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

Feature Request: Use corrected coordinates for Highest and Lowest Elevations stats section

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:32:29 +0000

Currently, the profile stats show the elevation of posted coordinates. This means that for most cachers, the lowest elevation list consists of mystery caches that have the posted coordinates in the sea. Making that part of statistics pretty much random.

E.g. On my profile, 9/10 caches in there show up as below sea level, although they are all actually above it.

Because PGC has the access to read corrected coordinates, I thought that maybe it's possible to implement that part of the stats to show them instead.

P.S. Alternatively, if for some reason this is not possible, could we get the option of manually excluding caches from only that part of stats, using a bookmark list?

P.P.S. Some people have raised the argument "But then I can just correct some cache coordinates to the middle of the ocean and get the deepest badge!"
This argument does not seem valid to me - bogus correcting like that would be no different than couch logging a random cache to claim some other badge - you are only cheating yourself this way, and it is not possible to enforce stopping it.
At the moment this stat is a bogus one for 90% of cachers anyway. By using corrected coordinates, it would become bogus for the 0.01% of cheaters, yes, but it would be correct for others. (Sorry for the rant)

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.

Bezahl-Filter funktionieren nicht

Mon, 02 May 2016 12:17:17 +0000

Hallo, wir haben das Problem, dass die diversen Bezahl-Filter-Optionen (ja, wir haben gezahlt) bei uns nicht funktionieren. Wir haben auf verschiedenen Windows 7-Systemen mit diversen Browsern getestet, wir haben auf Android-Telefonen mit verschiedenen Browsern getestet. Das Ergebnis ist immer gleich: der Filter wird ausgelöst, ein kurzer Ladevorgang, dann erscheint lediglich eine weiße Seite (nicht ein Zeichen auf dem Bildschirm). Der Ladevorgang dauert nur Bruchteile einer Sekunde. Auch ein refresh mit shift+ Aktualsieren hat nichts gebracht.

Bei den Filtern zu fehlenden Landkreisen erhalten wir zwar eine Übersichtskarte zu fehlenden Landkreisen und können mit dem Tool das Gebiet einkreisen, aber wenn wir dann auf das Pluszeichen bei vGPS klicken passiert gar nichts. Die Auswahl wird nicht übernommen.

Kennt noch jemand diese Probleme? Was kann man machen?