Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged map

Map counties shows counties as unfound while I do have founds in that county. How come?

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:22:00 +0000

Diekirch shows 0 founds.

But I do actually have found some caches in Diekirch, back in 2023.

And that is not the onliest county in Luxemburg that shows up as unfound, but I actually have found some.

Anybody an idea how come?

Thanks

Frank

Tampermonkey Script: Add to VGPS from GC-Map

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:40:44 +0000

I am pretty sure that it once worked, so perhaps it's just an option to change.

It seems like adding a cache to the VGPS from the popup that appears when clicking on a cache, is no more possible. Am I the only one, or was this feature cancelled?

Challenge Checker Map - Fulfilled ?

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:37:00 +0000

I noticed that the challenge checker map is not determining fulfilled or unfulfilled challenges for me. The icon displayed for all the caches is a blue ?. The only caches showing with a green check are ones that I have previously added a personal cache note.

My map challenge cache options are US / Florida with all D/T and no name filter entered. The Exclude has Disabled, Archived & Not Fulfilled checked. Show option is set to Show All.

This has worked in the past, though I'm not sure the last time I ran it. I have been premium for many years and looking in a US state (FL) that I am very active in.

Is there an issue? User error?

Missing geocaches on map

Thu, 09 May 2024 09:03:36 +0000

I have some caches (on the order of between 2000 - 3500) stored in several Virtual GPS. However, when I use the show on map function, not all caches are shown in this map - although they are obviously in the list.
Likewise, I have a long-standing problem with the Live Map, which does not load any caches at all and displays an error message Error! Failed to retrieve data, reload page to try again.

Has anyone encountered this behaviour? How to solve it?

Map counties with less than x finds?

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 09:22:18 +0000

Many challenges requires for example 5 finds in 100 counties.

Can I map counties with less than x finds?

map counties

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 08:23:46 +0000

I would like to see the amount of Traditionals in each county.

In Tools, Map Counties there is an option 'Add filter'. If I add the filter 'Cache type / size' and choose 'Traitional', the result does not change: When I click on an individual county, I see the amount of all founds in that county. I would like to see the amount of traditionals. What do i do wrong?

Add more granular boundary regions in the Singapore map

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:29:26 +0000

Currently the Singapore map only supports very coarse grained regions. There are only five regions. It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/HXxUG4K.png

Singapore can be further subdivided into what the government calls Planning Areas, though colloquially it's more commonly referred to as districts or neighbourhoods.

Here's the wikipedia page for Singapores administrative divisions, showing the hierarchy of Regions > Planning Areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Singapore#Other_administrative_subdivisions

Here's the wikipedia page for our Planning Areas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_Areas_of_Singapore

Our government provides boundary data for Planning Areas here, in GeoJSON and KML formats: https://beta.data.gov.sg/collections/2104/view

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I've built a small tool to visualize my cache finds on a map subdivided by these Planning Areas. It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/6DFHc1m.png

While it's already useful for me, it'd be nice if a map like this was readily available to other Singaporeans using project-gc. Ideally we'd be able to toggle between subdivisions by region, and by planning areas. Similar to how the US map can be toggled between subdivisions by state and counties.

Finally, if this suggestion is implemented, might I suggest that the map be named "Districts" instead of "Planning Areas"? While the latter is the formal term used by our government, the former is how the locals typically refer to these subdivisions.

I would like a "Map Countries" feature

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 08:59:49 +0000

I really like the existing tools "Map Regions" and "Map Counties" in the tools menu. But I would much more love to use a "Map Countries" tool where I can explore which Countries in the world or on a continent I already cached in and which are still waiting to be visited.

I know there is a text-lists of all the used countries in the FAQ area at https://project-gc.com/Home/FAQ#3743016681 but It's not very pleasant to keep comparing lists of plain texts: I like to see the results in a map, zoom in on the map to small Counties, use filters for different cache types or terrain ratings and so on! I like to watch the red/green-marked map to find exclaves, identify small islands next to other countries or streets with border crossings for an easy visit when I am traveling. I also like to see a list under the continent-map where I can see how many caches I have logged in which country - and to which small ones I should zoom in on the map because they have still 0 logs.

