How to search for caches not found in over a year

[+stolwood]

Is there a way to query for caches that haven't been found for a specified amount of time?

For example, find all caches that haven't been found for over a year...

[+cerberus1]

Project-GC has a lonely cache search, I believe by date.

[+jellis]

I use to have a simple way but since GC changed the website it is harder.

[Blue Square Thing]

Project-GC has a lonely cache search, I believe by date.

Or you can do a map compare and apply a filter for log date - that might get you around the problem as well. More or less.

[cezanne]

Project-GC has a lonely cache search, I believe by date.

 

No, the lonely cache search function does something different. It divides the number of days the cache exists by the number of finds.

[+Team Taran]

On your profile page use the link on the right side of your profile to search for the nearest caches you haven't found. Click on the last found date. This will show most recently found first. Click on the header again to reverse the order.

[cezanne]

On your profile page use the link on the right side of your profile to search for the nearest caches you haven't found. Click on the last found date. This will show most recently found first. Click on the header again to reverse the order.

 

This approach delivers only caches within 80km. To extent it one needs to add dist=... to the html command. This then certainly will not end up into something convenient to identify caches that have not been found within a year for example.

Edited March 31, 2015 by cezanne

[+palmetto]

I looked at the first cache you logged, asked for nearby caches, ranked on last found...unfound events will always lead this list, then the other physical caches unfound. Limits to 50 miles (80km as noted by cezannne)

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?lat=44.932000&lng=-96.046067&dist=100sortdir=asc&sort=lastfound

 

Using "old search" (which is now linked in small white text on the right side of the search page) I asked for caches in Minnesota, ranked on date found (you click this twice to get the unfound to the top) With a whole state page, you often have to jump to page 4 or 5 to get beyond the events and recently published unfound. What you're looking for starts on the current page 4.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=24&ex=0&cFilter=9a79e6ce-3344-409c-bbe9-496530baf758&children=n&sortdir=asc&sort=lastfound

[knowschad]

On your profile page use the link on the right side of your profile to search for the nearest caches you haven't found. Click on the last found date. This will show most recently found first. Click on the header again to reverse the order.

 

This approach delivers only caches within 80km. To extent it one needs to add dist=... to the html command. This then certainly will not end up into something convenient to identify caches that have not been found within a year for example.

 

By "html command", Cezanne is referring to adding the parameter, "&dist=" + the distance to the URL in the browser's address bar.

[+stolwood]

Thanks all for the replies, I will try to apply what is above in some fashion to see if I can get what I am looking for when I get home this evening...

In this particular instance I am looking for a cache to satisfy the logging requirements for:

 

GC3MF32 - The Wisconsin Lonely Cache Challenge

 

So I need a cache in Wisconsin that has not been found for over a year... obviously the closer to home (White Bear Lake, MN area) the better.

Not asking anyone to do the homework itself for me, just was not sure of how to attack it with tools available on GeoCaching.com

 

Thanks again.

Edited March 31, 2015 by stolwood

[+AnnaMoritz]

Project-GC has a lonely cache search, I believe by date.

 

No, the lonely cache search function does something different. It divides the number of days the cache exists by the number of finds.

 

It's not 'Statistics - Lonely caches' search at project-gc.com but 'Tools - Not found caches'. Filters are Cache Location (country and state/county or Bundesländer/Bezirk), Logdate from e.g. 2014 03 31, center/radius, Difficulty/Terrain, Show also disabled/archived, From/to Hidden date.

[Blue Square Thing]

Here's the Project-GC link to the list AnnaMoritz suggests - http://project-gc.com/Statistics/DaysSinceLastFound?profile_name=Blue+Square+Thing&country=United+States&region=Wisconsin&submit=Filter

 

You'll need to link your account to here first I imagine if you've not used it before.

 

There appear to be 1710 (or so) caches in Wisconsin which haven't been found in the last year! I don't know which counties you'd be interested in - but if you click the bit above the list where it says Filters then you can reduce that search by county as well. If it's Barron then there's 22 or so. I think you'll need to filter by county to get anything meaningful.

[+stolwood]

Thanks all, with help from the above answers I was able to get what I wanted.