Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged solved-mysteries

Feature request: DNF filter for solved mysteries

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:34:46 +0000

I have a number of Custom Filters, and most feature the statement that there must be at most 2 DNFs in the last 3 logs, especially those filters that handling archived caches - I very much enjoy hunting for archived caches :-)

But I find I cannot do this for solved mysteries. Custom Filters do not have an option to select for Has solved coordinates, and Solved Mysteries does not have a filter for strings of DNFs.

Could we please have Solved Mysteries either include an option to add Custom Filters, or include an option to include a DNF filter. Incidentally my filter is no more than two DNFs in the last three logs.

In the meantime I am importing the results to vGPS, sorting by logs and individually selecting and removing those with too many DNFs. A bit cludgy but it works.

Missing solved mysteries

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 02:50:33 +0000

In October I am going on a big geotrip, so I was refreshing my solved mysteries. I have found a group of 20 solved mysteries that do not show in the solved mysteries list. Now I am wondering what others are missing?

An example is GC6WZ6P.
It has S41 05.436 E175 14.781 Under rocks at the fixed end of the gate. as the cache note and it has these coordinates entered as corrected coordinates.

The cache note parser does not appear to handle this common form of expressing coordinates. I must have used this before, so I am fairly sure it used to work with these.

In the meantime I am converting the notes on these 20 caches to S 41° 05.436 E 175° 14.781 format, but I have about 500 solved mysteries - I would rather not have check them all!

Addendum: May be a bigger problem. All 20 show just off the coast of Africa in Map Compare, at N0 0.000 E0 0.000 I have used self support to refresh cache notes and individual caches, no change. - refresh cache notes was AFTER I changed cache note coordinates to S 41° 05.436 E 175° 14.781 format.

Looks like a bug in parsing corrected coordinates.

Solved puzzles ignoring corrected coords

Thu, 09 Jun 2016 23:49:16 +0000

I am calling this a bug, but it might be a feature request: On the solved puzzles page it states: If a cache has both corrected coordinates and a cache note with coordinates in it, the corrected coordinates will be used.

However if there is a cache note that has no coordinates, PGC ignores the corrected coordinates. Given that cache notes are the only way to retrieve caches that might have corrected coordinates, should they not be checked regardless, rather than only if coordinates exist in the notes? Has something failed here?

Archived caches showing in Solved Puzzles

Tue, 24 May 2016 00:45:13 +0000

I am still getting archived caches returned in Profile > Solved Puzzles, even though I have removed the cache note and removed any updated coordinates months ago. I guess the problem here is that PGC can get caches that have cache notes but is not removing items previously grabbed that no longer have them. Alternatively, filtering out archived caches would also be a good, although not complete solution, as non-archived caches can also have their cache note and updated coords removed, so also should not be returned.

Run this for "the Seagnoid":
http://project-gc.com/Profile/SolvedMysteries?country=New+Zealand&requirecorrected=on&submit=Filter There are about 8 archived caches returned. All have had their cache notes/corrected coords deleted months ago.

Not urgent - finding and deleting the archived caches in vGPS is easy. Just annoying.

Caches with uncorrected coordinates?

Mon, 09 May 2016 17:56:06 +0000

There are over a thousand caches in a town near me, that are still mostly not found, and I am starting to have trouble finding which puzzle caches I have yet to find solutions for.

Is there a map anywhere that can show unknown caches but exclude those with corrected coordinates? The inverse of the Solved Puzzles page would be ideal. If not available it would be nice to make this an option on the Solved Puzzles page.

Create a custom filters with specific counties?

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 09:30:38 +0000

I am trying to create a custom filter with 5 or 6 counties from 2 different regions in Sweden that I would like to apply to "Solved Mysteries". But it seems like I can only add one area to the filter (I only add Sweden and Göteborg and add/save, nothing else). I thought I could add Göteborg and Mölndal counties to the filter.

I know realise I can't even use Custom Filter on Solved Mysteries but the question about creating a custom area with Custom Filter remains. Or is it an other way to achieve this?

How are solved mysteries updated?

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 05:04:54 +0000

How does P-GC identify the caches where you have added a cache note? Does there have to be a find on that cache for your cache note to be detected.

I am solving puzzles of a geoart and have noticed that some solved puzzles appear very quickly but some are still outstanding after a long period of time.

I see there is a date of last update which is showing as yesterday.

An example of a puzzle that was solved some time ago and not appearing is GC4XVA0

I saw that a bookmark list like for FTFs was under consideration some time ago.

Thanks

Solved Mysteries: Require corrected toggle seems wrong

Sun, 27 Sep 2015 12:58:35 +0000

When I run Solved Mysteries with "Require corrected" selected, it behaves as expected, showing only those caches that have coordinates in the cache notes. However, when I deselect that button, I expect that the result will be to show ALL caches that have cache notes. Instead, what I get is ONLY those caches that have cache notes that don't include coordinates. Ideally, it would be nice to be able to select any of the three cases (coordinates present, not present, or both), but I'd settle for it behaving as described in the documentation.

map of unsolved mysteries?

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 07:35:14 +0000

I am attending a mega in October, and so now I am working on solving all the puzzle caches in the area. Problem is that it is a very manual method working out which ones I have yet to solve. Is there an easy way to get a map of unsolved mysteries?

if not could we have one please?

Tom

Point the Solved Mysteries tool to a GC.com public bookmark list?

Wed, 20 May 2015 14:59:59 +0000

Similar to the FTF bookmark list, can we have an option to link a bookmark list to this tool?

Solved Mysteries - Found/Not Found filter seems to not be working

Fri, 08 May 2015 21:04:06 +0000

Trying to sort my Solved Mysteries using the additional found & not found filter, but it doesnt seem to have an affect. Getting found ones no matter the setting. Can someone else confirm?

Trads showing in solved mysteries

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 09:52:08 +0000

I have a number of traditionals with personal cache notes like "Standard honeypot: 50 dia x 75 deep". When I look for solved mysteries with require corrected coordinates unchecked these traditionals show up on the map. Firstly it should be parsing for coordinates and secondly should it not be just unknown and multi cache types?