Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions without answers

Issues sharing virtual gps with other paid members

Fri, 15 May 2026 18:54:10 +0000

I shared my virtual gps with a friend, he got the "conversation" that it was shared with him, but when he goes to view it by clicking on the link it gives him a completely different virtual gps with a different name and I don't have any virtual gps' with that name. He sent me a video showing me this weird issue, I could try to share if that would be helpful. And now I just had another friend tell me the same exact thing happened to her - a mutual friend shared a virutal gps with both of us. I had no issues getting to it and seeing it, but she could not get to it.

A follow up, I just went to a recent "conversation" and clicked on the link, it took me to a completely different virtual gps than the one in the shared "conversation". Tried again with a different "conversation" and it took me to the previous conversation's link. Its like the links do not match up with the conversations? Went to another older "conversation" and it also took me to a completely different virtual gps than the one it should have been tied to.

Let me know how I can help solve this issue.

An additional side note but it may be related, when I'm in virtual gps and I switch to a different virtual gps, the virtual gps up on the bar across the top of the page does not update to the new virtual gps I'm sitting on unless I refresh the page. I'll try to attach a photo, but I think I had issues doing so last time.

An update has removed the project-GC link that adds county info to cache pages. how do I get it back?

Wed, 13 May 2026 23:45:29 +0000

Map Compare will only show map, when the amound of caches are below 1500 (Milan Area)

Tue, 12 May 2026 16:04:21 +0000

Map-Compare will only show map, when the amound of caches are below 1500, when the amound is above 1500 the map area doesn't show anything (No map, or message).

Edit: This seems to be only in the milan area, due to an unusual cachename

The cachelist below the map area does show

Example 24km Milan

Example 25km Milan

Typo in image titles for 2 attributes

Mon, 11 May 2026 19:22:10 +0000

In user profile stats page, https://project-gc.com/Profile/ProfileStats , in the last attributes section, among the negative attributes in the first table row there are attributes for:

Not a long hike ... what is above and greater than 10km , but image HTML title writes <10km
Not a medium hike ... what is less than 10km , but image HTML title writes >10km

But title for the images in the ProfileStats page has angle brackets (signs < and > ) is the opposite logic.

Screen shot of the image titles with the opposite angle brackets sign in the code: https://ibb.co/r2rBW2S8

Suggestion to new statistics

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:23:16 +0000

I have a suggestion to a new statistics:

An overview of active caches in a region, placed by year and number of you have found of those.

It is already possible to have an overview by caches in a region or city and you can filter by active caches and a period when they were placed.

For example: you have a choicebox with country and region, and then the result is a table by year:

Year	Active caches	Found by user
2000	8	6
2001	19	12
2002	35	16
2003	48	22
...	...	...
2025	1105	805

The idea for this statistics is when a logged the oldest caches for a specific region. When i found all of them from 2000, i logged those from 2001,... so at the moment i have found all the caches in my region places between 2000-2010 and i want to log those from 2011 this year.

Why doesn't the virtual GPS button show up on the 360 tool map?

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:20:46 +0000

I am an active member and have used the 360 tool to identify sectors where I need to find caches. When I select a sector on the map, I can see the available caches within that sector, but I do not see the virtual GPS icon on the map to be able to select the lasso tool. I can add caches to my active virtual GPS one at a time by clicking on the cache icon and then selecting the add to GPS icon, though that is terribly inefficient.

Feature request: please add filtering to list of Signed Challenges

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:38:06 +0000

With a lot of signed challenges it is difficult and time-consuming to go thru the list looking for cache size, DT, attributes etc. Is it possible to add filtering options to the page, eg. "Filter out/in all challenges requiring climbing gear".

Bug in profile stats page link

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:55:05 +0000

On the profile stats page, https://project-gc.com/Statistics/ProfileStats, there is a link stating "Permanent link to this profile." When I click the link, it takes me to https://project-gc.com/ProfileStats/Optimist+on+the+run which returns the error "This profile does not exist."

The URL should not have the + signs in it.

ich kann keine Benachrichtigungen für neue Caches speichern. Woran kann es liegen?

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:33:37 +0000

UPDATE: Found Issue: Not currently able to map unfound caches when looking at county maps

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:04:59 +0000

The issue was that "exclude unfound" was checked, which meant it wasn't showing any unfound caches. Don't remember checking that, but unchecking it fixed the issue.

No caches are showing up when I go to map unfound caches while looking in the "Map Counties" section. I'm a paid member and logged in.

