Have you ever wondered how some cachers have tons of stats on their profile? Wonder no longer, because you are about to learn how to do it for yourself. (NOTE: This method requires a Premium membership at Geocaching.com)
So, here’s how to add detailed stats to your profile using GSAK:
- Logon to your Geocaching.com account and find the Premium Features section in the right column. Click on Build Pocket Queries.
- Click on Add to Queue near the bottom third of the screen.
- In a moment a new Pocket Query will appear in the Pocket Queries Ready for Download tab.
- Click on My Finds Pocket Query and save it to your desktop.
- Download the Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (Windows only) software here and install it. It’s FREE!
- Open GSAK and click FILE>LOAD GPX/LOC/ZIP…..
- Click on the yellow folder and select the file you saved on your Desktop and click OK.
- The file will load and present you with a Load Summary box. Click OK.
- Go to TOOL>OPTIONS>LOCATIONS and remove the # sign from HOME if it’s there. Insert your home coordinates and click OK.
- A MACRO will provide all the “magic” to getting your stats. Download the FindStatGen3.gsk by clicking here and save to your Desktop.
- In GSAK click MACRO>RUN/MANAGE. Click INSTALL, click on the yellow folder, find the file you just downloaded, click INSTALL.
- In the RUN MACRO window click on FindStatGen3 then RUN.
- There are tons of options that you can explore later, for now just click OK at the Find Statistics HTML Export window.
- After a few moments a browser window will open and display your stats.
- Go to your account on the Geocaching.com webite.
- Click on your caching name at the top of the screen next to “Hello”
- Click on YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE down under the second “Hello YourName”.
- Click on EDIT YOUR PROFILE next to your caching name.
- Click inside the white space in the Profile Details window.
- Press CTRL-V and all the code needed to display your stats will be pasted.
- Click SAVE CHANGES.
- Now take a look at your new Public Profile chock full of stats!