Huntleigh

I think you'll find any of the British English speaking countries will pronounce cache as "kaysh" (we're trying to sound French). But from my experience in NZ, when in comes to geocache, mileage will vary.

Which script are you talking about? (There's more than one you know).

At the bottom of all Google Search results pages is Advanced Search. Fill in the blanks and it will build this search string, which will give an idea of how it works. allintitle: Jasmer Challenge --log site:geocaching.com/seek I know that the minus symbol is a NOT qualifier. What does double minus do? Also what does the /seek switch do please?

Your find rate averages about 60 caches per year so I can understand that you have little need for the search function. You also live in an area sparsely populated with caches. I have over 1000 caches within 5.5 miles of my residence in the San Diego area. I don't mean to disparage your caching experience in any way, I cite the numbers only to illustrate your activity on the system is very light. I don't have the ability to remember exact names of many thousands of caches, nor the desire to sort through densely populated maps to locate a cache I'm trying to find. There are many, many reasons to do a cache search by name. One is a cache that is related to one that you find and is mentioned in the description. Perhaps one would like to read a cache that is mentioned in the forums or by a friend; often such references are not an exact quote of the title. Or you may want to find all of a series that is not bookmarked. Most frequently for me is searching for a cache I was reading about in the past. The list is virtually endless. Lastly if a tool is provided, it should be functional. Because I don't use a particular tool doesn't mean others should use the system the way I do. I enjoy the hobby and want the time I have to spend at the computer to be minimal so I have more time to spend actually looking out doors. There is answer - GSAK Keith - another occasional geocacher

If you don't mind just plain text, no pictures, etc which is what "Cache Simplifier" does (did) then try logging on at wap.geocaching.com No good for anything (like puzzle caches) that require viewing the graphics however.

I don't know about printing out stats but there are various ways of generating HTML code that you can paste into your profile (and then print out)? If you've looking at other people's profiles and have been intrigued by their graphs etc, you can scroll down to the bottom and it will usually tell you how it was generated. As other people have mentioned, the most popular choice, is GSAK and the find stats macro. But another choice is "My Geocaching profile". With the latter you load your "My Finds" PQ up to the website and it generates the HTML. (I don't think it does "My Hides". With the GSAK you can load both "My Finds" and "My Hides" PQs and run the macro and it will generate stats on both your finds and hides. Subscribing to the Geocaching Australia website will also generate lots of interesting stats.

I don't know about printing out stats but there are various ways of generating HTML code that you can paste into your profile (and then print out)? If you've looking at other people's profiles and have been intrigued by their graphs etc, you can scroll down to the bottom and it will usually tell you how it was generated. As other people have mentioned, the most popular choice, is GSAK and the find stats macro. But another choice is "My Geocaching profile". With the latter you load your "My Finds" PQ up to the website and it generates the HTML. (I don't think it does "My Hides". With the GSAK you can load both "My Finds" and "My Hides" PQs and run the macro and it will generate stats on both your finds and hides.

Cool - you learn something every day. I'm an Irfan user as well but I would have used Edit/Show paint dialog and used one of the tools there (like the eraser).

It is neither, it is a code for the home page of the trackable. For instance your "Tiki Man" TB has a GUID of 4116655 Cheers Sorry I didn't understand that you wanted a link to the image and not the home page

It is neither, it is a code for the home page of the trackable. For instance your "Tiki Man" TB has a GUID of 4116655 Cheers

Ditto In my case a etrex Venture HC and a iPAQ (PocketPC 2003) using Cachemate or GPXSonar (preferred) PS With GSAK you can load up the hint so long as it is less than 30 charatacters.

Should we talk about all the caches where there's a nm like the one up the street from me been two years needs a new container always soaking wet constantly nm but nothing's done. Don't see it archived contacted geocaching three times and emailed the owner so... You could choose to be a positive community member and replace the cache with a new container and dry logbook. I disagree with that approach. Yes, it is a stop gap solution that fixes the immediate problem but it doesn't answer the underlying problem that there is a CO who is not maintaining. Often in cases like these the CO has disappeared off the radar entirely. It is my belief that in such cases it should get a NA log. Hopefully the reviewr will archive it and then, if it is a good site, a positive community member can create a new cache at the same site. (Or if the CO is only just off the radar adopt the site). The exception is especially important sites where there is enough care and concern in the entire local caching community for there to be a guaranteed level of maintenance.

