Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged trackables

Found/discovered trackable number not going up

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 02:54:13 +0000

I’ve discovered approximately three trackables within the past week. However, despite me logging them, my project-GC stat number seems to not be reflecting those finds. It’s stuck at 300 perpetually. I tried to send an email for support through project-GC but the captcha on the page just keeps generating new codes for me to type in the box and the send button does nothing.

Feature Request - Add a "Cancel" Button for "Discover Trackables"

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:44:54 +0000

I really like the "Discover trackables" feature. Upon occasion, I've written up my "Log text" and typed in a ton of "Tracking numbers" and quickly hit that Discover button too soon before realizing, oh man...I didn't set the right date. Ugh! And then, I just watch it sit in the queue. It's just sitting there...waiting, and waiting. I'm yelling at my screen to cancel but it doesn't pay any attention to me?!? I just wish there were a Cancel button so I could correct and re-Discover. Thanks for considering!! =)

Is there a way to see trackables I have discovered ?

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 23:39:33 +0000

Just wondering if there is a way to see the trackables I have discovered..

The only ones I see are for the cachers with the most discovered trackables

Pass a list of trackables to Discover Trackables page

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:03:52 +0000

Is there a way to pass in a list of trackables to the discover trackables page? I would like to give other cachers an easy way to discover a group of traveling trackables.

Thanks!

Have a "What happend to the TB I dropped" feature (Temporary auto-watching)

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:07:55 +0000

Since years I am missing a comfort function for geocaching.com and I hoped, that maybe project-gc.com could close that gap.

Use case / Background:
Whenever I carry a trackable I take much care to drop it of at a suitable location based on the owners wish and the goal for this trackable. After dropping it I would very much like to know if it continued its journey by being picked up by the next cacher or it got lost or something else.

Desired solution / feature:
Have PGC automatically detect, that I dropped a TB from my inventory. Follow the TB acivity automatically from there on and send mails with its activities (e.g. discoveries) to me until and including the next retrieval log. End the following automatically then.
If several TBs are auto-followed with such a feature PGC could send a daily summary mail for all of them.
IMHO this could be a interesting feature to attract more (paying) members.

Current workaround:
Once I dropped the TB I put it on the gc.com watchlist to see what happens. Once I see in my mails, that it got retrieved I have to manually remove it from the watchlist. Quite a hazzle involving several manual steps (which I sometimes forget and its difficult to sort out).

To be precise:
I do not request a copy of the gc.com watchlist feature, but a service which starts to follow on "Drop" and ends on next "Retrieve" for any trackables from my inventory.

Maps with pins of own travel bugs - like Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 22:25:08 +0000

Good morning,

May I request a similar function for showing a last position of Trackables on the map - something like Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Geocaching for showing all owned TB of nickname on the map with pins. For example: I own 781 pcs of TB and I want to show it on the World map like a pins where are TBs at this time .Only a last position - no routes or points of travel.

If I download all KML files of every TB, than it contains about 130MB and no viewer like Google maps or Google Earth can show me a results. It takes a long time and I have to edit every TB to show only last position and disable view of travel road.

Can you design this feature for geocachers, please ?.

Thank you Radek-pol / Cystic fibrosis (profile contains 781 TB )

Feature Request: Discover Tool remember last log date

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:30:55 +0000

I discover trackables with the correct date, for example when I have seen them at events.

When I visit geocaching.com/track/ discover-page, the form remembers the last discover date. This way I can log the TBs of the event from December 10th individually, then those from the event on December 14th and then those from yesterday on December 19th.

Project-GC's Discover Tool always shows the current date in the form (today December 20). Here I would like a possibility (checkbox) for "use the last log date".

I especially like to log coins by owner individually - because some coin collections are very expensive and deserve an individual log.
E.g. "Thanks Peter for showing your coins today", "Thanks Tom for showing your new Giga Berlin Coins" and in another discover job "Thanks Melli for showing your fine collection". Thus I've several jobs with multiple tracking codes and different log texts to run.
Unfortunately I sometimes used the wrong date. Not bad but not beautiful either.

So the behavior of geocaching.com/track/ would be fine (as option).

Of course this functionality does not have to be implemented on the web server. It is also completely okay if this happens with a cookie or otherwise locally in the browser.

Trackables not registered.

Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:47:00 +0000

Hello!

I´m using c:geo when I log my caches and trackables. Now I have discovered that if I drop a trackable with c:geo it will not be counted if I look at the BadgeGen. I think that something is wrong .... If I check my statistics at geocaching.com it will be counted.

best regards

/xj1 (Frans)

Why is my travel bug count under BadgeGen different than my official GC profile stats count?

