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I mean, all the required language is already in Terms of Use. Just swat down the most egregious offenders, like they do with serial couch loggers.

Note that it was 75% of finds on D3+ , not 75% of finders. It sounds reasonable to me; the people who systematcally cheat to get finds have a lot more finds on these caches than people who just geocache for fun. (Obviously no one can really know the actual percentages.) We don’t have a whole cheat site, but cheating has become normalized. It would be nice Groundspeak enforced their Terms of Use, and used their platform to guide the community more. Both away from cheating but also puzzle/multi COs towards creating more logical puzzles and being more respectful of finders’ time.

A new gpx export filter is the only sane solution Groundspeak could provide. There’s no real objection to that, but… this is a fringe problem in a legacy feature could also be easily solved by the end users themselves. Meanwhile, there are years’ worth of other feature requests on these forums for things that are still being actively developed, e.g. the official app, that have received zero response from hq. The thing is that literally no one has said they would happily use such a tool. Mostly just the opposite. 🤷

It could be T5 event that turned out to be harder to reach than anticipated. But the use case does seem fairly marginal.

Hi, generation x here. The divisionism started with your side completely dismissing other people’s preferred way to communicate. All while taking it for granted that your preference for Garmin devices needs to take precedence over everyone else’s. A single find & replace on a gpx file can guarantee every cache name starts with a word a Garmin can read.

I don’t think the earlier instructions were simple to follow, that’s not really what I’m saying. But If you think HQ is going to forcibly rename caches because of Garmin or because you think emojis are useless, you’re delusional HQ could create an new gpx export filter, but they generally seem unwilling to make quality of life improvements to old features If you would like a community solution you sure don’t act that way, which is why you don’t have one.

The bug is with Garmin, not Groundspeak. This is not an official Garmin support channel. The previous thread, and especially the previous previous thread from 2020 give solutions to help your device work with these caches. In 2020 someone even offered to code a service for it. I’m all out of sympathy for anyone who’s spent two years refusing offers of help and hasn’t even tried to adjust their workflow. This is your problem, not everyone else’s.

geocaching.com forums user experience in a nutshell. To me the frustrating part is knowing how easy it would be for Groundspeak to do better.

Almost exactly 3 years ago, a new geocacher placed their 3rd cache, which went missing before publication. After the first few DNFs, the CO tried posting some hints in notes, so we know the container was nicely themed to the location, though obviously it was too prone to being muggled and wouldn’t have survived the weather for long. Unfortunately we never got to know how the hider, obviously still a child, would have developed as a CO. He got to deal with a month and half of notes and DNFs from experienced cachers ranging from neutral to outright telling how him how the place was stupid, complaining about why their own cache got archived and this didn’t, egging others on to feed on the drama… until another young cacher came in to log a FTF on his own throwdown, supposed adults followed suit and the cache got archived and locked. The CO hasn’t been seen since.

We introduced a Japanese friend of ours to geocaching while she was visiting Finland. When she got back home she tried finding a multi but couldn't figure out where the final container was. She sent me the final coordinates she had solved, so I took a look on street view. I wrote a long response about the various places where it could be hidden... and then I saw this.

And even in jurisdictions where merely being a land owner is not a legal reason to stop people from finding and hiding geocaches there.

I literally cache every day, and for me milestones at 1 000 interval are a rarity.* At 10 000 interval I will literally stop caring as it's just way too far away. I don't care about which cache happens to be the milestone as that is likely to get changed later anyway. (Without checking I know I have at least two "finds" that I would have to backdate that I can't log online yet). * And as I've suggested before, the app should show how many caches until I reach the next milestone, not "next milestone at 3000 caches".

isn’t it 15 even without the mega? trad multi mystery LBH Wherigo earthcache virtual webcam locationless event CITO CCE GIGA GPS maze Lab