All that is working for Regions and Counties and I would like it also for Countries. Please consider implementing this feature.

Map Regions don't work

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 11:59:03 +0000

Map Regions don't work, it's showing no found's in any regions. But in my Profile stats is showing. I have tried different countries.

Feature Request: Map that shows all caches without “Found” logs.

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 07:40:24 +0000

Idea: A map tool that shows all caches that do not yet have a “Found” log. This would be useful for trying to get FTFs

Map of Challenge Checkers hanging in some cases when requesting all of United States

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 20:34:34 +0000

Hi, I travel lots and have for a number of years kept track of essentially all challenges in the U.S. Every 6 months or so would use the Map of Challenge Checkers to download GPX files of 1) caches without checkers, 2) caches with checkers where we fulfill the requirements, 3) caches with checkers where we do NOT fulfill the requirements, and 4) caches with checkers where the map is not sure one way or another (exclude is checked for both fulfilled and not fulfilled). Today, I have been able to run 1) and 4), but whenever I try to run 2) or 3), the server just hangs with a blank screen. I have attempted this on Windows, MacOS, and Android devices, with various browsers. Once I received a 500 error from the server, but every other time, the screen just hangs.

Does this reflect a issue with the server, and if so, where is the best way to report what could be a real time server issue? Or, possibly, does this reflect a new capacity limitation on the number of challenges that can be mapped? In the past, I have done exactly what I am trying today, and there is no error message, so it seems more likely to be some server issue? Any info would be appreciated

view FTF in map?

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 11:44:00 +0000

With BadgeGen you can see in which countries you've found an FTF. But is there a way to see this on a map as well, on country, region and/or county scale?

D/T rating on cache markers on map

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 07:48:09 +0000

c:geo has a very nice feature where it can show D/T rating indicator on caches on the map. This makes it easy to get an overview of caches in an area without having to individually view them.

I'd like to see a similar feature in PGCs maps where an (optional?) D/T marking is applied to icons on the map.

Using Map of challenge caches with mobile?

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 18:37:36 +0000

Does anyone know is there anyway to use "Map of challenge caches" with a mobile phone (or tablet)? Of course, the map itself can be loaded, but selecting a set of caches (or all caches) from map and getting them to virtual GPS seems impossible as I can't figure a way to "draw" the line around the caches (ie. mouse click and drag).

County Map with D/T Filter show not the correct subset

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:04:00 +0000

Hi,

I have the impression that the filter of county map are not applied correctly.

please compare the result of the checker (200 counties)

https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCA0QC8/71991

vs. the County map which show all counties as valid with the filter T5 only ...

https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapCounties?profile_name=AR-Team&country=Germany&difficulty%5B%5D=1.0&difficulty%5B%5D=1.5&difficulty%5B%5D=2.0&difficulty%5B%5D=2.5&difficulty%5B%5D=3.0&difficulty%5B%5D=3.5&difficulty%5B%5D=4.0&difficulty%5B%5D=4.5&difficulty%5B%5D=5.0&terrain%5B%5D=5.0&submit=Filter

also ichange for another filter like only Large looks also odd.

https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapCounties?profile_name=AR-Team&country=Germany&type%5B%5D=Cache+In+Trash+Out+Event&type%5B%5D=Earthcache&type%5B%5D=Event+Cache&type%5B%5D=GPS+Adventures+Exhibit&type%5B%5D=Giga-Event+Cache&type%5B%5D=Groundspeak+Block+Party&type%5B%5D=Groundspeak+HQ&type%5B%5D=Groundspeak+Lost+and+Found+Celebration&type%5B%5D=Letterbox+Hybrid&type%5B%5D=Locationless+%28Reverse%29+Cache&type%5B%5D=Lost+and+Found+Event+Cache&type%5B%5D=Mega-Event+Cache&type%5B%5D=Multi-cache&type%5B%5D=Project+APE+Cache&type%5B%5D=Traditional+Cache&type%5B%5D=Unknown+Cache&type%5B%5D=Virtual+Cache&type%5B%5D=Webcam+Cache&type%5B%5D=Wherigo+Cache&size%5B%5D=Large&submit=Filter

Thanks in advance for checking this

I cannot sort the types of caches in Map Regions

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 17:24:10 +0000

I cannot sort the types of caches in Map Regions, e.g. I wanted to check regions of my country where I haven't attended the events and the map shows me all 10 regions, but I know I have only 4. Same with other cache types. Is it a bug?