You do have a website - geocaching.com. Create a new unpublished cache; upload a photo to it; find the link to the uploaded photo (something like http://img.geocaching.com/cache/large/77786320-1571-4d60-9a7b-0dc837aec0c3.jpg; add that link to the html in your earthcache text. For that matter why not just upload to the earthcache and then also embed the link in your html?

"Gurer vf ab uvag" always gets me going.

+1 But if you really want to, have you tried GPS Visualiser?

What do you propose? Having a terrain level of 6? 5 being unreasonably hard without equipment, and 6 being insanely hard under all conditions? 5 being "very hard to get to", and 6 being "very, very hard to get to"? I think the system works fine. Yeah, it involves some compromises, but I think they're reasonable. The very, very hard caches are impressive finds individually. They don't need anything to make finding them numerically impressive, as well. Perhaps the "special equipment" stuff should have been in the Difficulty attribute? Far too late to do anything about it now as any change would cause earlier caches to be re-evaluated.

And some of us wouldn't consider an easy 20-minute boat ride to be a "true" T5, even if the boat was required. That's an issue that I, personally, have with the required T5 rating for caches that require a boat. It makes no distinction between a cache on an island in a small protected lake that someone with no experience at all could reach in a big box recreational kayak (and could probably be done with a $3 inflatable pool toy or an inner tube), and a cache located a mile off shore in a sea cave that requires launching and landing a boat through 3' breaking waves and dealing with 5-10' swells and tidal currents. Hear, hear many of the T5 boat caches around my area are park and grabs, or "moor and grabs" if you will.

A screen on the GPS tells you to go to the Garmin website???? From the main menu on the Venture select "Find". On the next menu the top line should read "Waypoint"; "Geocache"; "City". Selecting "Geocache" should give you your list of geocaches. The default setting is "find nearest" but if they are more than 50 km away from where your GPS thinks it is they won't show. If that is the case pressing the bottom left button will bring up another menu which will allow you to find by name. Here's the manual for the Venture Venture HC

I have a Venture HC and can help but I'm not quite sure what you mean by "activated"? What are you expecting? The only real "geocache" settings on the Venture is choosing what symbol to use for found and unfound caches and as to whether a find will log it in the unit's calendar.

It may not be "transferable", but there's still a way it can be made available. The current holder of the name "digdug" can change their name to something else, like "digdug99999". The name "digdug" would then be unused, at which point the OP could change their name to that. Of course, that all assumes the current holder is responsive and willing to do so. In most cases, they're long gone and won't respond to any contact. Or in this particular case (where the original name holder has one find) a simple change in email address would transfer the "ownership". That is, if the owner was contactable and agreeable. (Groundspeak need not know). It would mean the new owner would have a false find but if they fussed about the numbers they could simply not log the next LPC they find. <DOH> That won't work as they would lose their finds unless they relogged.

I disagree (as does the rating engine on a cache's edit page) Think about this cache I put some numbers into the engine and left the last choice (where you put the specialised equipment bit in) as "cache in plain sight". I still came up with a T5.

^This is odd. Did you accidentally delete some of the reviewer's logs? I also find it odd that a reviewer has been posting logs, but hasn't updated the coordinates for you. The OP hasn't actually (re)submitted the cache so it's not in the queue?

I agree. You can't really blame Groundspeak, especially for a non-official cache. Just keep you fingers crossed, you never know your luck. I had a TB go missing in Australia, to turn up in the UK 10 months later, not in a cache but hung on a fence post and found by chance by a geocacher. This week (here in NZ) I picked up a TB that went missing in Canada 9 months ago.

I don't think that's the one they're talking about. This one was last logged as being retrieved on Sep 27th. Nope, this one IMHO

Every phone sold on the market has a GPS..... Maybe every smartphone. The $9.99 burner phones you can get from Radio Shack don't seem to have GPS in them. At least not that the user can access The FCC E911 rule requires handsets to be locatable but it can be by cell tower triangulation.