releasethedogs
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Make a spooky night cache with a story to go along with it. At the end will be a creative container to go along with your story. I am currently making one with a "phoenix lights" theme where the cacher has to take on the role of a FBI agent like on the xfiles. they will follow the clues to a spaceship wreck which is the cache container.
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cute. I proposed to my wife with a geocache also.
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Thanks anyways hzoi.
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Maby somebody should light her on fire...
Yeah because that would solve a lot....
I don't understand how someone could set a fire that would burn a tree as big as this, but I live in Oregon where everything is wet all the time. Was this tree alive? lf it were dead then it would be dry and burn quite easily, I imagine. I'm really sorry its gone, but if the stump is 30 feet tall, then it might still be a tree worth visiting.
Some how she was INSIDE the truck of the tree.
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Just noticed that the Republic of The Gambia is incorrectly listed as simply "Gambia" in the map view in statistics. Please change the name to the offical short version by adding the word "the".
In case you are wondering the reason why it is "The Gambia" and not simply "Gambia", the country is named for the Gambian river which flows through the country.
Thanks.
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Ohhhhhh. So if i can get the entire The Duggar Family to come that would be 21 in the log book but only 1 "attended" log online. I get it now, thanks.
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This is a funny and great idea.
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I always thought Mega Events were 500+ people but lately I have seen a few mega events with less than 500 "will attend" logs and even less "attended" logs. One cache has about half the needed "attended" logs. I thought that it must have been changed so I looked at the knowledge books and they still say 500+ people is a Mega Event.
Are the knowledge books out of date? Was this changed? If not why do these caches have mega event status when they don't qualify?
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If adding a PR department would mean an increase in the price of membership or something that actually affects my caching experiance, then I can deal with sudden changes... that don't actually affect my caching experiance. Like this one.
Well they can take part of the 30 million they are not going to spend on maps and give one or two people a job.
Why didn't Groundspeak use the weekly newsletter to announce a change of this significance? Was it hoped that the change could be sneaked in without anybody noticing? I agree with others that the new maps are a backward step for Geocaching.com.
Because they have wretched PR and a bad attitude.
How can I say this any more clearly? You are not paying for the maps. You have never paid for the maps. Nobody pays for the maps. Nobody has ever paid for the maps. Groundspeak is not out to get you.
Rinse. Repeat.
If GS had stayed with Google, THEN you would be paying for the maps. Through the nose. And no doubt everyone would then start complaining about THAT - I know I would!
Does not change the fact that the maps were part of their service and changing it to an inferior product devalues their product as a whole.
If they stopped giving you fresh garlic bread at your favorite italian diner and instead started giving you garlic toast made with wounder bread it would devalue their restaurant as a whole. It does not matter if the garlic bread was free or not.
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What? Open caching? Or qutting? Those are not options. It's like a diet or starvation.
Yeah OC sucks right now but it sucks because no one uses it. If most people cross listed their caches then it would not suck as bad.
One of the reasons for poor communication beforehand has been that many years ago they were more transparent and it only bit them in the end. There were things that they considered doing, and then changed their minds, or there were things that they said were coming but then took a lot longer to implement. The negativity that they received from the geocaching public was enough that they stopped telling us things in advance. Newer cachers may not see this, but some of us oldies can probably remember how bad it could get.
This is no excuse. If you think you may change your mind about a product/service then you don't announce it. Once you announce it then you are obligated to make the product/service a reality. That is poor business on the part of Groundspeak to announce a project then abandon it. On the same time is very damaging to the credibility of Groundspeak when they have the apathetic, uncaring, antagonistic attitude that they have. They don't even attempt to have some resemblance of Public Relations with their customers. As another user articulated, that they needed to:
1. Say in advance what was coming.
2. Explain the reason for the change.
3. Acknowledge that the transition was going to be very difficult.
4. Apologize for the inconvenience.
5. Assure us that they are working diligently to improve the situation.
As for having setbacks and it taking long to implement something, I think It goes with out saying that if they explained the situation their users would understand.
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What that means is that they have razor thin margins to work with.
They need to explore other aspects of geocaching that can raise revenue for them and stop wasting money for stuff people don't want.
People never wanted souvenirs. They commissioned tons of art that has not even gone live. Waste of money.
People did not want challenges, they wanted virtual caches back. Groundspeak goes ahead and makes challenges, wasting money in the progress.
Obviously there is a market for virtual caches. People pay money for weapons and swords in video games. Why not charge premium members 10.00 to list a virtual cache. 10 bucks is enough to discourage people from listing only things they care about while still making them a possibility. I know I have a few things Id pay to make a virtual cache.
Shoudn't I at least have to option to determine what I can't or won't afford. If my restaurant did that I'd leave for another never to return, unfortunately here I don't have that option.
sure you do.
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Are you serious about that analogy?
The tuna fishermen suddenly decided to up the price of fresh tuna by a hundredfold. Your diner knew that you wouldn't or couldn't afford the corresponding increase in the price of their sandwich, so rather than increase the price, they substituted canned tuna. How is that unforgivable?
What is nearly unforgivable is GS's total lack of PR. As users above noted they sprung this huge change on us with out warning and pretended like it was no big deal. Then they ignore the problem and their users instead of (at least pretending they are) caring and communicating with their users.
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Why is everyone blaming Groundspeak? Why not complain to Google?
Because we pay you for the service not google. duh.
For example pretend you like the tuna sandwich at your local diner. The tuna is very high quality and it is the best in town. Then one day you come in, pay the same price you always had and the tuna sandwich you loved so much is different -- it is still tuna but it is of much less quality.
Who would you complain to? The diner? The diner's tuna supplier?
Of course you would complain to the diner to do something about it. It is the diner's responsibility to keep offering a quality product (or reduce the price of the inferior product) or the customers will simply move on. Just as it is groundspeaks' responsibility to keep offering the same or better service.