Map for Fiji displays whole world

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 12:02:09 +0000

In ProfileStats, the map generated for Fiji looks a bit useless... I guess they straddle the 180° line, can the map boundaries be wrapped around that line so that only relevant territory is shown?

See https://project-gc.com/dimages/ps_map2.php?mapHash=2c874238475b07802260203fcdc88142d8fc2921

State location discrepancy

Sun, 20 Feb 2022 01:57:14 +0000

Cache GC2DF0G listed on geocaching.com as being in Alabama but in Georgia on project-gc.com. Stats don’t match.

Wrong counties in Latvia

Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:47:21 +0000

After administrative reform in 1 July 2021, boundaries of counties have changed. Project-GC is still using the old list of counties.

I thought that OSM map is the issue, but no - OSM map is updated according to the new administrative division.

Who should be informed about this or can I help on this issue myself?

missing / wrong lake boundaries in maps

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 06:47:20 +0000

It seems that during one of the last map updates a small error has crept in. In the map of Switzerland, only the border is visible for part of Lake Zurich, but the blue fill has been lost .
I am also surprised that some partly large lakes in Switzerland are not shown. What is the selection criterion for the lake areas, their size or a special OSM type? Compared to Poland, where some small lakes are visualized, several important lakes are missing in Switzerland.

Is Map Compare broken?

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:57:32 +0000

I'm trying to do a (simple) Map Compare between a friend and me.

But the map doesn't even show up -- only an empty rectangle. With 0 caches.

Is this feature broken?

Can I see complete lists of counties in a country and of those counties in which I have found caches?

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 15:33:47 +0000

Tools/Map of challenge caches doesn't seem to work properly

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 07:06:44 +0000

When I select Country & Region, Exclude Archived & Not fullfilled, and Show all, I used to get a map showing all the challenges I fullfilled. Now it seems as if only those with a personal cache note show up on the map which means that I miss information about quite a few.

An option to not heatmap on the maps tab?

Thu, 27 May 2021 12:23:22 +0000

I seem to be in the minority on this opinion but I can't stand the heat map on every map in the maps tab. The color isn't great but I can deal with that, mostly I just want to see a consistent color for the areas I've been to. I already know that I've found less caches in places I've only traveled through, I don't need a shading system to tell me that. Checking the maps after a trip used to be my favorite part of Project-GC but now I barely like it.

I looked around to see if I could turn it off but I don't think there's a way. It could be as simple as a checkbox in the settings, although I'm not a programmer so I don't know for sure how hard it would be to actually write out such a thing. I don't have a paid membership here as of now but I'd 100% pay up if it meant my maps were solid color again.

icons on the map of challenge caches remain blue, do I have to use all checkers 1 by 1 to change them to green or red ?

Sat, 22 May 2021 08:38:24 +0000

I just become premium PGC member, the icons on the map of challenge caches remain blue, do I have to use all checkers one by one to change them to green or red ?

Error in Counties in Wales and Scotland

Fri, 21 May 2021 12:56:17 +0000

Hope this hasn't already been raised, can't see anything about the UK here though there appears to be similar resolved issue with Germany. On the UK maps, going onto Regions: Southern Scotland gives me "7 of 0 counties logged" though the coloured sections on the map work, though the non-completed counties are grey not white. The Northern Scotland region is also wrong, as it displays 4 of 32, which is not the right number of counties, and the ones in Southern Scotland also show in white, not coloured in as would be correct. The same issue (with different numbers obviously) is also true with North Wales and South Wales (2 out of 0 in North Wales, 4 out of 22 in South Wales). Also, is there meant to be any logic to the order the regions, didn't they use to be in alphabetical order?

