wildlifewriter

It's all happening in Groundspeak's R&D department at the moment, isn't it? Every other day, a new thing - and some of them aren't even broken. On the cache listings (from a chosen position), we now seem have dinky little direction pointers, to go with the distances column. And on the pages themselves, "Eire" has become "Ireland", and the United Kingdom appears to be a valid country again. Which is nice... (It'll please Teasel, anyway.)

Your Metroguide V6 must be a superior edition to my impoverished native Metroguide V6. It just shows the words "Jersey" and "Gurnsey" in wee letters. T'other three islands don't even get a namecheck. Not to worry, though - there's always Fugawi Europe Mapping. That must be better than Garmin's effort, mustn't it? Let's have a look at the Channel Islands, then. Oh, dear... They appear to have sunk.

J&B ... looking at the GCHJN4 logs, it's not hard to guess who took the TB. Have you tried e-mailing him/them to get it moved on?

That's enough unhelpful things heard... Topic closed. Next weekend:- "Top ten unlikeliest hiding places for a micro-cache..."

That would be funny, if only it wasn't real... GC8967 (I've found that cache recently, and the co-ords ARE about 20 feet out. Which is closer than this cache owner usually manages.)

It looks like "Cache Attributes" might be high on the development list. You know the kind of thing... Parking/No Parking available... Suitable/Not suitable for wheelchairs... Toilets/Bushes nearby... No smoking... Holiday cache with duff/correct co-ordinates... (edited for editing)

I think this is the same software which makes "talking" receivers talk, when auto-routing with installed Mapsource maps. (Don't worry - I'll translate all this into English, sometime.) It works very well, by the standards of such things. BTW, the univerally accepted name for nRoute's female voice is "Betty". Betty has a couple of defects: just like the real thing, she can get a bit bossy when you deviate from the selected path. Also: being from the Colonies, she cannot pronounce the word "route" correctly, and appears to be unaware of the concept "straight on at junction". Garmin have put a great deal of work into the proper handling of roundabouts, which was a huge problem in earlier versions.

Ten least helpful things heard while geocaching "Are we there, yet?" "The last one WAS under a pile of logs." "There's no river marked on this map..." "Are you sure it's switched on?" "Ooh - that must have hurt." "I looked there, already." "Try holding it above your head." "It gets dark in fifteen minutes." "Who's blood is this?" "Oi! - get off moi laaand!"

Ah, yes... .. sort of like the Scottish Highlands, then...

There is a discussion on this topic in the forums here. It all sounds like a cautionary tale with the moral: "ask for permission BEFORE placing your cache." However, we must remember that this is happening in the USA, where you might not be allowed to place a cache in a State Park - but you ARE allowed to take out a high-velocity rifle and shoot people... ...as long as it's an accident, of course...

Good stuff. Many thanks to Ian for his analysis, Robin for the HH spreadsheet template - now filling up nicely - and everyone who contributed.

Hmmm.. No more cough mixture for YOU, tonight...

And, (of course) the co-ords at the top of the cache page are STILL wrong. "Clueless in uno, clueless in omibus" - as you'll often hear folks saying in Co. Kerry...

Have a good one, PH

Good on yer. I don't think I'll last a whole YEAR... does anyone know if nettle toxin accumulates in the body? I was sort of wondering.

Agreed. Done (PS: he has now updated the cache page - apparently it's all YOUR fault for looking in the position given, instead of staying on the path! ... and the co-ords at the top of the page are STILL wrong... ) Words fail me... and that IS unusual.

Don't be silly - SHE'd tell me how to get there. (And when to slow down, speed up, change gear, put the handbrake on, slow down more, turn right....) [cont'd P.94]

What this is all about, is... The question was asked during permission negotiations. The area under discussion is rural, but I still have to give them some kind of sensible answer... At one of these meetings, when you describe geocaching as an activity - no matter how presented - the landowner or manager immediately visualises an endless horde of GPS-wielding lunatics arriving to look for little boxes. It's understandable. They are concerned (among other things) with the impact on the site - and so am I. THAT'S why we are going in with a properly researched, and properly documented proposal. Any help from this forum will be appreciated and acknowledged.

Excluding caches in cities, or other built-up areas, how many visits (per month, say) would the most popular cache sites get? The question relates only to the British Isles, and there is a good and valid reason for my asking it.

Good list. See also: WW's Satellite Reception Codes.... NSUT... No signal under trees NSHB... No signal among high buildings NSTC... GPS unit was trodden on by a cow NSDW... GPS unit was dropped in the water NSUFO.. No signal due to the presence of alien spacecraft overhead NSCW... GPS unit was confiscated by the wife, who wants to go to Ikea this Sunday. NSNS... No signal (reason unknown) GUWP... Gave up and went to the pub

It's a (moderately) interesting problem: I had a similar situation to deal with, years ago, when setting out service positions for the Circuit of Ireland car rally. This was OSI grid ref, rather than GPS co-ords, but Mark's principle is valid... I had been given a six-figure reference. All I knew was: the general location, and the fact that it lay somewhere along a certain road in that location. One part of the reference looked reasonable, but the other was clearly a mistake. The sensible part gave me a perpendicular line on the map AND the road itself gave me a datum for the duff part. Unfortunately, it turned out that there were two possible solutions. We picked the right one - otherwise Jimmy McRea (father of Colin) would have lost, and the entire course of World History would have been changed. (Or, possibly, not.)

(Laughed so hard at this, my truss came undone. Again...)

Well done, again. But... Having poked fun at the reviewers already, in this thread, I must now defend them: Bearing in mind that they... 1) Have no detailed digital maps for ROI, 'cos there ain't any... 2) Had the original cache page to work from, no DNF logs at that time, and... 3) may not have ever BEEN to the area... I don't think the reviewer could have been expected to catch this one straight off the bat. Looking now at the 1:50000 paper map (sheet 71), in fact, I'm sure of it. Fully agree with you though, about holiday caches in general - stamp 'em out!

Good job! I think that either of the approvers can do it, if the discrepancy is brought to their attention. Apparently, they cannot visit every cache on a regular basis, to check these things. Pure laziness, I call it...

You found GCJWQY ? Well done. (Your log hasn't appeared on the page, yet.) I hope you kept a note of the correct location - I predicted it should be at or close to: N52 08.846 W9 58.855 - but it's at the wrong end of Ireland for me to check that, personally...