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  1. I have posted twice in an effort to help you. I will try once more. Reviewers have been told that they SHOULD allow links to Certitude on cache pages. I do not see a need to contact the owner of Certitude. As of today, the "Geocaching Live!" API Partner logo still appears on the Certitude website.

     

    I appreciate that and your help is great however you are not the reviewer of my cache, and this reviewer of my cache is telling me something that is diametrically opposite to what you are telling me (and that I told him). In fact he stated, and I quote:

     

    "Thanks for your changes. You may well be right about about using Certitude, but unfortunately the reviewers have not been instructed to accept caches with a link to their site."

     

    Now I do not know who has briefed this reviewer or why but if that is the case then I feel the owner of the Certitude site should be told of this decision, don't you think?

     

    Of course the other spin on this is that the reviewer has made a mistake and doesn't feel able to say to me, "I'm sorry I got it wrong" and is instead making up some total twaddle about things.

     

    What what you be really useful, is of course a clear statement from Groundspeak saying which puzzle checking / confirming sites one may or may not use but I'm not holding my breath for that one.

     

    Rik

  2. Approved coordinate check websites include Certitude, Evince, Geocheck.org and Geochecker.com. Not sure why you ran into that issue, based on the reference materials made available to reviewers. I hope you get it sorted.

     

    Maybe, just maybe the reviewer of my cache is unaware of this rule?

     

    All I know is I just spent three hours building a puzzle checker and uploading it to my webserver.

  3. Tough size/shape to find waterproof. Closest I know of is the following wallet case

     

    http://www.thewaterproofstore.com/cardcase-caribiner.html

     

    and this is a waterproof battery case

     

    http://www.inanycase.com/Merchant2/merchan...Product_Count=8

     

    shrugs....you can probably find similar stuff at other stores if you do some searches.

     

    Those are really rather good arn't they. Although I do wonder what the phrase "used traditionally" means in relation to the battery case :)

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    Is that the venue asking or the cahers? If the venue just explain that the parents will be there to look after their own kids so nobody needs to be CRB checked. Sounds like pedantic nosense to me.......

     

    Hold a pub event - they'll come (assume the dates suit). Or find a park and have a picnic - no venue issues at all then.

     

    It was the venue not the cachers. The park is out of the question due to the time of the year and as I say most of the local cachers seem uncomfortable with meeting in a pub - dunno why, but there you go. Hence my attempt at finding a suitable other venue.

     

    Given the level of silliness exhibited by three local venues, I'm waiting until next spring before a get together is planned, and we can have a picnic.

     

    Tsiolkovsky

  5. Hi

    I have a cache which uses a cheap magnetic key safe. It has the log in a plastic bag but still gets wet. It sits on the back of a metal railing and using a film pot is too obvious so ideally want something waterproof and slimline (about 100mm x 40mm x 10mm thick). I can fit magnets to it and paint if necessary.

    Any ideas??

     

    sounds like you need something with an o-ring in it.

     

    I have seen small waterproof containers but they are generally cylindrical in aspect rather than flat. I have come across some flat containers that are waterproof, but they are sadly too large to meet your requirements.

     

    Have you thought of adapting something like a soft plastic waterproof mp3 pouch?

     

    like one of these?

     

    Waterproof pouch

     

    Tsiolkovsky

  6. Are there any rules and regulations I need to know before I list an event. I have looked through the site but came up blank.

     

    What a good question, and I am sure there are other things above and beyond what is laid down in the rules by geocaching.

     

    I was looking at setting up a meeting in Frome for my local cachers, the problem is most of them don't want to meet in pubs, so I was looking at other local venues.

     

    Most wanted to know about tricky things such as, if children are coming will the adults there be CRB checked, what kind of ancillary insurance would I be providing, etc...

     

    *sigh*

  7. Just wondering in this age of digital photography, where people get their film canisters from?

     

    most photographic shops are normally quite happy to give you a few.

     

    Can I make one suggestion, if possible avoid using APS canisters - they seem to be less waterproof than the 35mm variety.

  8. Help me love these critters by giving me some hints into the various shapes, forms and locations these small but xxxx formed things can be found (or DNF'd) in!

     

    To be honest I find most nanos rather tiresome, especially those placed in areas where it would be trivial to place a proper size cached or those at the end of a long, complicated multistage cache.

     

    However there is a class of nano that is always a thrill to find, and i'll come onto those in a minute.

