Out of State caches not on Recent Logs

[The Crippler]

I have noticed that not all caches that are found out of state are recorded on the Recent Logs page. Some state cachers have their out of state finds posted while others do not. What is up with that?

[cheezehead]

Ummm I think it just harvests WGA member logs and I think it does it every 1/2 hour or so. But I’m not real sure about anything.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Not the expert, I believe that’d be Jeremy, but I think it misses some stuff for various reasons. All no doubt very technical reasons, which is why I don’t understand it!

[sandlanders]

And I seem to remember something about the harvester not catching your out-of-state finds if you do not have your link to geocaching.com on your profile here in the WGA. And I’m only just a little bit more sure about things than Cheezehead is. But we both seem to understand a wee bit more technical stuff than Birdin’ does! 😉

[sandlanders]

OK. I might have how to do this now.

1. Go to geocaching.com and click on “my profile”.
2. Click on your stats bar (with the GC logo on it).
3. Copy the entire http address at the top.

4. Back on the WGA site, click on “your account” at the bottom of the main menu to the left.
5. Click the “membership info” tab.
6. Near the top right under your caching name, past the http address you copied in the geocachiing.com spot.
7. At the bottom of the page, click on “update”.

You should now have the 4-color GC logo after your account name here. If I’m remembering right, now the harvester will recognize your out-of-state finds as belonging to a Wisconsin cacher here. Because this is an optional part of your profile, it doesn’t happen automatically.

Jeremy or others, feel free to correct anything I have said here.

[Jeremy]

@sandlanders wrote:

Jeremy or others, feel free to correct anything I have said here.

You’ve got it 100% correct. You need to have your geocaching.com profile link entered for the harvester to pick up your out of state logs. This isn’t obvious, and this is the first time this has been asked, so we will get this documented somewhere.

There are a couple reasons why matching is done based on the geocaching.com profile link (actually the unique ID associated with your geocaching.com account) instead of your geocaching.com username. First, people are prone to entering their username incorrectly (typos, wrong spacing, wrong capitalization), whereas the link must be entered correctly or the WGA website won’t accept it. Second, the queries that need to take place to determine if a log is from one of our members can be done more efficiently using the link. This is important when you consider we are doing this for each and every log entered on geocaching.com… sometimes over 100,000 a day.

[The Crippler]

Thank you all for your responses and I am glad that I did not rehash and old subject!

[Todd300]

@sandlanders wrote:

OK. I might have how to do this now.

1. Go to geocaching.com and click on “my profile”.
2. Click on your stats bar (with the GC logo on it).
3. Copy the entire http address at the top.

4. Back on the WGA site, click on “your account” at the bottom of the main menu to the left.
5. Click the “membership info” tab.
6. Near the top right under your caching name, past the http address you copied in the geocachiing.com spot.
7. At the bottom of the page, click on “update”.

You should now have the 4-color GC logo after your account name here. If I’m remembering right, now the harvester will recognize your out-of-state finds as belonging to a Wisconsin cacher here. Because this is an optional part of your profile, it doesn’t happen automatically.

Jeremy or others, feel free to correct anything I have said here.

Doesn’t work for me. Keeps telling me the GC URL is invalid. Maybe because I’m a WGA friend and not a member.

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