Delta68
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I'd love to have your Virtuals but that ain't allowed
Mark
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You can't change it.
But a Reviewer can.
However, they don't like to, as it effects finders stats.
Reviewers might change a cache type if it was listed as the wrong type when they published it, but that would mean admitting that they made a mistake in the first place!
(Yes this is a bone of contention)
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Many thanks for that (two logs for number 5 and none for number 4) - how did you do that so quickly!
I wrote a GreaseMonkey script a couple of months ago which counts how many caches there are listed on the page. Normally this will be 20 but if a cache is logged twice it will say 19.
So,viewing your list of finds http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?ul=Wilburii I just clicked 'Next' until my counter said 19
Then it was just a case of viewing each cache page until I found the one with two logs. Luckily it was the fourth or fifth one that I looked at
If the duplicate had been quite early on it would have taken a little bit longer
Mark
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You've logged finds on http://coord.info/GC2P314 twice
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Double checking on Google Earth will tell you if the co-ords are wildly inaccurate
Mark
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If I DNF, I try to give a reason -Too many Muggles, lack of time, getting late etc.
We'll give an excuse rather than a reason!
The real reason is because we're not very good at this game
and frequently seem to DNF caches other people find easily
Mark
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I presume we cant list these types of caches anymore due to the ALR, or are they excluded?
There's a definite line between what is allowed as 'Challenge' Cache and what is classed as an ALR.
This sort of cache is allowed because the additional requirements are Geocaching related.
If you placed a cache saying "you can only log a find if you visited by bicycle" for example, it would not be allowed
Mark
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If a cache hasn't been found for a while, are you put off or do you see it as a challenge?
I was just looking at some of the caches 'resuscitated' in order to qualify for our Resuscitator Challenge Cache and I was intrigued how quite a few of the caches hadn't been found for well over a year but then seem to have a rush of five or six visits since...
So, if a cache hasn't been for a while do you avoid it?
(assuming there isn't a shed load of DNFs suggesting that it's missing of course!
)Mark
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I remember chatting to FunLovingGeocacher at an event in November 2007 and he mentioned he was planning to go to Haywood Hornet's Christmas event on 12th January, the day after his birthday link
I thought it was a bit odd having a Christmas dinner in January....
Mark
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Is there anyway to change the date format when you view the main cache page?
No, but it's planned see here
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Geocaching used to be 'cool'
'Official' Geocaches set by public bodies are just naff!
Mark
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Have the cache pages been edited or something?
Seems strange that there's no reference to the competition...
Mark
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... the beekeeper publishes for this area...
He'll like the name of your cache!
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Far to harsh in my opinion,..
Is it?
If you tell someone about Geocaching the first thing they will do is see where the closest one to their home is. If that has no reason to be there, it's just embarrassing
I posted this on a regional forum so some will have already seen it
I work in Solihull and I had a couple of years or so ago, I had to drop my car off at a garage in Redditch and I got a lift into Solihull with a lad who works in the same building.
While chatting about what I did I the weekend I mentioned Geocaching and the fact that there was one CrossOvernot far from where he lived. He looked into at later and said it sounded really interesting.
If this same situation had arisen now, I wouldn't bother mentioning Geocaching. The cache CrossOver (an ammo box) has long since been archived and the caches nearest to his house are TWO nanos at Tesco (Every little helps...Redditch and Supermarket Dash #2) and nano in a tree The Angry Crustacean
Still sounds like an interesting hobby?
Mark
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If they were archived a "few years" back then it's likely that you won't be able to have them un-archived and the reviewer will suggest that you create new cache listings
...even though the reviewers COULD un-archive them if they really wanted too!!
I know of a cache (not in the UK) which was un-archived nearly ten years after it was archived!
Mark
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I particularly like the whistling bit (when the muggles appear)
Yes MJ! I thought so too. Really imaginative!
By a nasty co-incidence, we got 'Just Dance 2' last week for the Wii and 'Walk Like an Egyptian' is one of the tracks on it.
The tune was firmly stuck in my head all last weekend
Mark
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Perhaps there should be achievement coins for DNF’s as there is for finds.
You can get a DNF geocoin:
Although only logging it into caches you didn't find would be a bit odd
Mark
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Perfect!! Thank you Mark!!
You're welcome!
However, you might notice that sort order is sometimes incorrect.
I reported this and it's in the queue to be fixed (See here)
Mark
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http://www.geocaching.com/my/geocaches.aspx (as explained by Maple Leaf)
If you then click on a day on the calender it shows ALL the logs for that day
Mark
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How NOT to move a cache:
We saw THIS CACHE on Friday as we drove nearby and were surprised to see we'd DNFed it in December as it didn't sound at all familiar.
It had changed from a small cache under some bark (hence its original name 'Woof') along a footpath, to a micro behind a road sign.
New container, new size, new location, new name, old GC code!
This one should definitely have been archived and re-listed
Mark
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It happens sometimes.
If there is a really serious permissions issue a cache will get retracted so there is no evidence of it ever having been there (unlike simply archiving it)
Any finds on it will still count but the page will not be visible
Mark
Wherigo compatible phone wanted
in United Kingdom and Ireland
Posted · Edited by Delta68
When creating a Wherigo cartridge I'd advise making it work on Oregons
They're the platform that's least likely to change.
True, you can't have all the sounds and stuff you can on the Pocket PC version but I always find less is best!
There are probably more cachers with Oregons than any other single type of Wherigo compatible device...
Mark