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 20:21:11 +0000

When I add up the number of travel bugs from Project-GC with the Coin Collector number, it matches the same number as my overall count of trackables on the GC website. So I assume that means Project-GC is miscounting some of the geocoins as travel bugs. The question is which ones and why? I'm just trying to figure out what the discrepancy is. I've tried to figure out which nonTB/geocoins could be the likely culprits but the math never works for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm thinking of developing a challenge based on this (assuming it's allowed).

Thanks.

Mark discovered trackables, which are not yet activated, in a special color.

Sun, 11 Nov 2018 16:00:40 +0000

When I'm using the "Discover Trackables" tool not discoverable trackables get a red background and status => error.
(Blue is used for "processed" and green for discovered trackables.)

If it's possible to differ between the "errors" please use a special colour (e.g. yellow) for not yet activated trackables.

Happy caching
Micha

How to see which TB's failed when using the Discover Trackables Tool?

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 07:13:56 +0000

When using the Discover Trackables tool to discover multiple trackables, we sometimes have ones which fail and the total failures are highlighted in red. Is there any easy way of finding out which are the failures out of the original list, apart from going into each TB's page and finding out which ones didn't post? It would be a great feature if it were possible. Have searched through previous questions but can't find any answers for this.

Does the "discovering tb's" PGC-tool also look if a TB is already loged?

Sun, 10 Dec 2017 23:30:13 +0000

Challenge about discovering / moving TB's possible?

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 05:54:00 +0000

Is it possible, to write a checker regarding discovering and / or moving TB's?

Thank you!

Filter: How can I set up a custom filter, that shows caches that have trackables?

Tue, 08 Aug 2017 19:39:07 +0000

See heasline

Map of your trackables

Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:40:18 +0000

Hello. I would like to have a map where all my trackables currently are. The map shows of each tb the location of the last visit, drop, retrieve and tags the name of the tb (and maybe also a link to the tb) to that location. I have a lot of tbs travelling around and it is difficult to see where all my tbs are currently in the world. That would be a great feature! Best wishes, tarant75

Sync between trackable discoveries using project-gc and geocaching.com stats

Wed, 03 May 2017 19:49:47 +0000

I used the project-gc trackable discoveries for the first time today. To test, I input 10 codes. They went through the queue fine and were discovered. When I input each code manually on gc.com, all 10 bugs show as discovered. So all of that is great! However, when I look at my total of discovered trackables on gc.com, my total has not gone up by 10 at all. They were not duplicate discoveries, all of them were new ones. Am I missing something? Thanks!

My trackables. Is there an easy way to find/list the missing ones?

Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:09:04 +0000

I have several hundred trackables out in the wild. Some of these have been marked missing other yet to be marked.

1. Is there an easy way to find which ones of mine have not been moved in a certain amount of time.

2. List all of mine that have an unknown location.

Thanks for any help!

How can I get a trackable rescued?

Thu, 15 Sep 2016 02:40:43 +0000

I received the following message on Geocaching.com:

Regarding TB2AZXW: Flit-Flit, the happy butterfly – You may want to go to Project Geocaching and activate a geocoin rescue for this. It's in a cache that coins are not allowed to be in. If the rangers get to it first, you may never see it again.

Who do I contact to tell me the process that will get my trackable out of this cache,

TB discoveries - logs are encrypted

Wed, 24 Aug 2016 22:54:05 +0000

I used the TB discovery tool for around forty TBs. When I went to check the discoveries on the website, I noticed that all log entries are encrypted. I couldn't find any option to affect this. Is this a bug or how can I discover TBs with normal logs, not encrypted?

discover own

Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:25:41 +0000

Trackables discovering... when I try to discover my own trackables I am only able to log 25 out of 59. Any ideas, why that is so?

Statistics for My Discovered Trackables.

Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:21:05 +0000

Could a feature be made that provides statistics for the Trackables that I have discovered.

Including:

Distance Traveled

Amount of Geocachers who have discovered the trackable

Amount of caches the Trackable has visited

This would make it easier to compare the statistics for all the travel bugs I have discovered.

Page 26ff Discover Trackables History

Thu, 26 May 2016 07:58:40 +0000

When looking at my discovered trackables history there is no possibility to turn the page from 1-25 to the next page. The triangles don't react neither can I insert the page-number to go directly to the next page.

Thank you for helping, Gubemax.

