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    Whizbang

    in How do I...?

    Posted · Edited by cache_n_out

    I make them from pop and gatorade bottles/lids.   Yep learned in from the KY folks.

     

    Versus the youtube video I trim the bottle, use hot glue gun and then press fit the second lid on.

     

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    NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance is trackable via Geocaching! (TB5EFXK)

    in Trackables

    Posted

    I received a warning on my last post.  

     

    I mentioned GC HQ had announced when the trackable will be unlocked.    True, here's a quote from the blog  "

    How can I log this trackable if I’m not also going to Mars?

    If you’re not blasting off anytime soon, don’t worry! You’ll still be able to log the Mars Rover in the second half of February 2021. "

     

    Well, you all have 1 day to fulfill this.   Again, seems odd to hype this thing when it can't be logged.  Be respectful to you paying customer - no bait and wait....

     

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    Geocache Quality

    in User Insights

    Posted

    • In your mind, what is a high quality geocache?

    It can be seen from above there's a large diversity of opinion.  Quality = cool containers or cool locations, good coordinates, creative  etc.   But if you are going for 100 finds in a day (enough thought Groundspeak doesn't encourage such things) then a bunch of guardrail caches would seem like "quality".  

    • In your mind, what is a low quality geocache?

    One I can't find!  Either missing, bad coordinates, nano in the woods, poor difficulty rating.

    • What steps can the community take to improve geocache quality?

    Obviously, more NM, NA logs.  And participate actively in a rating system listed below.

    • What steps can Geocaching HQ take to improve geocache quality?

    The best thing would be to set up a community rating system.   You have "favorites" which is good - how about "thumbs down"  too?   Or a 1-5 scale rating system.   Also allow the users to rate the difficultly and terrain is they wish.  Would force "truth in advertising".  The CO would set the active,true D/T, but if other users could rate as well, then the next finder would know this is really a D5 and maybe choose not to do it.  Maybe if enough users voted one way the CO might even change it.

     

    Your virtual rewards could improve cache quality - if you actively advertised it that way.  It is pretty clear to us observers that a vast majority of "awardees"  were people who had high "fav" point to logs ratios.   Even when they had only a few hides!   Consider though, myself.  I have a large number of perhaps "lower quality" hides - power trails on lakes, hiking, biking trails.  BUT I also have the highest number of favorite points in all of OHIO.  So who has done more for the community me or the guy who hid 3 caches and got a lot of favorite points on just those 3???

    Release Notes (Website: Solution Checker) - October 19, 2017

    in Geocaching HQ communications

    Posted

    On 10/19/2017 at 5:34 PM, dprovan said:

    I'm actually sorry to see this since it will almost certainly kill off the 3rd party checkers even though some of them are way more mature and have a lot more features.

    I agree about one field: I've solved a lot of puzzles, and it's almost always the case that I have the entire number assembled somewhere else and want to move it with a single copy and paste. When the input is split into fields, it becomes so hard to do copy and paste that I'm forced to type it in digit by digit, and that introduces an unnecessary opportunity for typos. This isn't just hypothetical: it would happen to me regularly on that one popular checker until they finally added the single field option a few years ago.

    I also don't like the cache coordinates being correctedd. I don't like or use the corrected coordinate feature, so I'll be pretty annoyed if I'm forced to use it based on the CO's decision to use the GS checker.

    Well they will be around for awhile until they add the option of allowing the geocacher to just enter "close enough" coordinates and some of the other stuff the other checkers can do.

    Garmin what did u do to may Oregon 600??

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    When I pull up the list of geocaches on the device  they changed the little icon next to the name.  I used to be the typically cache symbol and you'd see if you found it or not.

    NOW, that symbol is 4x smaller and they added a little circle if the terrain and difficult on it.  I really just need to see if found or not.

    Anyone know how to change it back?

    Looking for help creating a intercache

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by cache_n_out

    The map is currently broken. I haven't had a chance to fix it yet. Navigation works fine though.

