dakboy

5.1% of the caches in my state within 200 miles (give or take) of my home appear in the "Last 2 DNF" filter. Choke that down to last 4 DNF and it's 1.4%. But that's hardly indicative of "missing" caches or caches that need maintenance/archival. It just means that the last 2 (or 4) people to make a log entry couldn't find it. If I look at caches where there's a NA log in the last 4, that's 0.3% (same for last 2, but at that point it becomes a matter of rounding - 68 caches vs. 52).

Guinness sets their own criteria & certification process. And is largely useless now, has been for over a decade.

I think Canada works the same way.

Time Warner is even worse - they issue refurb DVRs (the Scientific Atlanta units) to new customers by default. You have to take the box back to their office & tell them you want a new unit to get one that works properly with their current software (Samsung or another brand).

So are the road (line art) maps.

Don't assume that Google Maps is correct - it's often not. If you don't trust the coords you get from your GPSr, return on another day (or multiple days) & confirm the readings - or get a GPSr that you can trust.

LOL. You should really do some kind of research before posting on here about topics you know nothing about. So you're admitting that you acquired iOS 6 prior to its release by means that are less than legitimate? Or are you an Apple employee in the iPad/iOS division? Because those are the only ways that you were running iOS 6 "for months" prior to its release, unless you're enrolled in the iOS developer program.

Then let that family member place a cache & take full responsibility & ownership.

I think you mean THE Ohio State University There are quite a few on the Cornell campus as well. A few at University of Rochester, used to be one at Nazareth college, several at Hobart & William Smith and Skidmore College too. As noted earlier in the thread, it's quite possible that the university knows about them (and if they didn't before, they do now that it's been in the student newspaper) and has granted permission, and university campuses are much different from elementary schools.

Assuming that Excel is accurate enough

"Freedom of speech" does not apply in any way here. This is Groundspeak's forum, on their servers, in their datacenter. They can (and do) moderate & manage these forums as much or as little as they want, and you are not free to write/say/do anything you please without repercussions.

Just the last 5.

That should take care of the problem. The cache owner should now either confirm permission or archive the cache. You're assuming that the CO is active, reading his email, and cares. I would suggest going directly to NA & separately contacting the reviewer immediately. Don't let it linger.

The progression of the handheld GPSrs is normal and expected. Getting into the handheld market and appearing to leave it within a 5 year span, that's flitting in & out.

Here's the main problem with flitting from one product line to the next and leaving the previous one(s) in the dust, especially for a company as small as DeLorme: One of these days, they're going to figure the market wrong, have a product be a complete and total disaster, and they'll be forced to fold. Or they'll be bought up by a larger player (or a holding company) just for the existing revenue streams and patents, then get dismantled. You buy a Garmin GPS today, you can be reasonably sure that in 3 years, Garmin will still be around and still be making/supporting their GPS products. PN-30 owners were forgotten in less than 18 months. Has anything new & interesting come along for PN-60 owners since that product was released? Other than the InReach, that is - but it's clear that the priority pairing for InReach is Android & iOS, not DeLorme's own hardware. When I got my PN-40, I was really impressed, so much so that I was looking forward to the purchase of a PN-80 or whatever the next-next-gen handheld was that DeLorme was going to release. It's clear now that no such device will ever come to fruition, and they've lost at least one customer as I'm not going to get on a future product knowing that they'll likely drop me very soon after.

This would be a worry IF sales of handheld GPSRs in places like REI is (or ever was) really their "mission," their major profit center. Look at their company history. Started in 1976 as a company that sold maps and have changed their focus a few times -- they only started selling handheld GPSRs with the PN-series in 2007, when Garmin and others were already well established. It seems unlikely to me that DeLorme ever had even a 1% market share even in the subcategory of "handheld GPSR intended for outdoor rugged use." Now they're perhaps wisely moving on to something nobody else is really doing. Even though the inReach is a bit of a niche market, DeLorme ISN''T a huge company -- all they need to do is sell enough of these to make payroll and leave a little extra for growth. lee_rimar, we now know you're user13371. You posted the link to "edit my post" for that DeLorme post. The real link to the thread: http://forum.delorme.com/viewtopic.php?f=181&t=76005

Rugged, but not waterproof. Also not bend-proof.