Custom lists

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:51:02 +0000

Hi

I am trying to set up a custom list to place in the milestones tab
I have gone through the process of naming, selecting the tab (milestones) and selecting bookmark list for the type - selecting which bookmark I want as the source (having put my ID in that section too)
I then clicked on submit and then save

Nothing - all that appears is a heading banner (with what I named ) but no cache list - shows '0'
I am aware of others do the same list and advising that their list populated straight away
I also waited a day once submitted and saved to see if waiting would help - but still no
I did consider the bookmark list status as a possible barrier so have tried this with the bookmark list set at private, shareable and public and it didn't work with any of these

I also tried by using the GC code list (copy paste comma seperated list into the box) but this came up with an error message every time -
Internal server error (6998be7ee19c07.70822645)

Though the last bit changed each time I tried that.

Though the bookmark list would be the better way to go as having to update the GC list would be more faff

I am not sure what I am doing wrong here - if anything

Please help

*Edit* - having tried several times to get this working, the day after I wrote this post I tried again and this time it worked - possibly a brief glitch, but now sorted

Live-Karte und Virtuelles-GPS

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:41:24 +0000

Hallo zusammen,

ich habe nun die Live-karte für mich entdeckt und bin auch ein Fan vom virtuellen GPS.
Auf der Live-karte würde ich gerne die angezeigten Caches (entweder alle sichtbaren oder durch Auswahl eines Polygons) in mein virtuelles GPS übertragen.
Gibt es so eine Funktion und habe ich die übersehen?

Grüße Alex

Virtual GPS - Delete List button doesn't work in Chrome

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:08:35 +0000

I am trying to delete a Virtual GPS list. I click 'Delete' then in asks if I am sure. I click 'Yes' and nothing happens. I have tried it in Chrome and Edge. This used to work, but stopped working a few months ago.

Weekly Event Notifications Instead of Daily

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:25:32 +0000

Currently, event notification emails are sent once per day. For my use case, it would be sufficient to receive the notification email only once per week (for example, every Monday).

Since events have to be created at least 14 days in advance anyway, a daily notification feels unnecessary and could be reduced to a weekly summary.

Top Finders Slovakia/area not working

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:44:19 +0000

Hello, Top Finders Slovakia/area not working also as Czech/area.

Challenge checkers - new display kind of tooo large?

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:01:19 +0000

As of the rewriting of the Stats some effects are showing a strange behaviour on some challenge checkers.

For example: https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCAFDJQ/81866

It runs as good as before, but any icon at the start of a row seems to be min. 4 times the size it was before.

I can provide a screenshot of how the result of that particular checker was before.
Tried on different PCs with different browsers and different sizing of the browsers etc.

Edit : Another example where things are mixed up. https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC8EY7F/45867 all icons seem normal except for the favorites

Edit 10.02.2026 : just checked the mentioned checkers again. Those with the attributes are fine now. The last added one with the favorite icons is still off.... and the icons behind the checker https://project-gc.com/Challenges//101368 as well

My Project-GC dynamic html not updating on my gc.com profile page

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:45:07 +0000

My dynamic html is showing data from three days ago. I've recopied the html and reentered the html into my geocaching.com profile and it still is stale. I've checked in on various browsers and on a couple of OS and all showing the data from January 18. Is there a bug on Project-GC?

When I click on the "New route" button on the Route Builder page nothing happens.

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:32:25 +0000

Over the last couple of days, when I click on the "New route" button, nothing happens. I can pull down the existing routes menu, but I can't create a new route.

Does the recent bug with the adventure labs include the main Profile Stats page for a given Profile?

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:31:28 +0000

For example, on the main page listing ones stats with the tabs Finds, Milestones, FTFs, etc,

it has the graph that shows the finds by year and cumulative. then below that it shows breakdown by year. 2026 only has finds for month of January. (148 caches and 11 labs, which it indicates under the months for the year)

my 2025 year section, says I have TOTAL FINDS of 930. but the spot under the months for the year 2025 says specifically, "Includes 1062 Adventure Labs"

This is the spot I'm asking about. I'm sure the lab count is accurate, because I know I did a good amount of hundreds for the month of July. but for the TOTAL FINDS says 930, and the note underneath says includes the labs. if that is the case, then the TOTAL FINDS should be close to 2000.

I know Geocaching treats them differently. And til recently here as well and i see that being a paid member adds functionality. I just think the Total Finds should be updated if the generated page puts a note that the labs are included or not regards of paid status

I am missing in TAB "Challenges" the line: Plus an additional xxx signed challenges, of which yyy is now fullfilled.