GC4D5NP Checker TB Alphabet

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:23:31 +0000

I think that this challenge checker could be easy to do for someone who knows how to write such a program.

This challenge is cool, but really long to proof trackable by trackable. (I've done it it's really long!!!)

The Travel Bug badge not taking Discovered into account

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:29:34 +0000

Hi,

according to my public profile – http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=d6aaa6ad-797c-419a-91b3-8cf6a5b40658&wid=8a5f4fc7-179f-4e59-91c4-7dfc751b4069&ds=2 – I have 1010 Trackables logged, but the badge shows only 326.

The badge descriptive text says it’s for trackables discovered/moved, I sense an “or” there, otherwise it would read only “moved”, which means it ought to take all those discovered into account.

Lost travelbug finder

Sun, 02 Aug 2015 09:58:25 +0000

Hi!

Should be possible add some tool that can read all GC logs in all caches and is searching term like TB id or Name of TB. Some users mention that in logs. Maybe then is TB not lost and can be found :)

Or some tool that helps to find our lost trackables. Feel free to create that :D

Is it possible to search for trackables in a defined area?

Tue, 02 Jun 2015 11:25:24 +0000

I want to complete a challenge where i have to log trackables (esp. geocoins) from A-Z.

Now i would like to search for those "missing" TB's, in my area, so that I can try to get those TB's when they are close to me..

For example: I need to find a coin that begins with "X". Entering the keyword "xmas" in the gc.com search shows me a lot of xmas-coins, but spread all over the world and not sortable by distance to my home or other coordinates..

I would like to see the TB's sorted. And, i wolud like to see a map with caches that contain TB's matching my search-

Is any of that possible?

Thank you..

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?

Trackables statistics and maps

Mon, 11 May 2015 13:45:10 +0000

I would appreciate to have stats of my trackables in Statistics with enhanced statistics e.g. number of logs (discovered, visited etc.), number of "jumps", distance from HC.

Adding others' trackables to separate list in the same tab would be nice feature.

I am not familiar with Groundspeak API; hopefully it is doable in its current version.

Another nice feature would be map or list of trackables, which are stuck in caches for a long period and obviously lost or stolen.

Trackable Discover Tool discoveres every TB 3x !

Wed, 06 May 2015 09:28:42 +0000

Last time I used the tool, every TB has been discovered and logged 3 times, please fix that bug.

yours MasterPu

Prevent duplicate discoveries

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 08:21:31 +0000

The tool for logging discoveries of trackables are great! It was before, but even more now.

I have a couple of suggestions, though:

1. I have heard some cachers that don't like to log the same discovery twice. So at events, where this mass-discoveries most frequently happends, they take care to just log the trackables that they havn't discovered before.

Would it be possible to have this as an option in the tool? To not discover trackables already discovered?

2. It would be nice if you could make the trackable a link after logging the discovery. In the history view. So that it's easy to jump to the trackables page on the groundspeak page.

Keep up the good work!

Links to trackables page at gc.com for each discovered TB/Coin in the history list.

Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:16:25 +0000

As stated above.

Add: Map for traveled distance for TB/GC/trackable

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:36:16 +0000

A very nice feature that I wish for christmas is to have a map where I can see the activity for a selectet TB/GC.

At the moment there is such a map at geocaching.com, but for some reason it is really widescreen and tiny, so it's difficult to get an overview.

In addition the lines between each point is quite thick, and the number for the cache is quite big, so when the TB has traveled a lot it all gets messy.

Would such a map be possible?

An alternative to this feature could be to have a "traveled distance" map, to see the travel activity for a geocacher rather than a TB.

Funktion "Trackables discovern" arbeitet unsauber?

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:35:10 +0000

Mir ist aufgefallen, dass die Funktion "Trackables discovern" scheinbar unsauber arbeitet. Von 100 (durch Zeilenumbruch getrennten) Codes werden nur etwa 60 tatsächlich registriet, obwohl angezeigt wird, dass alle 100 erfolgreich wären. In einer zweiten Runde waren es von 67 Codes nur 30. Auffällig ist, dass die fehlenden Codes "mittendrin" sind in der Liste. Wer kennt das Phänomen und wer weiß, woran dies liegt?

..und nein, die Codes waren alle RICHTIG geschrieben, keine Verwechslungen von 5 und S oder 0 und O und so weiter..

mapping trackables in caches

Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:32:16 +0000

Would it be possible to map caches containing trackables within given parameters, such as country, county, cache type, etc? We live in a tiny country with low cache visits. An option to search and rescue stuck trackables might be a good idea.