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    How to Update Mystery Coordinates on Map?

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    You can edit the coordinates of mystery/puzzle caches (and multi-caches):

    http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=807

     

    However, the edited coordinates don't generally show on the maps except when you're viewing just that one cache.

     

    To view edited coordinates on the map, I usually just use my API partner app:

    https://www.geocaching.com/mobile/partners/

     

    But you can also create a PQ to display the mystery/puzzle caches (e.g., a PQ using a "solved puzzles" bookmark list), and then preview the PQ on the map. That will display the edited coordinates of the mystery/puzzle (and multi-caches) in the PQ.

     

    Thanks for your prompt response. After review of the forum and many threads, I'm guessing I must have had some sort of add-on enabled at the time. I know I could view the maps with the mystery icon moved from the bogus location to the correct one. Oh well ... I guess it's time for this dog cat to learn some new tricks! :lol:

    On the geocaching.com website, there actually is a way to see the question mark icons at the corrected coordinates. The difference is how you're getting to the map:

     

    Play -> Find a Geocache -> Enter city/area/etc -> Search -> Map These Results -- Mystery question marks appear at the 'corrected' coords.

     

    Play -> View Geocache Map -- Mystery question marks appear at the original 'listed' coords.

     

    Of course, this assumes that each cache listing has been updated with the solved coordinates.

    Very nice! Thank you, noncentric! :)

    How to Update Mystery Coordinates on Map?

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    You can edit the coordinates of mystery/puzzle caches (and multi-caches):

    http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=807

     

    However, the edited coordinates don't generally show on the maps except when you're viewing just that one cache.

     

    To view edited coordinates on the map, I usually just use my API partner app:

    https://www.geocaching.com/mobile/partners/

     

    But you can also create a PQ to display the mystery/puzzle caches (e.g., a PQ using a "solved puzzles" bookmark list), and then preview the PQ on the map. That will display the edited coordinates of the mystery/puzzle (and multi-caches) in the PQ.

     

    Thanks for your prompt response. After review of the forum and many threads, I'm guessing I must have had some sort of add-on enabled at the time. I know I could view the maps with the mystery icon moved from the bogus location to the correct one. Oh well ... I guess it's time for this dog cat to learn some new tricks! :lol:

    How to Update Mystery Coordinates on Map?

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    Unless I'm mistaken (which is entirely possible) :rolleyes: do I remember correctly that you could change bogus mystery cache coordinates (which reflect placement incorrectly on the maps) to the correct ones (in order to see correct placement on the maps).

     

    Was this a feature? Can it still be done (and if so, how?)?

     

    Thanks for the help; much appreciated!

    Multi-event 11-12-13 / 12-11-13 & 13-12-13 / 12-13-13

    in Trackables

    Posted

    Here in the Netherlands, we had a lot of fun on the 12-12-12 event's as part of the multi-event.

    Very quickly after the event, we discussed the options for another event like this in 2013.

    However the normal sequence is not possible anymore.

     

    So we decided still to go ahead, using our sequence which resulted in two possible dates which can be used:

     

    11-12-13 (which is in our case wednesday 11 december) and

    13-12-13 (which is friday the 13th december)

     

    We decided that we will have two events: a small gathering on wednesday and a bigger event on friday with a night-cache.

     

    After some drawings, I found a way to make it work for both European (or ROW ;-) ) and US way of dates.

    Simply by reading the numbers in a little different direction (clockwise and counter clockwise).

    Here is the first draft of a coin which could be used for a multi-event.

    The front is Friday the 13th. In many eyes, the unlucky day... but for the pagans its a magical day..

     

    If there is interest for others to join for a multi-event coin?

     

    Also, please let me know what you think about the coin.

     

    11-12-13-v4.jpg

     

    ... a design that would also work well here in the USA (November 12, 2013) :)

    When to post another hint?

    in How do I...?

    Posted · Edited by GeoKat28

    I've released a new puzzle cache recently and all of my past ones have been found within the first two days. However, today is the third day it's been published and nobody has been to solve it yet. I haven't gotten any emails with questions yet, but I feel that people might need one more hint.

     

    So to make a long story short, how many days after a cache is published should you wait to post another hint? This is assuming nobody has solved/found it.

     

    Being the CO of a puzzle that went 16 months before a FTF was claimed, my advice is "decide now" how long you want to wait if you do decide to give additional hints / clues. The longer my puzzle went unsolved, and the more folks (worldwide) that I knew were working on it, the more I felt I had backed myself into a corner about giving hints.

     

    Folks were posting about the *torture* they were putting themselves through working on it, and I wanted to help them, BUT ... I felt it might be unfair to those that were new to it to just throw things out there that might give them a "quick solve". Postings to the page were about 50/50 (those wanting hints vs. those telling me "no hints, we want to work it out ourselves").

