Cybercat

Can someone help? I have all the stages completed but I have one out of order. It's not a sequential lab, but they are along a trail so I want them to be in order on the page I'm building. Is there some way to drag the rectangles around so I can move the rectangle on the bottom so that it will be on top?

Oh yay! I heard back from HQ about this. I had asked them about the new designs. They said rather than making people wait years for souveirs, they are releasing everything now as the generic flag, and as the creative team has time, they will draw an artistic design for the countries, and when each one is ready, they will release those, and take the flags away. Good news!

awwwww........yay for more souvenir releases, but these new designs leave alot to be desired.......

Has anyone noticed the newest country souvenir designs? I just got a new one for Hong Kong and Barbados. I noticed some other countries have been released and the designs are similar on those too. They are generic, with the name or abbreviation of the country at the top and an icon under it. I am a souvenir fan, and the artistic ones of the past have been a drawing of something special about each country, for example, the Blue Hole in Belize or the waterfalls in the Dominican Republic. I love to look back on these souvenirs and remember the 'specialness' of each place with an artistic rendition of something that the country is famous for. With the new designs, they just look like a stylized flag and don't seem special in any way. I hope they bring back the artistic ones. Thoughts?

Sorry if this is a duplicate question that's already been answered...........anyone know how to make a gpx file out of an Adventure Lab? Thanx

Now I'm REALLY confused! My husband and I have a joint account. We were able to get all the clues and gemstones plus the extra 35 caches. Then a screen pops up that says access the lock. Then 3 spaces pop up where you enter a number to unlock the vault Hint.......check your souvenirs! I don't get it.........any ideas?

Not sure where to post this question,so I'll try here........can anyone tell me how to find benchmarks in Germany? We are going over there for the Giga event and I'm working on a Challenge cache where I will need a benchmark. I see the page to search for benchmarks by zipcode, but not sure how to do this in Germany. Any help will be appreciated........thanx

I was told they will take into consideration which Mega/Giga has been successful in the past and which one has consistently drawn the most in attendance..........well, which one IS that? They could at least tell me that.

Well, Lil Devil, can YOU tell me where the Giga is going to be this summer? I guess you know something I don't......?

I would love to go to a Giga this year, except.........I can't get a straight answer from anyone on which event that would be. There are 3 megas going on in Germany this summer....so which one is it going to be? I wrote the teams who are in charge of those events, and they weren't sure. They said GS had the final decision. So I wrote to GS and they said they didn't know. Last year, I believe everyone was given a 6 week heads up about the Giga. Now I don't know about you, but 6 weeks is not a lot of time to try to get off work, arrange flights, hotels, etc., make PQs of where you're going, yada yada, yada. Sure seems like they could give you a little bit more advanced notice............

Yes, I replied to the appeal email. My response was that their answer was final. No dialog. No chance for explanations. No 2 way communications. NADA. Zip. Yes, I wrote again to the reviewer pleading my case again explaining everything, trying to show how everything is above board and not in violation of anything. His response was no response. No dialog. No chance for explanations. No 2 way communications. NADA. Zip. A large cache outside the gate is not possible, so there is a micro there with an explanation on the cache page of what is inside. I have listed most of the other ones on Open Caching and a couple are in the queue. So hopefully the word will get out what a great place this is for a family to spend the day. And oh yes, that one on the tree in the parking lot was to show people where the bathrooms were since all the other caches were so far away, they might not have been aware that there was a bathroom anywhere. I purposely put it there at that angle so no one would even SEE the restaurant.

It doesn't matter.....they've already given their final decision. They will not change their minds, because if they did it would set a bad precedent. I just hope that someone, somewhere along the way has decided that maybe they should LISTEN a little more and encourage more 2 way communication between the submitter and the reviewer. In my mind, lack of diplomacy is evidenced when people don't listen to you, don't encourage you to communicate or clarify something that might trigger a red flag, don't give you any respect and make it seem that you are lying. Lack of diplomacy is rubber stamping something NO before listening to all sides. Lack of diplomacy is ignoring a question that's asked again and again. Lack of diplomacy is cropping a picture and posting it on here to insinuate that the submitter is lying, ASSUMING that they know the answer when actually, they never even asked you. Lack of diplomacy is saying.....your caches are denied because cachers would have to interact with the staff, when that is an absolute lie. And the worst lack of diplomacy is not even letting you defend yourself against ANY false assumption. I've been caching since 2001 and I've never had a problem with Groundspeak....not any reviewer, nobody. When you get one story about why your caches are denied from your reviewer and a different story from the appeals panel, I think it is time to wonder what's going on. That is not a lack of diplomacy. And yes, my reviewer has posted on this thread.

I 'claim' the caches are on? Seriously? I don't know how to put a map on here with the caches marked........maybe you can ask PR to do that for you. I see he's good at cropping out pictures so you can't see the whole area.....

