Team Monkeyboy
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It's common for people to place trackable items in unpublished geocaches. Once the cache is published, you will be able to see the details. You will be happy to see that the owner of the new cache created it specifically for dropping off your travel bug at a place consistent with the TB's goal.
I am moving your thread from the Geocaching Topics forum.
disregard...
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New GPX format: postponed
Bring back virtuals: postponed
Nano attribute: postponed
Support for dying smartphone platform: added
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Where do I see which of my caches have accumulated Favorites (other than on the cache pages themselves) ?
Go to "Hide and Seek A Cache", and put in your geonick in the Hidden by Username box. Then sort by favorites and you'll see your caches listed by how many favorites it has.
You can also see which of your caches have favorite votes by selecting "All Geocache Hides" under the "Geocaches" tab in your public profile.
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Hi!
After playing around a little bit I've found some more things to discuss ;-)
1. New Map: As far as I've seen it doesn't necessarily show ALL the caches if you zoom out too far. Tried with some power trails and it then seems to only show every 2nd cache (or so) if you're zooming out. Just check the ET Highway and if you're zooming out to 50 miles you don't even see a single cache out of this trail. Additionally hovering over the cache symbol only seems to give you some pop up box at at resolution of 2 Miles and below.
2. Favorites: Thought about this new feature for some more time and I'm still not exactly happy with how it is implemented ;-) Just think about the following: You do have 2 caches. One with 10 finds and the other with 100 finds. The first cache gets 5 votes and the 2nd gets 10 votes. But which cache is better? In my eyes it should be the first one as it got a rate of 50% vs. 10% for the other. So I would more like to see THIS being reflected in the lists. This exactly is the reason why I don't care about these kind of lists ;-) I would prefer giving a cache a grade like at school instead of simply adding single votes regardless the number of logs...
Bye,
Christian
favorites bug me. there are great caches that few people are going to learn about. when we log it, as if we liked it. that's all. would a rating convince me NOT to do a cache. maybe if it had terrain issues or the CO was a butt. who's going to rate a light pole as a favorite unless it's in her favorite mall? still, they have their place, just like guardrails. go by the log & word of mouth. it's worked well so far...
I think that's why they only gave you 1 favorites vote for each 10 caches you find... so you'll be judicous in their use. Think about it - chances are if a cache is really good, it's going to have more than 1 favorite vote, unless only 1 person has found it. In that case I'd think people would be smart enoug to look at the logs and description for an explination as to why there's not more finders.
There's going to be abuse of the system one way or another... but this at least will highlight the really good caches in an area.
I do agree that being able to flag BAD caches would be nice as well, but the politics behind that would get really messy.
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Don't know if it's new to this update or not, but if you click on "View all {XX} bookmark lists..." to see the rest of the bookmarks that include the current cache you're viewing, it takes you instead to YOUR bookmark manager and shows all of YOUR bookmark lists.
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Hey! Me too! I don't have any coins, and since January starts 2011, I'd like 2011 of them.
And to think I was going to do it the hard way and buy them!
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Just curious if there are new coin collectors out there within the last 6 months? Speak up here, I have a coin for you.
Yes! I bought my two sons their first geocoins for Christmas, and it sparked their interest in geocoins.
Since then, we've picked up another coin through a barter (an elaborately designed cache container for a coin), and won a coin through a local cache club challenge (who could find the hardest cache in the coldest temperature).
We just got into geocaching last September, and didn't feel comfortable moving travellers at first. But now the boys are choosing caches based on which ones have coins to move!
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Team Monkeyboy-
Very nice to see a new species posted to the Critter page. Thanks for sharing your photo.
Where was this Black Rat Snake discovered? Information about the closest GC your were near would be appreciated. They aren't indigenous to California. The Texas Ratsnake (Pantherophis obsoletus) looks similar to your specimen but they live on the western prairie quite a bit east of here (i.e. Kansas). There is another Eastern species, the Black Rat Snake (Elaphe obsoleta) encountered in the eastern U.S. If local, this is a real mystery.
-Gecko Dad
Update 12/1/2009: I see from Team Monkeyboy's profile/found caches that this critter probably hails from Ohio.
My sincere apologies... I didn't realize that the forum was area-specific. I see now that it's for "San Diego County"... I was originally linked from an outside website.
Yes, the black rat snake was spotted in Ohio....
Feel free to delete the previous posts and this reply, again with my apology.
PS - BEAUTIFUL pictures!!!
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Waypoint projections... true North vs magnetic North calculations... BACKWARDS waypoint projecting (there's a name for that, but I'm too lazy to look it up)... finding the patch TO the cache before finding the path FROM the cache (grin)...
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My 6 year old son discovered this black rat snake in a hole we *thought* might be holding the cache. Turns out we were in the wrong area entirely (it was a puzzle cache), but we snagged a great picture for the scrapbook!
Geocaching.com site update August 2nd 2011
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Has anyone else noticed the lack of formatting of "hints" on a cache page once they're decrypted? It looks like the line returns are being stripped out. Looks OK when it's encrypted though...