Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged owner

Challenge owner dashboard

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:49:43 +0000

Hi,

I thought he PGC browser plugin would warn me when someone logged one of my challenges and I visited the page.

Another cacher warned me that someone who did not fullfill the requirements to log my challenges did log them.

Is there a easy way like with the cache owner dashboard on GC.com to get a overview of challenge caches I own and people who might not fullfill the requirements?

custom filter ignores owners

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:23:44 +0000

hello together
for the custom filters i would like to create one that excludes certain owners (i.e. myself).
I managed to search for me as an owner, but I couldn't make an "ignore" out of it.
Can anyone help me?

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!

Feature request - extremities of hidden caches

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 06:57:36 +0000

Would it be possible to add extremities (most northerly, southerly, highest, lowest, etc.) of my hidden caches/events to the hides tab in the same way that it's done in the finds tab please?

Feature Request: I like to receive notifications of new caches placed by selected owners.

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:03:58 +0000

I regularly find great caches of creative owners outside of my homezone. But then I often don't notice when they create new caches later. I'd like to be notified of new caches from these previously selected owners.

Is there a wildcard search feature for usernames?

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:47:55 +0000

For example, I'm wanting to find geocaches owned by CO's with usernames beginning with the number 5.

New edit Look for Cache details

Wed, 06 Dec 2017 23:01:42 +0000

Was denkst du über das neue aussehen (und Funktionen) der Bearbeitungsseite für Caches?

What do you think about the new look (and functions) of the editing page for caches?

Challenge checker for cache owners

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:39:52 +0000

I am a cache owner of a couple of challenge caches¹. When you are a cache owner of challenge caches there are two possible tactics when dealing with people logging your caches:

Manually check and enforce that people logging the cache as found actually qualify to do so AND have adequately documented that they qualify to do so in their log.
Don't give a damn. Let whoever log whatever.

Anything in between will be unfair to those who actually does sit down and reads the logging requirements and follow them.

What I am proposing is that since there is a challenge checker system aimed at challenge cache owners that will monitor whether those who log challenge caches as found actually qualify and has documented this as is specified in the cache description. The service would identify violating logs and notify the cache owner who can then take action on bad logs.

As far as I can tell, Project GC already monitors new logs submitted and tries to monitor log edits. It should thus have the "toolbox" available to implement such a feature. I wouldn't mind it being a paying members only feature that you would have to activate first.

A good case study of this would be https://coord.info/GC48QDA .

I know that that particular kind of challenge cache has been grandfathered now but it illustrates my point. Many people has not read the ALR properly and being a cache owner on such caches can be tedious work. I would write the scripts to do so myself but I lack the API access to do so.

Any thoughts on this? I know that it is a narrow use case in terms of audience but useful none the less :)

1) There is a list here: https://coord.info/BM2MKFM

Count of cache owners caches found

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:46:47 +0000

Is there somewhere in the stats you can see how many different cache owners you have found caches from. The main stats Find By Owner section lists the top cache counts by CO but doesn't include info on how many COs you've found caches of.

If this info doesn't exist could I request it is added please. Possibly along with a new stat in the main body along the lines of Karma - unique visitors finding your hides vs unique COs you've found caches of.

We need this dead link checker, especially when Dropbox' public folder is shut down.

Sat, 04 Mar 2017 10:44:53 +0000

This would be very useful. And should include both links and image urls. The Dropbox Public folder will change in 2017 and I guess that will make a lot of cache descriptions broken. https://www.dropbox.com/help/16

What about a Wilson score for owner stats?

Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:08:42 +0000

Well we already have the Wilson score for caches and this works great! For owners we have several lists but it would be an interesting list to see owners sorted by Wilson score!

The Wilson algorithm (for caches) is using percentage (as a quality indicator) and number of favorite points and both indicators are available for owners too so probably an owner Wilson list could be easy to be implemented?

For me I'm always looking for interesting areas for holiday spots. Of course the Wilson lists for caches is a great help but it would also be interesting if an owner is working in such an area with providing highly rated caches.

The cache list will show me the "must see hides" but of course I'm spontaneously searching for other caches in the holiday area too and being on a trip at site, just checking the live map and must decide between two tradi caches with both 20 fps it could be a helpful information if I remember that one of the two owners has a good Wilson score (which I would have checked in preparation of the stay)?

Sometimes there are owners with powertrails or many "standard" caches earning lots of fps and others having just a few caches but with high percentage so the owner by fp list isn't helpful in that case...

