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I'm sorry if this has been asked before or not, but is there a way to contact Geoaware? Do the accounts have a generic email address that they all use? Or should I contact them through individual accounts? Do they check messages when you send them a message through the message system? I am trying to get a couple ECs together, but I would like get some guidance from them before I proceed much further with these ideas. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

It's an irrelevant question, because the OP must certainly have permission from the land manager in order to have their cache published as an exception to the Geocache Hiding Guidelines. I appreciate the OP's question, which demonstrates they've read the following guideline text:

I can reproduce this. Maybe it's a narrow screen with the right columns hidden. In such cases you can use the three dots on the right above the columns to replace the last column with another one. A small consolation. You can also reduce the display of the content on the narrow screen slightly so that there is space for more columns on the screen. Or you could reduce the unnecessary white space between columns. But that is probably a wish that is unfortunately not being heard in Seattle.

I have several bird house caches in parks in my community. In one case I contacted the township supervisor because they have a park but no parks department. In the other case I contacted the Parks & Recreation department. They gave permission and later asked me to put on a Geocaching 101 class. In both cases they want people using the parks and welcomed the geocaches.

Fantastic!!! A GeoMay8 Day event has been published in Andalucía, Spain. Check it out....... https://coord.info/GCAPKZC

Would you need permission to dig a post hole for a real bird house??

You’re too kind! If you think this was fun to read, just wait until you see some of my logs…

Often they'll be tagged with the "field puzzle" attribute, so you can start by searching for caches with that. Like this

You'd start by figuring out who owns the land, then contacting them to ask. I use Regrid to figure out who owns a particular piece of property. Often what people think of as public land is unused private land, so it's worth a check. That's the question you need to determine. Sometimes it may be easier to create a birdhouse that just stands on its own, and then attach it to an existing structure (in a manner discussed with the landowner).

Yes, it should still work. You should still be able to copy pocket queries (specially formatted GPX files) to it, just like you could back in the old days. If you upgraded to a premium membership (a few $/month), you'd be able to specify the types of caches you like and round up files containing just those types, with details, hints, and logs, and just copy (drag and drop) them to your receiver with any software on pretty much any mainstream operating system. As for host OS software, the thing just shows up as a disk drive in your computer and you can copy/delete files to/from it as you wish; no special drivers needed. ] The manufacturer, Mio, has long abandoned the handheld market generally and the geocaching market specficially, so don't enter into any breath-holding bets on when you'll see updates for "new" features that may be even 7-8-10 years in our past at this point. Notably, don't bother looking for new maps. The MIO world is just frozen in time in 2008 or so. A prior thread, , shows that there was a firmware update in mid 2011 that made it a bit more likeable, but if you can't find it/don't care, it doesn't look to be a life-changer. Just messing with the unit, you stand some non-zero change of converting it to a potato so if you liked the way it worked back then and really don't care about the update features, there's some rationale for not updating it. All that said, it had what was a great antenna/GPS receiver (SirfStar III or IV, depending on what litigation was raging at the time) for its era and it's much more likely to survive a tumble down a rock embankment and into the drink than your iFone. You're probably less likely to cry if it shatters. Smaller children may more enjoy/be more trusted the green-rubbery device with a color screen that's droppable than your $$$ phone. Ditto adults with vision or fine motor-skill issues or wearing gloves. The buttons are just plain big and clicky, exactly like mobile phone OS buttons aren't. I won't lean hard into pitching a 14-15 y/o tech product. Its certainly not the optimal device for everyone. If you have it, are familiar with it, and expect it to work in 2024 about like it worked in 2010 or so, you should be pleased. The ecosystem around it has held up pretty well. It should work pretty much as well as it ever did. Enjoy. or recycle it. I'm not your dad... :-)

Searching by city name doesn't work properly either. This problem exists since 2022 or so. After entering a city name, the default sorting is "from near to far", which is fine. But "near" is not seen from the city center, but from my home location, which makes the results useless. When choosing "Map geocaches", the map also shows those caches that are nearest to my home location. The picture shows the map result for Berlin. You can see that I live southwest of Berlin - no caches in the city itself show up. A workaround is setting the home location to the center of Berlin or your desired search center. But it's annoying to do that each time. Another workaround is to use the old search (https://www.geocaching.com/seek/). Will there be a fix for that one day?

I used to search by coordinates all the time. Sometimes I'd use the coordinates from photos to identify the cache we were at. Can't understand why it stopped working. Anyone know if there is a fix in sight?

Still doesn't work. I generally don't like it when a website "manipulates" my right-click-options. Ctrl-V works fine, but paste by right-click doesn't.

As opposed to your quote of it?

Das Champ-Teil hatte ich, als ich vor zwanzig Jahren noch Raucher war, auch immer dabei. Heute steht es im Arbeitszimmer im Regal.

Thanks everyone! Just to confirm the answers to my specific questions are: 1. April 21, 2015 2. Yes, they are allowed to have additional requirements for caches published before that date.

Does anyone know of any gadget caches in the uk, preferably southern England

Hoi, ik ben arian 39 jaar en zoek een geocache maatje in de omgeving van maarssen. groeten arian

Super annoying for someone like me right now trying to plan a big US road trip, centering on certain caches and trying to get a list of caches nearby.... no I don't want a list of caches near my home, some 10000km away... lol

I want to build by own gadget birdhouse geocache eventually that sits on its own post. I live in a suburban city in the US , and I am wondering how I would go about getting permission to dig a hole and place a bird house on public land, and if it is even worth it.

Hi, just wanted to check if there was any update on this fix. Thanks!

Me. Yes he can be quite bubbly.

The quick secret way is to (if you're a premium member) create a Pocket Query and toggle the option for unfound caches. Just save the PQ - you don't need to run it - and bookmark either the map preview or the result list preview. There's your list of still-unfound geocaches. With no date limit, you can locate geocaches that have gone years still unfound. Powerful tool. Use it wisely. ;P

Zu Hause rauche ich eher nach dem Essen und zum Kaffee, aber wenn ich draußen bin, gehe ich einfach spazieren, ohne das Bedürfnis zu haben, zu rauchen. Es ist für mich eine gesündere Alternative geworden, und ich muss mir keine Gedanken über die Entsorgung von Zigarettenkippen in der Natur machen.

Ich weiß nicht, ich habe nicht das Bedürfnis zu rauchen, wenn ich lange Spaziergänge im Wald mache. Ich genieße einfach die frische Luft und den Spaziergang.