Alfiegeorge

See point one in my post 2 above yours. I'm guessing you have your finds "hidden" and you've found everything w/in a 10-mile radius of the location from which your search was conducted. I have the same "No Results, No geocaches were found". And the finds "hidden" / search radius possibility isn't the solve (just double-checked on GC.com, my nearest unfound is the 19th nearest cache to where I am and it is considerably less than 10 miles away) Also having problems with UK postcodes. Typing my home postcode into GC.com performs an accurate search, typing it into the app returns nothing. Can the two systems really be using different postcode lookup tables?

Hello from 3,654.4 miles away from the posted co-ords in the UK !! I like stumbling across puzzles that I'd never otherwise see whilst they are being discussed on the forum. When the puzzle is in this kind of format, sometimes (and this is one of those times!) it pays to start thinking about how you are going to make the first couple of digits of the GZ co-ords, which are not going to be too far away from published co-ords, out of the first bits of information in the clue. If a reasonable pattern emerges then work it through. Got the expected first digit '3' just from some local (well European) knowledge, the realisation of how to get the expected '8' (and to dispense with the unexpected '0'!) cracked open the "second part of the solve method" that is referenced in a few logs in the cache page .... solved and then GeoChecked in about 5 mins after that. Neat puzzle, really liked the idea. Anyway, I see that you do now have a found log on the cache. Well done and Happy Caching. Alfiegeorge

This happened to me on the final stage of the ironically named Dance of the Dead series. This should link straight to my log from 9th July 2010 Felt like a close call at the time.

Opportunity to put a plug out for a rather ambitious multi that was published last month. Have a look at this ...... http://coord.info/GC2CX3C The start co-ords are only about 0.5km from my work co-ords. The final find was 200km away by road ("by road" being important if you see what the theme of the cache is !). FTF completed about 5 days after publication - I reckon at least 130km from my home co-ords, maybe a bit more.

I don't see it as a problem, unless there is obvious signage saying "parking for customers only - unauthorised cars will be [clamped / towed / fined]" delete as applicable. I mean, you wouldn't want someone to get a ticket whilst looking for your cache, would you. In a similar situation for a cache of mine (now archived) I included the following in the cache description; "Free public parking in the "Aubreys" across Letchworth Lane or, if you want to be a bit cheeky, park in the car-park for the Nuffield Health club - not officially public parking but its a huge car-park, plenty of comings and goings and I've never seen it more than half full." The local reviewer had no issue with that at all.

I followed the website address on the OP's post. Trawled a little through the forums linked to that site and found this Forum Link Looks like its some kind of commercial publicity / PR stunt (although I can't for the life of my work out what for). Leave well alone !!!!

If you are serious about having a murder mystery puzzle cache, have a look at this series of multis for inspiration ... link for the final is below, links to the preceding stages are in the cache description; http://coord.info/GC101CD The format is that you find cache 1 which has the first chapter of a murder mystery story in it (chapter sounds a bit extreme - its just one sheet of double-side typed paper actually) and part of a puzzle to find cache 2 (the rest is on cache 2's cache description). Similarly, you need cache 2 to be able to find cache 3, cache 3 to be able to find cache 4 etc., you pick up additional chapters along the way. When you have the 5 initial finds you have 5 chapters of the story and enough info to "solve" the murder. You also have a list of 6 suspects - this last info is in cache 5. Each suspect has individual co-ords. At 5 of the suspect's co-ords there is a cache that says "sorry wrong guess ..." and an alternative final chapter of the book that explains why you are wrong, at 1 of the suspect's co-ords (the murderer's co-ords) there is the real ending of the story and co-ords for the actual final cache ... only a signature in this final, final cache's log-book permits you to legitimately claim the find !!! I completed the series about a fortnight ago, it took 3 outings (each a fairly full afternoon's caching) to complete it. A great piece of work but no doubt a maintenance obligation and a half for the cache owner !! Have a look see what you think.

Sounds good. I like the idea of themed caches, it makes finders think a little bit harder about their trades and keeps the inventory quality up. Local to my area in the UK there are a few themed caches, this kind of thing; http://coord.info/GCQWDA http://coord.info/GCR64M http://coord.info/GCR8F9 Ok, you're planning something a little different that'll require finders to do some prep but even so I think its great - It'll be interesting to see how long your FTFer spends on their contribution though !!!! Best of luck with it.

A drawback that I've found with the Garmin Discovery maps is that they are only routable for cars and bikes i.e. it won't suggest that you use a footpath! I have OSM and Discovery maps on my Oregon, the display looks like it is the Ordnance Survey style Discovery maps but the GPSr is using the underlying and invisible OSM for routing - looks good just slows down the re-rendering of maps tiles a little bit - at walking pace that isn't a problem.

I found a cache the other week that was attached to the underside of a bicycle seat on a bike that was permanently chained up in a cycle park (which when the park was full is a little bit hit and miss on the searching front !!) Logical extension would be to have a car in a car-park I guess (although it would have to be free parking or else it'd be a very expensive cache to maintain).

