RakeInTheCache

Could use a hand on the Internet Cafe category. Would be much obliged.

First stab : An internet cafe is a private establishment having at least one workstation (a screen and a keyboard) which is provided to customers in order to gain access to the internet. The service is normally provided for a charge. Most internet cafe's charge on a per unit of time basis. Food and drink may or may not be offered. Still looking for another group member.

Looks like voting is completed. What's next?

Only need 1 more person to complete the requirement. Then we can go further defining the category.

Not all of us travel with mobile connectivity. Wouldn't be handy to be able to locate Internet Cafes at your travel destination by using Waymarking? Sign up now to be a member of this group! Add your thoughts and ideas to this thread! Click here to join. Internet Cafe Group

The category would allow other travelling waymarkers the ability to share hotel recommendations with each other. Why buy a guidebook when you've got Waymarking? Recommendations should include an explanation justifying the recommendation, any noteworthy facilities and relative price indication (value, moderate, expensive) and target market (low budget, tourist, business, luxury). Sign up now to be a member of this group! Add your thoughts and ideas to this thread! I think you can click here to join. Hotel Recommendation Group

Earth calling History Museum Category officers ... time to vote!

When will this category be up for peer review? I'd like to get started creating waymarks.

Also the following : Server Error in '/' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached. It is a public holiday here in Europe, but still, I thought performance should have been improved recently ... BTW, did you guys update your server clock? I though Pacific time was 9 hours behind central European time but the timestamp indicates 10 hours.

Also getting the following error when trying to update a TB description. Server Error in '/' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

At 08:21 Central European Time (02:21 EST) the site was slower than normal. Surprising since at this time it's normally very performant.

Now getting "Server Too Busy". Methinks there's a service disruption.

I'm getting the error "There is not enough space on the disk." when uploading a photo to my geocoin page. Other errors going on too. Funny because Monday isn't really the peak time in my experience. An no message on the web site forum.

Yes, could be that English is not his mother tongue. People are generally less inhibited to curse in a foreign language.

Very good theory. I see the travel distance feature was just turned back on and cache 2 and 3 are only .2 miles apart. I'm wondering if there is a better way to represent the caches that would allow both 2 and 3 to show up on the map. Also, it looks like travel lines have been discontinued. I thought they were kind of nice. I noticed that before there would be some breaks in the lines.

http://www.geocaching.com/track/map.aspx?ID=195438 Cache number 2 is missing. It's an active cache.

Apologies if this is a redundant post. I can't search the forum now due to a technical issue. I was noticing that when I view my travel bug maps, some of the caches the TB has visited do not show up on the map. Is this a software bug? If so is it on the "to do" list?

So if I understood correctly, you would be for setting up categories easily without voting in a forum. In this case, I agree completely.

To clarify, I think waymarks without logs is fine and see no reason to remove them. (Some waymarks may be very worthwhile but are difficult to get to or off the beaten path). I could be wrong but I don't believe there is a criteria for geocaches that they be visited any number of times. Categories with only a very small number of waymarks seem unuseful to me. The threshhold for the number of waymarks a category should have could be determined as a percentage of all waymarks and could be measured at x month intervals (for example). If the category doesn't measure up after x months, it's deleted and the waymarks are recategorized to the next highest level. For those rare finds, the waymark owner might add a key word to the title that would signal to others that it is special within its category. A keyword in the title search might be added as a way other rare waymark owners could easily locate your waymark.

Each member could have a category "ignore" list. Then you don't need to see the micky d's. Apparently some members don't find this category lame. "Lame" is too subjective a term. I personally don't find creating a category for very rare locations to be especially useful. Categories should be judged by the number of waymarks they have, not how many times the waymarks have been visited. A good waymark may be located in the middle of the Sahara but not many people will get to it. This is harmless.

I agree with this approach rather than forum voting.

Did the discussion just die on this? (Sorry, no time/patience to read the entire thread in advance.) My idea is this, Anyone should be able to categorize a waymark under the main category. It should be easy for a member to propose a sub-category. Some limited involvement by geocaching.com would be necessary to weed out duplicate sub-categories, maybe along the lines of the way cache placement is monitored. Place a limit on the total number of sub-categories supported if things get unmanageable. Also set a limit on the depth of sub-categories. X months after being created, the waymarks in a sub-category should be expected to represent at least Y% of the total number of waymarks. If not, the subcategory is retired and any waymarks moved to the next higher category. (Waymark owners could also have the option to submit their waymark to another subcategory) This process should weed out the less popular subcategories over time. The retired subcategory is returned to the pool of available subcategories. Sub-categories are re-evaluated every X months. If/When the number of sub-categories is maxed out, and most sub-categories are well subscribed (meaning not a lot are being retired and there's almost no chance to create a new one with the existing limit), the limit on the number of sub-categories can be increased. Also as the number waymarks increase, X and Y can be adjusted. Waymarkers should vote for sub-categories with their waymarks, not in a forum. Another suggestion, waymarks listed on the geocaching stats page. I see lots of potential for GPS tourism in Waymarking. Say I'm interested to take a trip to a city but don't want to bother and pay money to research all the sites. I just go to Waymarking.com and I have a whole list of recommendations made by the community (locals and other tourists that have visited there). And I know exactly where each site is and how far away it is from my hotel. That is really excellent. (Could do to the travel guide business what Wikipedia has done to the encyclopedia business). One problem which may eventually occur is ownership of the waymark. There may be waymark monopolies which may be tolerated at first as the number of waymarks overall is small, but as they increase and become more dense, become no longer appropriate. Maybe there should be a time limit on waymarks (2 years for example). Once a waymark expires, it could be put up for grabs (What about given each member a certain number of points to use in a waymark auction). If no one else had an interest, the original owner could take it again. And/or possibly a limit on the number of waymarks an individual owned (in a geographic area?).

On this topic, why is it that when I do a search by origin, I'm limited to a 62 mile (100 km) radius? I don't pick up anything within this distance from my home origin and I would like to find the nearest waymark to my home (don't particularly care about the category at this early stage).

I agree, but then GSAK would also need to be upgraded to incorporate the spoiler pics and also Cachemate for download to PDA. This would be the paperless cachers dream!

YESSSSS, This is extremely annoying. I don't think this was ever a problem before. Thanks to geocaching for fixing this. It looks better now.