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:02:51 +0000

ON all PC an on PC of my friends i am missing the Line in TAB "Challenges" the line: Plus an additional xxx signed challenges, of which yyy is now fullfilled.

With the profilname of other owners i can see the missing line.

What is wrong on my profil ???

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:13:19 +0000

Hi, when I try to view my profile I get this error.

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Map Compare with multiple people breaks when changing geocache filters?

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:42:09 +0000

I'm trying to do a map compare with 4 other people. I set up the top with the other geocacher names. Then I go to add the criteria (counties, types, sizes) and after I hit submit it has reset the people I'm comparing to and only keeps the first person added. I have to go back in and add the additional people again to get the compare to work as needed.

As I'm attempting to do this again to document this for this post, now its not working at all. Even when I don't change the geocaching criteria in the second section and I go add the geocachers back and hit submit, its removing everyone but the first person I added

warum dauert es zur Zeit oft länger als sonst (teilweise 1,5 Tage und mehr) für zahlende Mitglieder

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:10:35 +0000

Aktuallisierung der Daten dauert extrem lange

logs per area

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:31:10 +0000

I have seen that this feature has been requested before. however there is hardly any response. the overview has already this feature but only for the whole country. cant you just add more filters to the overview?

regions, log type, cache type, cache size, date hidden from date -> to date

or make it a feature of its own. cache logs per area

A CCE from Oct 8 appears on my "found event grid" but similar from 5 Dec is blank

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:18:51 +0000

I attended a CCE on 8th October and it is on my found grid but similar CCE on 5th December is still blank - could this be a bug?

Also ; Is a HQ Block Party considered to be an Event for the my finds grid? (16th August is missing for me)

Is there a possibility to get the adventure name to a single lab station in the list of lab caches?

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:12:47 +0000

Feature request - add "most central cache" to the N/E/S/W/Oldest tool

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:04:21 +0000

As PGC presumably knows what the most central cache is for each country/region/county for the extreme caches module, could this be added to the existing tool please?

live map filter elevation in imperial

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:46:28 +0000

The filter setting in the live map allows the filter by elevation in meters. Is there a way to switch it to imperial?

caches by year

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 03:51:24 +0000

Is the filter for Top Finders of Community Celebration events (Lost and Found events) broken? Was working yesterday

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:45:37 +0000

Voreinstellung bei "Nächste Events": warum ist das "bis-Datum" auf das Tagesdatum voreingestellt?

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:46:25 +0000

Bei jeder Abfrage muss dies im Gegensatz zu früher geändert werdem auf unendlich. Das macht die Anwendung umständlicher.

Custom Filter - Can I add more than one CO name?

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:09:32 +0000

I am targeting Charter Members on an upcoming road trip. Is there a way to put more than one CO name in a custom filter?

I would like to export my JASMER grid to excel.

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:21:33 +0000

I feel this must be possible and I am just missing out on the how. I could convert it by simply typing everything in excel, but then I would be required to keep up with it by hand versus a simple .csv or .xls export file.

Should Locationless caches count for a countries most found/favorited?

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 23:26:02 +0000

Looking over the section of the stats where it lists the countries/states/counties you've been in and if you've found the most found, favorited, highest/lowest etc... the "Where's 25" location less cache keeps popping up for the US. Below this section it states that location less caches are ignored in some instances. Shouldn't this be one of them?

archived cache

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:03:24 +0000

kann man mehrere virtuelle gps listen in eine liste integrieren?

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:47:06 +0000

Ich habe mehrere virtuelle GPS Listen und möchte diese in eine Liste zusammenführen

GPX de los challenge firmado

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:39:57 +0000

Seria posible una GPX de los retos firmados como notas y que tengo en la lista pendientes.

Ej. los que tengo en mi lista (Además de 198 desafíos adicionales firmados, de los cuales 149 ya se han cumplido)

Saludos

Cannot Delete a Virtual GPS list using Safari

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:52:32 +0000

Virtual GPS - Manage List - Delete

When I try to delete a list using Safari, the pop up “This action cannot be undone YES-NO” does not pop up. I tried turning off the pop up blocker but that did not fix the problem. Any thoughts?

¿Cómo puedo comprobar mis cinturones "BadgeGen Belts"?

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:49:05 +0000

Al escribir la primera pregunta, se me han actualizado los puntos. Ahora tengo 120. Pero sigo sin poder encontrar dónde me salen los Cinturones. No puedo buscarlos, no sé dónde están. ¿Cómo lo hago? ¿En qué apartado están? Gracias y feliz Geocaching!

¿Por qué tengo 0 puntos?

