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The cache owner resets it by posting an owner maintenance log. (Hopefully, after performing owner maintenance.)

This.and many other tools are available on Geocaching Toolbox.

Merged a duplicate topic.

In my opinion as a reviewer, it does most definitely exist. For example, your sole hide has a very high health score at the moment. But it would have a much lower score if people started logging DNF on it just so their map looked different. Except you've posted it here - so, you would not be the only one anymore. Others could be bitten by the same "good idea fairy" that first visited you. You can believe what you want, but it doesn't make it correct. Posting a DNF log affects more than you. You should use a DNF log appropriately, or not at all. Two reviewers and a Groundspeak lackey have pointed out that posting DNF logs is not the preferred technique, and suggested you use tools built for tracking challenges, like project-gc. Your suggestion for a new feature has been posted, and now this discussion has turned to your defense of a bad practice. So, this topic is now closed.

I think you're missing some content.

I've not seen a cache just like this one, but I know there are other "mob caches" out there that require a certain number of geocachers to be in an area, or go to a site, or whatever to get the next stage or whatnot. When I look at it, the GPSr graphic tells me to come back during a certain 2-hour window. Presumably then it would show me partial coordinates, and if I teamed up with others, we could put it together for the final location. There was a previous iteration along the same lines, with over 500 finds. So, I think it's legit. If you don't want to play along, I'd just write back and politely decline.

If, by "vehicle cache tag" you mean a trackable, then sure, that's fine. Once you've paid for a trackable, it's yours to do with as you wish. If you mean you want to have a geocache inside a business, that is typically not allowed under the guidelines on commercial content without permission from Groundspeak. (Which may involve some consideration paid to Groundspeak for the promotion your business is getting.)

Do not use the DNF log for this. It is not what it is for, and you will negatively affect the cache's health score. If it is that hard to remember, put them all on your ignore list, and they shouldn't show up on your map at all until you are ready to find them. Or, draft a log, and the icon should become an exclamation mark (!l) on the app at least. Finally, writing a personal note for the cache will not create a separate icon on the map, but it will show up on the cache page, as well as, I believe, bookmark lists.

I just tested this using my player profile, and I could see the user's hides, finds, and statistics. So, it appears it only blocks messages.

Well, there's the map on the website, which if viewed on a tablet, laptop, or computer monitor, would give you a bigger view than your phone. Both are available if you click the "Play" drop-down menu at https://geocaching.com. The search map does not zoom out to a world view. The browse map does. But keep in mind that zooming out to the world view is going to be a little cluttered. Take, for example, this browse map view, zoomed out to show North America and Europe: Not so useful, right? I did find the world view map helpful if I only looked at webcam caches - but that required me to filter out over 99% of active geocaches. (And since the maroon dots are community celebration events that can't be filtered out, I had to actually use a bookmark list of webcam caches to get a meaningful result.) So. For meaningful results, I'd recommend not trying to see the world. Focus on a specific type or area, or other search criteria (larges only? caches hidden before 1/1/2002?) first.

Engineering can also be an acceptable topic. But since many rain gardens (a/k/a bioretention basins) can be similar, there would need to be a focus in the earthcache lesson on what makes this particular rain garden unique. Logging tasks would also be a challenge. Many rain gardens appear to be simply gardens, because most of the features of a rain garden (drainage, filtering) are under the surface of the soil. So there's not much to distinguish them from their surrounding areas - other than, at times, an interpretive sign. Since logging tasks can't be based on signs, the struggle would be what if anything a geocacher could sense above ground. I had an earthcache based on a bioretention basin with my player account, submitted before the guidelines tightened up a bit. It was a collection of local wild plants in a slight depression, with an interpretive sign. Two of my logging questions were based on the sign, one of which was about identifying plants. A third was based on reading the text of the earthcache, and really only the fourth required making any observations (is there water there now? if you know, did it rain recently?). While it was acceptable at the time, I had to archive it eventually, because the sign got too faded to read. If someone submitted that earthcache for review today, I wouldn't publish it.

Your geocache is properly pending review. While the goal is for reviewers to take an initial look at geocaches within seven days, please keep in mind it is the winter holiday season. I am confident that you will receive a response from your local review team soon. Please be patient, there is nothing you need to do at this point. (My apologies for not replying in Spanish.)

I merged your duplicate thread. Please don't start a new discussion when you know one exists.

The Captain will live on in our hearts forever. And our lint traps, probably.

Excellent!

You need to enter the trackable code again. Once you do, you should have options to retrieve it or grab from another location.

I'm not seeing any issues with https://geocheck.org at the moment, though I did not try signing in. I also looked it up on https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com and it says the site is operational.

The pessimist in me says that a great way for one to qualify for this would be to go find a bunch of caches and then have them - oh no! MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEAR. What are the odds? Clearly a muggle stalker.

Mystery solved.

There is only one published geocache in that little park. I don't show any unpublished ones there. (Edit: or any stages of a multi/mystery/Wherigo/whatever.) There were two caches hidden there in the past, GCGDNA and GC306YX. Neither have any activity for the past several years, so it seems unlikely it'd be a throwdown for either one. So... I dunno.

No need to report it. But if it is a geocache, you may be able to log it. There are several possibilities: mystery/unknown geocache, old archived geocache, new unpublished geocache, or even something listed on another service such as a letterbox. If you are reluctant to post coordinates, feel free to email them to me, and I will look to see if it is (or was) in the system.

It is possible. You need to go into your phone settings to change (or remove) the default application used for map navigation. There is an excellent post in the forums...let's see... Here it is! When I followed these steps, I simply removed the default application so that my phone would let me choose what app to use. I could even use MyTaxi or the DB Navigator if I wanted. (Though I usually chose Waze.)

Of all the forums, this is the most appropriate, but the regional forums don't get the traffic they used to. Your best bet is likely to get in direct contact with one or more of the most recent finders of the series final. I agree with Keystone, if enough of its component caches are missing or lack the right keyword to make the final impossible to find without help, then this series final probably just needs to go.

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