Number of counties in region selected in ProfileStats - Maps

Thu, 20 May 2021 08:44:13 +0000

First of all let me say thanks for the new maps, I really like the new design!

I think I found some minor problems:

1. When selecting one region of a county, the total number of counties is displayed under the map. For example: Looking at the map for Germany - Counties, the text 'x of 401 counties logged' is displayed correct. Then switching to the county 'Niedersachsen' the text still says 'x of 401 counties logged', but there are just 45 counties for Niedersachsen.

2. Looking at the county map for 'Niedersachsen' I wonderd about a white spot to the north-east. That should be 'Hamburg' and does not belong to 'Niedersachsen'.

I can add a screenshot with details if necessary

Faroe Island Map in profile stats

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:25:06 +0000

Looking at the map for the Faroe/Faroer islands in the map, there seems to be a weird second image of the map behind and to the right. The main one is colored white and green as expected. The other seems greyed out.

I wonder if the islands are also included in the map for some other country and both are shown. Perhaps the registrations is not good and they are over each other.

County info out of sync?

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:52:38 +0000

Something appears out of sync with my info or the underlying data for counties in Florida (US).

If I view the county map for Florida, it shows I haven't logged a find in Martin county. If I view Florida in the Map Counties tool, it shows green and 1 cache. My stats appear updated. It appears I do not have a cache in that county even though the Map Counties tool is indicating I did have a find.

Profile map of Florida counties:

Map Counties Tool view showing the county as having a find:

How replace in the map the cache-icon with its number of favorites?

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 23:41:05 +0000

Hi
I would like to draw the geocaching live map, seeing an icon with written the number of favorites of each cache, instead of the usual and generic icon related of the type of the cache.
It's possible to draw such a map?

Thanks

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

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

Cache Centroid Hyper Link to Map

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:03 +0000

Please consider adding a hyper link to the cache centroid coordinates, allowing members to see where it falls on a map.

Thank you.

FTF countries map

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:16:48 +0000

Unique FTFs location (Regions, Counties) visualize on the map.

Landkreise Schweiz Fusion

Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:04:00 +0000

Bei den Landkreisen zur schweiz ist mir aufgefallen im Kanton Graubünen st Mutten immer noch als eigene gemeinde enthalten aber wurde fusioniert.
Wo kann man solche fehler melden?

Sorting Order for Countries on Maps tab in Profile Stats

Wed, 22 May 2019 08:10:49 +0000

Currenlty it seems 'countries' in the Maps tab are sorted on most finds in a 'region', rather then on total finds per country ... It seems more logical to sort on total finds per country.

Example : I found 327 caches in Germany (from which 98 in region Rheinland-Pfalz) and I only found 188 caches in the UK (from which 187 were in the Sout East England region), so the UK is currently listed before Germany on this tab.

Can I create a map of all finds?

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 21:58:43 +0000

I'd like to generate a map of all finds. Is this possible?

Bug: Caribbean Countries do not have correct coloring

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:43:34 +0000

Hello,

I have discovered that some states are not properly colored in the countries. You can see it here:

or in my profile https://project-gc.com/ProfileStats/FerrariGirlNr1#Maps with Martinique and Guadeloupe.

The island should be initially white instead of grey and when I look on Martinique I think the state borders are also missing.

Greetings, Lisa

SwitchVirtual GPS list during planning in Live Map

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:41:39 +0000

When planning a tour in Live Map I often come to a situation where I would like to change the active Virtual GPS list without leaving the map. I found this good work-around with the following steps. 1.) work in Live Map with VGPS #1, then Change VGPS to #2 and then return to the previous live map settings by clicking Right in the Browsers Navigation menu. This brings you back to the same area where you were before switching the VGPS list. My Question is now: is this the only way or do there exists some or at least one better way to switch the VGPS list without leaving the Live Map??

