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I just want to know how you sign a log book and claim a find for a cache you never touched because you were sitting in the car while someone else was actually physically dealing with the finding and signing of the cache log. Math whatever, this is the part of the physics that bothers me, how can you mark something without touching it?

As someone with two homes I agree. I only spend a brief time each year at my second home so it is a real pain trying to do the nearest caches I have not found while I am there. Also I plan to retire soon and become a part time RVer, this feature might be nice for that as well.

Federal Lodge 17, Watertown CT

Cars do break at random, that is true but most of the time that can be blamed on user error. When the GC.com site goes down it doesn't just break, it goes off the road, hits a tree, bursts into flames and ties up traffic for miles. But anyway back on topic GC.com is a privately owned for profit business. You can complain all you want but it still isn't your business, it is the property of the owners who are entitled to try and build their business any way they see fit. If Wherigo, and Waymarking were the huge failures that everyone believes they are they would probably have been shut down by now. GC.com will evolve just like any other business, and will either grow, or go broke. If the critics are right and adding other services while not raising prices is a bad idea they will go broke, If the owners are right and expansion is the way to go then the business will be profitable. If the business fails it won't cost you anything, if it profits they ain't gonna to cut you a check. Still you better hope they are right because there are a lot of containers out there that no one will ever find if they are wrong and the site closes down.

On my caches I usually just update the placed date to the date the cache was published if there is a huge (9 month) disparity between the two dates.

Look in the Geocaching Groups by Region / State section of the forums and find your region / state, there should be a thread for this there.

Are you looking for something like I have on this cache page http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...e5-3e1f0532bfbf ?

Did you read the user agreement or just sign it?

Now there is a good idea, and it puts no more strain on the system than someone logging from home.

But if they took responsibility for their own actions then they couldn't complain about how the world is holding them back.

I am fairly certain that I wrote all my own cache logs, and designed all my own cache pages. If it's "Your" data why weren't you entering your data for me? Also I have to say that I am not the best speller in the world, but baloo&bd doesn't look anything like Groundspeak incorporated in any way shape or form. You as well accepted the user agreement that says the information you entered including your forum posts become the property of Groundspeak and they may distribute it any way they want to. If you knew that was going to be a problem for you you should have told them before you agreed.

I don't see you getting off your lazy rear and starting your own geocaching web site so you can set up the outflow of data the way you want to. That part makes you lazy. You had to agree to the users agreement like the rest of us. You can complain all you want but you have been told many times that it isn't going to change any time soon. The constant complaining makes you a crybaby.

Wow, first off, it you can't take a little time and figure out how to use the things you are provided with to do what you want then you are lazy. Next a word on improvement, someone brought up the Ford motor company. It's 2008, where is my flying car? By your logic my asking for a flying car should get one on the market this week right. If I can get a flying car you can have unlimited access to data. Finally if you pay someone $3 a month to give you data, and you agreed that you would take the data the way that they provide it and figure out how to use it on your own then you should quit whining like a spoiled brat. If you really have that much of a problem with the way that data is provided to you then you should take your $3 and start your own geocaching web site and dole out data any way you want to. At the risk of getting bounced out of the forums I will say that GC.com is not the only game on the planet, and you are free to use other providers to get your cache data. Just remember they will dole out data the way that they see fit, not the way that you want them to. If you want data tailor provided to you there is only one way to make that happen, start your own Geocaching web site from scratch. Build it from the ground up one cacher at a time for about eight years and lets see how that works out for you. I know that some people believe that GC.com is here to accommodate their every wish, but there are other people out there playing the game besides you. Suck it up, things are the way they are, and that isn't going to change because a dozen people out of several hundred thousand are complaining. If you want change that bad you need to find a better way to make it happen than whining like a bunch of crybabies that want everything handed to them because they asked for it.

It's good to see that someone found a use for the $100 laptop.

Leboyf wants PQ's delivered in such a way that he doesn't have to do any work to make them fit the way that he caches because he feels that the exertion of compiling multiple PQ's is too much. He also doesn't want to do the work of figuring out how to use the system as designed to his advantage. That sounds like lazy to me, fits the definition as well. Again this change the rules to suit me attitude is offensive to me.

I see your point, but I like the pix! Thanks, I am going to try for something like that on my cell tonight.

