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Thanks MountainWoods, this was the best explanation I've ever seen to this question.

Thank you, both these options will be useful.

I have to disagree with you on a more basic level. Where does it say that all Waymarking categories must be accessible to all waymarkers within a certain distance? Waymarking was born out of Groundspeak's need to deal with locationless caches. The best of which were not ubiquitous retail chains or even more ubiquitous "Final Resting Places" but unique groups of objects or locations that took some work/planning/luck to find. I will reference the Toynbee Tiles category, one of the first approved. Several hundred total located in less than 30 cities. I am much more in favor of smaller, more interesting categories like this, than the man hole cover everyone has within two blocks of their house. I would vote for a category like this if there was a way to establish location. Is it possible to require two locations when listing? One from each end of the street? and then to log a visit one location that falls somewhere in between the two?

This is exactly how I feel about this category.

+1 to Moun10bike for sorting that out!

I have looked at the Waymarks themselves and at the edit page but I can't find anywhere to delete an unfinished waymark. Once they have been submitted it is possible to delete them, but I don't want to submit something that is wrong, incomplete or a duplicate just to be able to delete it. Or do you just overwrite the information and turn it into something else? Thanks for replies!

Much better success actually using it in the field. I started two new waymarks very easily. I love that I can grab the location data and picture on site and finish them later online! Would actually have started a few others, but got rained out. Thanks again for this, it is great!!

I'm hopeful for this, but so far haven't had success. I keep getting a "GeoLocation Unable to determine device location" error. This despite being in an open location, with both location and wifi turned on. I'm on a Galaxy 3 using Dolphin. I'll keep trying and thank you for working on this!!

I sign wvyen (short for West Virginian) and either draw a star or leave a glow in the dark star sticker. In larger caches I leave a plastic glow star. If Paul is with me then it's Wvyen and PTpapa or just WV & PT with a star for nanos.

Thanks, fi67. I have pulled that one up and looked through it. What I am hoping to find is one that is easily printable, so I can take the paper pages on the road with me.

I would love to have a printed list of the categories and sub categories. In looking over the list there are many many things in my area that could be waymarked. I cover a lot of area for work. Problem is that when I get out and about I can't remember all the categories I could be putting things into. Has anyone put together a PDF file or anything similar that lists the categories that I could print and take with me?

What about creating new waymarks significantly after a visit to a place. I just recently recovered some photo files that I thought I had lost when my computer had crashed. Included were a bunch of pictures from four to six years ago that I took while I was working in different locations around the country with the intention of creating waymarks. I am kind of split about it, it was a long time ago, but on the other hand I did take the pictures with Waymarking in mind. What are y'all's thoughts?

While grazing in this forum tonight I came across a thread that started in 2007 that stated that the USGS was interested in getting recovery reports for their marks. Does anyone know if this is still the case? Does anyone have any experience with submitting one?

Thanks, John. This wasn't a standard, small, across a river bridge. It was in the middle of town over a couple other streets and a building. They leveled the whole works, flattened the surrounding area and paved a 4 lane intersection through it. It is, to quote Montgomery Gentry, "Gone like a freight train, Gone like yesterday!" Since this is a small town, finding a news article about them tearing it down is going to be challenging. If I can't find one should I send the report anyway? Or just let it go? I can possibly locate photos showing the bridge and then the same area after it was removed with corresponding landmarks in the background. Would that be enough? I don't want to send the report without giving Deb enough documentation to take action. (I can't imagine having her job, editing the benchmarks for the entire country - wow!) At the same time I would like to see the database as accurate as possible. It also seems confusing on the geocaching.com page when there is a DNF log after a destroyed log. It could lead people to think that the person that posted the destroyed log just jumped the gun and that there really is something there to go look for. Thanks for the advise on this.

The way I read it its just referring to 'mother-seed' caches. One's that have a bunch or micros in the main cache. They tend to lead to lots of lame micros with little thought or after-care.

I was looking around on the site for benchmarks in the area where I grew up to possibly find some the next time I go down to visit my folks. I discovered some that I know are destroyed. One in particular, HW3204 is definitely gone. On the geocaching.com page it has one report as missing then one as not found. The folks that marked it as not found in 2009 apparently did submit a report to the NGS because the PID has a recovery note in 2009 as not found. Should I file a report for this one as missing? What documentation do I need to send along as proof? I don't know if I can find news articles about the bridge being torn down or not.

I am definitely planning face-to-face with all these folks, no question. But due to some of them being managed by committee, places that don't have regular 9 to 5 offices, etc. I am looking for the best step before that step, to arrange the face-to-face. The in person meeting is the easy part for me, I have loads of project manager and presentation experience.

I am about to have to contact several agencies to request permission to place caches I have planned for this summer. These include state parks admin., city parks commissions, historical societies and the person(s)who manage a couple of nature preserves. My question is for the ones of you that have approached these types of managers, which is the best method of first contact: e-mail, phone call or snail mail? I can see pros and cons of both. Snail mail is, well, a snail, but I think it would have a good chance of getting to the right person, and I can include brochures and cache pages that can be looked at and shown to other people. A phone call will likely reach a secretary but maybe not the person I really need to speak with, it can also be confusing to try to explain geocaching to someone over the phone. That said, is this still a good way to find the person who can grant permission and get a good time to see them? E-mail allows for more explanation than a phone call and links and attachments can be added. Downside with it is that I'm not sure it would get to the correct person, or if it would be viewed as spam or something else to be ignored. What have those of you that have done it had success with? Thanks for the input!

Waiting for reports.

Archive it or move it. There are 2 reasons for this. First is cacher safety, sure it is no big deal for the average adult cacher, but for the 4 year old child tagging along or the cacher with a pacemaker it could be a different story. Second are livestock issues. If a branch, or a piece of grass gets against the wire it can short it out. This can also happen if the wire comes lose and comes in contact with the fence post. This could allow several thousand dollars worth of livestock to get out and get lost, possibly get killed or cause accidents or damage to other peoples property. It is this second part that makes me question if you have 'expressed permission' to put this cache here. NO ONE that I know that has electric fence would give this type of permission. Further if I found this cache I would post a needs archived log for these reasons.

Hello to all of you! I am originally from Elkins, WV, and own 2 caches in that area. I am planning some more hides up there this summer. I live in Zanesville , OH now. Welcome to the fun!

Brazil would top my list. A good number of regular caches to choose from, a Project APE cache, and party in Rio! Also close the top would be Australia, Ireland and Scotland. But I'll cache wherever I am.

And I agree and fully support your point of view. Add one more to that pile. I think that it was a good thing that neighbors were concerned enough about an adult male taking a young girl into the woods (assuming they don't know you). That was showing concern. I think its great that the cops responded to that (although why they didn't stop you on your way back to your car, I don't know). But once they knew that you were father and daughter, and had no probable cause that a crime had been committed, the should have dropped it right there. This has nothing to do with geocaching, though. Agreed. I generally am very pro LEO, unfortunately a lot of people are not. I think that that attitude frequently comes from situations like this. The most unfortunate thing in this is that your daughter was traumatized by the police. I would seriously consider contacting the chief of police and his superior about the officers over the top actions and attitudes and to meet with your family to give your daughter a tour of the police station and a different, more positive, view of the police. I don't think I would just let this go. At the other end of that spectrum, I think I would make it a point of 'bumping into' that couple in the park again, this time without my daughter, and letting them know they did more harm than good. Just my .02

Great to have another West Virginian in the mix! Glad you and the family are off to a great start. Welcome!

One find per state is all it takes for the souvenir. But have 4 or 5 on the 'available' list for each state to make allowances for missing, DNF, etc. This is from experience.