Support shading for Cyprus on map of Europe

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 05:31:54 +0000

Since my posts in these two threads

https://project-gc.com/qa/?qa=16278/list-of-countries-in-each-continent&show=16278#q16278

and

https://project-gc.com/qa/?qa=17207/why-is-cyprus-not-included-on-the-europe-map&show=17207#q17207

it seems that Cyprus has been included on the project-GC map of Europe.

However, that map does not support shading yet. Cyprus is still greyed out, regardless if one has found caches there.

Not the highest priority item, but could you please add it to the queue?

Tb Rescue Map

Sat, 16 Feb 2019 19:58:26 +0000

Hello,

the TB Rescue Map is no longer displayed. At the place where the card is originally to be seen, I only have a grey box left.

The problem has been there for about a week now and I can't detect any changes by changing my browser.

I used the following options:

Windows 10 64bit

Firefox 65.0.1

MS Edge v. Unknown

Chrome 71.0.3578

I.OS Safari

Can anyone help?

Greetings blend _a_med

When planning a Mystery cache which coordinates are considered for the NESW map, posted (virtual) or physical (actual)?

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 14:17:51 +0000

I want to make one of my caches the "northernmost" cache in my county but my virtual pin is on the other side of the border. Will this cause the cache to not be recognized as such, because the virtual marker is in the next county? Or will it still recognize this to be in my county based on the final coordinates? I don't want to move the virtual marker if I can help it (posted coordinates) but if this makes all the difference, then I do.

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.

Project-GC maps, badge gen, souvenirs

Sat, 26 Jan 2019 21:41:01 +0000

Project-GC: When I click on maps, badge gen and souvenirs nothing happens. Before I could see in which parts of the country I found caches and I could see my souvenirs. What happened?.

Faeroer Islands are not colored

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:01:08 +0000

Hello,

it seems that the Faeroer Islands are not colored on the map of Europe (entire map of Europe), although you've found a (or more) cache(s) on this amazing islands. The country map of the Faeroer Islands is working perfectly. Thanks a lot for fixing this small issue.

Do you like the new Groundspeak map features?

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:28:48 +0000

I like the feature of adding all to a list.

More flags or coat of arms in stats (Region/County level)

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:49:49 +0000

Hi,

It would be really nice to have more flags/coat of arms in stats in similar way as national flags are in the world/continental map. At least for some countries I would love to have them on regional/county level.

Thank you very much

Akrotiri and Dhekelia are wrongly stated as part of Cyprus

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:29:53 +0000

Caches in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrotiri_and_Dhekelia) are wrongly stated as beeing in Cyprus, although they are British territories. Could it be corrected in Project-gc data? Following the case of other British overseas territories they should be displayed as a new state.

Thanks

Filter, settings and other tools are not useable at Firefox and Chrome

Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:53:29 +0000

Hello,

when I open the live map in Firefox (62.0.3) and Google Chrome (69.0.3497.100) the tools like filter, settings and the other are not working. At IE 10 they are working. I've disabled uBlock and Privacy Badger in Firefox, nothing changes. At Chrome I don't use add ons. My operating System is Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit with the build 1809.
I don't want to use the Internet Explorer because it's very slow.

Regards,
Ingo

create a list out of "open" caches when 360 degree challenge checker is used

Sun, 07 Oct 2018 09:56:34 +0000

When I use a 360 degree challenge checker and click on a red degree, I see the open caches for these part od the plan.

But than I have no chance to make a list out of that shown caches.

It take a lot of time to change the degrees, and to make a list of caches for the next tour would be easier to have the caches in a list.

Thanks

Missing region / county map not honouring filters

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 20:06:21 +0000

I am not sure this is a bug, but I also don't think I am doing this wrong:

I use the "Map - Region" or "Map - County" to find those we did not have find in yet or to see how many finds in each subdivision.

Seems to work.

I can add a filter "Type: only multi checked" and then have to set "Size: all 7 checked", which is easy to do.

The result however does not change. I would have expected to now only see Multichaches (and a lot more red and smaller numbers). The map and number breakdown does not change though.

Any idea?