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:29:47 +0000

Acabamos de conocer a cerca de los Belts (cinturones). Hemos consultado el sistema de puntuación pero no entendemos por qué tenemos 0 puntos. ¿Cómo lo podemos actualizar?

Nos gustaría saber qué cinturón nos corresponde. Espero que podáis ayudarnos!

Muchas gracias por su tiempo, feliz Geocaching!

Missing Badge

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:58:25 +0000

DISREGARD....I'M SLOW LOL.

Tampermonkey Script: Add to VGPS from GC-Map

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:40:44 +0000

I am pretty sure that it once worked, so perhaps it's just an option to change.

It seems like adding a cache to the VGPS from the popup that appears when clicking on a cache, is no more possible. Am I the only one, or was this feature cancelled?

Why does a returned search list get out of synch if I click on any column heading

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:56:25 +0000

I do a search for let's say a nick e.g. and a country. The list I get contains x number of caches. If I then click on any column heading to resort the list the GC-number column gets out of synch with the rest. Very annoying. Same behaviour in the new version of the site.

Top finders not working?

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:17:49 +0000

The "top finders" doesn't seem to be working - selecting cachers from

UK
Earthcache

Between 1/1/25 and 31/12/25

Returns the below.

Tried with other types of cache and getting different numbers, but everything is still mixed up

Is it possible to get DeLorme polygon waypoints?

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 01:49:03 +0000

Hi there! "Not all polygons are in the system", but are there any available to export? Specifically, I'd like the waypoints for DeLorme Challenges in AL, GA, and NC. Links below. Thanks for your time!

AL - https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCTTNW/1116
GA - https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCZ8XQ/1115
NC - https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GCTYE6/20733

Inconsistencies in the counting of events

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:10:52 +0000

Project-GC is not coherent in regard of those special names for Events every 5 years:

On the events folder all are counted, although CCE are not counted as such but as "Lost and Found", a type of event I've never done. Block-Parties are counted as BP.

On the badge pages it's completely different:

CCE are counted as ordinary events for the badge
BP are not counted at all as events, neither ordinary nor, as they should, as Mega
Both event types give an add-on for the Geocacher badge, if you visit one
Only CCE gives an add-on for the Event Host badge, if you host one, BP doesn't

This topic has come up several times here, but nobody seems to care about this inconsistencies.

In the wiki they are not even mentioned, only as "Geocaching HQ Block Party (formerly Groundspeak Block Party)", so as a kind of historical event. I've asked about that on the article talk page.

The year is now half through, but nothing has happened in this regard, no consistent answer was given, just some insisting on "a special type" for BP, but that's the same with CCE, which are treated completely different.

Edit for a wee bit more information:

I just looked up the stats of a well known event host and -visitor in this area here, lavette96:

On the badge page he's got:

1249 ordinary events
100 CITO
33 Mega
8 Giga
5 Maze

In sum that's 1395 visited events.

On his events page he's got:

1177 ordinary events
100 CITO
72 L&F
33 Mega
12 BP
8 Giga
5 Maze

In sum that's 1407 visited events.

The difference is 12, that's the visited BP events that are nowhere counted for the badges.

As a host he's got 104 events for the badge, and 104 different events, including BP, on his owner page, so here they are accounted for. But only the CCE give him an add-on for the event host badge (and Mega and CITO), but not BP, that's only for visiting at the Geocacher badge.

Update for 2026:

Event page:

1210 ordinary events
108 CITO
96 L&F
34 Mega
18 BP
8 Giga
5 Maze

Sum is 1479

badge page:

1306 ordinary events
108 CITO
34 Mega
8 Giga
5 Maze

Sum is 1461

Difference is 18, and that's Blockparties, that are nowhere counted in the badges, as before.

Alle Länder in Geocaching

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:53:24 +0000

All countries in Geocaching

Live Map functionality request: select area and save to Virtual GPS

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:53:13 +0000

I know that in some of the map tools (like map of challenge caches) there is the "area selection tool" as well as "save to VGPS button" However, for Live map, for some reason, these are missing. Would it be possible to get those to Live map as well?

If it is of any use, I often travel to remote places and it'd help to gather all the caches of particular area (not necessarily full country/region but user selected area) via VGPS to GPX to c:geo which of course can also be done by other means, but this just could be the most convenient I think.

Is the map on the "map counties" down?

Tue, 27 May 2025 19:33:17 +0000

Is the map on the "map counties" down? It worked yesterday, but today I can't seem to get it to show the state map on any of my devices.

Can I change my Project-GC Access token

Tue, 20 May 2025 01:33:40 +0000

Can I change my Project-GC Access Token code?