait de suivre nos amis, encourager les nouveaux accros, et lire les beaux logs que certains font toujours.

Merci :-)

Other logs' statistics ?

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 06:52:35 +0000

Hi,

I know that the most important logs are the "Found it" ones but I think the other ones are also important in the game. The DNF mean the cache is difficult or it may have disappear, the "need maintenance" and the "write note" help the CO, the "maintenance done" are an important info on the CO...

What about a way to count them? We can imagine that the percentage of DNF in the total logs quantity can be calculate and comparate with the percentage of the other geocachers.

I think this statistic could be interesting

Add average log length to statistic

Sat, 18 Jun 2016 04:42:54 +0000

I know, that the average log lenght can be seen in the profile stats.

But i would like to have this as a part of the statistic section (like "Top finders, Top FTF etc...) of PGC, if possible.

Adding pictures to log.

Tue, 17 May 2016 10:03:40 +0000

Is there any tool on PGC or else that allow to add pictures to logs more than one in a time? Adding pictures is so boring thing in standard way on www.geocaching.com...

The minimum log length statistics is very wrong. Why?

Tue, 17 May 2016 09:52:52 +0000

The log listed as the shortest one with only four words is actually on of my longest logs with hundreds of words and many images. Why?

The log: http://coord.info/GLMZ8KTD (on GCM00X)

The stats: Longest: GC2FY5W 478, Shortest: GCM00X 4

The computer is confused, isn't it?

Feature request: Average log length for each owned cache

Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:11:38 +0000

Would it be possible to calculate the average log length for all owned caches individually? Currently only the average/maximum for all caches is given. Giving separate averages would give an indication of how interesting a cache is, since a more challenging cache is likely to elicit a longer log than a quick find. It would also be interesting to see if there's a correlation between log length and FP percentage.

Semi-automated notification of duplicate log entries

Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:46:29 +0000

Hello!

I have a lot of duplicate log entries for my own geocaches. That is mostly due to the location where they are hidden. Mobile data connectivity is rather bad in some places in the Austrian alps. ;-)

Now - usually I write to the finder and ask him to remove one of the duplicate log entries, but now there are so many bad logs that I rather ask you for a semi-automated notification system. I rather spend my time creating new creative geocaches than contacting all finders who produced duplicates.

What I have in mind is a button on the "Find Bad Logs" page which (when clicked) sends a message to all finders who produces duplicate log entries. The message text should be customizable by the owner and should contain the GC-code of the cache affected in the subject and/or body of the message.

What do you think about this idea?

Kind regards,
Christian

Feature request: Tool for listing short logs

Fri, 08 Apr 2016 10:02:34 +0000

I'm currently trying to retrospectively improve some of my early short logs (e.g. "TFTC", "nice cache", that sort of thing). The only way I can do this at present is to get the shortest log from my profile stat, update the log, refresh the log in self-support and wait 24 hours to see what the next shortest log comes out as.

Would it be possible to add a tool listing all logs by a user less than (say) 10 words?

Add Notifier for Challenge logs

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:54:16 +0000

I'd love a (paying members only?) notifier option for Challenge logs.

When a cacher logs a Challenge cache as Found It (or changes an existing log to Found It), and the Challenge cache has a checker, the CO would get an email with the result of the checker for that cacher.

This should be limited to Challenge CO's that have a Project-GC account.

It would make log validation for my Challenges a lot easier.

"Thank's for the cache" in other languages

Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:10:43 +0000

Hi,

when travelling I would like to write "Thank's for the cache" in the language of the country in which the cache is hidden. Therefore I would like to collect this phrase in many different languages. So I would be happy, if people from countries all over the world could post this phrase in their own language.

Thanks in advance!

Log similarity in Stat compare?

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:16:21 +0000

I like the new statistic item "Log similarity", because it tells you more about the quality of the logs than the log length. Would it be possible to integrate the log similarity also in the stat compare? And it also would be interesting to have a top list for log similarity...

edited logs shows all logs on my caches

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:56:23 +0000

I've noticed lately that I get "edited log"-emails for logs which have just been posted, and which does not include the usual edit text in the log. This includes the attended-log I made on my own event, which I know I did not edit.

Thanks for a great site!

/Johan

Logs / FP heat map

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:45:36 +0000

I propose a Logs / FP heat map.

Wouldn't it be intersting to see a visual representation of the number of logs / FP in a specified area?

Let's define an area by center/radius and then instead of displaying the cache icons draw a coloured circle where the size of the circle corresponds to the number of Logs and the colour to FP the caches have received.

So a big circle means lots of log entries, a blue colour means very little FP, green means medium FP and red colour means lots of FP.

Logs per area

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:35:16 +0000

We already have

Caches per area
FP per area

Now I would like to see

Logs per area

Would be interesting to see stats on how many log entries have been written in a "center/radius" area.

