Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged travel-bug

How to close a TB rescue mission as owner

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:56:13 +0000

I placed a TB rescue mission. It is a month old and nobody found the TB. I would like to close that mission now to clear the map. I tried:

- logging a comment

- logging a DNF

But the mission is still there.

How do I close that mission? Help appreciated. Thanks

TB discovern and after 500 it stops?

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 06:24:23 +0000

I was able to have a look at a huge TB collection at an event recently and added over 600 TB codes to discover them - after 500 successful discoveries the tool stopped and hasn't continued for hours now. What could be the problem?

I am a Project-GC Premium Member.

Is there a way to ignore a TB mission since the owner won't clear it off the map?

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 15:41:20 +0000

The closest TB rescue trackable to us is a coin we looked for, but it was missing. It's been gone 1.7 years. We let the owner know the TB was missing a while back (the cache had been stolen & this was a replacement). It's ALWAYS showing up on the map. Would love to toggle that off somehow.

Cancel a TB discovery batch?

Mon, 27 May 2019 14:21:31 +0000

It's been over two days, and my three batches are still queued. The number in queue is changing (mainly upward), but I don't seem to be moving much closer to the top. There are 444 total items of mine. I've gotten impatient and already logged them all myself. How do I remove these from the batch so that they're not (maybe .. eventually) double-logged?

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.

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!

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

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!

In search of trackable tracking tool returning locations visited for a group of trackables since a specific date

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:38:38 +0000

We have a project that tracks the spread of the zombie plague as if the vector were geocaching http://www.finditlogitspreadit.info. This is accomplished by tracking the geolocations visited by zombie travel bugs (ZTB) that we release. Currently, the update process is manual:

1 - Log onto Groundspeak and look at our trackables

2- Sort the resulting list by "last log"

3 - Move "backward in time" page by page to the date of the last update we did

4 - Starting there, visit every ZTBs page and hand count the places it has been since the last time we updated

5 - Work this process forward until we have counted every ZTB that has moved since the last update

6 - Manually add up all the counts.

As you might imagine, this is a time consuming and laborious process, as we currently have 280 ZTBs released. We would like to be able to automate the process with a tool that queries Groundspeak's site for the applicable ZTBs, and returns a list/count/report that shows all locations visited (ideally down to the state, or first governmental division level), and the number of visits in each of those locations, since a specifically determined date. Also, the number of total locations visited, and total number of ZTBs that moved. We do not have access to Groundspeak's API, so we are hoping that a tool implemented through Project-GC, which does have access to the API might be possible. It seems like Project-GC already has the ability to sort caches by location/country/governmewt administrative divisions, so if one has the data for a trackable, the same process should be possible.

We would welcome any thoughts that anyone has that would help to automate our process.