Taoiseach

Do you want a cookie? Really now, you've done a good thing, and you're welcome to feel proud of yourself, but there doesn't need to be a requirement to CITO the area around all of your caches. If you want to, great! if not, oh well. That being said, a Terrain 5 CITO around one of my caches would be interesting...

Correct! The floor is open

If anyone can host one, are we actually limited to one a region? Nope. But it's a new icon! Exactly! A new icon for the right as well as the left!

If anyone can host one, are we actually limited to one a region?

Groundspeak's servers run on PST, therefore check the day that it is in Seattle

I get it. You don't like it. Noted. But I can assure you that there are good reasons to want this, not withstanding any preconceived notions you may have on the subject. That said, I see your point on how it could be abused. But this thread is not about "should" we... Its "Can this be done". To give you an example, what if you had a very complex puzzle setup, and wanted to make sure all the right parts are in the correct cache page descriptions. Leaving the details to a manual process, as opposed to an organized automated approach just seems prone to error. So, my goal, as I'm sure yours, is to make sure that the cache description is of highest quality as possible. And by providing a consistent, repeatable mechanism to do this, seems like a good idea! It probably can be done, but as has been mentioned, you'll still have to check the 'yes I have read and understood the listing guidelines' and the 'yes I have read and understood the terms of use' buttons manually, or else it will be a terms of use violation. Really now, do we need to facilitate the numbers crowd this much? I'm never in favour of doing anything that would encourage the placement of cookie cutter caches, power trails, or anything else that saturates an entire area with lame repetitive nonsense

I love how Knight2000 was the only other one to get that joke Lots of people got it, they just had the good taste to ignore it. I found the people who said things like 'Is it really illegal to offer to help people?' funny

I love how Knight2000 was the only other one to get that joke

'Restin' in' and 'At Rest In'

+1

There's a cache just outside of Ottawa that uses a CD to get you to the various stages, and then you get co-ords for the second to last stage out of what you've gathered. The first stage was a 50-cal ammo can full of the CDs. Also, because of the need for special equipment (CD Player, and the necessary use of a car), it was listed as a Terrain 5.

Yes, I believe the requirements are for the first stage. 'Start at the posted co-ords' is insufficient GPS usage for a Letterbox-Hybrid, most multis and similar puzzles. For example, all three of my LBHs have projections in them. The requirement is not necessarily that you have to use co-ords for the first stage, however this is usually the case as the posted co-ords are a convenient starting point. Furthermore, you have to mark your final location so that you can enter it as an additional waypoint (i.e. drop a proximity circle around it), however those co-ords don't necessarily need to be used to find the final. In short, the guidelines only require you to use GPS co-ordinates an an integral part of the hunt. This could be a projection in the middle of a clue based Letterbox or Multi, it could be the playing of a Wherigo cartridge, or the use of straight co-ordinates. The choice is yours, and you can include it in any part of the cache - beginning, middle or end - as long as you make sure that you do include GPS usage. Isonzo Karst put it nicely when he said that 'there must be a reason to fire up the GPS.

I'll add to this that if you'd like to learn what a Letterbox Hybrid is, I'd be happy to go and take you through 'Welcome to Ottawa' Or 'An Ode to Brian'

In the High Desert, this doesn't really matter, however one big problem I have with power trails is the enormous proximity circle that results. I know that I wouldn't be too pleased if somebody monopolised such a large area in my region, especially if they're just placing cookie cutter traditionals. I'll ask again - Is there a reason that there can't be any diversity within the series? A couple of on-site puzzles, maybe a few multis... I for one wouldn't waste my time finding 600 almost* identical caches. Much like the monkeys up here, which are 1/1 micro LPC traditionals, I find that lack of diversity and monopolisation of areas annoying. For the record, I don't even necessarily have a problem with LPCs, there's just far too many of them and they aren't very interesting. * Yes, I do realise that there's a score of larger caches in there too.

The Ottoman empire had been dead for almost two decades by that point... You are sort of on the right track though... sort of...

Who'd have guess that tired old comment would come so quickly? I know! Won't the police love finding one of these hidden in an ammo can right downtown?

I suppose I'll as a follow up question Who won gold in Olympic (ice) hockey in 1936?

I can't remember when the last time was (Google is tempting but I'll resist), but it was a lot longer ago than 1998. I think it was 1960 or something like that... Anyway, I know the Czechs took gold in Nagano, and that neither Canada nor the US even medaled!

Some people like finding lots of caches in a day. Others prefer a 10 mile hike to that one special one. Many others prefer something in between those two extremes. Good thing we can all find what we like at the same website.

Our local reviewer once explained that any cache which can be done entirely in the field (i.e. without any prior work) can be listed as a multi.

? It should default to centring the search around you. Failing that, hit the 'Geocaches' icon, and then the target button at the bottom. After that choosing 'My Current Location' should re-centre your search. Aside from that, I feel the need to give my general advice on the matter though - Look at the map and not the list. You should see the icon as you drive by it.

I believe when this was mentioned in a previous post the "note" was left on the log by the person performing the non-owner upkeep, for the Reviewer to see, not left by the Reviewer. The reviewer won't see any logs other than 'needs archived' logs unless their attention is drawn to the cache page. You're right that in previous posts the note was left by a cacher not reviewer. Thats why it would be interesting to see a reviewer note saying that a cache is being maintained by so-and-so in lieu of the actual owner (if such a note a note exists). There is an example of that here. I too feel that providing a link to it in these forums is unwise...

Gotta call a strawman on that one. If I decide to try keeping an historic cache alive, I have placed the "burden", (if that's what you really think cache maintenance is), on myself. No one has done this for me or to me. Maintaining my own cache as the cache owner is not at all a burden. Having to maintain someone else's cache because they disappeared and abandoned it is a burden. You are not obligated to maintain another cacher's cache. If you choose to do so, you are placing the burden upon yourself. If you are willing to take that burden on, then it is perfectly acceptable to unoficially maintain a cache.

Agreed