AquaDyne

I just had to share this log someone just made on one of my caches, I'll Be Your Huckleberry March 11 by geofred Found it. Left a top, took nothing. Quite a little surprise for a Colorado visitor. A first, of sorts. I nearly caused some coitus interruptus for a couple that chose the cache site as their special spot. I was intent on finding the cache having done the hill so I was going to walk by with eyes averted, when they asked me if I was looking for container. I said yes and they pointed it out to me. We shared some awkward laughs as I dutifully logged my find while they dressed. Welcome to California.

So, this poll thing is nifty spiffy, but do you think people are overdoing it? Do you really care what the results of these unscientific polls are?

quote:"Which Geocacher are we hitting this weekend?" Ouch!

quote:"Which Geocacher are we hitting this weekend?" Ouch!

quote:Originally posted by sjbur6: What is the best Lat/Lon system to use? 1. DEG/MIN.MM 2. DEG/MIN/MMM 3. DEG/MIN/SEC 4. DEG.DDDDD It depends on what you mean by "best". You can display more digits of precision, which might make you think you're more accurate, but in fact the positioning error is bigger than any difference in the displays. I seemed to find caches easier with my first GPSR which only displayed two decimal places for minutes of lat/lon (DEG/MIN.MM) which translates to approximately 50 feet, which is a decent error radius. I knew I was within 50 feet, and searched appropriately. With my newer GPS which displays more precision (DEG/MIN.MMM) I tend to search for the "zero" point but later find out that I'm up to 25-30 feet off from the cache location, especially when there is tree cover. It's your call whether you want to display more digits of precision than you really have accuracy.

quote:Originally posted by Wow!: From a marketing viewpoint the icon is a good idea. True, especially when there's no obvious mention of the subscriptions. My first indication of their existence was in seeing "Charter Member" next to some people's posts. It's free advertising.

Hey, this sounds like a good idea! Even if someone isn't mathematically inclined, one could get a group of three geocachers together (or one geocacher with three GPSRs!) and have each one put in one of the three points as a waypoint, then try to move together as a group to the location where all the distances match up. I might steal your idea for one of my own future caches...

quote:Originally posted by shybabe924: Just an idea, Jeremy... You might wanna put a Subscribe link or something on the main page, bcuz I looked all around before I finally found it in the forums. But not everybody reads the forums, and some geocachers might be clueless to the whole subscription thing! I'll echo that. My first clue was seeing a bunch of posts replied to by "Charter Members" and I ended up doing a search of the forums to find enough messages to direct me to the right link. Even a "subscribe" button next to the "donate" button on all of the cache pages would be handy.

quote:How does one create a hyperlink in a log entry? You can only do "click this link" type formatting to other pages on the geocaching website. Basically, what happens is when you use the <a href="url"> tag in a log entry, the site automatically appends an http://www.geocaching.com to the beginning of it. So you can link to a cache or travel bug, or any other page that has a url beginning in http://www.geocaching.com simply by removing that portion of the URL. Specifically, you can link to a cache like this: <a href="/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=12360">Thornhollow Creekside Park Cache</a> and it will display as this: Thornhollow Creekside Park Cache For URLs that are not on the geocaching website, the best you can do is simply type the URL. It automatically links any website beginning with http:// similar to how it did the geocaching site above.