Unacceptable logging tasks Questions that can be answered without visiting the site, such as stating an elevation reading. Questions that assume prior knowledge of geology, such as "What type of rock is found here?" Asking geocachers to research the topic online. Asking geocachers to quote information from a sign. (but note that the cache in question is from 2009 and the rules were likely very different)

I agree with your points in general. But because I'm me and you're you, of course there must be nitpicking The difference is that with ABCDEF (using the numbers above), even in the worst case scenario you know A is at least 5 before finding the last number. Depending on the order you might know it's at least 7. But with FEDCBA, you don't know anything about A until you have all the numbers. And unless you can do the final solve on a non rate limited checker, knowing [7-9][0-9][0-9] is worth a lot more than knowing [0-9][0-9][7-9]. I can understand why xor would appeal to a certain type of person but honestly I would just use a 3rd party checker at that point. Equally safe from brute forcing the solution, no problem linking to it directly from the description, less chance of finder making a mistake with a tool they don't understand, the finder gets verification that their solution is correct, and the CO can give additional hints about parking etc. in the completion message...

This only works if you’re assuming all the numbers are going to be positive Or the CO could make it FEDCBA instead of ABCDEF. I think the main point is that simple addition is, perhaps counterintuitively, better for this than complex formulas with multiplication and so on. Of course sometimes the surrounding geography, saturation, D/T and attributes give so much away that the cache can be brute forced just with just that.

It can easily be a Wherigo or letterbox if you prefer those to a puzzle. Multi caches using w3w have also been published, but I’m not sure if that’s exactly allowed… Fact: what3words is a private, proprietary geolocation system. Opinion: A private, proprietary geolocation system is not a good idea, no matter how cool the idea may initially sound.

In my area, none of the maps show contours, and only Maptiler distinguishes between fields and urban areas. It weirdly changes the color of some forest areas depending on zoom level Geocaching: Maptiler: Liberty: And for comparison, here's Trailmap, also based on OSM data: It uses a custom rendering of OSM data with paths color-coded according to their difficulty on a mountain bike. The elevation data is merged in from a freely available Finnish government source. Different color for fens/bogs vs normal forest is tremendously useful, as are the locations of sheer cliffs. The downside is that just this screenshot is 10 times larger than the other three. Luckily we have good cellular reception and unlimited data plans. All that said, surely better map providers would be more useful on the app rather than just the website.

Any update on this? I see that the ”hey wait” has been removed, but links to coordinate checkers still generate an alert.

Unfortunately not the case here. Low detail images, multiple jigsaws per cache… We have public bookmark lists.

Out of curiosity, how many jigidi caches are being published in your area? So far in 2022, 61 out of the 371 new mystery caches in Finland include a jigidi. I feel that over 16% of new mystery caches is just way too much.

We had about a yard of snow so a lot of caches were unfindable or at least seriously annoying to get to. Still is knee deep in places. It is what it is. On the flipside, island caching has been in easy mode

The industrial treatment also lasts longer so presumably not as much leaks into the environment. Regarding military use, there’s an obvious benefit from using it, and the US military isn’t exactly known for its environmentalism, particularly when it comes to water contamination. (Not here to start anything, especially when it comes to performing wartime duties, but the water contamination around bases is well-documented.)

Permethrin is banned from all outdoor use where I live due to how harmful it is for everything that lives in water. Ticks are a thing here too so trust me I understand the temptation to use it, but it’s pretty wild reading about people spraying the stuff outdoors, or just casually washing clothes sprayed with the stuff. Would definitely recommend considering industrially treated fabrics instead of spray, and avoiding unnecessary washing or exposure to rain of permethrin-treated clothes.

My streak started as a way to improve my health, and I rode thousands of kilometers on my bike, rain or shine, to find a cache per day. Starting a streak, if you can do it like that, isn’t bad. And for me it continued to be that way for 2.5 years. It’s also important to know when it’s time to let go of a streak. Last half a year of maintaining my streak has been a net negative to my health, as I’ve essentially been driving a car around to increasingly far away caches, instead of doing some actual exercise.