[Geocaching Public Relations]

Here's the kind of publicity I hate to see:

 

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_4ge...ll=all-news-hed

 

I love the part about charging cache owners the cost of bomb squad visits.

[Found A Benchmark]

Here's a benchmark in the NGS database but not in GC. Found it today and took a picture. It's a bit frustrating not to be able to log this find.

 

Simplest way to meet needs of Geocache hobbyists might be to allow manual entry of benchmarks only if the mark is in the NGS database. Given how easy the NGS site is to use when you have a PID, it should be simpleish to write a script to validate and even pull back data related to valid PIDs that are entered. Leave it to me - the person logging the find - to do the data entry for the BM into the GC database. One by one, we'd get the interesting NGS BMs into the GC database.

 

The GC database would grow to accomodate new NGS BMs exactly as fast as us hobbyists are willing to enter them.

 

KV6829 DESIGNATION - 7 B 1

KV6829 PID - KV6829