No, GC.com doesn't do this automatically. It would be tricky to try and implement accurately anyway, remember, 'First-to-log' will not necessarily have been the 'First-to-find'. For your own FTFs, you can track via GSAK, for instance, and then incorporate your own tally of FTFs in a more comprehensive stats page - have a look at my public profile as an example

Seeing that you only "80 caches in" I had a look at your found caches ... I also found both of the caches that you did when I was in Vancouver (co-incidentally only just a few weeks after you were there it seems). They were pants, although the now archived GCZBFZ was a brave location for such a big box. Anyway, generally (and it is a huge generalisation, given that I only found about 5% of my cache total outside of the UK) I've really noticed no difference - I've very much a TNLN cacher, don;t care much what maybe is or is not in the box ..... unless its my own cache that is GC1TZQA

Just looked at CO's other active cache. A cacher has put a "needs new log book" comment in a found log recently . Wonder what'll happen next?

probably edited after review. Good point. How's this for a theory ... CO places a 35mm can in a high-traffic area, log gets filled up time and time again, CO gets fed-up with maintenance visits, removes log, edits cache description ! Voila ! laura.j - could you post the GC code we can all have a look

This is cut and paste from the published "Cache Listing Requirements" for a traditional cache ".... original cache type consisting of (at a bare minimum) a container and a logbook. The cache may be filled with objects for trade. Normally you'll find a Tupperware-style container, ammo box, or bucket filled with goodies, or smaller container too small to contain items except for a logbook. The coordinates listed on the traditional cache page are the exact location of the cache. A container with no logbook and just an object or codeword for verification generally does not qualify as a traditional cache. " No log-book ... then it ain't a cache. If it says in the cache description explictly that it has no log then I suprised that it got past review. Even so, there is always room for a log book ... you say you're new to this, ever found a nano? If it bothers you - send a mesasge to the CO and/or the original reviewer.

If I'm out caching with the kids, they are there for the purpose of going into the stingers and thorns ... I wouldn't want to get myself all scratched up ! Seriously, geocaching is a community, like all communities it has its fair share of nutcases and fruitcakes, parents who take no responsibility for their kids or their own actions, people with no common sense, people who think that the lights have gone out when they blink etc., etc., ... you get the picture. This just leaves a sensible few to post on forums. Everyone should just chill a little. No one died, no one is going to get sued - copy over the disclaimers (previous suggestion - good idea), forget about it. P.S. actually, if you want to be a bit cheeky, paste the phrase "Disclaimer for the terminally lacking in common sense" onto the top of the disclaimer.

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Look forward to seeing the hide ! I also work in central London so rather accept that caches around here are going to be micros or nanos ... but echoing previous poster's comments; i) Hide the biggest cache you can given the constraints of the location. ii) The more imaginative the hide, the better the cache. Whilst I really prefer going after ammo cans in the countryside, I do have a micro as one of my all time favourite caches Fort Hamilton. OK, the exotic location helped but it is a good illustration of the two pointers - a micro was as big a cache as was feasible but the cache trail (and final hide) were both quite whacky ideas in their own way ... I won't give too much more away just in case you are ever in Bermuda.

Best cache in Central London has to be The Clock Tower .... (I think MaxKim is being too modest) fiendish hide, ridiculously busy area, great execution of a simple idea, gives you a good chuckle of satisfaction when you've got it.

As a, sort of, example of what Tooey suggests, have a look at this cache listing GCKB3W. The clues required to solve the Mystery cache and locate final co-ords are inside a "paid-for" attraction (incidentally the entrance fee, again, goes to charity) but the cache is outside of the site - only about 100m from the entrance. Feasibly, the clues' answers can be sourced on-line and the mystery solved in this way and hence the cache found for free but, the easiest and most enjoyable solve is paying to visit the attraction. Does this give you any ides for a compromise solution to the cache you want to set?

Thanks for re-direction. I've just finished reading that forum and now understand the hard work and debate that has gone into it .... I'd previously assumed that the regions had been assigned by a matrix run off the cache co-ordinates rather than with manual intervention. I guess there may be teething problems and data inaccuracies cropping up here and there whilst the whole thing beds down and gets updated. Thanks

I agree. However, I think that it might be worthwhile having a warning on the "driving instructions" functionality - I guess that we all realise that Google can only direct you to the nearest public road to the cache site. That said, users ought to be warned that this might not offer the most convenient or safest parking location and that instructions in the cache description should be considered. Here's a good example .... Google Maps Instructions to get from "fictional" (obvious reason !!) Home Co-ordinates to GCZNMZ The cache is adjacent to a public footbridge over a busy road at the mouth of a tunnel .... The driving instructions send you to a location under the footbridge which would be a death defying place to pullover and start a cache hunt from !!

Hi - looks good. The resolution for searches in the UK to filter on regions is a nice little addition. But, the first time I've used it to download details of a relatively new series in my area for caching tomorrow, I found an anomaly.... GC1EC20 Henlow Camp - The Final One (Region : East Midlands) GC1EC2F Henlow Camp - The Flat One (Region : East of England) GC1EC48 Henlow Camp - The Devious One (Region : East Midlands) GC1EC2R Henlow Camp - The Usual One (Region : East Midlands) All the caches are within a couple of kilometres of each other. Initially I thought; "oh, that's interesting, the regional boundary bisects the cache set" but then saw that GC1EC2F is the most northwesterly of the 4 cache locations which should give it a greater likelihood of being considered as in "East Midlands" and a lower likelihood of being considered as in "East of England". The Regional Boundary is to the NW of the set. Not a big deal but would be interesting to see if regional misclassifications are occurring more generally.