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  1. One of the most beautiful coincidences I have had was while searching for the northernmost cache in Spain, about 200 km from my city. When I'm signing the logbook, I look at the previous signature, which was on the same day, and when I read it I noticed that the signers were good friends of ours (even before the geocaching) that we did not know they were in the area. I called them and they were eating in the nearby town, 2 km away, so we went to join them and enjoy some time together, since we had not seen each other for a while. The last coincidence happened this weekend. I was with my wife and my 4 year old son walking a path that went down to a waterfall. Halfway down the wooden handrail had burned in a recent fire and made it dangerous to continue going down, so we sat down in a stone for a snack. At first we did not plan to do geocaching, and I had not seen the caches in the area, but at that break it occurred to me to see if there was a cache nearby. My surprise was to open the app that marked me 0 meters! We were sitting on it, because under the stone there was a hole with the hiding place. The bad part is that the cache was missing, but it was the coincidence of opening the app and being right over the hiding place. That's precision the first time!
  2. You are not alone! I also removed my lab caches logs for exactly the same reasons than you. BTW, it seems that a lot of people doesn't know that they can hide/unhide (it is called deletion, but as it is reversible I wouldn't call it that) their lab cache logs in labs.geocaching.com.
  3. You're right, although I still think there are some differences (very subtle,true) at least in terms of legitimacy. By reductio ad absurdum, anyone could complain if I do Armchair Founds and show that I have not signed the logbook (although that protest is useless for souvenirs), but it is more difficult to argue that I have not been in a cache dropping and retrieving the same TBs for a while. And is that another nuance is that you can accumulate points with the TBs again and again in a single cache (I've checked it), but (if I'm not wrong, as I didn't check) you cannot add points by logging found and delete that found in a single cache. Anyway, I understand what you mean and you are right in essence, there's nothing really new here, so I will stop this topic
  4. Well, the difference is that here you don't need to log any Found it/Attended nor altering your stats or any cache stats. You can make the cheat without disturbing anyone (by dropping the TBs in your archived caches, for example) and you can avoid that a owner can delete your log. In a souvenir that required found, for instance, a D/T 5/5, the CO could delete unlegitimate armchair logs (I know, that was not usual as there is a lot CO that didn't care about those logs for souvenirs)*, but here can just add a Note saying almost anything and dropping your TBs to get them back inmediatly. If they are your owned TBs and your archived cache, I find hard to get a legitimate reason to delete those logs/points. *Not sure if in those souvenirs you kept the souvenir if the owner deleted the log. Anyway, that doesn't change the substantial reasoning of the differences.
  5. Yes. And now comes the fun part, anyone could get the 10 souvenirs from his armchair. How? Simply put a note in any cache (better if it is archived) and drop off all (or some) trackables from your inventory. Then, you recover them all and you will have gained 4 * #TB points. You repeat in another cache and so on until you complete the 500 points. Simple, you can check it now (I did it and you can see what my League score is in the attached picture). At least if they don't change things for the beginning of the promotion. I know it is not very fair or it goes against the spirit of the promotion, but I prefer that people do that instead to create ad hoc PTs to have caches to find. I think this is less harmful.
  6. This is my biggest objection to this "challenge". In my area, my prediction is that this will involve the publication of some PTs by "new users". The most veteran have the area very covered and do not have so many caches available to get the 10 souvenirs without moving really far, so it is likely that they have to "create" new caches to get it, almost certainly misteries (provide more points) with micros and a low D / T, that maybe would be undermaintained after the pursuit ends. My prediction is not free as it just happened because of a challenge proposed by a national community in which there were seven days in a row to find more caches than the previous day (a minimum of 28: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7), so a PT was published with just 28 caches. And although there may not be anything wrong with this, in my opinion it shamelessly favors quantity over quality and adds a competitive component that I think does not benefit the game. But like @barefootjeff said: This appears to be the way they want caching to go these days, though, so who am I to argue?
