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Yes, it's the same for me as well, Safari. This is nothing new though but probably going on for years. Then I have to accept cookies, and the accept button is tiny and moves off screen when I try to zoom in. It's a real nightmare to use this site on a phone. (also the same for Waymarking, btw)

Ok. Phew. I would honestly not be happy to use google drive as we all know how much Google cares about data privacy and tracking us. I honestly don't understand how google can be an approved hoster when image hosting on gc changes due to privacy reasons, really. Never looked into dropbox.

So I use .png images to illustrate geological concepts on my EarthCaches. I currently host them on Imgur. If I understand it those will stay. But for the future do I have to make scientific drawings in jpg? How is that supposed to look good? To get a half good quality I had to use 100% quality when saving as jpg, and I'm still not happy with this. Plus there's a black background now where there used to be a transparent one. Added to that I'm sure there will be a time where GS changes the background colour of the cache description, or people use other colours themselves for accessibility reasons. This will look very, very messy.

See attached image. When I open an event from the calendar there's a missing overlay on top of the content. In this case I can only click on 'msterdam', but what's possible is different for each event. Also the event calendar is always closed. Win10, latest version of Firefox.

Think of why you want to place a cache somewhere. Do you want to bring an interesting place to the attention of people or just place a cache because? And if he former, would this interesting thing be invisible from a cache just 161m away?

I did log a DNF on an EarthCache before as well. I could see the feature but not answer the questions because the entrance gate was locked. Similar to seen the container, couldn't reach it for me.

Exactly. I was premium member quite early, but could still not connect my gps to the computer to download gpx files. Not even single ones. Thus it always came down to putting the coordinates in by hand and having hints on a piece of paper.

Admittedly, it's been quite a while, but I found a few caches for which I typed the coordinates into a mapping app from a piece of paper. No navigation available, thus I only looked at the map of where the cache is and where I was. Works.

Wow, nice! I think my record is 3 DNF, on a very simple 1/1 cache. It was just total and utter cache blindness. I'm not sure if the owner was annoyed or amused by my attempts of finding it.

Each their own. I generally only do that when a cache has more than 1 DNF as last log and a database of 1500 caches for example for a summer vacation. That's too much and needs thinning out. For a Sunday caching trip I do look at caches beforehand. But I also don't read all logs to see if there's a hint of people skipping caches or logging finds on missing caches.

I honestly get super annoyed about people not logging DNFs. It might give an indication that the cache is a lot more difficult to find. More importantly, it gives an indication that the cache might actually be gone. When I planned my summer vacation I ran a big pocket query and reduced the cache number by caches that had recent DNFs. Of course one of them was missing and people were logging finds on the hole in the wall or providing photo logs of the general area, or only logging the boring cache nearby but not this instead of simply logging a DNF. Not having read the found logs before I did a substantial detour for this. I was rather pissed to be honest.

Ugh, each their own. This would not be something for me. I also tend to ignore lots of caches when I'm out and about. On a walk on Sunday I could have easily picked up at least two times more than I found, but I preferred to spend a lot of time in an observatory, change my walking route a lot, and basically didn't feel like picking up a micro underneath a bench. I'd not even know what to write in a log there.

Stenciling. I've also found a rollup curtain as logbook once. Coincidentally in the same area.

Could the title use anything but standard characters? There aren't any images in the title, but maybe the lettering is not simple lettering after all?

what’s wrong with downloading single gpx? It sounds like the recent to wants to cache in a specific area. Why would you them need to download hundreds of caches?

I honestly doubt it. Geocaching is still an outdoor game. There are caches in areas with no phone signal; areas that won't have a signal in the foreseeable future. Geocaching is also an international game. You can't expect people to have phone plans when traveling abroad.

What would that do to country stats? Would everyone be able to create an event in North Korea or join such an event just for the country point? How does the CO make sure that only people who were actually at the event log it? I think events should remain local, and while a logbook is not mandatory for an event most COs still know who came and who is cheating.

Someone had to do it ?

Thanks for the fab discussion! Fortunately I didn't need to think about it as two people (one team) did show up, and the event ended up overrunning by a full hour

Oh, this is interesting! I just came here wondering if someone had managed to pull off a kind of AL trail as I just got an idea for mine but don't know how to to use just 5 points along a route that crosses a (tiny) country and consists of roughly 25 features. Well, it won't be published in whatever way as I don't have a car and won't be able to visit all sites with public transport until the end of October. But wow, well done! Takes some coordination to pull this off!

My guess is that there's just so little actual nature in the Netherlands that people prefer to keep caches PMO here. And mentality *hides behind sofa*

Thanks for the Thanks for the stats! I never realized that there are so many PO caches here. But I guess you don't see this easily if you're a premium member (and yes, I now have a custom filter for Project-gc I could use if I wanted to make a point again )

Yikes! Geocaching prem, Project-gc prem (whenever on offer, for a few years each time), plus I paid for Cachly and GSAK right before it became free. Super cheap hobby. If it wasn't for all the international caching trips

Can confirm the same. The tiles don't come back when I change to another map type and then back.

I've now officially overtaken the last year. But as every other year is wildly different as I move a lot and each region/country is different this doesn't mean a lot.