User Profile> Geocaches> Geocaches Found (All Geocache Finds)

[+BNMac]

Two issues:

1: Clicking on User Profile> Geocaches> Geocaches Found (All Geocache Finds) displays a map with a list to the left:

https://www.geocaching.com/live/play/map?sort=founddate&hf=0&asc=false&sa=1&mlat=36.4148869703035&mlng=-9.039158499999985&zoom=3&fb=BNMac

clicking on any of the cache types such as Traditional Cache shows the older style list with no map:

https://www.geocaching.com/play/results?ct=2&sa=1&fb=BNMac&sort=founddate&asc=false

 

While showing the map may be a nice addition, we should have the option to select either view.  Personally, I'd much rather have the old list view, perhaps with an option for the list/map view.

 

2: When clicking on (All Geocache Finds) on a friend's profile (and Steve), I get a map & list that is obviously not his.  See attached image; and Steve is in NW Oregon, not Western Europe!

This happens, and has happened multiple times when looking at other users finds!

 

--BNMac...

 

 

 

 

[+CAVinoGal]

1 hour ago, BNMac said:

1: Clicking on User Profile> Geocaches> Geocaches Found (All Geocache Finds) displays a map with a list to the left:

I get the list, with an option (at least on my own profile) to view a map.  With other users, (your profile, and I checked a couple of others) I have no option to view a map, just the list of caches found.

So, as to your second issue:
 

1 hour ago, BNMac said:

2: When clicking on (All Geocache Finds) on a friend's profile (and Steve), I get a map & list that is obviously not his.  See attached image; and Steve is in NW Oregon, not Western Europe!

This happens, and has happened multiple times when looking at other users finds!

It seems I cannot view a map of other users' finds, just the list.

 

I'm using Edge on a Windows 11 laptop.

[+barefootjeff]

2 hours ago, BNMac said:

we should have the option to select either view. 

 

You do, it's in your Profile settings under Preferences:

 

 

It's that checkbox right at the bottom. Uncheck it and you'll get the list.

[+Max and 99]

6 days ago I messaged someone because I was seeing the same thing and didn't know what I was doing wrong: 

 

I've gone to two different profiles and when I click on the map of the geocaches they have found, it is showing me geocaches on the other side of the world which they have not been to! I'm utterly confused as to why it's doing that. 
When I click on the list view I don't think that's correct at all either. 

Edited November 26, 2024 by Max and 99

[+Max and 99]

I go to cavino gal's profile, (chrome), I get the map view showing this: 

 

 

And then the list view:

 

 

[+BNMac]

Thanks for pointing out the option in the Preferences, barefootjeff!   I haven't made any changes in the preferences recently, so this must be the default view when they implemented the map/list setup.  When I set that option back to list only, the caches finds are correct.  It is only in the map/list where it is displaying the caches as I depicted in my original post.  It appears to be a similar map/list for others, based on Max and 99's images.

 

Regarding the list/map buttons in the list/map view as Max and 99 pointed out, that appears on the website on my phone as well.  But not on the desktop verison; I'm using the latest Firefox on Mac.

[+CAVinoGal]

13 hours ago, Max and 99 said:

I go to cavino gal's profile, (chrome), I get the map view showing this: 

Wow!  Never been anywhere close to that part of the world!!  I still am not seeing any of this - but then, I didn't have the Preferences set to show the map.  I just went in and checked that box, so I'll play around with it and see what changes.  Interesting....

 

ETA: The list view is also off - though it does have one cache listed as San Fran Cache and I am near the SF area...

Edited November 26, 2024 by CAVinoGal

[+CAVinoGal]

After ticking the box to show results directly on a map in Settings, as suggested by BarefootJeff above, I just now pulled up my profile and map, and that seems to work as intended - I get a list of caches on the left, and a map on the right that has the actual caches I have found.  However, when I go to a friend's profile, that map that comes up is on the other side of the world as others have reported.  Interesting indeed!

 

 

[+Max and 99]

27 minutes ago, CAVinoGal said:

After ticking the box to show results directly on a map in Settings, as suggested by BarefootJeff above, I just now pulled up my profile and map, and that seems to work as intended - I get a list of caches on the left, and a map on the right that has the actual caches I have found.  However, when I go to a friend's profile, that map that comes up is on the other side of the world as others have reported.  Interesting indeed!

 

 

And the first result is same as everyone else,  Bain Park? It seems no matter whose profile is clicked, that cache is at the top of the list.