  7. Precisely for what you comment in bold is why it is even more important that GS did the correct didactic exercise with the list of planets. I know it's a profound change, in fact it took me a lot to remove Pluto from my mental list, and it was not until I saw dozens of times a chapter of Peppa Pig (my son's favorite cartoons) in which they list the planets (without Pluto) until I internalized it. My post is not a formal complaint, but it is in a certain way serious. I am disappointed that GS makes this mistake (or whim, or what you might consider it) especially because in other facets they have always been very likely to make their activities with a clear educational side, and adjusted to scientific consensus (as shown by their partnership with the GSA for the Earthcaches). In my opinion it is a lost opportunity to make this game with Pluto listed as a planet. Obviously it is a game and the importance is relative to it, but it helps people continue to internalize Pluto as a planet (as shown. On the other hand, the argument with which you could respond to my "complaint" is very simple: This planetary pursuit is set in a hypothetical future year 2650, where Pluto has regained its status as a planet ..... Obviously in your game you can include whatever you want. You could even say that the Earth is flat or that the African countries are still British or French colonies (things that do not fit the evidence and / or the consensus), but it would be a pity if you did not take advantage of your influence (millions of users) to favor the dissemination of knowledge based on facts and scientific consensus. Now think of those families with children who will go to this challenge and parents say - Let's go for the nine planets of the solar system! - But Daddy, at school they tell us that they are 8 - Nonsense, do not take Pluto into account? Pluto is a planet! even says GS. - Oh, I suppose it will be true then. When the ideal situation (and more rigorous) would have been this: - But why is not Pluto in this challenge? These GS's do not know anything! - No daddy, the planets of the solar system are 8, that Pluto has lost the category of planet because the scientists agreed that it did not have the necessary characteristics, they taught it to us at school! - Oh! Well, we must learn a new thing and not assume that what they have taught us is written in stone. Thanks kids! That's what I mean with my "complaint"
  8. Being rigorous, Pluto is no longer considered a planet for more than 10 years. For such Planetary Pursuit should not be included since the premise is "visit" the planets of the Solar System, and these are 8, not 9. I find it strange that from Groundspeak have neglected the didactic part of the matter. Some references: https://www.universetoday.com/13573/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet#Former_planets well, there is a 6-yo girl that begs for Pluto recovering its planetary status: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/02/16/a-6-year-old-tells-nasa-to-make-pluto-a-planet-again-you-need-to-fix-this-problem-for-me/
  9. I know of a bunch of them here in Spain (from the user Adolficus): https://coord.info/GC7757B https://coord.info/GC6X3AV https://coord.info/GC6RM9V https://coord.info/GC6C7AY Check Adolficus' profile or contact him as he could have more or know of another examples
  10. Pues yo no lo veo. Por una parte hay una tendencia, que se recuerda cada vez que sale una propuesta de nuevos atributos en el foro global (aquí una lista amplia de hilos sobre el tema), a tratar de no añadir más complejidad al sistema de atributos. Un nuevo atributo específico para un vector abriría la puerta a muchos otros más. Por otra parte, en casi todas partes hay mosquitos, y casi todas las especies de mosquitos son potenciales vectores de enfermedades más o menos graves. Como bien dices, en Sudamérica hay un crecimiento muy grande de poblaciones de mosquitos, que abarcan áreas enormes. Así, el problema de los mosquitos no afecta en mayor medida por hacer un cache u otro (en esas áreas enormes todos los caches deberían tener el atributo que propones) y cualquier persona que visite esas áreas debería estar alerta sobre la presencia de esos mosquitos. Por poner una analogía extrema sería como hacer un atributo "zona de guerra" para todos los caches de un país en guerra, si estás allí es que ya conoces el riesgo inherente a todo el país. El tema de las garrapatas es diferente, ya que hay caches que te "obligan" a pasar por vegetación en la que hay mucha probabilidad de que se te pegue una, cosa que probablemente no te pasaría por estar haciendo actividad normal no relacionada con el geocaching (como andar por un sendero sin meterte en la maleza). Vamos, que si viajas a una zona con ZIka o Dengue y no tomas las precauciones necesarias no lo vas a hacer por ver un atributo en un cache (y si eres de la zona ya deberías estar alerta por ti mismo). Lo de añadir un atributo de mosquitos es una propuesta ya vieja y que no ha llegado a ningún lado: Mosquito attribute Mosquito Icon for Caches Can we get a new atribute for bees? (No es lo mismo, pero parecido) Pero bueno, que eso no te quite la idea de intentarlo si realmente lo crees necesario/beneficioso, pero mira bien todos los argumentos, tanto los que estén a favor como los que estén en contra. Suerte! PD. Todos los hilos que enlacé están en inglés, si eso es un problema el uso de un traductor automático puede ser lo suficientemente satisfactorio para entender la idea general de cada hilo.
  11. Sí, yo también me uno vía Facebook, que es mejor plataforma para eso que el Whatsapp
  12. Given that you are a Premium member, you can use Lists in the Geocaching® app for offline searching Other common apps have the capability to download lists, pocket queries or individual caches (look for options like "save" or "offline"). You don't need a PC or a GPSr unit to find caches without cell/internet service. Just make sure in advance that you have download the caches to your geocaching app for offline use before you go to the field.
  13. If a friend request you send to someone is accepted, then that someone will appear on your friends list. While not accepting or rejecting it will appear in the list of friends pending. If they reject it, it does not appear in any. What a friend request does is send an email to the indicated person informing him that you request his friendship. If he does not see the mail or does not check the list of pending friends, that request may be stalled for a long time. More info in the Help Centre: https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=27&pgid=590
  14. anpefi

    Dudas al revisor

    En la lista de souvenirs para este año (https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=89&pgid=792#eventsouvenirs2017) no está, en la última newsletter no mencionan nada y a menos de una semana ya n0 creo que lo anuncien. De Halloween sólo lo hubo el año pasado y no parece que vaya a ser algo regular como lo son los souvenirs de los días internacionales del geocaching, earchaches, CITO weeks y GIFF, que son los que hay año tras año.
  15. Kompozer es un editor libre de páginas web tipo WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get = Lo que ves es lo que tienes).