Hay, those would work on cell phones too! You are correct, they are easy to make, but having a calender that was large enough to read in that size format would be nice.

This isn't about how I cache, but if you look at my terrain and difficulty ratings you will also see that I usually hike in at least .3 miles and a lot of the time I need a boat or climbing gear, but it isn't about my style of caching or yours. It is about you being too lazy to figure out how to work with the tools available to you so you think it is the responsibility of GC.com to accommodate you at the expense of everyone else, it isn't. This forum is for asking for enhancements to the web site to make things better. Things like. (These just came to mind, I am not asking for them) 1. Make the terrain and difficulty stars different colors so they are easier to read. (actualy I do like this one) 2. How about a way to change the text size to make the text fit better, or easier to read. 3. Why is there no easy to use link to to the GC.com store 4. why doesn't GC.com have links to HTML editors that are easy to use to for making cache pages. 5. Why not have a list of "stock" backgrounds. This forum is not for asking for changes to the rules of geocaching because you are lazy. What I don't understand is why geocaching has to change the way they dole out data because you are to lazy to figure out how to use the data to fit the way that you cache in the as provided format.

Please stop posting ideas for workarounds for these people. These people are obviously lazy, and want someone else to do all the work and thinking for them. The only way they are going to learn that the system will work for them if they just figure out how to use it is if they have to figure out how to make the system work for them on their own. This is the problem of the western world, I want it now, and I want you to do it for me. And yes, I do take offense to that type of behavior, I work for a living. Lets allow guns in the sport of football, that would be and improvement right?

My problem is that you want GC.com to bend to your method of caching. Not that your method is wrong, but I feel it is the responsibility of the cacher to bend there method of caching to fit the way GC.com provides the data, not the other way around. One of the reasons we play games is to learn how to solve problems, you have a problem, figure out a work around to it, don't ask for the rules to be changed to suite your methods. Try this at work some day, "boss I can't solve this problem with the tools provided, can you change the problem so that it is easier to solve".

Why don't we reduce your PQ to 5x20, don't tell me you do more then 100 caches per days Whaaa It's too hard, make it easier for me and harder for other people. Suck it up, we all get to download the same maximum number of caches and that is not going to change any time soon so figure out how to work with what you are given. Just like the grown ups do. I don't recall being the one that wanted to download huge numbers of cache listings every day, that was you. I can and have done just with 20 cache downloads the night before I go caching, and that probably won't change any time soon either. But I will ask again, Just what do you want to do with all the cache listings that you want to download? I have to assume that you have nefarious intentions if you won't tell us.

How dare you figure that out on your own! Don't you know that Leboyf and Nakedbamboo are trying really hard to start their own geocaching web site called piratedcachedata.com. Now what are they going to do? You have revealed their plan to the world. Well, it probably wasn't their plan, but I'm sure there is someone out there that either tried it, or wanted to try it. This along with the servers being beat down is just another good reason for only allowing 2500 cache downloads a day. Now that you have brought this up as a reason for downloading huge numbers of cache listings I am still thinking that no one has stepped forward to say why they need to download 17,500 cache listings a week. So, why exactly do you need 2500+ cache listings a day?

Ya know, this has got me thinking. How about a way to just do a PQ of all the caches in a given area that went active or inactive in a given week? That number has got to be far less than 500 caches a week even for places like California or Texas I would bet that daily for the entire US would be less than 500 caches added and archived in a day. This way you can load all the caches you want for a given area over a period of days or weeks, then all you need is one PQ a day or week just to keep the data you have up to date. I know GSAK can do that. Yes it would suck loading all the caches the first time, but keeping them all tidy would be simple after that. This would also lower the load on the server as people would not be running huge amounts of PQ's every day. Nah, forget it I'm just a loud mouth twit that couldn't possibly come up with a solution, in fact all I can do is complain about what others suggest.

How about at least a way of being able to add something like a show as mine option when the "Owner" creates the cache page they can add owners to the cache not just in name, but so that caches that are co-owned show up in the co-owners list as owned as well. This way you don't have to log a find on a cache that you own so that it comes off your not found or owned list. This is one of those weird times where you want to ignore and watch a cache at the same time.

Let me guess, you check on geocaches while you are at work don't you.