dakboy

This. Very much this. Absolutely. A new cacher (4 finds) placed a cache in my area at the end of April. Glass candle jar, exposed to the elements...just not a good idea. A few people have commented on it in their logs, and I sent a polite email to them explaining that they ought to consider a better container. That person has not logged onto the site since April 29th - just a few days after their cache was published.

I never wait. I log the find and write "email on its way." Then I send the CO the requested information. If he doesn't like it, he can delete the log.

You best archive almost every night cache in the woods then as well. Fire tacks are just small nails, after all.

I have no interest in such a thing. I might be interested in a plug-in for my photo app(s) (Aperture & iPhoto) which, taking a My Finds GPX file as input, could match up photos that I've geotagged with my logs and put them together as a photo book.

You mean like the Project A.P.E. caches? But those were placed over 10 years ago, and nothing similar has happened since. I don't foresee another similar cache type. My point exactly.

You mean like the Project A.P.E. caches?

Left-hand side of www.delorme.com . "Sales & Service1.800.561.5105" Customer Service -> Contact DeLorme - at least 2 different 800 numbers listed. Tech Support may not have an apparent direct 800 #, but the others (especially Customer Service) will transfer your call.

If Garmin doesn't listen to people leaving their subscription service, why would they listen to those same people complaining about that service? If you write and complain about the outdated imagery, but keep paying for the service regardless, what incentive does Garmin have to actually get updated imagery? The message you're sending there is "I'm made enough to write, but I'll keep give you the money anyway."

Why not? It doesn't look like the data needs to be manipulated, just stored in JNX format. Could you elaborate? Is that the format that DigitalGlobe/Garmin receive the data in? Is it all properly referenced to coordinates? Does the image file format have to be converted?

You make it sounds like this is a trivial task. It's not. Vote with your wallet. If you're unhappy with the quality of the product, don't keep buying it, and when you cancel make sure you tell them why.

Yes, that happens occasionally. Search for "Paul Repak" if you want to read about one infamous example. If you want the condensed version, I found one here: http://www.topix.com/forum/city/utica-ny/T2O9Q6UUHIOKKDMSP The comments there make my head hurt. Coverage from semi-locals and locals

Email support has always been notoriously slow. Phone support is much better. You shouldn't ever have to do that, but sometimes things in memory get corrupted. In nearly 3 1/2 years with my PN-40, I think I've had to do this once. What map were you using? If you took the default zoom level pre-cut maps right from DeLorme, that's probably the limit. If you use TopoNA to cut your own maps, you can change the zoom levels and get closer. No guarantees on how usable it'll be at that zoom level though, as it's all raster imagery and the resolution is only so fine.

You have to manually select the "Selected Containers" radio button. Selecting specific sizes doesn't automatically change it off of "Any Container". That's caught me a couple times. It's poor usability design, IMO. Yep. A couple lines of javascript could fix it, but they're too busy fixing all the other problems with the site. I think you mean "creating new problems with the site." There needs to be a cleanup/stability/FIXME "sprint", instead of the relentless pursuit of new features no one asked for. Seriously, it'd take an intern 2 hours to do it, if that.

You have to manually select the "Selected Containers" radio button. Selecting specific sizes doesn't automatically change it off of "Any Container". That's caught me a couple times. It's poor usability design, IMO.

Look at the Publish log on the cache. If it's too old to have one, look at more recently-placed caches nearby.

Every one of that person's caches would land on my ignore list. I have better things to do with my time than play their little guessing game.

I am quite disappointed that a fellow cacher would do such a thing. Glad to hear you're getting it worked out.

Regional differences. "bloody hell" is common, but not particularly "bad" in the UK.

That is not entirely true. It only stops someone from listing a geocache on geocaching.com within 161 meters of that location.

If this is truly the cache; 1. I cant tell from the trees how close it is to the road. If that is truly the cache, from the title, I would guess it is on a guard rail, which, if that is true, would tell me that it is not on private property. I see guardrails placed on private property, by the property owner, all the time. It's not so black & white.

Perhaps a better question is why are people not coming out to search for that cache in the first place? And would those factors result in people not coming to find your caches? For what sounds like a basic roadside micro, 10 finds/year seems pretty low to me, unless you're well off the beaten path & far from other caches. COs have an obligation under the guidelines to maintain their caches and listing pages. If he hasn't been active in the past 3 years and is unresponsive to email (give him some more time, though), he might not even care if his cache gets archived.

Seeing as how it's attributed to the guy who posts on the official geocaching.com blog, how could it be taken as "only a rumor"?

Well I never gave the c/o permission to begin with it was just placed there. If it was placed on your private property with no permission requested/granted, you shouldn't even give a second thought to having it archived. The CO broke the rules, whether he knew it or not. Be assertive - if he's done it on your farm, he's probably done it elsewhere and he needs to learn that it's not OK.

Well, if you want to be a bit assertive, to the point of almost being what some would call a jerk, you could revoke the permission for that cache. Caches need permission to be hidden, and since it's your private property, presumably you can grant & revoke permission. Or maybe you should have thought about that cache before spending so much time on all these caches, since you apparently knew about it ahead of time. If it's truly a "large" farm then an area of 20 acres or less (depending on boundaries, buildings, etc.) shouldn't be too large of a loss, can't you work around it?

You have to plan waaaaay ahead. Back in early March, I booked flights for 4, non-stop ROC-MCO, at $250 per person on AirTran. The trip is in October. Southwest has a flight from BWI to PHX in October, round-trip for $216 per person. Departs late morning. That counts as a cheap flight in my book.