     

    Most of the nanos you are likely to find are of the small magnetic variety, they are small unobtrusive, fairly water-proof and come in a variety of colours so they are ideal for urban environments.

     

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    The most common variant to this variety of cache is the magnetic nano bolt:

     

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    Generally speaking these nanos are attached to large lumps of metal, however occasionally you will find them attached to wooden structures. It is a trick I've used in the past to rather good effect.

     

    Moving into the realm of the non-magnetic nano - you will often see the pet ID holder containers or the bison tubes:

     

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    however, the advantage of the nano is that these containers can be embedded in other more mundane objects such as snail shells, golf balls and pine cones.

     

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    Depending on the level of cunning and evil displayed by the cache owner.

     

    In fact it is this sort of nano that is the real joy to find. The really and utterly sneaky cache that has you scratching your head. A stonkingly fine example of such a cache would be Edward Simeon in Reading. Now that is a cache.

     

    GC1FB0E - Edward Simeon

     

    hope this helps in some way to understand the world of the nano.

  9. Does any UK cache supplier stock the bison hexagonal container?

     

    i.e. one of these:

     

    http://www.shop4swag.com/catalog/product_i...products_id=135

     

    I've had a look at:

     

    ukgeocachers & geotees with no joy.

     

    I know box64 used to stock them, but they've closed now.

     

    If I could source them in the UK then that would be brilliant, rather than having to pay shipping from say the USA.

     

    Many thanks

     

    Tsiolkovsky

  10. A word of warning: If your proposed event was to involve the participants requiring to drive on the public highway, then you are restricted to 12 or less vehicles.

     

    Okay hold my hand up to that one for not being clear enough. Not talking about a CAR rally, but rather take the concept of the rally and use foot power instead.

     

    With walkers going off at timed intervals.

  11. Just outside Stourhead, Wiltshire are four very fun multi-caches, all with the same starting point - the car park at Stourhead Woods.

     

    Namely:

     

    http://coord.info/GC1H9KH

    http://coord.info/GC1H9NH

    http://coord.info/GC1HH0G

    http://coord.info/GC1H9N2

     

    The caches are something of a challenge, in that you have to collect information from a series of information boards, which will give you the location of a micro cache, in which are the co-ordinates for the final cache.

     

    I've recently completed these four caches, and found them to be such fun that I feel it is a shame that more people don't do them.

     

    I was toying with the idea of actually getting a few more people to do them, and what I was thinking of doing, was to organise a Rally. A traditonal Rally in that teams go off at 10 minute intervals from a starting location, and the team who does this in the quickest time wins a prize of some kind.

     

    The obvious thing to do would be to organise it as a geocache event of some kind, but of course because it would be for the purpose of finding some caches, it would be disallowed under the Rules.

     

    Any ideas anyone?

  12. Can I ask, how many cache owners sit down with the log book from the cache and cross reference it with the online logs?

     

    Tried that once with one of my early geocaches in Bristol. It didn't go well, since it appears that most geocaches have been through the same writing course as all Doctors so it is pointless trying ot decipher the scrawl.

     

    In the end my view is, if people want to claim finds they've not found, then that's fine. The only person they are cheating is themselves.

  13. It's finally arrived! Just downloaded it from the Market - $9.99 so same price as the iPhone.

     

    Boat firmly missed with this one, I fear. Given there is a plethora of good geocaching apps already available for the Android.

     

    Left me feeling a bit 'meh' when I bought it and tried it.

  14. We only ever found a tick on ourselves after reading about them on these forums maybe going back three year or so (although we have been caching about 6 year) so I am reading nothing about leeches :unsure::blink:

     

    In my humble opinion the only "safe" way to remove a tick is with a tool made for the job, we have the little green two pronged forks ones and the tick o matic ones that go on keyrings and they both do a grand job :blink:

     

     

    Where did you get your tick key from? I have yet to find a really good tick remover, and since I've tired the vasoline trick - the tick promptly desired to do something unspeakable to my arm (luckily not an infected one) - I am thinking that direct action and hoicking the little so-and-so out would be the best method.

     

    As to leaches. Been there and done that in Belize.

  15. Happy Humphrey is quite right. It's only if your naked bits are likely to cause offence that they become of interest to the police. While I'm here...

     

    Actually that's an interesting point. I wonder if now 'll be able to submit 'The Rude man of Cerne Abbas' as an earth cache? The last time I tried it, and despite getting written permission from the NT landowners, I was turned down because it was a lude and unsavory subject for an earthcache...

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