FTF'ers of my caches

Mon, 30 May 2016 07:53:57 +0000

Could there be a feature made where it shows who FTF's caches by a specific owner. Like the 'Finders of My Caches' in profile stats, but for FTF's

Why are adopted Caches are Not counted in the Hide Statistik?

Mon, 11 Apr 2016 20:34:26 +0000

I adopted a Cache but after statistic update - i can't find it in my Cache hide statistic.

Or is that only for Caches that I personell placed?

map caches by owner?

Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:34:14 +0000

Is there a way to map the caches of a specified owner? Will need to include standard sub icons (found, not found, solved challenge, etc), and the list below to add to VGPS.

If not, how about adding a field to custom queries to select one (or more) cache owners?

Thanks!

I want to map all caches hidden by a particular cacher

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:40:09 +0000

I know I've done this before but I can't remember how it's done. I want to create a map of all caches hidden by a particular cacher, but active caches and archived caches. How do I do this?

Owner name filter like cache name filter

Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:36:20 +0000

Hi,

it would be great to have the same filter for cache owner names. just like the one for cache names.

Options for "starting with" and "ends with". I know I can set up a personal filter for complete owner names, but I would need one for "starting with".

greetings

andre0707

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)".

Add an owner specific public notification?

Sat, 17 Oct 2015 20:09:12 +0000

Today I thought about a "Publish notifier" for specific owners as a nice to have feature.

Why? There are some owners who only place very nice caches. Not all of them are in my homezone but definitely worth visiting, so it would be nice if I could get an Email whenever they publish a new cache. (Also an Email once a week would be enough)

Is there a way to filter/find caches only from one particular owner?

Tue, 26 May 2015 13:06:20 +0000

If not would it be possible to add this feature? :) Thanks!

challenge-checker opt-out for cache owners?

Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:14:01 +0000

I am the owner of a couple of challenge caches in Aarhus, Denmark. They can be found in this list:

http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=a1f400b3-1371-4961-a198-c84c89c9bc05

The concept is that you can choose to spend some time mapping your finds into which "card" you can potentially hold, and then use those cards to form poker hands. If you have the cards in your hand to form a given poker hand, you qualify to log the corresponding cache. A neat little puzzle, that for most people (1000+ caches found) won't take more than an hour or two to complete - not much work for 9 caches.

My question is then this: Is it possible for me as a cache owner to "opt out" of the challenge checker program? The difficulty ratings of these caches are based on people doing the work themselves. It would not be fair to those who have already logged the series to "downgrade" the difficulty rating of them if a challenge checker should arrive, thereby drastically reducing the difficulty.

I know that many other person-to-cache relations in Project GC are implemented through bookmark lists on geocaching.com. I am asking for the possibility as a cache owner to make a list for those caches that I would like to "opt-out" of the challenge checking program and then having it linked into project GC, much in the same way as f.ex. the FTF-list works.

Thanks for a great feature - with the hope that it can be even better by aligning the intent of challenge cache owners with the functionality of the site.

/Funky_Boris

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!

Set max logs for owner maintenance

Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:11:55 +0000

Hi all,

it would be nice, to be able to define a number of logs for own geocaches. After these logs a owner has to change the logbook. I have caches were 30 geocache can sign the logbook, some where 60, some with 150 logs and some were 500 geocacher can sign.
It is very hard for me to know when i have to place a new logbook.

Greets
Christian

Which owners are active in location XY?

Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:21:50 +0000

Is there a way to find out, which owners are active in a specified region?

I would like to get a list of all owners who have placed (still active) caches at location XY with radius of Z km around the center.

Is that possible with current features? If not that would be a very neat feature.

Christian

Add cache owner to standard filters

Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:11:07 +0000

It would be useful to add Cache Owner to standard filters of Find Stats.

(Currently we have Cache Type / Size / Diff / Terr, From-To Log Date and Bookmark list.)

multiple event owners

Thu, 27 Nov 2014 20:32:19 +0000

Hi,

I was wondering if there could be any option available in order to get the amount of events one helped organzing correct ? I know the badges (badgegen) consult the gc.com site in order to know whether you actually did organize an event or not, but it never can take into account an event hosted by more than one nickname.

A "correction" parameter could solve this ?

Thanks for considering or pointing me any other solution out

Kindest

Pictures in received logs

Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:31:26 +0000

Hello,

As the owner, I have all received mail logs.

But sometimes finders add images. And I never notice for this.

Is it possible to add on Project-GC a page which display all the photos added in the logs received on our caches?

Thank you !