stenpils

Of course! Just let me know whether you want to send e.g. a word doc which I'll then work up, or whether you want author access to the Wordpress back-end and DIY - entirely your call - cool the first piece in Scotland. :-)

Thanks for the feedback, you're right probably doesn't read as intended. But now I read it back I'm not sure how I intended it, but certainly not in a way that puts people like yourself off from offering advice, or evangelising about your local caching scene. That term is now just plain gone, as a result, but I do wonder if I need to find a way of wording something that means - "only to be reproduced outside of this site with original author's permission" - because I imagine each individual author might have different opinion on whether they are willing to be quoted. It's a non-commercial blog site so there's no big copyright preciousness on my part, so no probs removing the contentious line! Thanks for pointing it out. :-) @DartyMoor, yes the trails site is a good one - it's Trail-centric whereas GeocacheTourist is area-centric! I've spoken to the site owner of trails just to say hi, and chew the phat about operating such sites! Edited for Typos.

HNY All! Just thought id plug a new site dedicated to being a quick look guide to the recommended caches in a particular area to try and capture the essence of the geocaching scene www.geocachetourist.com The philosophy of the site is here: www.geocachetourist.com/geocache-tourist-raison/ Anyway i also thought this would be a good place to canvass your opinions on the interactive map of the UK + Ireland cacheing regions map on the home page, particularly in respect of factual accuracy. Any thoughts greatly appreciated! Cheers, Paul aka Stenpils

Cool, will do, thanks. I've avoided direct approaches before now but if you think it would be OK... :-) Great idea, but one of the things that needs discussing is how areas are best segmented... in low saturation areas (do any of those still exist?) then the article can cover a wide area (e.g. the whole of County Donegal is covered by a single article) but hotbed towns or Cities could them selves conceivably be split across various articles. So in your area, county, town, city - how would you see it being split up into several smaller articles if at all?

Exactly, just the quick glance to highlight a few caches / cachers / or suggested routes and areas. Now have a few articles to submit over the next few days - including our first voluntary submission from A Local, which is now live: Kendal, Cumbria. Interested in thoughts on the format and whether the info presented gives you that "quick glance highlights".

lol, exactly. Fancy having a crack at telling me about bolton, then? As if I was just asking you in a pub or at a meet - "so where MUST i cache in Bolton"? My hosting servers are in Bolton, actually, and I was there a couple of days ago hopeing for enough time to look at some of Foinavons River Croal stuff. Alas no! But as I'm there sporadically, if only I had an in-the-know local able to tell me where I should focus that time! :-)

Hi All, Jumping in two footed. :-) The follwing was inspired by a few threads on here, and on my local forum (nwcaching.co.uk) along the lines of "what's the caching like in...", and also inspired by the fact that I'm off on a weekend break soon and want to know a bit about the area I'm heading to but didn't have a concise succinct collection of opinion to refer to... So anyroad I'm looking for evangelists for their local caching areas (or areas they know well) who might like to submit a mini-caching-tourists-guide-to-the-locale to eventually provide a resource for "out of area" cacher to start their research on what not to miss. For me researching where to go is good fun, so I'm not suggesting this to be spoon-feeding or removing that fun, but just to be a starter for 10. Who would want to miss the Isle-of-Wight equivalent of "Whitespace", or "The Sparrow Boys" (v popular caches/cache setters in my neck of the woods) because of not enough time to research. So just looking for 1-pager contributions to start with, see if theres any interest, or value in it. The site's based aruond a blog, so it's interactive even after an article has been published on an area, e.g. the Northwich article I've done for illustration can then be added to via comments "Thanks, I followed the route it was great" or "You're talking Hogwash, don't miss out on CacheX!" or "Oooh, change this article to remove that cache mention - it's been archived".. etc etc. Pls check out http://www.geocachetourist.com, it's in its infancy (being 2 days old), but hopefully will start filling up with contributions very shortly! Many thanks in advance for any feedback, contributions, or any submission of your thoughts; and just let me know thru GC.com or PM or responding to this thread if you fancy having a bash at evangilising your local area for the benfit of us caching tourists!

My signature item is a geoTractor or geoTruck "coin". - see my profile. Air drying clay, cookie cutter, felt pens and pva glue for a nice glaze / marbled effect. Make great swag items and they get traded pretty quickly and are also a great way to replenish caches with swag-fatigue. Pm me if you want more details instructions as they are great fun and dead easy to make ( me and 3yr old have a production line going!). We've done trucks and tractors so far but are now doing some british flags and some geoLizards!

Don't know on that one - suggest scouring the user guide (sorry obvious answer) - if it doesn't do it then I can offer unsolicited compliments about cacheberry (I'm merely a user). Iirc the free trial is fully functional so give it a go.

I too have had some recent disappointments with Swag (or rather my 3-yr old is disappointed, I've enjoyed the hunt). I have taken the following tack with it: home-made geoswag. Dead cheap and fun to make, makes placing them as much fun as anything. Good for when it's too cr*ppy weather for caching. Basically we've been making coins out of air-drying clay and colouring them with acrylics and felt tip pens. Quick coat of PVA glue for a nice shiny glaze. Bingo great looking "geoCoins" which has put the fun back into treasure hunting, and we don't begrudge putting them into empty caches. Feedback we've had from people that have found our tractor or truck coins is that they love 'em!

Hi there, I too cache with Blackberry, but my chosen software is CacheBerry. I suspect there will be similar functionality in Geocache Navigator though so here goes... Select the cache in GeoCache Navigator and try to find something that resembles "Add Waypoint".. create your new waypoint as a child of the original cache; and punch in the co-ords you've figured out. Then hopefully when you send the cache through to maps it should send the waypoint too. This is exactly the way CacheBerry handles it - this is essential if you're solving a multi out in the field. I hope this is a useful guide for you! stenpils