[+janrei_]

The search map does not have a filter to show only the finds of other players. As the results are not effectively filtered, you will get a subset of all caches worldwide. It may therefore simply be a bug that for this query you are redirected to the search map if you have activated the corresponding checkbox in your preferences.

 

On the search map, the list and the map should show exactly the same results. If the browser window is not large enough to show both at the same time, buttons will appear to switch between the two views. This is not new, the old map behaved in the same way.

[+barefootjeff]

4 hours ago, janrei_ said:

The search map does not have a filter to show only the finds of other players. As the results are not effectively filtered, you will get a subset of all caches worldwide. It may therefore simply be a bug that for this query you are redirected to the search map if you have activated the corresponding checkbox in your preferences.

 

Yes, that's right, the search map isn't supposed to show another player's finds as that's considered a privacy violation.

[+CAVinoGal]

10 hours ago, Max and 99 said:

And the first result is same as everyone else,  Bain Park? It seems no matter whose profile is clicked, that cache is at the top of the list.

 

Maybe for you, but I get a different list.  It's the same list regardless if it is a friend or just another geocacher, but it is NOT the same as the one shown by BNMac and Max and 99.  The username goes away in the URL and I get mlat=19.806660245236632&mlng=-0.15281666666692217&zoom=3 as the coordinate string no matter whose username I use, except my own.  When I look at my own geocaches, I get an accurate listing and the URL is mlat=34.49642258116825&mlng=-97.63755850000001&zoom=5&fb=CAVinoGal.  ???

 

Edited November 27, 2024 by CAVinoGal
Added info

[+Max and 99]

Still seeing this issue.

[+CAVinoGal]

1 hour ago, Max and 99 said:

Still seeing this issue.

Add me to that list.

[AngryBeesy]

We are looking into these issues. Thank you for reporting them. I'll post a follow-up message when they're resolved.

[+Caaghyr's Crew]

It would be nice to see a resolution here, this prevents us solving puzzles where the setter has based a clue on their history.

[+Max and 99]

I needed a GC code for an Earth Cache I recently found, so I went to my public profile and clicked on Earth caches under Geocaches Found and none of them are ones I found. 

[+barefootjeff]

4 hours ago, Max and 99 said:

I needed a GC code for an Earth Cache I recently found, so I went to my public profile and clicked on Earth caches under Geocaches Found and none of them are ones I found. 

 

Odd, that works fine for me. It lists 45 ECs, all of which I've found and, looking down the list, most of which bring back fond memories of doing them.

 

Edit to add: when I go to your profile and click on Earchcaches you've found, it lists 31 and clicking on the first one (GC6QBNE) has your log as the most recent so I guess you found it.

Edited January 1 by barefootjeff

[+janrei_]

It seems that the "Found by me" filter is not set properly this way, which is particularly noticeable when displaying the caches on the map. After I set the filter manually, my finds are displayed correctly.

[AngryBeesy]

Apologies for the wait. The problem with viewing/mapping geocaches found from your profile page has now been fixed.

[+Caaghyr's Crew]

Any further news on viewing someone else's Geocache FInds? At present I seem to be getting the latest finds globally, ie. the latest find logged by anybody, followed the find immediately previous regardless of who or where.

[AngryBeesy]

Players are prohibited from viewing another's geocache finds. This rule is in place to prevent potential criminal "stalking" activity by anyone who attempts to track another player's movements by examining the locations of their finds. Believe me, at Geocaching HQ we've seen all sorts of attempts at illicit activity, hence we try to prevent it when possible.
If you do try to search another's finds, we simply return a list of the latest finds globally, as you've observed.

[+Max and 99]

With this release, you will be able to control who sees certain parts of your Geocaching.com profile, including your profile picture, your photo gallery, and your list of finds.

 

I'm probably just confused, but does this information from the release no longer an option? I'm trying to reconcile it with the post above.

[+barefootjeff]

9 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:

I'm probably just confused, but does this information from the release no longer an option? I'm trying to reconcile it with the post above.

 

You can still see a list of another player's finds, if they haven't blocked it, but you can't map them. It's been that way for some years, although I still don't understand how you can stalk someone by looking at their finds as those are places they're unlikely to go back to. I would have thought mapping their hides would be a greater privacy risk since those are places they're expected to return to regularly and are much more likely to be clustered around where they live than their finds.

[+Max and 99]

2 hours ago, AngryBeesy said:

Players are prohibited from viewing another's geocache finds

No matter the privacy settings?

