Jump to content

ShammyLevva

+Premium Members
  • Posts

    69
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by ShammyLevva

  1. You MAY move as many as you like, however its best to consider what the trackable owner wanted. If you have internet access whilst out at the cache you could check the trackables page by entering the code on the trackable at https://www.geocaching.com/track/ this will allow you to see if the trackable has any specific instructions. eg: wants to visit locations up high or by the sea or whatever. If you don't think you can move the trackable then instead of taking it log a "discovered it" log. This will still count towards your trackables found stats but doesn't move the trackable from its current location. This is the most responsible thing you can do when you can't help the trackable on its way.
  2. Welcome to Geocaching Ed. One of the things that is a very good tip is to actually get out there and find caches before you go anywhere near placing your own. Only 14 finds is very low for understanding what makes a good hide and what is an average one. I had the same excitement about wanting to place my own caches when I started and was given the same advice I am giving you now. My attitude at the time was "I'm an intelligent guy easily up to the task of understanding how these things work, what difference could it make if I find more or not". Well now after 5 months caching and having hit 554 caches I have a dramatically better idea of what makes a good cache that people want to find. I'd therefore encourage you to go out and find a lot more to learn what excites you and your family. I'm sure your kids will be happy to tell you what's a "lame" cache in their eyes and what they think is "cool". Enjoy the learning experience and your cache hides will be far better. Also consider what permissions you need to get, don't just think you can throw down a box anywhere you feel like, then type up a cache description and that's it. NB. I'm 49 without kids - "lame" and "cool" might not be current fashionable terms for kids to use
  3. A GPSr can be quite expensive for someone new to caching. A far cheaper option to start with is getting a powerbar, basically the higher the mAh rating the more "juice" it will store. A typical one from Amazon etc will put you back about £15 ($20) and be able to recharge an iPhone 6S up to three times from flat battery to fully charged. A more expensive one will cost nearer £25 ($40) and recharge up to 7 times. A GPSr will cost around £100-£500 ($150-$750) so you need to think carefully about why you want one. A modern phone has an accuracy of 5-10m this gets worse when you have no mobile signal or are under tree cover etc. A typical GPSr has an accuracy of 3-5m and isn't affected by mobile signal coverage but is similarly affected to a lesser extent by tree cover. Basically if you can afford it and are very keen a GPSr is handy to have for remote/forest caches. I've done both and splashed the cash on a Garmin Touch 25 it works well but be aware the big downside of a GPSr is the constant need to plug it into a laptop to refresh its data and list of caches. I've found I drift back to my iPhone 6s again and again and only really use the GPSr when the accuracy of the phone is a pain. As such I feel I wasted my money on the GPSr.
  4. There's lots of people who have their family using the same account often as TeamSomething, that way they involve their kids too.
  5. I'd agree with Walts Hunting, add a pair of tweezers to your caching kit, always handy for tiny logs and saves yourself an enormous amount of time with them when they are fiddly. If you cannot get a log out of its container for whatever reason then a usually accepted practice is to take a photo send that privately to the cache owner via the message centre email facility and log your find. If the owner sees its not right they can then point out the mistake and delete the log so you will have more info for a future attempt. Usually though "photo logs" like this are accepted by a lot of COs and can sometimes help alert them to problems with their cache.
  6. Hmm as a web programmer myself this answer jarrs with reality. Surely reducing the data load pre-fetch before displaying the page would result in less data loaded thus a quicker page refresh? Thus I stand by the report that this is counter intutive and a bug.
  7. Sorry this has ended up in wrong forum I could have sworn I chose to post in Bugs - Website.
  8. To reproduce the bug. Open Website and select Play - View Geocaching Map In left hand panel click to hide my finds and my hide so that the icons turn grey. Observe the the area clears out of found caches leaving only icons for inactives - note depending on your number of finds in an area this may not be that obvious If like myself you have pretty much cleared an area its very obvious. Click the minus to zoom out note the grey icons for disabled get replaced by the green box symbols (or other cache types if that's what they are) - this is correct behaviour. Click the minus once more again only the disabled icons still show, this is still correct behaviour ie: the only icons visible are the filtered out ones. Click the minus a third time and suddenly the map fills back up with icons for caches you have already found. You can confirm it is for caches you have already found by hovering the mouse over the icons and checking the names. So on three (or more) zoom outs the filters fail and no longer filter what you told them to filter, namely to ignore your found and hidden caches. Can this be fixed please.
  9. If money is no object then splash out on a GPS device, it's more accurate than your typical smartphone and the batteries will last longer. However it's more fiddly to setup usually requires a PC to interface it to and may not get used if your wife doesn't take to the interface. Some shops may allow you to hire a device for a few days to try it that might be a good route so you don't splash the cash on something that ends up back in the drawer. If the accuracy isn't the issue and the only reason you want to get a GPS is the battery then you would be dramatically better off getting a "juice bar" a very compact portable battery charing unit. Look for the highest mAh (milliamp hours) battery that's a convenient size. For under £20/$30 you can get a charger that will recharge the battery on a smartphone at least twice often 4-5 times per one charge of the juice bar. Ie: if the typical charge of your wife's smartphone last 2hours with all the GPS usage you can extend this to 8-10 hours which is usually more than enough for your average trip to a forest. The juice bars are very easy to use you plug in the USB of your regular phone charing cable to the juice bar and your phone into the other end and it just charges on the move as if you were on charge at home. So if it's extending the battery life that's the issue get a juice bar, if it's accuracy of the phones GPS then get a proper GPS device. Hope this helps.
  10. This will indeed fix issues with addins for Chrome for a brief period however with the forthcoming Chrome upgrade they are completely removing ALL support for NPAPI addins. Thus within a few months using Chrome won't be an option for using the communicator and lots of other similar features. This abandoning of NPAPI plugins along with their disabling of AdBlocker and AdBlockerPlus on Google websites eg: YouTube is why I've now uninstalled Chrome.
  11. Yes? So? And what about a long time from the last find makes you think the CO isn't making occasional visits? There's more to this than you making a silly mistake, assuming no one finding a cache automatically means the CO isn't checking on it. What's really bad about it is that you are essentially assuming remote caches aren't possible because anything that far away can't be checked on regularly enough to satisfy the guidelines. If lackey's don't believe remote caches are possible, then they surely won't be possible. Surely if the email prompts the CO to post an owner maintenance log to say I checked it two months ago and it was fine would be more than sufficient for a very remote cache where the "occasional" in the rules any reasonable person would interpret as perhaps annually or every other year. You say that a long time from the last find doesn't mean the CO isn't doing checks. I'd agree but surely for these long time between log caches it would be sensible for the CO to log an owner maintenance when they did check it. Thus solving both issues. Note too that the intent is probably that the email gets sent when the cache owner hasn't even logged into geocaching com for ages and there has been no activity at all on the cache. It is therefore legitimate to wonder if the cache is indeed active. A nudge to ask the CO if all is ok is therefore surely not that intrusive?
×
×
  • Create New...