  16. That's the key. For me a cache is special depending on the overall experience I have lived in looking for it. And for this there are many factors that the owner can not control, so there is not always a correlation between the effort of the owner and the satisfaction that I find. Some of the caches that I consider "special" are mere eppendorf in urban environment that do not catch the attention of other geocachers. It's all so subjective! But if we talk about what makes a special container (considering only the physical aspect of the cache), then I would be prone to answer that one that facilitates signing the logbook and is designed to last. There are too many containers that try to be original and / or "special" but that are very fragile, last little and only maintain their charm if you find them in their first weeks of life. If the goal is to give ideas to those who hide to make their caches special, then the only thing I can say them is to think about what kind of caches they like to find themselves. If a cache does not satisfy the owner, it will hardly satisfy others.
  17. You're right. I've just read a lot of information across the Cuban Customs website and GPS-enabled smartphones are not banned. It was my fault to interpret they were from an older post in this thread. My apologizes.
  18. that's ambiguous. Instructions could include the use of some technology (that of course should be indicated in the listing). For example, it is not uncommon Multi-caches that use QR-codes that should be read using a mobile technology to get the next step coordinates.
  19. Can you confirm that after your visit the cache is in optimal conditions to be searched, found and signed? If the answer is yes you have maintained and you are legitimated to log it as such. Maybe in English (which is not my first or second language) is not so, but for me "doing maintenance" does not necessarily imply having to fix something, if not check if something is ok and give it the okay if it is or fix it if not. So any visit of a owner in which the cache is in good condition after that visit is a maintenance visit, although no action was required. Logging it as OM or not is up to you. If you do it, then the message you are sending to others is "Hey, the cache is Ok!". In your case, does OM logging benefit the CHS from the cache? Probably not*, but it will always be good for others to know that the cache has been recently checked. * Perhaps one of the factors affecting CHS could be the time since the last owner visit. If it is, I do not think it would be quite important in relation to DNFs or NMs, but who knows? In that case, logging a OM in a clear cache (w/o DNFs/NM/NA) could result in a slight improvement of its CHS.
  20. IMHO it should be one field just like it is now when you manually correct the coordinates.
  21. Probably there is a mystery or a multi with a physical waypoint (can be the final or any intermediate) hidden and overlapping your cache. These kind of hidden stages are not shown with the red circles in the map. Try to solve all mysteries/multi/wherigos around.
  22. Absolutely true! Once I found my name in a logbook of a cache which was the first time I found. I had to check the date and then realized that I had been that afternoon with other geocachers who found that cache and signed on my name even though I had left earlier. I would bet that there are a couple more caches in the area with my name but unfound by me.
  23. My contribution to the thread. I am one of those who like to write long logs and full of personal experiences. I know a lot of people do not like it (some also hate it). I know that many others love my logs. I do not care if others like it or not. I write my logs mainly for myself, although I also try to share useful information for owners and seekers (like "the caches is Ok, but the logbbok is close to be full" or "I searched in that awful/dangerous zone but the cache was 10m behind"). That's why my logs are all different even for series of caches. That is why sometimes I make the effort of linking the previous and next logs to a chain of several caches on the same day. In my way of looking at things, finding a cache consists of three phases: 1. Read the listing and gather information needed to start the search of the cache. 2. Go out, find it and sign the physical logbook. 3. Write in the online log how I lived that experience. The three phases are imperative, for me, to consider a cache as found. And it's something that I keep to myself. In fact I have about 50 caches (which represent around 10% of my "Found it" numbers) that I have signed but I do not have in my FI registry for several reasons. Some because the owner thought it wrong to write long logs, so I deleted them and I put all the caches from those owners in my ignore list. Others because some caching mates thought it wrong that I wrote in the log that we had separated to do a PT and I just logged (all totally different logs!) those I had signed. I deleted those logs because if I can not reflect what my true experience was, I consider that cache is incomplete for me. If, as owner, you bother my long logs, just tell me and I have no problem deleting them and not logging back a cache of yours. There are enough caches in the world! Once a colleague asked me why those logs were so long? My answer was: I enjoy geocaching. Writing long logs forces me to remember and, above all, to reflect on the activity. I perfectly remember all the caches I've found (Of course, my finds numbers are quite small, 500 in 3 years). In addition, writing is always a highly recommended exercise. And I love reading long logs from others that are sincere and reflect their experience (positive or negative). I love to learn how others live their own way of geocaching. On the other hand, I don't like very short meaningless logs, generic and/or repetitive logs or those that are simply compliant with the owners but do not reflect a real or sincere experience. But even I don't like them, I do not complain about them.
  24. Sometimes happens. But there are alternatives. The times that have happened to me have always taken a photo of the logbook (without showing the container) for the online log, if i cannot find anything to mark it. If it's a cache that stays near my usual routes, then I'll wait until another day when I come with pen. Sometimes you do not plan to do geocaching and suddenly you see yourself with time and a smartphone. In these situations it is normal that you do not have a pen handy. Especially if you're paperless like me,that I use pens just for geocaching.
  25. anpefi

    Dudas al revisor

    Hola, En realidad veo que no habías desactivado tu cache. Sigue activo y visitable. Si no lo habías "desactivado temporalmente" entonces es normal que no te apareciera la opción de "activar".
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