Rebore
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47 minutes ago, thebruce0 said:
I'd be interested to hear how that turns out, if it happens that the webcam owner is not benevolent and deletes your log
What about Earthcache owners, dealing with people who don't answer questions appropriately? They can't delete logs for "incorrect answers", but they'd have to show that the requirement isn't being met.
I'm pretty sure that Groundspeak would be on my side. Only once (so far) one of my logs was deleted, and that was an Earthcache (https://coord.info/GC2YJTZ). I forgot to post a picture and was very annoyed that the owner didn't remind me before deleting my log. Yes, my fault, but I thought we are all friends sharing a somehow strange hobby and can settle conflicts without TPTB. But I was not the only one who got his log deleted, and a few days later there was a note from the local reviewer, taking the side of the cachers with deleted finds. I relogged fulfilling the requirement and I'm quite sure it was not a pleasant experience for the owner, too.
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1 hour ago, cerberus1 said:
It seems if your daughters were in the webcam pic "phooning", that would be fine.
The OP simply uses that requirement only to show it's a cacher, and not someone just posting a fake pic of "someone" in front of the camera.
Ok, that's fine by me.They do strange things for selfies, anyway.
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Create a sock puppet account to log Needs Maintainance.
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1 hour ago, thebruce0 said:
Technically no; anyone can write names in a logsheet, then whoever claims the name(s) claims the find. But in a photo, you are you; there's no proxy phoon/pose. The person who poses IS the signature; the one who then owns the find log.
I often cache with my daughters, and when there is a photo requirement mostly only they will be on the picture. If that would be deleted because it's not me and the owner is a hardhead, I would ask Groundspeak to reinstate my log.
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If webcams still could be published, I would require this pose:
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1 hour ago, on4bam said:
As these days standards are lowered so much for challenges, most of them should not even be called challenges anymore.
You mean challenge caches are challenged nowadays?
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Nevermind, I misread, see above post.
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28 minutes ago, NYPaddleCacher said:
Garmin didn't create an open source platform. While the name of the site included "Open" it was not based on open source software. However, it was the same name (but with a different extension) of a geocaching site which *does* use open source software. The "Open" site with the .com domain was shutdown several years ago but the sites with same name, but use a country based domain are still alive and active in some countries.
Yes, I'm well aware of that, that's why my wording was "or to compete". Garmins choice for the domain name of their site was very poor and pissed of a lot of people in the open source community.
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II think that's the way it goes when our hobby is managed by a for-profit company. Many customers want powertrails? Ok, let's allow them, even if a few oldtimers leave. Let's make an app so we can lure in smartphone users, even if they treat it like just another game they can play on their phones and quit after a short time, leaving a mess behind.
However, there have been many attempts to make an open source platform or to try to compete with Groundspeak (like Garmin did), and it never worked out. If you still enjoy this pasttime, you have to live with the changes and find your way.
I think it's a good thing that the numbers are declining. There is still plenty out there to find and only tumors grow endlessly.
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No, it's a grandfthered cache type.
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13 minutes ago, J Grouchy said:
Is the "result" the picture itself or the way others experience it?
Hey...in art and caching, you put some small piece of yourself out there for others to experience or judge in some way.
What's the difference? I tried to convey a feeling and I failed.
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Mmmh, cake...
To put it another way, if I paint a picture and I'm not satisfied with the result, I'll just throw it away. I don't care if somebody else might have enjoyed it.
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38 minutes ago, Mausebiber said:
Quite interesting that you know so much about the houses here in Germany and that you react so "strange" about some security concerns. Am I getting into your "business" ?
Google didn't even start to map Austria because of the complaints from Germany, that's why I remember this. For me it's like the security theater at airports. It does nothing to improve security, but it's kind of a "there, there" reacton.
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2 hours ago, hcy said:
Warum sollte es nicht erwünscht sein die Infos auf einer Infotafel abzulesen?
"Hey du da! Geh sofort weg von der Infotafel! Die ist nur für Leute gedacht, die keine Geocacher sind!"
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8 hours ago, LycanthroFee said:
I found an entire SANDWICH in a cache
Sorry, could not resist:
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22 minutes ago, arisoft said:
I have seen archived cache to be unarchived by reviewer without owner's request and against owner's will. Of course this is not an ordinary case but I have seen this happening so it is possible in rare cases.
Are you sure about that? The listing (and the box) are property of the owner, unarchiving against the owners will sounds strange to me.
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Falls du die Groundspeak App verwendest, hat die auch eine Einschränkung bezüglich der D/T Werte. PMO caches sind als Basic Member auch auf der website nicht sichtbar.
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Ist schon ein geniales Geschäftsmodell. Die Listings werden von den Teilnehmern erstellt, die verstecken auch die Dosen und kontrolliert wird das von ebenfalls unbetahltem Personal. Dann bringt man eine App heraus und tausende smartphonejunkies fallen darüber her. Die Lösung für das Problem ist PMO.
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I think that's a good idea. Either grandfathered cache types are automatically locked upon archievement or the owner is able to do it by clicking a checkbox.
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9 hours ago, fizzymagic said:
You mean it comes with a horizontal resolution of 90 m or 30 m, not an elevation error of 90 m!
Thank for clarifying, I thought the "Resolution" column in GSAK was about vertical tolerance.
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4 hours ago, rosebud55112 said:
I don't trust the elevations that Project GC is pulling in necessarily anyway. According to them, my lowest elevation is GC2BG62, at -10 feet. This is near a river in Rhode Island. Since the river is flowing into the ocean (about 1 mile away), rather than the ocean flowing into the river valley, I'm not sure how it could even pick up anything at a below-sea-level altitude there. A couple other finds of mine further upstream are also listed as being below sea level.
Find a cache at the dead sea.
Edit: Elevation data usually comes with a possible error of 90 meters, or 30 in the best case.
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24 minutes ago, J Grouchy said:
Seems like unrealistic expectations to me.
I might argue that nobody ever experiences a cache and its location like the CO did while placing it. While it can be fun to read logs, having expectations about what they might say is futile.
If it's an urban micro, yes. I'm lucky to have some "good old days" caches in my area, like this:https://coord.info/GC18QYC
There is no "tftc, quick find, all is well" log. Still, the owner gave up his charter member status and left.
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8 minutes ago, J Grouchy said:
Meh. Their loss.
I don't think so. Maybe they expected a story about your adventure or how you solved the puzzle, and they get nada. It's not their loss,
but that of all other geocachers. Maybe a disciplinary measure, but I think most Owners don't want to play with guys having this attitude and they just leave and archive their caches.
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1 hour ago, dprovan said:
I know some COs feel that way, but I can't say I understand it. To me, that cacher made the choice between skipping to the end to sign the log or skipping it altogether. A CO can only feel like it's a failure if he imagines, against all evidence, that the cacher chose skipping to the end over going through the entire multi personally. The way I see it, the absolute worse case is that the skip-to-the-end find is no better than no find at all. But what I keep hearing about are COs that are so frustrated by a skip-to-the-end find that they archive the cache, thus insuring no one will ever be able to experience this fabulous multi personally ever again.
The CO tried to make the cache a little more interesting than a Traditional, that's why it was listed as a Multi or Mystery. If there is a feeling that this effort was in vain because some or most guys just go to the final location, it is no wonder that the CO archives the cache.
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Webcam logs and ALRs
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I didnt't contact GS, I just relogged. Others did, as it seems.
BTT: I've just found one webcam cache, and no pose was required. It was fun to look for the place where I'm visible through the webcam and to call a friend telling him "I'm there right now, take a screenshot!".