For instance... when booking a hotel how many people pay extra for hotels if they have free wifi and free breakfast? Now pretend you are a regular in a hotel for a long time that offered these services, then one day they were gone (or worse quality). You would feel that that experience was cheapened compared to that last time even though these services were free. This is the same for geocaching.com, when you gave us lame maps it cheapens the website as a whole because we get an inferior product at the same cost.
What makes the bad nearly unforgivable is that Groundspeak seems content to ignore us instead of having an actual dialog with us. Then, when you do talk to us you blame it on suppler of the service you based your product on. It is not our job to complain to google, YOU should be doing that and/or finding a solution that does not suck. A solution that your customers want. While you are doing this, use your facebook and twitter accounts, that is what they are for.
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The Container types for the Top 100:
Container Count
Virtual 43
Regular 22
Micro 11
Not chosen 9
Large 8
Other 6
Small 4
I think this is pretty much proof they need to bring back real virtual caches.
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You have to know the GC code. Once they are archived there is no way to search for them. Best bet is to look at some ones finds who you know has found the cache.
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I think it is sad goundspeak sank so much money into making challenges when it was not what were were promised or wanted. Sure wish you had that money now, then maybe we could have some decent maps.
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If you want to return the Google map and Google satelite view into your geocaching map, install Mozilla Firefox and Grease Monkey add-on. Then download this script and install it. This script adds these two map views into new map (see the map options in upper right corner). Credit goes to Pesulap from Czech Republic.
https://rapidshare.com/files/2126139919/116103.user.js
Is their another source? Greasemonkey says it is corrupt.
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I hate the new maps but will learn to live with them if they will give us some thing we really want (REAL virtual caches).
other than that make maps a premium membership. If you want to cache for free you can, but you don't get to see the caches on a map. If you do pay you can have google maps back. This will lower the amount of hits and make it affordable for GS to offer it.
furthermore GS NEEDS to have an actual dialog with its customers, no other company on earth would ignore its paying users if they were so upset yet GS ALWAYS does. Please acknowledge there is a problem and keep us updated on what you are doing to fix it.
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Hopefully Groundspeak keeps us updated often!
Ha! You're an optimist. I think GS is terrible about keeping it's PAID users in the know.
No hate, just some facts. When Jeremy instituted premium memberships he promised that there would always be a free option and that once you purchased a premium membership the price to you would not increase.
He also promised to bring back virtual caches in instead instated faux virtual caches "challenges", some thing NO ONE WANTED.
And here is why OpenStreetMap is cool - one cacher has found the path, they can edit OSM, add the path, and the next cacher will be able to find it. Without using the satellite imagery. So if OSM doesn't show them, you can add them fairly easily.
Agree. There are some local Management Areas that have loads of trails that Google doesn't show. A local hiker/biker added many of them to the OSM!
Perhaps GC.com can post a Knowledge Book article (or how-to video) on how to add data to OSM. We are all out in the woods, probably storing our tracks as a matter of course. I bet in a couple of weeks us cachers can make significant improvements in the off-road portions of themaps.
I was thinking the same thing. In fact, someone could even go out and place a cache, create a track log while out placing it, upload the tracklog to OSM, then submit the cache listing and once it's published finders will have a route to follow all the way to the cache. Of course, the challenge for the CO would be to hide the cache such that even with a route to follow all the way to GZ, it would still be hard to find.
To get idea of the potential impact that a small community of people can have on OSM consider the following. On Jan. 12, 2010 there was a devastating 7.0 earthquake that struck Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. This is what the OSM maps looked like prior to the earthquake:
A call for assistance from the OSM mapping community was sent out asking help in improving the map data to aid NGS and otehr international agencies respond to the crisis. Within 3 days there were over 800 edits made. Here is what the map looked like on Jan. 15, 2010.
Great! All we need is a Global Earthquake and we will be good to go.
Furthermore, I don't know why they just don't make the maps a premium feature. Cut out all the people that want to play for free from viewing the maps and it just might get us out of the top .35% that google wants to charge. When you think about it maps are nice, but they are not required anymore then a .GPX file is. They are a premium feature. Make maps (with google) a premium feature and cut out maps for people who want to play for free.
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Hmm.. oh the humanity.
Huh?
Re: Midlinda, never been, but it looks like there's a paved road going straight to it from Keflavik. Rent a car and you're there.
Of course I can rent a car to get there, i mean by public transport.
Well, then. You told me. How dare I try to help. Figure it out on your own, grumpy pants.
Do not mean to be grumpy, just specifying what I met because I was obviously unclear about what I needed.
No hostility intended.
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Hmm.. oh the humanity.
Huh?
Re: Midlinda, never been, but it looks like there's a paved road going straight to it from Keflavik. Rent a car and you're there.
Of course I can rent a car to get there, i mean by public transport.
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I'll be going to Iceland in late march/early april so i was excited when i saw this thread. Can anyone tell me how to get to MIDLINDA (GC2DK2E)
also, if i make an event do you think people will come? I try to make events to meet local cachers when I travel but have not had the greatest luck with it in the past.
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Any one in Slovakia who can grab my TB out of cache http://coord.info/GC1V7A2
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Yeah i have all cache with in 10 miles, except one. :-)
Making your Earth Caches fun like Bill Nye used to be
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I am just working my my latest earthcache and I got an idea. I remembered back to my youth when I would watch educational programs such as Bill Nye and others and when they were introducing a concept they would show a quick 4-5 clip from movies or what not to add humor and keep the viewers attention.
Just curious, has some thing like this ever been done with earthcaches? With tons of 4-5 second clips on youtube it would be very easy and fun to add these to your earth caches. Any one know of a earthcache that does this?