Fair enough. Prime Reviewer, I apologize for insinuating that the denial of my caches was from a challenge to your ego. However, to be fair, I had NO IDEA that you were looking at a picture of a closed gate because you WOULD NOT TALK TO ME about it. Your first objection was that it was on business property. When I explained the difference in the two types of properties there.......homestead and business, you refused to answer me. When I filed an appeal, the panel said the problem was NOT that it was on private property, but that cachers would have to interact with the staff. Huh? Where did they get THAT idea? I had told you there was no one to interact with. This has been nothing but misunderstandings all the way around. I tried to clarify an issue you had about the 'business' portions of this property and then you would not answer me. If there had been an honest attempt at a two way discussion or communication here, this whole mess could have been avoided.

See, this is what I'm talking about. You just ASSUME that there are problems here without even giving me a chance to explain and clarify any misunderstandings. Just BOOM! NO! Not....well, I see a possible problem here......let me talk with her and see if I can clarify this.......maybe this is workable....or maybe not....let's have some back and forth on this...... IS COMMUNICATION about a cache placement possible instead of just NO!? If that one was too close for you, I could have left that one out and just placed the other 8. No one likes this heavy handed approach.......people are perfectly willing to be accommodating and work WITH you if you would just give them a chance.

The restaurant is the largest building off to the right in the top corner of the picture. The restaurant is at the back of that building. The cacher would not see the restaurant. The patrons of the restaurant would not see the cacher. The restaurant does not even open until 6:30PM.

those are bathrooms, a jeep storage shed and a pavilion. The cache is nowhere near the restaurant. Let's see the rest of the map.........

I don't know about any incidents personally, but I can certainly see why you wouldn't put something out with the expressed purpose of bringing business to a particular location. The $ sign, to my knowledge, is to indicate that there is an admission fee, for example a state park. In this particular case, the $ wouldn't be part of my listing at all.

Sounds like a ringing endorsement! In other words, he didn't seek me out, he was not looking for a revenue stream from me, he has no anticipation that these geocaches are going to affect his business one way or another. In all honesty I doubt that any cachers will spend any money in there at all. The restaurant is only open for dinner and the prices are exhorbitant. The cabins are way expensive. The jeeps are expensive too. And yes, this is a perfect example of a higher standard for quality caches. We have no federal lands in Texas. I wish I had a dime for every person who comes through from another state laughing at us because we have ammo cans chained to a tree on the side of the road. Or making fun of us because we have a film canister at every lamppost at WalMart and Home Depot in sight. Regular sized caches in Texas are NOT the norm....it's hard to find something large enough at times to put a travel bug into. Our parks are scarce....those that we have are filled with caches. Where else do we have to put things? Cemeteries and private property are popular here........why? Cause we don't have anything else! Why not take advantage of 200 acres to put out some nice regular sized caches?

I don't mind taking no for an answer if I've done something wrong.......if I am given a chance to explain the placement and it still doesn't meet the guidelines, then fine. In this case, I think they jumped the gun without giving me a chance to clarify with the owner and then to them. There were misunderstandings on both sides....I had no idea they had a picture of a closed gate. That gave me a chance to talk to the PO again and clarify the misunderstandings. They misunderstood when they saw the closed gate. OK, that's all water under the bridge now.......can we proceed with.....open gate during summer and weekends, no interaction with the staff, no pressure to buy anything..... Is it OK now? Does everyone understand? Isn't it within the guidelines? Don't they approve...'private property with permission from the owner' all the time? What's the problem now? Hurt feelings? OK, let me apologize to everyone who got their feathers ruffled over anything I said....mea culpa, I'm sorry, my bad... If I can admit I made a mistake, can't GS say, ok, we misunderstood because of that picture, it's ok as long as no interaction with the staff takes place.....if there are complaints in the logs that they had to interact with anyone, we will shut this down. Great....that's fair.......no complaints on my end about that......can we give it a go?

you're absolutely right....no need to post the code anyway......just post the dates that the caches are available and the gate will be open.

I don't think so since I'm the one who approached him and asked if it was for real that anyone could come in and drive around for free without having to go into the paid areas. I explained geocaching to him and he was like, yeah sure, whatever. I asked him about the gate and he said it's open all the time, it's never supposed to be closed. Now I guess that was my fault for not asking him about the year round thing, but I just didn't think of it at the time. My bad.

Whoops! It sounds much better than a Wally World parking lot, but I can see why it was not published. Whoops! Absolutely Whoops! on both sides here......yes, I can see why the reviewers would think it is not available to cachers since the picture they had was a closed gate. Now I am trying to clarify all of that....my fault for not questioning the property owner when he told me the gate was always open......I should have asked him if that was year-round. This guy is not my friend......I never met him before a few weeks ago. Just trying to give families a nice open place to wander for free.........and believe me that is a rare opportunity in Texas.

I wish I had a dime for every time I screwed up because I didn't read the cache page. Caches are available in state parks from dawn till dusk. At night time, they close the gate. If I try to go in there when they are closed, I am met with a closed gate. Shame on me for not reading the cache page. Nobody's fault but mine.

On second thought, I think I would say available from 10-7 through the summer, or something like that. I don't think it would be good to have cachers out there at night with flashlights.