LazyLeopard

quote:Who needs to look at two different formatsCould be very useful if you're struggling with (say) an Ordnance Survey map in the UK and also trying to find a cache, at least until Garmin come up with some UK Topo basemaps at a reasonable price... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

quote:* Added supports for yards as a distance.This change seems to trigger a shutdown problem when you try to look at the navigation display. Switching back to "Statute" seems to avoid the shutdown. Reported to Garmin Tec. Support. Roll on 2.26... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

Hmmm... It's an odd-numbered revision. New features. Probably more than one new bug. Probably won't stop me downloading it though. Cheers. Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

Hmmm... It's an odd-numbered revision. New features. Probably more than one new bug. Probably won't stop me downloading it though. Cheers. Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

I concocted a sort-of password system for my virtual cache Inbound from Proxima (Kent) because I wanted a distinct and separate log book that wasn't integral to geocaching.com. It's probably trivially crackable, but it gets round any argument... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

quote:I've also found caches that I left well covered, and later found them to be exposed.I've found caches where covering material appeared to have been blown away by the wind or washed away by rain, and others where nature may have added to the degree of concealment.... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

quote:Might I suggest Scottys Tomb Raider seriesI ended up trying to complete TR1 in near darkness. It wasn't as if the place was particularly spooky, but the ground was un-even and it's not easy to find a well hidden cache when there's not enough light to see by... I've also hunted some of the central London caches after dark, but they don't really count... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

I've got a small but growing collection of visiting cards from caches. They're a nice idea. 'Course, a sticky label can be turned into a visiting card just by sticking it onto a bit of card... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

I've got a small but growing collection of visiting cards from caches. They're a nice idea. 'Course, a sticky label can be turned into a visiting card just by sticking it onto a bit of card... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

Caches in forests are fine by me, provided enough care has been taken to get the position correct... Dealing with the effects of poor sky view, multi-path errors and so on then becomes part of the challenge. However, getting a good position when hiding caches like that does take quite a bit of work, probably including several visits to the site over an interval long enough to get fixes under a good variety of satellite geometry conditions... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

quote:"GOOD CACHE, NICE ONE THANX"That's at least free of spoilers. I'd much prefer a terse spoiler-free log to one that explains in detail all the little twists needed to complete the cache, complete with photos containing nice clear instructions in their descriptions (which can't be encrypted)... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

quote:"GOOD CACHE, NICE ONE THANX"That's at least free of spoilers. I'd much prefer a terse spoiler-free log to one that explains in detail all the little twists needed to complete the cache, complete with photos containing nice clear instructions in their descriptions (which can't be encrypted)... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

quote:I know some cachers do geocaching "blind"Yep, that could be a problem, but the frustration's not likely to be any worse than that caused by caches with bad positions, or ones that are offset. If you go caching "blind" then you should expect to run into some that won't be findable... quote:better suited to a fix by geocaching.comYep. Definitely. I think I'd prefer a fix that required the actual position to be entered (perhaps along with an "uncertainty" value) but which would never display the position on the website or allow the waypoint to be downloaded. That would allow travel bug milage to be logged correctly, and the cache to appear in the nearest caches list, both without giving anything away. (The "uncertainty" could be used to exclude the cache from lists where a maximum distance less than the "uncertainty" had been specified.) Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

...and (to some extent) like this one. Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

I'd guess sometimes folk just forget, or can't be bothered... I know a few caches I've attempted that come close to being "why did I bother" ones, and the temptation not to bother logging them is quite hard to resist... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

I'd guess sometimes folk just forget, or can't be bothered... I know a few caches I've attempted that come close to being "why did I bother" ones, and the temptation not to bother logging them is quite hard to resist... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

Wouldn't it be better to give an approximate position and give clear indication in the description that it was approximate and that you needed to find the others first? Caches at 0,0 do confuse things. They don't appear in the "nearby caches" lists. Travel bugs left at them get huge un-travelled mileage attributed to them. Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

quote:You pretend to put the bug in a virtual/calculated cache at N/S 00° 00.000 W/E 000° 00.000 (ie Sherlock 7/7) then you take it back out and it adds 7000 miles to the total. Hmmm... That's more an argument for having "locationless" caches, or having an option to add an "uncertainty" to the location of a cache... Taking Sherlock 7 as an example, a location corresponding to, say, the "official" London position and an indication that the cache has an "uncertainty" of 10 miles (or somesuch) would mean that any bug logged to it would get fairly fair treatment, but that the exact location of the cache wouldn't be revealed. However it would appear in the list of nearby caches if you were somewhere near London. Searching for caches near 0,0 does reveal quite a bit of interesting stuff... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

quote:You should email them and let them know that you are deleting their log....but if they couldn't log the find without the password in the first place then that potential source of conflict (whether or not to delete a log) could be avoided... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

I usually remember to take a camera, but I don't always remember to use it. Also, given 40 frames per film, it can be a while before the piccies get developed. I've only just sent off the film that shoulld have on it pictures taken in early February... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

I usually remember to take a camera, but I don't always remember to use it. Also, given 40 frames per film, it can be a while before the piccies get developed. I've only just sent off the film that shoulld have on it pictures taken in early February... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

quote:whether the cachers who had chosen to hunt for a particular cache ended-up feeling that their time was well spent.I hunted a few today, all with "1/1" ratings. None of them should have been rated less than 3 on terrain. The ones I actually found were completely buried under leaves so the difficulty probably shouldn't have been less than 2 either... Just some way of feeding back suggested changes to the ratings that's separate from the main log would help. Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

Because they all go out on one day (in theory) they probably put a little extra load on the server. If the "from your home coordinates" search had an option to sort by date hidden then the mailing might almost become redundant. I think I'd stop getting the mailing if I could spot the new caches without paging all the way through the list, anyway. Another helpful option for any search result s page would be to not list found and owned caches at all. Purrs... LazyLeopard

quote:Originally posted by Elias: Well, I can't seem to duplicate it now, but I'll keep checking on it. If you or anyone else notices the problem, if you could post the time of day its happening along with your timezone, I can more acurately check the server during those periods to see if perhaps the load is causing this. Ok. Another batch just now, between 14:38 and 14:44 GMT I had the following images stop part-way through: http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/17917_200.jpg http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/17917_300.jpg http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/17917_400.jpg http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/17702_200.jpg Download proceeds nice and fast til about half-way through, then stalls, and eventually times out... All requested by 158.152.11.180 Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

quote:I am not sure why previous posters here thought the log was "WIERD".I figured it's just that they don't know Kenya, 'cos it made reasonable sense to me... Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk