Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Add a Lab Cache to Your Milestone List

Last month we further integrated lab caches into your profile by adding the option to manually list the lab caches you've found and the dates you have found them.  This information allows us to add lab caches into a bunch of your profile sections including the Caching Chronology and Most Well Rounded Day sections.  Now, you can also add a lab cache into your Milestone list by manually entering the milestone number and a title for the lab cache.  Lab caches won't automatically be added to the milestone list because we still can't know in which order they were found compared to other caches found on the same day (lab caches aren't included in My Finds PQs.)  However, we hope this manual option will help cachers show off their special lab cache milestone finds.

The option to add a lab cache to the milestone list is found on the Build My Profile page under the My Memorable Finds section.  As always, please Contact Us with any problems or questions about this new feature!  Thanks!


Friday, November 7, 2014

Build My Profile Page Now Split Into Three Parts

The increasingly large "Build My Profile" page that shows all of your profile customizations is now split into three parts.  At the top of the page you'll now see links to navigate between "Statistics/Charts," "US Maps," and "World Maps."  This will hopefully make all of this information faster to load and easier to manage.

As always, if you have any questions or problems, please Contact Us.

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Adding Lab Caches To Your Stats

Lab caches are experimental caches that are sometimes temporary or even virtual in nature.  They're logged differently than other caches and are saved differently in your caching history.  They also aren't included in your My Finds Pocket Query, so mygeocachingprofile.com can't get any information about them when you upload your file to the site.

For the last several months, the site has had a field on the Build My Profile page where you can manually enter the number of lab caches you've found.  This number was then included in your statistics.  This field has been expanded so that you can now tell us the date you found each lab cache.  This allows us to incorporate lab caches into your total cache finds count, all of your caching chronology statistics including geostreaks and the days of the year chart, your cache type chart, and your most well rounded day statistics.

To add your lab cache dates, go to the Build My Profile page and scroll down to the Additional Caching Information section.  Under the Lab Caches heading, you can use the calendar tool to select the date you found a lab cache and then click "Add Lab Cache To My List."  You can add the same date multiple times if you found more than one lab cache on one day.  These lab cache dates are now part of your account and the next time you upload your My Finds PQ, they will be added into your statistics.



As always, please Contact Us with any problems or questions about this new feature!  Thanks!

Saturday, August 9, 2014

KS, MN, MO, OR, and WA County Maps Added!

Five new state county maps have been added to the site - Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington!

These maps use the 2010 US Census Bureau's information for county boundaries.  If you notice any problems where a cache is being marked as belonging to the wrong county, please Contact Us with the cache name and the county it should appear in and we can fix it in our system.

Also, if you'd like any of these new maps to appear on your geocaching.com profile, remember to check the "Include Map" box next to the map on the "Build My Profile" page, upload your My Finds PQ to generate the latest stats, and then do a one time copy/paste of all your profile HTML from the "Preview and Export Profile" page over to your geocaching.com profile.

As always, please Contact Us with any questions, problems, or suggestions!

Monday, June 30, 2014

Five New State County Maps!

Five new state county maps have been added to the site - Florida, Michigan, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas!

These maps use the 2010 US Census Bureau's information for county boundaries.  If you notice any problems where a cache is being marked as belonging to the wrong county, please Contact Us with the cache name and the county it should appear in and we can fix it in our system.

Also, if you'd like any of these new maps to appear on your geocaching.com profile, remember to check the "Include Map" box next to the map on the "Build My Profile" page, upload your My Finds PQ to generate the latest stats, and then do a one time copy/paste of all your profile HTML from the "Preview and Export Profile" page over to your geocaching.com profile.

As always, please Contact Us with any questions, problems, or suggestions!

Saturday, May 31, 2014

The First US County Maps!

Many of you have been asking for United States County Maps for a long time, and we've just finished the necessary work to get them added to the site.  The first four maps are up - North Carolina, Virginia, New York, and Colorado, with more to follow soon.


These maps use the 2010 US Census Bureau's information for county boundaries.  If you notice any problems where a cache is being marked as belonging to the wrong county, please Contact Us with the cache name and the county it should appear in and we can fix it in our system.

Also, if you'd like any of these new maps to appear on your geocaching.com profile, remember to check the "Include Map" box next to the map on the "Build My Profile" page, upload your My Finds PQ to generate the latest stats, and then do a one time copy/paste of all your profile HTML from the "Preview and Export Profile" page over to your geocaching.com profile.

As always, please Contact Us with any questions, problems, or suggestions!

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

New Feature - List of DeLorme Map Finds!

Each DeLorme Map section now includes a list showing a valid cache you found on each map page.  The listing includes the map page number, the cache found on that page, the cache type, and the date the cache was found.  If a page is exempted by the cache owner, this is also reported.

These lists are optional, and if you'd like to include one in your geocaching.com profile, make to sure to check the box to include the list in your profile on the "Build My Profile" page, upload your My Finds PQ to update the list, and then do a one time copy/paste of all your profile HTML from the "Preview and Export Profile" page over to your geocaching.com profile.

As always, please Contact Us with any questions, problems, or suggestions!

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Contact Us Email Issues

We've recently found that our servers haven't been properly delivering email for the last few weeks.  If you sent an email directly to the site or by using the Contact Us link, and you haven't received a response, please resend your request.  We'll get to it ASAP.  Sorry for the inconvenience!