ADTCacheur

I know what you mean, I have an Oregon and I currently have routable maps and 3 different topo maps. I accidentally deleted the basemap but it didn't matter once I had "real" maps on my GPS. I managed to find a great deal on my microSD card. for $20 I got the card, a microSD to miniSD converter, a microSD to SD converter, and a microSD to USB converter. that was one good sale price! My only complaint about my GPS's card, microSDs are so small, they're hard to get into that little slot, but I'll probably get used to it!

but ask yourself this question; would the profits from the extra PMs keep them up in the long run? once you include the some hundred thousand PMs there already are who would make extremely long rants in the forums if they didn't get a coin because they were a pre-existing user, and probably rant to live people and then they would lose more business then they'd gain... OK, so they'd have to make coins for pre-existing members. now they gain say, 100 new members. half of those people are only members for the coin and thus get a 3-month membership, the other half just had that as the final straw to PMhood and get a full year. so that would be $500 + $1500 = $2000 gained. Now they mint the coin. I don't actually know how much a coin would be to mint, but I know that they are generally $10 at the cheapest if you buy one coin, so minting would probably be half the price ($5). The price the coin would need to be for them to break even (assuming there's 100,000 PMs after the coin, though I don't know how many there actually are.) would be $0.50 before shipping... If they can get a coin at that price that's great, but seeing as I think i was being a little low with how many current PMs there are, and a little high on how many would buy the coin, and the coin would have to be cheaper because of shipping... I think that they could get a coin company to mint the coins for free if they just say "think of all the publicity, being the 'official' Groundspeak geocoin" there are still many people who are geocaching and not in the U.S. Either they'd have to set up shipping centers elsewhere (by which point they've gone way over the $2000 they just made) or they ship the coin to other countries. I believe that the average shipping rate would be much more than the $0.50 budget that they have per PM... In the end they pay extra money to make us a little happier, and to have more PMs which means more likely to have a PM complain that it's not worth it to be a PM... If they wanted to lose money, they should just lower the PM rate. That would be a lot less hassle and just as well received, though people who come in in a year won't know that the rate's lowered, though they would notice that you get a freebie... I must be really bored if I honestly didn't notice I just spent 1/2 an hour typing one forum post...........

Huh? What does posting facetious comments have to do with daffodils? I believe drfred was referring to narcissists, who are essentially huge egomaniacs... They think only of themselves. That still doesn't make any sense. I was making facetious comments about setting arbitrary restrictions on who can geocache. How does that have anything to do with a serious personality disorder? Even if he thought I was serious (which would be very, very sad), his comment makes no sense. I was only saying that this is a controversial enough thread that he was more likely to be calling names than saying you're like a daffodil... Honestly narcissism was the first thing I thought of when I saw your name, and so for the first few of your posts I saw my subconscious was more or less trying to find egotism in what you said, even though that was unfair. I shall now assume you named your name after daffodils or something, though maybe you should put that in your signature or title so that people don't see the worst in you because of your name. I wasn't thinking so much along the lines of an arbitrary restriction based on age, as much as the legalities and how wise it is to have kids use this site without some kind of disclaimer or written guardian permission. Should a child be an autonomous cache owner? autonomous... does that mean that as a child you are actually a robot that thinks for itself? In part, it's about what we can expect in terms of responsibility of the child and of the gc site, legalities and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. If the child/minor has their own account does a parent legally have to provide written consent. OK, so I'm fine with a child needing parental consent, but: 1. some people have already gone to university at 16, so just because they're smart, they can't have an account without E-mailing their parents a waiver for them to sign? 2. MOST people are mature enough as teens to be able to create an account for geocaching without needing their parent's consent. 3. still one of the same problems, is it that hard to send the validation to your spare e-mail account and sign off there? 4. you're expecting GS to block certain members that could possibly become *cough* paying members *cough*? So far, opinions appear to focus on the age of the child, in terms of whether parental supervision is necessary. In the eyes of the law, as far as I can surmise, a child is defined as a minor under the age of 18. Not a big deal really, just got to thinking and wondering why children/minors under 18 years of age (age of consent) have no restrictions on the gc site. because this is a FAMILY ORIENTED game

That's personal opinion, I would say log a note, the majority of geocachers that answered when I posted that topic said that their opinion was something along the lines of "If you typed the coordinates into your GPS (or opened the gpx file on your GPS) then it's a DNF" I find this too much because to me a DNF means it's either hard or not there.