     

    Do you have any sort of tutorial on how to do it? For instance, not obvious where to get the url to put on your cache.

     

    Also on an iphone should I use safari or google browser?

     

    Thanks

    Trying to place caches along Ohio rivers

    in How do I...?

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    Hi All,

     

    Last year I had some extended conversations about placing caches along Ohio rivers. In Ohio property owners own the land on the shores and under the water. A good summary is here:

     

    http://senr.osu.edu/sites/senr/files/imce/files/course_materials/5451ReadingMaterials/Principles_of_Water.pdf

     

    Ohio law states that the owner controls the banks and the riverbed below. But one can navigate on the waterway.

     

    Ohio tree law states that if a tree over hangs your property can can trim it. Perhaps this gives a way to allow folks to place caches on over hanging branches of trees that can be reached without leaving the boat.

     

    From http://senr.osu.edu/sites/senr/files/imce/files/course_materials/5451ReadingMaterials/Principles_of_Water.pdf Page 54

     

    In the most recent interpretation of the concept of "navigability" the Hamilton County Court of Appeals stated: "The state of Ohio holds these water in trust for those Ohioans who wish to use this stream for all legitimate uses, be they commercial, transportational, or recreational."4 § 62. 2. Included activities. While it appears clear that the public under the decided cases has a right to travel on any stream that will reasonably allow the recreational use of a canoe and which may be reached by public access, the further range of activities that might be included under the phrase "legitimate uses" is only partially defined. This statue does not prohibit hunting or trapping on navigable waters.

     

    A Wisconsin case holds: 55 "Sound public policy requires that the state continue to hold its navigable water in trust for the public, and that such trust extend to the uses of such waters for fishing, hunting, and other recreational purposed, as well as for pure navigation."4 § 65. c. Other purposes.

     

    In Michigan, a trout fisherman who waded a river, angling as he went, was found not to be a trespasser on lands of the riparian owner who owned the banks and the land to the center of the stream.1 In Wisconsin, bathing and ice skating have been mentioned as public purposes of navigable streams and rivers.2 It should be noted, however, that these activities were not cited as tests to determine navigability, but as proper uses of streams that were found navigable because of their capacity to carry boats or logs.

     

    In considering particular uses of a navigable stream which are not the subjects of Ohio decisions, the following statement from American Jurisprudence (2d) offers some guidelines: "The right to use watercourses as highways, and the right to use highways on land, are said to be analogous, and to depend on the same general principles. One's right to navigate a public river is not a private but is a public right, to which he is entitled only in common with the whole public. Any and all of the public have an equal right to a reasonable use, but the enjoyment by one necessarily interferes to some extent, for the time being, with its absolutely free and unimpeded use by others, and each must exercise his rights with a proper regard for the rights of others. An individual has no right to make such use of his rights of navigation as practically to monopolize the water and deprive others of the exercise of equal rights. Furthermore, the exercise of the public right so navigation may be properly regulated or limited under the police power in the interest of the general welfare. As to what constitutes reasonable use, it has been said that no precise definition, adapted to all cases, can be laid down. By reason, however, of the analogy of the rights of the public in navigable waters to its rights in highways, the principle that whether or not any particular use is reasonable depends on the character of the highway, its location and purposes, and the necessity, extent, and duration of the use, under all the attendant and surrounding circumstances has been applied, as have also the general limitations on the use to the effect that when such use constitutes an obstruction to the highway, it must be of a partial and temporary character, justified by necessity and convenience, and in the ordinary and contemplated use of the highway. It must not be incompatible with the reasonable free use of others who may have occasion to travel or transport over it."3

     

    SO if we can put geocaches on guard rails - seems like we should be able to put them on trees over hanging rivers.

     

    Looking for other lines of argument. In Indiana and Kentucky there seem to be no restrictions for placing caches along rivers.

     

    Thanks for your consideration,

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