[Geocaching.com site update May 4th 2011]

Appears some (all?) new caches are not appearing on the maps- at least when you click on "view larger map."

Examples: GC2VK3E and GC2VK24.

[Would people do this?]

GC22KJH seems to be successful (the title means Beautiful Books in New Zealand Maori.)

[Distance rules]

This may set up a hornet's nest but I think it needs to be thought about. It probably has been raised before but I can't find the topic.

 

I have had a cache rejected because it was less than the required 0.16 km from an existing one- it was about 0.14. Fair enough, as the reviewer must administer the rules as they stand. However the cache in question was way up a hill, the proposed one was a short distance from the bottom of the hill near a road, you have to go up a winding path to get up the hill to the existing cache so anyone who found the existing cache in confusion for the proposed new one or vice versa should not be caching! I can do something at 0.16 but it won't be anywhere near as good.

 

I also wanted to set up a new cache in the city, but it turns out to be 0.15 km from an existing cache and any other location for the new one would be inferior to what I had planned. The thing is that there are city blocks with several buildings in between, if you were looking for either the existing or new one and confused the two you really would be seriously lost!

 

I suppose things could be a bit different in the forests etc but I still can't see say 120 metres separation being too much of a problem. (100 might be Ok but I realise some allowance needs to be made for coordinates being inaccurate meaning separation could be a bit less than thought.)

 

I guess the proximity rules may have been set when technology was inferior to what it is now, wondering if it is time to review them.

[Geocaching.com Google Map]

it's probably the feature I use most. Please bring it back!

[Travel Bug for South Island]

I see this has got to the South Island and a long way south at that!

It is one of those ubiqitous Jeep 4 x4 TBs which are a legacy from a competition, you can't contact the owner as they have disabled the message function on their profile.

So I suggest such Jeeps are free to roam completely at random, and as they probably can't get sent back to their owner I guess that is till the end of time as long as they don't go missing! If I grab one of these it will probably go into my next cache find wherever that might be as long as the cache is big enough (and quite a few aren't.) If it's red though it might get near a fire station if possible :-)

[Geocaching.com site update Nov 9th 2010]

Greetings Geocachers! The following is a list of cases resolved in the latest website update. Please let us know in this thread if you notice anything unusual happening as a result of the fixes detailed below. All unrelated issues should be reported on our feedback site located at: http://feedback.geocaching.com. Thanks!

 

Hard for us to know what is and isn't a related issue, but when something comes up after an update and it wasn't an issue before chances are it is the result thereof.

Just had an email from a cache on my watchlist that has been published for several days that says it is unpublished GC2H6QY. Can't tell if this is recurring on other caches unless someone does something with a new cache on my watchlist, but wondering if others have the same problem on other new caches.

[Geocaching.com site update Nov 9th 2010]

A couple of these issues (view larger map, encrypt/decrypt) I suspect simply need a browser refresh to fix, as I cannot reproduce them. Please make sure you close and reopen your browser before reporting a bug.

 

These should be sorted out very soon. Thanks for all your patience and feedback!

 

I also get the blank box on the map page. Over above the filter box it has a link for me to up grade to Premium, but I am already a Premium member.

 

I am not for sure if those two are related.

 

Thanks for all that ya'll do on these great websites.

 

It looks like the issue might be related to finding the caches on the larger map. In Firefox I do get the map, but it hangs looking for the caches. In Internet Explorer nothing at all.

[Regions in cache names?]

Thanks for the explanations! And I so hope I can visit your beautiful country one day soon.

 

ETA, we Americans tend to forget it's not all about us. Our caches are listed by state so I wrongly a**/u/me d

that all caches worldwide were listed by some kind of region/province or what have you.

what a ridiculous piece of software it is that censors an innocent word like that because three of its letters form what might be a naughty word lol

[Looking to get a tag to Australia-----:)]

Hello from Asheville nc,,,Well I am Looking to get a tag to Australia?

I live close to a few nice airports. Anyone going to be in the south? Asheville airport,greenville,TN , Atlanta

COme one let get this tracker bug on it's way.

why is this in the New Zealand forum? They haven't annexed us yet lol.

But on the other hand if you can't get it directly to Australia, placing it in one of the caches near Wellington, Christchurch or Auckland airports might work.

[First Puzzle Cache Advise]

So here's the deal. I'm not into doing puzzle caches. For the most part, they just don't get me going and I'm not wired that way. Wish I was, they would make me feel smarter if I could solve them. I have noticed though that there is a shortage of them in my area and I am well aware that there are plenty of cachers who really enjoy them.

 

My idea is to make a puzzle cache that incorporates plaques and inscriptions around town. Something along the lines of using letters in the plaques to fill in the numbers in the coords with their corresponding numbers (A=1, B=2 and soforth.)

 

Would some of you puzzle officionados give me some feedback or advice on this idea? Is this something you'd chase? Or is it a waste of your time as it's not difficult enough? I'm aware that it would be pretty easy, and that there's not really anything to solve, however being that there won't be physical caches to find at each location it's not a multi, and like I said, I'm horrible at solving puzzles. I don't think I have the right state of mind to create one that's more advanced. Not yet at least...

Go for it- I don't know about where you are but some very enjoyable and interesting ones here in Wellington, New Zealand- has the advantage that you can take people to WPs where it may not be practicable to hide a cache as well as to the final where it is possible! (We have a multi here in a cemetery which has a lot of historical items, done with permission and carefully structured to avoid any chance of trampling graves and it is being enjoyed and praised by cachers.) A multi for Points of Interest in your town sounds good, especially if it is one where you get out of town visitors who might want to be taken on a "guided tour."

[where are all the kiwi's]

Live in Wellington City and could probably still be considered a noob.

Was introduced to sport by my brother CumbyRocks in Dunedin, who's find tally makes mine look pitiful.

 

PS: While I'm here, RobNZH - do you know of the Wainui cache that's supposed to be the sixth oldest in existence worldwide? All I know is that it was hidden on May 26, 2000. Is it still active?

Yes, and it's 10th anniversary is coming up, we are working on it- keep an eye in here and in geocaching.com!

In the meantime I am on cache 48, hoping to log one more then go down to GC46 for my number 50- it's not too far from home. (I guess I could wait for 100 but I don't think so lol.)

[Lost my gps today]

Amusing story: Bought a used GPSr (which I am very happy with) off our local online auction site. Unfortunately I had difficulty removing the previous owner's name details, and foolishly had not overwritten them with mine. Did a cache and went back to catch a bus. Bus arrived rather quickly and discovered when I got to my next cache - I knew the general location- I looked into my bag and to my horror no GPSr! Before I could report it missing I got an email from the previous owner saying it had been found, got contact details of the finder and rang him. Arranged when and where to pick it up, the finder's home. Arrived at the "GZ" and was greeted by a work colleague's flatmate, turned out that the finder was THEIR FLATMATE so they could have brought it to work for me (now if I had put my name on it that would have happened!) and by the way I DNF'ed the second cache, which would probably have happened with or without the GPS as I am still having trouble with that one!)

[where are all the kiwi's]

one here- relatively new cacher from Wainuiomata been at it about a month, notched a 2TF and a couple of thirds in 20 finds, -and let's not go there about DNFs lol.

 

waves to fellow cachers - would put a waving emoticon in here but doesn't seem to be one!