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ok, I have been on the internet a long long long time. I have seen it all, from the best to the worst of websites. I am sorry to report that at this moment geocaching.com stands out as being a bad website, a very bad website. Why ? I am located in Almere, the Netherlands. After a day of searching I finally figured out a way to locate any and all caches in my area. Searching is not the easiets thing to do here. Only half of the cache is actually searchable. Turns out there are 2687 within a 100km (mi?) radius. Now I am trying to have a look at these caches. I have to open 135 pages with 20 caches per page. When I am finally done crashing my computer I try to download the caches I like (say: 100 of them to get me started). I am forced to click 100 times on a "loc waypoint file", I have to rename 100 files because they all have the same name, and to top it off, I have to load 100 loose .loc files manually into my gps- software... Than the website is programmed so bad, my PDA actually crashes on it, so I can not even log found caches or have a peek at hints available, or... In my opinion that sucks. Deeply. Now I have to option to go premium and create a favorites list. But 30 dollars a year for a website that costs no more than $1000 to maintain ??!! All the real work is done by the cachers. Not by Groundspeak; all they do is keep the servers running. and they will probarbly hire somebody to do that for them. At $1000 a year. If only 1percent of at least 50000 members is premium member somebody is pocketing $15000. for doing absolutely nothing. Hm. So my question is simple: are there any user friendly geocaching websites available ? Where they don't try to make a huge profit but are in it just for fun ?

Hi there ! I am located in the Netherlands, and I have a (fairly) simple question. When I do a search on "almere" I receive 12 caches in the area. When I have a look around my home on the map (or with coordinates) I find (at least) 135 caches. Is there no rule that the location NAME should be in the cache description ? I mean, if I am on the road, and know the placename I am, I can never find any caches ? (mobile internet)

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