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I've managed to find the furthest North, West and South caches for the United States but I don't know which one is the furthest East. Anybody know which one it is?
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On 11/9/2023 at 12:10 PM, JL_HSTRE said:
The app has the ability to send directions to the location to Google Navigation. I recommend using that rather than trying to use the geocaching app internal navigation as a driving aid.
I'll have to try that instead.
On 11/8/2023 at 5:29 PM, kunarion said:Have you compared the data signal strength with the map tile problem? I get no map tiles when I lose the data signal, and I know when it's happening. Also, any other App that requires Internet is then pretty much dead.
It's not really an App thing, if you can't get maps to load. And if it was a compatibility problem with App and S21, there would be many Forum posts here about that. So the source of the problem must be something else. But it's possible that a 3rd party App would be better suited to the way you cache. Geooh Go has a "Nearby Caches" feature, that may be right up your alley. But I can't tell for sure. I don't really have much access to test Apps on your phone.
My S22 has some serious compass issues when using the Geocaching Apps' map, so if I'm driving, I'm following Waze guidance to one cache or waypoint, which is often a parking spot where I can walk to a selection of caches. But the map tiles haven't been a problem for me in the Official App (except during no signal while driving). That's why I think it may be good to try another App to see what happens.
I have Geooh Go on my phone so I might have to try that out instead of the app.
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On 11/6/2023 at 4:58 PM, fuzziebear3 said:
We also haven't addressed the issue of playing with your phone while driving. I hope you are a passenger, not the driver.
I'm the driver but I make a point of adjusting and reloading the map when I'm stopped and not driving. It's a pain in the butt.
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The map is moving but not loading. I'm using version 9.39.0 of the Geocaching app. Android version 13.
I'll take a look into Locus Map App. Thank you for the update.
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They are both up to day. I also have full bars when connected to the cell towers. For the life of me I cannot figure out why it won't load the map as I'm driving.
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For the last 7 months, I have been using my phone to geocache. I have noticed the app has trouble loading the map as I'm driving. I have to move the map around with my hand to get the image to load and then have the app follow me again. As one might imagine, this causes a distraction while I'm driving. Is this a bug anyone else has noticed? Is there a way to have the app load a large section of the map? How can I fix this problem so it is not a distraction?
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Thank you!!! Sounds like a good idea!
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I live about an hour west of Atlanta. I have 360 finds and I am quickly approaching the 400 mark. I'm looking for both a memorable milestone cache and something that can be done by someone with mobility issues (I have ostioarthritis in both knees, pinched disk, bulging disk, and other stuff). Any ideas would be welcome!
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Generally speaking, if the requirements were not met it cannot be logged as "Found". Asking someone else for the information needed in order to log the cache is also cheating. If the cache is no longer available to be found, the owner needs to be contacted as well as Groundspeak so the cache can be archived. Your visit needs to be logged as a dnf and there needs to be a comment about how the cache information is missing. Wanting to log it without completing it is the sort of moral/ethical dilemma that has caused problems in the past. On a personal note and a long time cache owner, I've removed people from my caches that logged the cache as found but never did find the cache or sign the logbook.
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To my line of thinking, anything between 300 to 500 in a single day is plausible in a given rolling 24 hour period. If it was done alone? Very impressive. More than likely though, you'd be pulling those numbers with a team of other people. Probably would be easier if there were 3 to 4 drivers that do nothing but transport people from cache to cache.
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Project-GC.com is a great source for statistics. You can slice and dice worldwide, by country, by province/state/region -- even by county!
The site tells me that, as of today, Alamogul has the most total finds with 161,363, and the most finds in one day were recorded by hans415, with 5,578. There are now 41 geocachers who have logged more than 2,000 finds for a single day!
Wow! That's one find every 15 seconds for a 24 hour day! I'm astonished, astounded, and unbelieving. 2,000 finds is one every 7.2 minutes. for 24 hours. Even that is astounding!
That's what I'm saying. Physically those kinds of number are impossible. I would have to think they went caching for a whole week or more and dated everything for the same day so they could claim those kinds of numbers. Either that or like what was mentioned above with people re logging previously found caches under a different account.
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Thanks for the info though!
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Makes me wonder how that's even possible. Most finds in a single day that I've ever heard of is something along the lines of 150. Just "wow"....
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Was wondering about who holds some records, like the record for most finds in one day? Another one, who has found the most Geocaches? I know there was an group that had a single account and they had over 10k finds to their credit. Makes me wonder if they all cached separately and gave the group credit for them all hunting the caches at the same time.
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Check under pine straw, a fake tree stump, palmetto, or at the base of/inside of a pine tree.
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GCPZBX thats one physical cache!
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Sounds like a freak to to me. I agree with Flask, log the darn thing as "found" and thats it.
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I'm going to have to give this one a shot, should make life a whole lot easier.
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Personally speaking, I dont believe there is any way for them to forceably ensure that whoever it is, is acutally ftf. In other words, no they cant place a cache and say so and so is reserved ftf. Once its approved its out there for whoever wants it and whoever actually gets to it first and signs the log is ftf.
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Generally speaking if a cache and/or its owner are mia for a long enough period of time and enough people post dnf's for a few of their caches, both the cache owner and their caches will be archived with any of their remaining active geocaches adopted by other people. Not to worry, its something the local reviewer will eventually take care of.
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I'll have to keep that one in mind. Found one recently that rates as a 5/5 that I plan on going after. We shall see if its worth the hunt. Its called Tube Torcher 2 gcwa47.
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All very good points guys. I think I might have to either go out and place some, or go out and hunt them out of state or even both. Certainly both are valid options. I do really appreciate all the work that everyone puts into the 4/4 and harder caches though. I know its not easy to place those.
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Wow. Yea, I mean that kind of difficult. Or even harder if thats even possable lol.
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Furthest East Cache
in South and Southeast
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Awesome, thank you!