Ouch ... and I wasn't even involved. Please tell me that you'd responded beforehand, and that wasn't just that they saw who picked up the trackable and vented at you... If they can get that annoyed from just somebody logging a trackable before they wanted to, and they're verbal about it... I would hate to think what it would be like if you were somebody who stresses easily, or actually couldn't read (but had your computer doing so aloud). This person should be banned if the ONLY thing that happened to cause this was your taking the trackable before they could log it. Admittedly that would be annoying, especially if they were telling the truth and there actually was a note with the bug when they'd dropped it...

nope, it's just a matter of didn't want their name to be associated with the travel bug that got held onto for 6 months before they finally dropped it. note: this is simply a possibility, I have no idea what actually happened, but that's the only benefit I see from this (unless you're too lazy to click an extra time or 2 in which case, you must be an armchair logger...)

i have a few more to add: 47. do not use a copyrighted logo as your avatar 48. If you post a topic that has been discussed over and over and over again, you will very likely find some of the insults answers to not quite support your suggestion or fix your GPS... 49. do not start a controversial topic, then never come back to it 50. do not make fun of signal the frog (when you insult him he's a real jerk)

for a kid (going by the description of kid:5-9 "tween": 10-12 and teen:13-19) yes, USUALLY the parent is the one doing all of the work and giving the kid a sense of ownership, but once you're older you generally would be the one responsible, and by the time you're a teen, sometimes your parents may not even know about the cache*. Once again might I say, you would need to lower the limit because you would be responsible enough to maintain a cache at more of around 10, and by setting the limit at 10then all you'd be doing by setting a limit would be robbing younger children from a fair share of their feeling of ownership. *this is only with certain teens, they range from perfectly polite to vandals/criminals, don't lump them together as all vandals/criminals

does it have a GPSr? Of course, otherwise it'd be useless!! Now, the GPSr isn't in-built - I use a USB GPS dongle or a bluetooth GPS puck, hence the use of apostrophes when I say 'unit'...!! keep the netbook in your backpack and use the bluetooth GPS, while having your netbook navigate you by the following method: 2 beeps means right, 1 beep means straight, 3 beeps means left, 4 beeps means go backwards, higher pitch means you're getting nearer, the less time between the multiple beeps for navigation, the less you have to rotate that way. Oh! And have it read the hint aloud. Now, go try that out in that parking lot looking for an LPC, just imagine the wierd looks!

Wouldn't the computer still recognize the mileage as the same as if X logged both? And unless they'd just pick up the traveler that day, they would still get their pick-up log, even if they couldn't properly log their drop.

does it have a GPSr?

Huh? What does posting facetious comments have to do with daffodils? I believe drfred was referring to narcissists, who are essentially huge egomaniacs... They think only of themselves.

Corrected version: 1. 0% of people hate micros. However, anyone who suggests injecting even a modicum of creativity into a cache hide will be labeled as a micro-hater by 99.8% of forum users. (Hey, if we're gonna invent statistics, why not go all out?) that would explain why there's a forum thread called "Im sick of micros"!

Am I way off? I was under the delusion that if player X picked the TB up from cache X, then it later got picked up from cache Y, the computer would assume that player X had put it in cache Y. If this is wrong then please let me know, and if it's right then the only purpose having this cacher log the drop would have would be that they get to write their log (can you even write a log for a drop?) and get the "glory" of having dropped off the travel bug on 'paper'.

aren't we all?

you can tell which they are because they have a little picture beside the name, sort of like a commonly used default profile image... If that way doesn't work for you, you can see which is which by going on with a free account and checking to see if you can view it

It can play mp3, but is it set to when you get an FTF? as for the external battery pack, I meant without paying extra money, just the straight out iPhone (though with an app because that was what you said). I did not know it had a magnetic compass, nor had I yet seen an app that would track, I guess I might have been wrong on those ones... note: there's no point in even trying to rebut, I have something personal against apple, so you'd only win if the iPhone was perfect, which it isn't

Tutorials Here: http://home.roadrunner.com/~creek/garmin.htm Here: http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-...rmin-topo-maps/ And Here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap thanks.

18 is too high, at about 10-12 they'd often be responsible enough to check it regularly, especially if they're parents know about it, and below that it would probably be the parents hiding but letting the child believe that it's entirely them.

Had the same problem so put all his caches onto my ignore list then made it public with special title. I think that's a little too far, especially because since you said you had the same problem as the OP, and his was just a personality conflict... It just seems harsh to post that their caches are horrible to the general public because you don't like the person.

Well, since he made his account in 2009...

What ever happened to bicycles and feet as modes of transportation? what are those, I think that those went out along with the dinosaurs, or were they even around then?

Yeah, privacy might be an issue but again show me such a thing might be a possibility beyond a 1 post cacher and I'll be happy to discuss. The OP showed a link showing it was possible, but it was an ad (in eartha's opinion, I didn't see it) so it was removed

But if you've been in it since the beginning, that translates into about 1:3.5 caches:day. Compare that to the people who have over 100 in a single day. Unless they find no other caches for the entire rest of the year, they're the nutcases... P.S. I saw this at the bottom of your profile: and might I also mention: I shall mock and flame you at every opportunity!

Your right, it's absolute privacy... Except for the fact that you (and anybody smart enough to hack into it's signal) can tell exactly where I live... Somehow I don't like that especially since you can track where the most recent geocaches I've found are and thus can tell if I'm on vacation or not... I personally would NEVER!!! pick up a trackable that I knew had this feature, as it is an invasion of privacy, and if I did pick it up, it would be to remove the batteries/smash it!