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quote:Originally posted by el10t: Oi! I am going to have to charge you for posting that picture here. Disclaimer - None of Sam, his Grandmother (also in the picture), myself or Mrs El10t are Arsenal supporters. The kit was being worn just to humour his uncle El10t Technically, it isn't posted here - just a link to my web site where it has been available for months. I should point out, that as Sam hasn't yet expressed a preference as to what football team he supports, it is entirely possible that he is an Arsenal supporter which if it is the case should make you proud that he has such good taste (I sense a football flame war starting ). ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by el10t: Oi! I am going to have to charge you for posting that picture here. Disclaimer - None of Sam, his Grandmother (also in the picture), myself or Mrs El10t are Arsenal supporters. The kit was being worn just to humour his uncle El10t Technically, it isn't posted here - just a link to my web site where it has been available for months. I should point out, that as Sam hasn't yet expressed a preference as to what football team he supports, it is entirely possible that he is an Arsenal supporter which if it is the case should make you proud that he has such good taste (I sense a football flame war starting ). ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by Tim & June: The images are not stored on Jeremy's server (but on mine) so does not even use any of his bandwidth. So the fact that I was able to see the image means that you've solved your web hosting problems then Your use of your own disk space and bandwidth for the image is offset by the fact that my cache log on my own web site uses links to the smiley and sad faces on geocaching.com thus avoiding using my bandwidth and disk quota for those images. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by Tim & June: The images are not stored on Jeremy's server (but on mine) so does not even use any of his bandwidth. So the fact that I was able to see the image means that you've solved your web hosting problems then Your use of your own disk space and bandwidth for the image is offset by the fact that my cache log on my own web site uses links to the smiley and sad faces on geocaching.com thus avoiding using my bandwidth and disk quota for those images. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

How long do we need to wait after sending the e-mail to get confirmation? I sent mine last night and there has been no reply so far. Does it rely on kimrobin going through and manually authorising all requests? Update: I did a search for "geocaching" on the Yahoo Groups web site and no UK group appeared ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

How long do we need to wait after sending the e-mail to get confirmation? I sent mine last night and there has been no reply so far. Does it rely on kimrobin going through and manually authorising all requests? Update: I did a search for "geocaching" on the Yahoo Groups web site and no UK group appeared ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by Kimrobin: Can you post files and pictures on this forum? Alex. Yes I can because I have a web site. Here's a picture of my nephew for instance: http://jeremyp.net/sam/sam-arsenal-2-small.jpg But I take your point generally. Not everybody has a web site. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by Kimrobin: Can you post files and pictures on this forum? Alex. Yes I can because I have a web site. Here's a picture of my nephew for instance: http://jeremyp.net/sam/sam-arsenal-2-small.jpg But I take your point generally. Not everybody has a web site. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote: And remember that as the sat's are not geostationary then by default the locations will change with time. The Ordnance Survey publishes a method for converting from WGS84 to OSGB36 and the stated accuracy of this method is about 5 metres on the ground which effectively meand the last digit of a grid ref is redundant i.e. for AB 12345 98765 you might as well forget about the "5"s. This is due to limitations of the mathematical model used. Actually the reason that WGS84 and OSGB36 coords are moving relative to each other is that OSGB36 does not take continental drift into account. In fact, in terms of WGS84, the UK is moving slowly North East but it is stationary in terms of OSGB36. quote:Remember.. part of the game is the hunt.. Could not agree more. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat! [This message was edited by jeremyp on March 25, 2002 at 05:43 PM.]

quote:Originally posted by Kimrobin: Is there any real need to subdivide the community ? If there is, there are so many better ways to do this than the horrendous Yahoo group. Urgh. Eddie. Such as? I'm in lots of Yahoo groups and have no problem with them. Excluding ex-pat Americans comes to mind I'm going to join the group, but I think it's slightly redundant. What is this forum for after all? ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by Kimrobin: Is there any real need to subdivide the community ? If there is, there are so many better ways to do this than the horrendous Yahoo group. Urgh. Eddie. Such as? I'm in lots of Yahoo groups and have no problem with them. Excluding ex-pat Americans comes to mind I'm going to join the group, but I think it's slightly redundant. What is this forum for after all? ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by dawnrazor: statement. Ed. Yes, just because you *can* doesn't mean you *should*. Although with this particular example I can see why it was done and i think it was quite amusing. Although I admit I was thinking Blackadder III and not the original Jane Austin when i first saw it ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by dawnrazor: statement. Ed. Yes, just because you *can* doesn't mean you *should*. Although with this particular example I can see why it was done and i think it was quite amusing. Although I admit I was thinking Blackadder III and not the original Jane Austin when i first saw it ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

Seeing a picture of an obviously male person (with beard) reminds me to ask about your name change pole. Did you choose a suitable alternative? Or did you decide it wasn't worth the hassle? ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

I am finding it hard to see where the argument is here. With physical caches nobody would argue that you cannot log a "found" message until you had actually been to the cache. With virtual caches, it's a bit more complex, but the person who sets the cache says what the criteria for "finding" it are. If the cache setter says that to "find" the cache you must e-mail me some information and it's written on the cache page, I regard logging a "found" message before fulfilling all the requirements of the cache setter as equivalent to logging a "found" message on a physical cache without actually going there. If I logged a *physical* cache as found when I hadn't been there nobody would have any arguments against deleting my log. Why should it be different for virtual caches? OK you can say that the conditions for finding the cache might be unreasonable, but that is a different kettle of worms (or can of fish). The other thing is that there is nothing to stop the cacher in this case from logging a note to say "visited the cache site, got the answer, awaiting verification from the owner." and then changing it to a "found it" log after verification. To my mind, the person that logged the cache as found without fulfilling the requirement to verify the cache with the owner (when the owner had published that requirement) is lying. If you want the right to free speech, you must accept the reponsibility not to lie. That's my 2 cents (well pence - I'm English ) ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

