RaNa2009

I have to disagree - they are a fantastic idea! The problem is to find the right offical person responsible for the airport and getting the approval from him. But it is possible, as we have proved at Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS). A manager of the airport was very open minded when we talked to him about a travel bug hotel right inside the airport departure hall. He made it all possible. The cache DUS International TB-Hotel was published in August last year and received a lot of attention. People love it and lots of TBs are traded. Here is a short video, used as an additional guide to find the cache: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUDEPO1ODFI The cache is a big, solid metal box, right in the open - all relevant airport employees know about it. So my advice is: Try it! Find the right person and just ask. This might even work with "paranoid" US officials

We have a series here in Düsseldorf, Germany. 29 Caches, in the top ten, all caches are way above 50%: Overall the series has about 3600 'Found it' logs and gained over 1500 FPs in less than 60 days. So yes, given a relevant number of finds, a high percentage of gained FPs seems to be a good indicator for a good cache.

The owner of the bookmark list (FluteFace) and Sandy from Podcacher.com have resolved this issue: So happy flashmobbing, enjoy your souvenir and have fun - as we will on our side of the world Greets, RaNa2009

I contacted the owner of the bookmark list about this, let's see...

No need to worry this year! Sandy from the Podcacher Teams (Organizers of the WWFM Events) cleared that up in this post. Nice. BTW: if you happen to be in Germany on the 4th of May... why not try this WWFM Event: GC44DYM Greets, RaNa2009

Not far from where I live, there's a very nice, and pretty much unknown, park along a very pretty creek. One of the first caches I ever found was in that park. About a year and a half ago, a new two-stage multi cache was hidden in the park. I found the first stage fairly quickly, but knew something was amiss as soon as I arrived at GZ for the final stage. I found an item that was alluded to in the hint, but no cache container. It was fairly obvious that the cache itself was missing. I logged my DNF, and sent a private message to the CO giving them the details about what I'd found. Since I live less than a mile from the park, I also offered to replace the final stage if it was OK with the CO. I got permission, replaced the cache, and was thanked by the CO for my help. There was no way I could claim a Find on that cache; as far as I'm concerned, it's illogical for me to find something when I was the one who hid it. But the cache kept appearing in my pocket queries, taunting me. I decided to add it to my Ignore List. Since I now had an indirect stake in the cache, I also added it to one of my Bookmark Lists called "Monitored Caches". It's been fun to read the logs of recent finders. This way, the cache doesn't appear in lists of caches I want to find, but I can keep up with the latest activity. After another year or so, a cacher logged a DNF, stating in her log that she wasn't able to find Stage 1. Stage 1 is supposed to be easy, so I checked things out, and learned that the first stage is gone now. I once again sent the CO a private message and offered to help, but this time I got no reply. I added a Needs Maintenance log in hopes that that would spur the CO to take action. Sadly, after my NM log and several DNFs, one of the local reviewers has disabled the cache. I'm still hoping the CO will do something (they logged into the site yesterday, so they're still around), but it's not looking good. It would be easy for me to replace the Stage 1 cache, but I won't without the CO's permission. --Larry Which IMHO proves my point: throw downs are evil. It's tempting, I can understand that - if you do it for the smiley on the map (if you do it for the +1 on your find count it's pathetic). But it's a short term solution with problems all over. You teach the owner the wrong lesson. "Hey, I don't need to maintain my cache. At some point, someone will place a throw down." You never can be sure, that the cache is really missing. Chances are we now have two containers in place. I don't even want to think about consequences regarding logged in TBs.... Somewhen the logbook will need to be replaced - who is going to do that? It may take some time, but logging a NA after the usual series of DNFs and NM logs is the proper solution. Either the owner will maintain his cache and you can legitimately find it or the cache is archived, it will not haunt you anymore and there is room for a new one. The universe is watching us and will slap us all in the face if we try to trick it. Just my two cents...

I'm not going to post a NA on a cache just because i can't find it. I wouldn't do it even if i somehow know for a fact that it was missing. Imo, a NM log would be the first step. A NA can be posted at a later time if need be. Of cause not. But you would not replace the cache just because you can't find it either, wouldn't you? Of cause I meant before you feel the urge to replace the cache: Don't. It's not yours. If the owner hasn't maintained it until then, he most probably will not maintain your throwdown. Post a NA. Again: Problem solved.

Easy. Do not replace a cache that you do not own. Never. Post a NA. Problem solved.

Yes - what's confusing me is that it appears it doesn't do that for other people. Maybe I need to make my original article clearer actually... For me it works on my Mac (Safari and Firefox) as described: Without loc: With loc:

You may enter coords in the usual format like N37 48.639 W122 25.468 into the search field from Google Maps. BUT Google Maps will focus on what it thinks is the next legitimate adress. If you place loc: in front, it works as expected try it out: N37 48.542 W122 25.445 loc: N37 48.542 W122 25.445 Might be helpful to know... Greetings from Germany, RaNa2009

- click on your iPhone on the left under "Devices" - click on the tab "Apps" on the top on the right side of the screen - scroll down to find the lists "Apps" and "Documents" - click on "Wherigo" in the "Apps" list - the Documents list should show the documents of "Wherigo" and you can add your cartridge from there Good luck again!

You can download the cartridge to the iPhone using iTunes. PiGo (or Wherigo, as the app is now called) allows that. Choose the phone in iTunes and select the applications tab in iTunes. Each app has a Documents folder, where you can put your cartridge from your computers harddrive. Good Luck and Greetings from Germany!

Yeah, thats frustrating. Do this: Klick with the right button somewhere on the map to bring up a context menu. With the menu still open, klick with the left button on the little man to drag him around as usual...

..oops, just found the answer myself: In the menu "View" there entries to view User functions and User directives. Under User functions general purpose functions can be defined in LUA code. But what is the difference to "User directives"? Anyone?

I am using Urwigo, which is great (thanks to the creator!). I am currently searching a way to define author functions (as it called in the original builder). Where and how can I define subroutines of user code in Urwigo, that I may call from anywhere in the code? Thanks for the input, RaNa2009