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In my case I use the Proyect-GC tool for it as it provides me custom errors for non valid or not active trackeables and then its up to me to save those codes for later or correct them. I have no idea how the other options work but this ones does the trick for me with no issues and I didn't need to search any further for extra tools. Some friends use a separated android app that lets you scan directly the TB code and save it for logging later. I take pictures of the TBs as you do instead as I sometimes want to have a look at the TB page even if I don't take them with me but they are quite happy as well with the android app.

Today I was finally able to scroll back in time and see all of the previous texts for a member in the message part of the geocaching app (iPhone version). Not sure what got corrected but all is good now.

For the sake of completeness, I looked through the GSAK macro index, and I don't see any macros that would do this. I guess the bulk-discovery websites may have been sufficient for cachers and nobody felt it was worth writing a macro to do the same thing.

TBScan is available for Android. I have it, but don't ask me how to use it!!! edit to add... didn't see TeamRabbitRun's response

Boas, alguém está a ter problemas com a renovação de premium? Temos renovação automática com um cartao mbnet válido, no entanto por algum motivo não foi feito o pagamento. Recebi email a informar que tinha falhado a renovação premium. Acedi à pagina do geocaching verifiquei os dados e parece-me tudo bem. Pelo sim pelo não, gerei novo cartao mbnet e ao tentar guardar os dados do novo cartão nunca eram guardados. Neste momento já não sou premium e não consigo fazer o pagamento!!! Já enviei mensagem à Groundspeak, mas parece-me que não estão a perceber a questão. Alguma ideia de como resolver?

Since we're reminiscing... I really miss the so-easy-to-use Windows Phone Groundspeak Geocaching Live app... The OS was so simple, yet few were interested. It's what the current billing is based on (PM to play) IIRC.

The other 2/3rds was using her Blackberry and Trimble Outdoors at the end of 2005. It was as accurate as the Blue Legends we were using at the time...

Yes, TBScan is available for Android phones.

The team is aware of the issue and is looking into it.

You've found (and logged) while on vacation... Maybe the CO is also on vacation, and unable to check email (I know, very unusual theses days, but!) Once home they may have a lot of emails and others things to catch up on. You log at the end of your vacation, just as the CO is setting off for their vacation. Four weeks to respond? Unless they are on a world cruise for an extended period!

That's a good idea - set up a basic member account that owns all the bugs. Then after the race is over, that account could adopt the bugs back to their original owners.

@Geocaching HQ I'll kindly request to fix the issue as soon as possible. It has now been nearly three weeks without logs or a visible header on some pages. These are essential functions of the website and must work independently of tracking and advertisement cookie consent.

Thanks! I've been looking at painter poles, but most don't collapse enough to be useful. This seems like an even better solution, because while I've been lucky enough so far not to have any discs go swimming or get eaten by trees, it's only a matter of time.

Oh, duh. I forgot about those.

What puzzles me the most are the TFTC logs with a favorite point. So it's in your top 10%, but you couldn't be bothered to write more than four letters...uh, ok. That's one way to do it, but it's not the preferred technique.

Close! 2020 (hard to believe it's only been 5 years!) Release Notes (New Attributes) - August 31, 2020 - Geocaching HQ communications - Geocaching Forums https://share.google/n0lnT80AcBBL02d6T

There is also an app for that, at least for Apple phones: TBScan. I never got it for Android and don't know if they finally put out a version for non-iPhone.

If memory serves, we haven't seen new attributes since 2010, when the Lost and Found attribute was added to those 10 Years! events that had a Groundspeak Lackey in attendance.* I wouldn't hold my breath for a new one, especially one that depended on the daily changes in the position of the sun, and whether the trees in the area have leaves that time of year or not. *and a random traditional cache in Estonia, but that glitch was fixed when it hit the forums.

I answer all the emails and messages I get for earthcache logs, because what's the use of teaching a lesson if you're not going to let people know whether they got it right? I strive to do so as soon as I have a chance, might take a day, but absent something unexpected, I certainly wouldn't wait weeks. If I did, I would cut cachers some slack and not expect them to jump through hoops several weeks (and likely several cache finds) later.

Honestly maintaining a streak is not inherently bad. It can be a fun challenge or a positive goal that encourages exercise. It becomes wrong when you start sacrificing things to keep it alive. It's bad when people sacrifice their integrity to it, cheating to keep it going. It's bad when you have to go too far out of your way to find the nearest cache, wasting time and gas. It's bad when start sacrificing other parts of your life to the streak. As I said earlier, maybe this person doesn't really enjoy cruises. But if he does enjoy cruises? If he really would have liked to spend that week with his geo-friends? If he was in danger of losing his job or his marriage because of his efforts to maintain his streak you wouldn't say that's just his choice. If he was missing out on the birth of his child.

I'm not particularly into streaks, I just completed my longest 16 days while on holiday, and on the 17th day when back home I couldn't be bothered to drive 8 miles for a find to keep it going. But in your situation, if you're able to find a cache every 24 hours during your travel and vacation, then I would probably log the finds on the dates in my home timezone, then the dateline issue doesn't come into it, I would certainly feel that's legit. ETA: Not sure if you can do that with the Groundspeak app, but you can with others or by logging on the website.

I usually keep in the notes the answer to any question that can not be solved from home, the ones that requiere you to measure something, count or do a task at the gc. If I get a correction after I log from the CO, I correct the notes as well, same for multis and mysteries. Regarding the pictures I don't delete them from the galery so if something comes up I just need to search by date to rescue the correct picture and send it. I rarely have to use them to relog a cache but it is useful for me if I revisit with somebody else. Only once I got a log deleted that I couldn't do again but it was because I took the picture in the wrong place.

My oldest is Bastille By the Bay (GCHYTA) on a bluff overlooking San Quentin prison, hidden on 3-19-04. I finally got around to visiting Mingo earlier this year. I was not sure whether I was going to stop for it, but I thought I had been trying to get out to Potters Pond (Utahs oldest) for a long time — defeated by early snow or a late opening —so I might as well stop for Mingo as we drove past.. I also have found Europes Oldest but walked right by Jordan’s oldest in Petra without stopping. I have a conflicting ideas about whether I should attach any importance to an old cache.

I started with a bunch of note that I rended to lose, got a palm pilot to help with that, but began using the iPhone app Geosphere in 2008 and held on to until around 2019. It set the standard for what an app could be and had features that still go beyond other caching apps. In order to delay the inevitable I held out upgrading the iPhone for as long as possible. There is a remarkable history to the game, some of it developed as Groundspeak built on a simple stash hidden by Dave Ulmer, some of it involved competing databases. I used to go into to go into of the old Usenet groups as well as various forums to learn about what came before I learned about the game. It can be a fun exercise as long as you don’t fall into the rabbit hole.

When I checked my setting a couple of months back when the question came up, it was unticked and I'm pretty sure that, at some point at least, that was the default as it's not something I would have intentionally unticked. That said, the logic in that part of the Privacy settings is rather bizarre, with the first checkbox needing to be checked to block stuff and the second one needing to be unchecked to block stuff.