     

    You could bridge the dilemma by perhaps giving a new clue on each one week or one month anniversary of publication. Just my 2¢ :rolleyes:

    Distance from home missing (AGAIN)

    in Website

    Posted

    For those of you not seeing distances on cache pages, do you actually have a home location in the system? Go to this page and check the 2nd box down on the right-hand side.

     

    Yup, that was it. How? (why?) did it get deleted? I entered info and still didn't see the distance, but signing out and then back in did the trick. Thanks!

    New Minelab Gecoin Promotion - North America

    in Trackables

    Posted

    *frustration*!! ~ WHY can't I get mine activated?!? From what I can see, the Tracking # and Activation Code are the same (was it that way for everybody else?). I keep getting "not found in system" error message. Help, please! :unsure:

     

    The activation code should be MINELAB. That's what mine was

     

    Yup... gotcha!! ~ it was the tracking code that was eluding my 'ol eyes!! :blink: Thanks for the reply!

    Flash Drive TBs. Any going anywhere?

    in Trackables

    Posted

    Here are two that I know of ~ one of which was in my possession but I didn't plug into my laptop.

     

    This one, Freedom Flash I, has been moving since March, 2008. The 5th most recent post from the top shows pictures that were on the drive.

     

    This one, The Digital Geocache, was released October, 2007 and was recently moved by friends of mine (don't know if they plugged into it or not).

     

    Both seen to have longevity ~ 3 & 4 years respectively.

    Pay it Forward Geocoin Adoptions

    in Trackables

    Posted

    I have a few coins that have started their travels in Germany if anyone who has no coins want one.

     

    Decided to peek in on the thread and saw your post. The coin you so generously donated to me in March has moved from the Netherlands to France (800 miles) since I came into possession of it. I enjoy watching its travels and using Google Translate to "read" the logs. I wanted to publicly thank you once again, Tennessee Jed!! :)

     

    BTW ~ if nobody steps forward with a request for a coin in Germany, once again, I'd love to adopt it. I can't get to Germany to visit a friend that lives there, so I will request that the coin stay in that country as my Proxy. :anicute:

    Historycaching index; Looking for more entries

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I posted by submission (below) to the HistoryCaching Blog on Dec. 7th ~ Hope it Helps. :)

     

    Massachusetts ~ GC26Z86 ~ Start A Revolution

     

    Fort Phoenix // Fairhaven, MA

     

    Fort History - On May 13-14, 1775, the first naval battle of the American Revolution took place off our shore when the local militia, under the command of Nathaniel Pope and Daniel Egery, captured two British sloops in Buzzard's Bay.

     

    (more details and link to historical reference on blog site)

    Distance from Home Location Missing

    in Website

    Posted

    Just noticed that when I view any cache page, the distance from my home location to the cache is missing. Previously, under the Long/Lat coords it would say "xx miles" to the cache.

     

    Now, it reads "In Massachusetts" (as opposed to giving the distance).

    EXAMPLE:

    N 41° 37.944 W 070° 59.185 Other Conversions

    UTM: 19T E 334542 N 4610869

     

    In Massachusetts, United States View Map

     

    If this is a bug, I'm reporting it.

    If this is a new feature ...Noooooooooo ... please, bring back the "xx distance to" feature.

    Pay it Forward Geocoin Adoptions

    in Trackables

    Posted

    Hi ~ If anybody has a coin for adoption, I'd love to be considered. I was fortunate to have one adopted over to me in January, but since it was placed in a cache by the former owner, it hasn't moved (sitting for 2 months isn't very exciting on the *watch it move around* meter). :D

     

    I have a 3 TB's in the wild (they aren't moving much and one was just placed in an obscure cache today ... 40 visits in 4 yrs.) and 2 of my 3 GC's seem to be stuck moving around my own hometown, one of which went out of state and then was brought back to ... yes, my hometown!! ;)

     

    I'd love to adopt a coin ... and will pay it back when I'm in a position to do so.

     

    THANKS!! :lol:

     

    I've got a coin for you that is already traveling in Europe. It moves alot but the odometer does not work. :D

     

    THANK YOU so much, Tennessee Jed. I've accepted the adoption and have only edited the page to place an acknowledgment of the adoption and to thank you for your kindness and generosity! :D

     

    As for the coin travelling in Europe, I've read in the forums that most of them seem to have a better survival rate and travel frequently. I am sooooooooo very happy to have received this coin. THANK YOU, once again!! :lol::lol::P;):):D:D:):) (9 smileys ... and 9 is also the month of my birth ... did I mention yet that I'm happy to have this coin?!?) :)

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