[+Max and 99]

2 hours ago, AngryBeesy said:

Players are prohibited from viewing another's geocache finds. This rule is in place to prevent potential criminal "stalking" activity by anyone who attempts to track another player's movements by examining the locations of their finds. Believe me, at Geocaching HQ we've seen all sorts of attempts at illicit activity, hence we try to prevent it when possible.
If you do try to search another's finds, we simply return a list of the latest finds globally, as you've observed.

 

7 minutes ago, barefootjeff said:

You can still see a list of another player's finds, if they haven't blocked it, but you can't map them

 

[+Caaghyr's Crew]

This is a new issue, since last summer. We followed our daughter's trip around the world last March/April, just by hitting "Profile-geocaches-all geocaches found". That gave us the list, from there we could look at each found cache. Now we get only the list and map of world's latest finds. Obviously this wouldn't have worked if she'd set her profile details to "Private". We still get a list of our friends latest activity in our profile, under "Latest activity", but this only goes back a month. This is of no use if a puzzle setter has used their own history. Also I can only go back twenty pages on our own finds, from newest (new to old) or twenty pages forward from oldest (old to new). That's our first thousand and our latest thousand, I can't find the vast number in the middle?

I agree with barefootjeff that a list of where someone has been is surely not a lot of help to a stalker.

Edited January 23 by Caaghyr's Crew
Adding detail, correcting spelling.

[+HHL]

15 minutes ago, Caaghyr's Crew said:

That's our first thousand and our latest thousand, I can't find the vast number in the middle?

Download your "MyFinds" Pocket Query. It holds all your finds, even the archived ones.

[+barefootjeff]

5 hours ago, Caaghyr's Crew said:

This is a new issue, since last summer. We followed our daughter's trip around the world last March/April, just by hitting "Profile-geocaches-all geocaches found". That gave us the list, from there we could look at each found cache. Now we get only the list and map of world's latest finds.

 

Have you checked the Preferences setting in your Profile to make sure you haven't inadvertently ticked the "Display search results directly on map" box?

 

 

Having this ticked will cause it to try to show another player's finds directly in the Search Map, which it won't do because you can't map another player's finds. With it unticked, it just produces the list.

[+Caaghyr's Crew]

Thanks barefootjeff, that has resolved the recent finds issue, but not the old history as it only goes back a thousand finds. (No idea how that button got pressed, I don't go into preferences as they were set as we wanted them long ago.) As to the puzzles problem I reckon it's up to the setter to sort.

I haven't tried HHL's idea of the PQ yet, it would be a big file and where to display it?

[+HHL]

8 hours ago, Caaghyr's Crew said:

I haven't tried HHL's idea of the PQ yet, it would be a big file and where to display it?

It's not rocket science to do a Google search, right?

Examples with searching for "mapping gpx files"

GPX Viewer

Jürgen Berkemeier

https://www.j-berkemeier.de › GPXViewer

Das Script liest eine oder mehrere GPX-Dateien, wertet sie aus und zeichnet Tracks, Routen und Wegpunkte in eine Open-Street-Map- oder Google-Maps-Karte ein.

GPS Visualizer

GPS Visualizer

https://www.gpsvisualizer.com

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GPS Visualizer is an online utility that creates maps and profiles from geographic data. It is free and easy to use, yet powerful and extremely customizable.

Maps to GPX

Maps to GPX

https://mapstogpx.

 

Personally, I'd recommend GPS Visualizer

Hans

[+Caaghyr's Crew]

Thank you Hans, I will try GPS Visualiser first I think.

2 hours ago, HHL said:

It's not rocket science to do a Google search, right?

Examples with searching for "mapping gpx files"

GPX Viewer

Jürgen Berkemeier

https://www.j-berkemeier.de › GPXViewer

Das Script liest eine oder mehrere GPX-Dateien, wertet sie aus und zeichnet Tracks, Routen und Wegpunkte in eine Open-Street-Map- oder Google-Maps-Karte ein.

GPS Visualizer

GPS Visualizer

https://www.gpsvisualizer.com

· Diese Seite übersetzen

 

GPS Visualizer is an online utility that creates maps and profiles from geographic data. It is free and easy to use, yet powerful and extremely customizable.

Maps to GPX

Maps to GPX

https://mapstogpx.

 

Personally, I'd recommend GPS Visualizer

Hans

Thank you Hans, I will try GPS Visualiser first I think.