Cairngorm

When you say caching data, do you mean maintaining a database for your home area? Maybe it's just me, but I thought most GSAK users did that? The way I read what drewburlingame said about caching data, the idea was that GS could supply (slightly) old data to users. If that happened, where would we get "live PQs"? Why not run Thursday's PQ again Saturday? Or Friday night? Why not take one minute in the morning to open one GoogleMap of the day's caches and see if any box is grayed out, missing, or new (a thing I forget to do most days, and that's why I'm getting on someone else's case about it)?

I was under the impression that doing so would be a TOU violation, covered under "thou shalt not share thy data." And (if we're taking this idea seriously) for thirty bucks a year anyone can get another 40 of their very own.

There are two caches in Disneyland, and another in the California Adventure. That's why it's the happiest place on Earth. But that's a pricey day's caching.

There still is, and cachers are still having fun with it (except for the cut-and-paste "nice day for a hike" people*). There are other caches like this around the planet: here's one example, which has no ALR. *okay, they're probably having fun too, bless 'em.

That's right, but it's hard to believe that there's NO acknowledgment at all of the request. What kind of webhamster allows that? ANY indication that my click actually took effect would reduce the number of requests I make for "my finds" PQs by at least 80%. And that would be good for everyone.

I mean "your offline database." Same thing, only opposite.

I was going to say "I agree with you" but then I thought about it for a moment . . . actually it is very convenient. Once you make GSAK your home and forget about trying to navigate a web-based database, you're using a fast, powerful and versatile tool. When you identify a cache you want to know more about, the descriptions and logs are right there in your online database, or you can open the geocaching.com web page with one keystroke (f4) - all far more convenient than the basic online method. Can you open up GSAK without it being downloaded to a computer. If I go to the library can I open up my GSAK account from the library computer and do a search? @Ottila: nope, Lone R makes a good point.

I was going to say "I agree with you" but then I thought about it for a moment . . . actually it is very convenient. Once you make GSAK your home and forget about trying to navigate a web-based database, you're using a fast, powerful and versatile tool. When you identify a cache you want to know more about, the descriptions and logs are right there in your online database, or you can open the geocaching.com web page with one keystroke (f4) - all far more convenient than the basic online method.

I know - but I have to query out of the website database un-necessarily befor filtering it in GSAK. Yeah, I was focused on the OP's problem with caches in his/her home territory.

http://gsak.net/help/hs2570.htm

r u still planing to hide the hardest cache in teh world and waht would u want ppl who findit to write in there logs

Supply your own. No installation needed, just drop it in any directory you have access to (like My Documents). Fly under the radar. http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable My main employer has vast amounts of very sensitive personal information on its servers, so it monitors activity closely, but it also expressly permits us to play on the Web. I know, I know. And it provides IE6 and forbids staff to run their own software. I did think about Portable Firefox and I read the rules and decided not to go there. I'm glad GS took the trouble to restore service, because I was out of options. Apart from working, I mean.

In the asteroid-sized State Park beside my home there's a lot - I can think of eight without even trying, and there could easily be 20 or more - of caches that don't comply with the owners' current "guidelines" on new placements (which our reviewers seem to take seriously). If those get archived, they're gone. Yeah, go out and replace the box, and thank you.

I see the Spot 2 has finally been re-released.

Yes, you do. It's only a name change. Just email support asking for the change of name and stating a good reason. Go for it. And on topic: this IS my changed name, it feels very comfortable on me and I never looked back.

I did have this problem with Gmail, affecting maybe half of my notifications. I never did figure out which half or why: but that didn't matter, because it's easy to set up a filter to route all your GS mail to the inbox.

This from Jeremys facebook, nice to see he has a great sense of humour It's down to 520ft now? Then we can place 1.5% more caches!

I got a SPOT a few weeks ago on the advice of a local cacher who'd had to be helicoptered off a hillside just a few miles from civilization at the expense of SPOT's insurance company. The policy costs $7.95 - sounds good to me. I went for the old model because the SPOT2 is recalled, new ones currently can't be activated and people who got them for Christmas (other midwinter holidays are available) still can't use them and cannot find truthful ETAs for replacement units at http://www.facebook.com/spotmessenger. It is an older GPS, and it loses satellite communication in the canyons and woods around here. But that said, it's a whole lot better than nothing at all, I know that the help and 911 buttons make more attempts per hour to send their messages than the regular functions, and by stacking rebates I got the machine for free. I like it enough that I'll probably splash out on the promised upgrade deal for existing owners, if the company ever gets around to keeping that promise. The annual running cost is worth looking at before you start, and you can find pure emergency beacons that cost more to buy and nothing at all to use, but SPOT does more. Check out the customer feedback at rei.com and at Amazon (where the price has just been cut, darn it).

Don't they already show up as gray? I mean on the GC GoogleMap? I can't check right now because where I am this morning they run Internet Explorer 6 .

There is a GSAK macro "GenUploadStats" which will run FindStatGen and upload the result to your Groundspeak profile page while you wait. I click it at the end of every caching day and then I wander off to check email, or whatever, while it does its thing. It's two keystrokes. Nothing could be easier. [edited to include name of macro]

Okay, I know I'm dogging a fled horse, but: Last NM I posted, I'd found a broken tupperware lid and a scrap of logbook paper. That's oranges, right? Twice I found just a log book. Neither time did I claim a find. I logged a DNF and an NM on this one. I only logged a note this one as I it was already archived and I wasn't looking for it. I personally have never found just a log book. If I ever do though, I'm logging a find with adaquate information for the benefit of the CO to fix it, or not. If we're getting serious: I also found most of the box, but I thought it would be fun to tell the above version of the story.

Okay, I know I'm dogging a fled horse, but: Last NM I posted, I'd found a broken tupperware lid and a scrap of logbook paper. That's oranges, right?

You'd think so, wouldn't you. But that doesn't even happen now. There are two caches that I found and then later adopted, and they show up on the GoogleMap as finds, not as owned. This is not wrong, but it feels wrong, and I like your pseudocode better. [edited to acknowledge tozainamboku being ftf this aspect]

The clerk or customer service agent is often the only person who can give you what you were calling for. Or at least give it to you fast, with extras and deals you didn't know to ask for. So they're quite like a spouse, no? Let them push your buttons and you lose your own game. Never mind about manners - why would you let emotion override your best interest and your common sense? But I'm off topic. Just a minute... Ok, this. A handful of my hides are good caches in places that people are happy to discover, and some are not. I can see the difference in the logs, I get the message, I know which ones to archive rather than putting a lot of effort into maintenance, and nobody's ever been seriously snarky about anything. I guess Los Angelenos just aren't self-centered temperamental 'holes. Who knew.

I'll take 2/15 in honor of my birthday-in-law.