I am finding it hard to see where the argument is here. With physical caches nobody would argue that you cannot log a "found" message until you had actually been to the cache. With virtual caches, it's a bit more complex, but the person who sets the cache says what the criteria for "finding" it are. If the cache setter says that to "find" the cache you must e-mail me some information and it's written on the cache page, I regard logging a "found" message before fulfilling all the requirements of the cache setter as equivalent to logging a "found" message on a physical cache without actually going there. If I logged a *physical* cache as found when I hadn't been there nobody would have any arguments against deleting my log. Why should it be different for virtual caches? OK you can say that the conditions for finding the cache might be unreasonable, but that is a different kettle of worms (or can of fish). The other thing is that there is nothing to stop the cacher in this case from logging a note to say "visited the cache site, got the answer, awaiting verification from the owner." and then changing it to a "found it" log after verification. To my mind, the person that logged the cache as found without fulfilling the requirement to verify the cache with the owner (when the owner had published that requirement) is lying. If you want the right to free speech, you must accept the reponsibility not to lie. That's my 2 cents (well pence - I'm English ) ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

I think it was nothing more than an honest mistake. The cacher in question only has two caches to his name. The other one he found on 24/2/02 which is the same as 2/2/2024 with the fields reversed. There is a thread in the general forum talking about deleting caches for other reasons and it's getting quite heated It's this one: http://opentopic.Groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=3000917383&m=1530966114 On the basis that the cacher has just made a mistake, this is what I would do. Save a copy of the text and then delete the log. E-mail the user to say why it is deleted and include the original text so that the user can repost a new log. The e-mail would be in *polite* language and would explain your reasons for deleting the log (it always floats to the top of the list). The cacher does not seem to read his e-mail often, so I'd also post a note in the cache log with similar text to the e-mail in case he reads the cache site more often than his e-mail. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

I think it was nothing more than an honest mistake. The cacher in question only has two caches to his name. The other one he found on 24/2/02 which is the same as 2/2/2024 with the fields reversed. There is a thread in the general forum talking about deleting caches for other reasons and it's getting quite heated It's this one: http://opentopic.Groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=3000917383&m=1530966114 On the basis that the cacher has just made a mistake, this is what I would do. Save a copy of the text and then delete the log. E-mail the user to say why it is deleted and include the original text so that the user can repost a new log. The e-mail would be in *polite* language and would explain your reasons for deleting the log (it always floats to the top of the list). The cacher does not seem to read his e-mail often, so I'd also post a note in the cache log with similar text to the e-mail in case he reads the cache site more often than his e-mail. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

OS 1:50000 Landranger maps do have lat/long on them as well as grid refs. Unfortunately they probably use the OSGB36 datum which means that your way points will be about 100 metres out (you can argue that that is the accuracy of a six figure grid ref anyway I suppose ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

Dawnrazor developed a film he had left in a cache for a year and it was still OK. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by dougandsonia: We're off to Phredd and Dotty land soon and thought we'd look to see which caches are around our holiday home. What a palaver - configure the Etrex, type in the frankly unwieldy Lat Long, reconfigure the Etrex. Well I've figured out a few ways to alleviate the difficulty of entering coordinates. Firstly, your number 1 best way to solve this problem is to get a data cable and download EasyGPS. You need never enter cache loacations again. This has already been said on this thread, but I'd like to point out that it doesn't matter what datum your GPS is set to when you download coords to it so you can leave it on OSGB most of the time. Secondly to find caches near a point, you don't need an accurate set of coords. I usually figure it out to the nearest tenth of a degree (about 6 miles) which you can do off an OS map or road atlas (OS maps do have lat/long on them as well as normal grid refs) and type that into the goecaching search engine. Hope this helps a bit with the cramp in the thumb and fingers caused by Garmin's controls ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by dougandsonia: We're off to Phredd and Dotty land soon and thought we'd look to see which caches are around our holiday home. What a palaver - configure the Etrex, type in the frankly unwieldy Lat Long, reconfigure the Etrex. Well I've figured out a few ways to alleviate the difficulty of entering coordinates. Firstly, your number 1 best way to solve this problem is to get a data cable and download EasyGPS. You need never enter cache loacations again. This has already been said on this thread, but I'd like to point out that it doesn't matter what datum your GPS is set to when you download coords to it so you can leave it on OSGB most of the time. Secondly to find caches near a point, you don't need an accurate set of coords. I usually figure it out to the nearest tenth of a degree (about 6 miles) which you can do off an OS map or road atlas (OS maps do have lat/long on them as well as normal grid refs) and type that into the goecaching search engine. Hope this helps a bit with the cramp in the thumb and fingers caused by Garmin's controls ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

There's very little checking done it appears. If you think about it, being able to change your rating is a good idea because somebody might post a reply that changes the qwuality of the thread after you rate it. Of course it should remove your original rating. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by dawnrazor: /me nudges JeremyP in the direction of this thread. dropped hint noticed. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!

quote:Originally posted by Scotty: Tombraider II ps: Please PRINT out the images before you go. (smile) JeremeyP will explain why .. There are vital clues on the pictures. Some of the digits on the tombstones have been replaced by Scotty's special symbols. You need to know which ones in order to break the code which tells you the final cache location. When we were there, although we could identify the victims tombs from the less detailed photos we did have, we couldn't crack the code so I haven't done the cache yet. ------- jeremyp We're going to need a bigger boat!