I had not heard this, but it definitely would explain a lot.

The InReach, being a subscription service, is a revenue stream. A GPS is a one-time sale. So is software like StreetAtlas, XMap & Topo. Not everyone buys the latest & greatest release every year. They're a small company, and their business model has been changing rapidly over the past 4 years, away from their traditional products which were probably seeing a slowdown in sales and toward a subscription-based constant revenue stream. I suspect the Map Library has become a victim of its own success, and then the smartphone boom. 3 years ago, it was great. It got too big and rather than expand capacity, they chose to start throttling downloads heavily. I lost interest due to the increased download time. Then I got a Droid, and it kind of became redundant. I gave up entirely when it became clear that they had lost all interest in supporting their existing customers who didn't use Windows, after initially making some positive moves toward supporting MacOS. For 5 months, users of PN-40s with Macs running Lion couldn't even connect their devices to their computers. People kept claiming "Apple broke it, it's their fault" until finally a firmware update was released - because DeLorme's firmware wasn't handling the USB connections properly, and Lion required that devices adhere more strictly to the established standards. Cache Register has been broken on OS X for over a year - no new release to fix anything. Now they're falling even farther behind on their old mainstays. IIRC Street Atlas 2012 was a flop, and the expected successor to TopoNA 9 is long overdue. The PN-30 was more or less abandoned within a year of release. Paper atlases? How many of those are they even selling? Maybe they make so much money on their professional-grade products that they can treat the consumer market as a hobby and nothing more. I don't know. When my PN dies, I'm not sure what I'll do. I almost certainly won't be buying DeLorme again, if they even have a product to buy. I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling about Garmin, with all the reports of half-baked firmware releases I read here. Plus, I feel their products are overpriced & they're taking advantage of their position as the 800 pound Gorilla in this product space (OTOH, I love my ForeRunner 405). Magellan? Are there any other players in North America?

That would be very useful, if you were concerned about the location of the case. I would wager that it's trivially easy to separate the valuable item - the cue - from the item containing the tracker - the case - which would render such tracking utterly useless. Without hardware that's usually only available to researchers studying animal migrations, law enforcement or government agencies, you're stuck. Let's think this through logically, with the assumption that you *can* get some kind of tracker in the cue itself. How would this device report its position back to you? Radio signal? Now you need to be able to get close enough to pick up that signal (and if you don't know where it is in the first place, how will you get close?). Cell data connection? The battery will be dead within a week. You'd be better off with a radio tracking tag like what they put on bears. But you're still stuck with having to know roughly where to look, and carrying around cumbersome equipment. As has been posted already, just get insurance. That's kind of what it's meant for. It might be as simple as a $2/month rider on your homeowner's insurance.

GPS does not require a data connection. Depending upon how you want to use the GPS receiver, you may need an app. You will be limited in what you can do unless you pre-cache map data/imagery and geocache data. If you're only taking one device with you into the woods, do not make it a tablet. Get a ruggedized GPSr with batteries you can swap out (or will last long enough for your excursion).

The performance and service life of any rechargeable battery is influenced significantly by how they're charged.

A few weeks ago, I took my 5 year old out the area where our cache is. It was a busy day in town, and I knew there would be muggles about. Before we got there, I just told him we couldn't talk about what we'd put there, or go looking for it, because not everyone needs to know that it's there. Never used the word "muggles." Of course once we got there, we found 3 people actively searching for the cache, and a handful of muggles within 30-40 feet, so that all went right out the window. At least the adults were more discrete about it than a 5 year old usually would be.

How would a WiFi-enabled GPSr be useful beyond: Urban caching in a city with very strong public-access WiFi blanketing the area Copying GPX files to/from it on your home network? I'm just not seeing a reason for adding the hardware, complexity & cost?

YEs certain Garmin units can- or rather are supposed to transfer info like caches between units. However I have seen the attempts at doing it and it looks to be real finicky. We couldn't get it to work. I have seen Event attendees do so. We have a Delorme... so we're out of the picture, anyway! For a while, there was a glimmer of hope that the PN-60w would be able to do some awesome stuff like this via IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee). I think the FCC certification ultimately fell through.