Firefox plugin to show friends logs in geocache view.

Sun, 22 Nov 2015 11:11:41 +0000

Hi!

Is it possible to improve firefox plugin to show if any in my friendlist has logged a geocache in the geocache view? And give possibility to view friends logs easy without searching for them?

Best regards,

D/T

Daniel Takayama

(Or maybe this allready is possible, but I can't find it.)

The bad log tool shows a log in my caches as duplicate but when i look at the log on Geocache there is no duplicate?

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:55:08 +0000

he bad log tool shows a log in my caches as duplicate but when i look at the log on Geocache there is no duplicate?

find bad logs

Tue, 11 Aug 2015 16:34:07 +0000

I used the feature "find bad logs" and deleted my entries of two caches which are now "archived". However there is still one cache which appears in "my bad logs", although i deleted my second log. That was some weeks ago. What's the problem there? Thanks for your help and greetings from Austria!

View logs over time in certain area

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:32:49 +0000

It would be really nice if you could implement a stats page that shows how many logs are received for all caches in a defined geographc area over time.

In that way you can easilly tell the "caching temperature" of a city or region.

Would it be possible to search for a geocacher-name in another cachers logs?

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:07:13 +0000

We are a small group who often caches together. Whenever I cache with the others, I always mention them in my log. And I always log quite quickly - otherwise my OCD starts complaining :-)

However, the others do not necessarily log as quickly as me and are now worried that they have forgotten to log some caches in the past (which I believe they have :-) )

Is it somehow possible to search through my logs to find all the places where I have mentioned another cachers name?

This would give them a sort of "You may have forgotten to log this cache"-functionality?

Statistics for most founds per day and most favorite points per day

Sun, 05 Jul 2015 19:46:17 +0000

1. Query for most founds per day

To find most popular caches this one is different from "most logged caches" because there is maybe a ten year old cache with 2000 Founds and a two year old cache with 1500 Founds. The later one is far more popular.

2. Query for most favorite points per day?

This query differs from Favorite Points percentage because of the same reason. Or is the age of a cache included in the wilson formula?

Notifier for pictures in logs

Sat, 30 May 2015 23:11:32 +0000

You offer already notifiers for edited logs and for FPs, which I both find very handy.

Is it also possible to get notified if someone adds pictures to a log (for a cache that I have hidden)? That would be very interesting!

Is there a way how to get all my cache logs during time?

Sat, 23 May 2015 18:39:31 +0000

It can be called GC diary? Or personal GC blog for more chatty cachers?

Is there an idea to generate a similar function like "dicover trackables" when "visiting with my trackables"?

Wed, 20 May 2015 12:27:11 +0000

Often I am visiting certain caches with all my geocoins (~20) and afterwards have the problem to write a lot of logs. I know that project-GC has a function for discovering multiple trackables (for example when visiting an event). Is it possible to change this function so that it can be used when visiting a cache with multiple trackables?

Logs received over time FOR CACHES

Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:07:48 +0000

Hi!

It's me again. :-)

This time I would like to suggest a feature which already exists for owners. It is that "Logs received over time" feature.

I miss this feature for caches. I would like to see a histogram of logs on a per cache basis.

Use Case:

I am interested in the performance of caches. I want to know, when people found a cache over its lifetime and compare that to other caches.

It's rather similar to the owner based "Logs received over time", but here we can see, how logs accumulated over time and see when there were lots of people visiting a cache and when interest in a cache increased or decreased.

Thanks,
Christian

[RFE] Time of founds in statistics

Sun, 11 Jan 2015 19:32:16 +0000

During discussion with friend I realized that I used to have time of founds histogram in statistics, when I used to generate my statistics using GeoGet.

I know that there is a problem, that not everybody is putting found time in log, but even if I don't have it in all the caches, I am holding the custom putting the time into log, so parsing timestamp should be quite easy. Also generating one more histogram in stats. And since not everybody has this times, it could be hidden as default or so ...

As I browse now through the statistics, there are also some tables Times X Days in week which looks nice, but for the start it would be enough to have just histogram for each hour number of caches.

Geocachere with most caches taken in a calendar year

Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:47:48 +0000

Tab statistics can select "Geocachers with most caches taken in a calendar year". But my number of found cache does not match with it as it says that I have found in 2014 in the Geocaching.com (Geocaching.com = 703 and Project-GC = 688)
Why is this distinction?

Feature Rquest: Facebook look-a-like screen with logs of Friends in time sequense

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:57:42 +0000

What would it be nice to have a screen (format someting as the Facebook startpage) showing all de logs of my Friends (ref http://www.geocaching.com/my/myfriends.aspx) in time-chronological order.

What woudl it be nice if I would receive also an email (optional) if a new log of my friends is published.