Dr.MORO

After a wait, NOT immediately, and reloading the leaderboard a few times, it finally has been updated to include my 50 points to my total. Still just sluggish?

Maybe because I'm also NOT getting any notifications? The geocache IS listed as Found by me today, and I have it on my Watchlist, but not message of my logging a Find. Perhaps communication within the Geocaching system not functioning fully.

I just posted a Found log for a 50+ Fav point geocache, but no adding of 50 points to my leaderboard point total. Weird...

Seems to be fix now.

Site IS down now, and unfortunately cannot check anything on the website nor within the Geocaching iOS app. Hope the cause gets identified, and all Geocaching gets back online soon. Just worried that the ongoing Cache Carnival may get watered down on a should-be very busy Geocaching weekend. Extension, maybe?

April 6, 2019

Oh, did not search this forum enough, I guess. Same topic is posted here: GPS version of the Y2K Bug. Beware !!

Just read this, was wondering... Maybe no problem, but who knows? Gizmodo web article link: The Y2K Moment for GPS Systems Is Just a Month Away US Naval Observatory (USNO) PDF file link: CGSIC GPS Week Roll Over Issue Department of Homeland Security (DHS) PDF file link: MEMORANDUM FOR U.S. OWNERS AND OPERATORS USING GPS TO OBTAIN UTC TIME. Upcoming Global Positioning System Week Number Rollover Event

Thanks jennergruhle! I have the MOZ flag now!

Thanks in advance, jennergruhle! Danke! Much appreciated! Cannot wait for my 50th country flag visitor!

http://www.flagcounter.com/index.html is woking, as well as my own counter page is showing ok.

You will need to open the link to your flag counter page, by clicking on the counter image itself. Within this page, you will be able to see more details of which regions you have visitors from. Good Luck & Cache On!

Hi! Just added Massachusetts flag to your counter. Also, very much appreciate if you could add the Mozambique flag to my profile as well. Safe travels!

Hi! Just added Massachusetts flag to your counter. Go Pats! 6 x Super Bowl Champs!

Yep, announced just now. Looks like an extended period starting this year. Cache In Trash Out® announcement for 2019 CITO 2019, Season 1 Friday, March 1 through Friday, May 31, 2019 That includes all of March, April, and May! CITO 2019, Season 2 Sunday, September 1 through Saturday, November 30, 2019 That includes all of September, October, and November!

OMG, what a geo-name... ? (and I'm a Geocaching Volunteer Translator)

A real-life mad scientist who creates mutants for a living, like in the H. G. Wells novel with similar name mad Dr, but for a good cause and intent.

GCHQ? Any word on CITO Week 2019 schedule yet?

Okay, arisoft, maybe using smartphones with add-on GPS receivers may be the future and the solution to the Emoji issue after all. A quick web search shows several bluetooth-connected GPS receivers for smart devices (smartphone & tablets), and maybe there are more on the market. Bad Elf GPSr Garmin GLO 2 GPSr Dual Electronics GPSr Unfortunately, this does not solve the Emoji issue for those using Emoji-incompatible devices at all. Smart device users just benefit from the latest technology.

Alternative solution ideas: Smartphone-pairable add-on GPS receivers? (such as Bad Elf GPS) Establish a method to connect handheld GPS receiver to smartphone?

No wonder... Thanks. So, maybe not solved yet again?

Thanks, Atlas Cached!!! Oh, how did I miss this Garmin Monterra®???!!! Hmmm, $649.99 USD... https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/113522 As for function, not bad at all. (one thumb up Emoji) Has anyone actually tested and can confirm all latest Emojis and Unicode character set (even right-to-left languages) are displayed properly? Or at least for Geocache names and logs containing Emoji characters? The Garmin customer support never mentioned the Garmin Monterra model being compatible with Emojis, and just said none from Garmin are Emoji-compatible at present. Weird. Will ask them about the Garmin Monterra model and Emoji again. Also, any competitors from other GPS device manufactures?

Thanks for your reply, arisoft. At present, unfortunately the answer is, there is no known commercial handheld hiking GPS receiver (NOT including smartphones, as I have said repeatedly) sold that properly displays latest full Unicode character set, yet. So, the issue unfortunately cannot be solved fully, at this moment. And yes, work arounds can be applied. Hope is there to someday have this fully resolved, although only if we continue asking for it. One day, hopefully soon.

Thank you so so much, robertlipe, the Chief Babel-Head, for both of your super-detailed yet understandable explanation from the possibly most appropriate person to answer. Truly appreciated! (insert two continuous thumb-up Emoji here, with wink emoticon) And do I consider this question sufficiently answered now? Q: Does your handheld GPS device (excluding smartphones) properly show Emoji characters on-screen? Hmmm, good point. Probably yes. I totally understand that present handheld GPS receivers will never be able to properly display all Unicode (including Emoji) characters as how they are meant to be, no matter if within GPX file or else. Thanks for that. Then, the next question in my head: "Is it an issue to be solved somehow (New GPX scheme? New GPSr?), being in a Geocaching era of Emojis and smartphones?" To be a bit more specific, would there ever be in the near future, a GPS device that is as accurate and as quick as the present outdoors hiking handheld GPS receivers like a Garmin Oregon, while also being able to display all the latest character sets & languages on-screen like our present smartphones and it's OS? Best of both, in one? I would love to have such GPS device, and wondering why there isn't any available. I do understand there could be many issues to overcome to make this happen: Smartphone OS onto GPS handheld? Or, transform smartphone into a better GPS receiver? Sorry, but answer to one question just leads to more questions... a mad scientist's norm (Tonge-sticking winking Emoji here) Emoji characters are here to stay, and something has to change for the better future. Ignoring the issue leads to no future. For now, parsing and filtering out the unsupported Unicode (Emoji included) characters from my GPX files before loading into my Garmin Oregon, will be my stopgap drill. The rabbit hole still continues... Happy New Year 2019!

Based on when the huge local event is held which I tie-in my CITO event, it would be best that CITO Week, April 2019 contains Saturday April 27th. GCHQ, please? And also let us know when CITO Week, April 2019 will be held, so organizer can plan with enough time ahead. FYI, Earth Day 2019 is on Monday April 22.