MartyBartfast

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Isn't that essentially the same as the current situation here? Once you stopped using the Email address it wasn't available for anyone else to use (even you). At every company I've worked for the last 30 years or so it's been a policy of not allowing re-use of usernames by different people.

I think the simple answer is "No" - in terms of "managing" caches but gpsbabel does work very well for sending /receiving data to/from the GPS. When I still used my Etrex30 I found that when putting it in mass storage mode and connecting to my Linux laptop it would appear as 2 devices, one the GPS internal storage, and the other the microSD card and I could mount and transfer to/from both. For managing caches I've used Linux for ~20 years, and in that time I've run 2 caching tools: Geoqo and Open Cache Manager, support for both of those dropped off to the point where they became impractical to stick with - I don't know whether either would even run now. I tried to run GSAK under Wine a few years ago but it had quite a few problems, though that may well have changed in the intervening years, and it should be fairly quick to setup and try. I now run GSAK in a Virtual machine running Windows 10, and that works very well, I only use that VM for GSAK and nothing else. If you "switched my computer to Ubuntu/Linux" you may find that the license from your original Windows install will be OK to use on a virtual instance and GSAK is now free, so this could be a zero cost option, just the time you need to invest in setting it up, and GSAK is way ahead of any other tool I've used in terms of its capabilities and the support from the community.

Works OK for me.

Many many years ago at a bank I worked for they had an application which had just worked for years, come the time where they needed to recompile it due to an operating system upgrade they had lost the source code, the only record they had was a hard copy printout which was a 2 foot high stack of music ruled, fan fold paper. They had to employ someone to re-type the source from the printout

Already being discussed here, it's been acknowledged as a bug but not fixed yet.

I seem to remember this being discussed before and I think (though can't be certain) that it's intentional and is something to do with privacy concerns, making it more difficult (though not impossible) to stalk someone and see where they hang out.

iPhones don't have the ANT hardware required for Chirp so no app will enable them to do Chirps. Having said that the Wireless Beacon attribute can also cover other technologies, such as regular WiFi which iPhones will be able to receive without the need for an app.

That depends on the knife and which country you're in.

But Biltema isn't a business in CZ, it's from Scandiavia. I don't expect I'd have trouble publishing a cache in the UK with "Dollar General" in a cache name, similalry I expect you'd get away with using Wetherspoons, but we wouldn't.

You won't find that word used in the US (or the UK) very widely, if at all, as it's not part of the English Language; I don't even know what it means or translates to, does it just come from the name of the Biltema store or does it have a meaning in some other language? FWFW of all the "pole" caches I've done in the UK, none of them have anything in the name to identify them as such.

But how many have you found requiring a UV light? (out of the 8,227 placed world wide), or requiring scuba gear (8,077) and there's a specific attribute for both those. FWIW I've found at least 58 pole caches (but difficult to be sure as there's no attribute to search by ), but only 1 with the Scuba attribute (which I walked to) and 3 with the UV attribute. These are fairly common in the UK, and it seems to be almost contagious such that once some appear in an area there will be others to follow, which suggests people like them, so I reckon once some get hidden in the USA more would follow and they would become more widespread over there. Having said all that I'm not sure adding a specific attribute would be worth the coding effort, particularly given outstanding issues waiting to be fixed.

On profile page beneath the DT grid click "Fill your grid again" produces a search list with 6390 matches centred on home (the UK). Click "Map these caches" and it shows this, which is no use to me as I'm right round the other side of the planet. If I drag the map around I get to see the mapped caches closest to me. I suspect this is yet another bug caused by not handling searches straddling the Greenwich Meridian. as I previously raised here I've seen this happen for other searches but haven't remembered to record exactly what other sequences have caused it, other than this particular case.

I was about to write this and the saw Bl4ckH4wkGER made some of the same points, but I'll post anyway. I think you're being pretty harsh on GS, they have had options for localised preferences for all the major stuff for years e.g. date/time format and distance units. The start week isn't something that's occurred to me to be significant enough to bother about and the only place I see it in use is the calendar for events on the profile page and it's not difficult to look across the top row at SMTWTFS and work out what day is what - or is there somewhere else the start of the week is used which is causing confusion? It's the first time I've seen anyone ask for this so I can't imagine it's a big deal for many, and as such not a priority for GS, and there are many more things I would want GS to sort out before they even think about working on this.

That wouldn't be allowed as it would be an ALR...

Mine shows logs from the past 2 days.

Follow what CAVinoGal said for updating them on the website. FWIW this isn't really something I do, the only time I edit the co-ords is when I've solved a puzzle and want to update it to the solved co-ords, or for challenge caches which I've qualified for to distinguish them for challenges I haven't qualified for, but that's about it. If I wanted to remember why a cache was particularly interesting I'd add a personal note to the cache page, but again it's not really something I do.

Me too.

FWIW you could do this now by editing the co-ords of the caches you're interested in, then their icon will change to a blue jigsaw puzzle piece, as below. Even if you edit the co-ords and set them to the same as the original co-ords it will change the icon on the map.

If you do Facebook you'd be better off asking in one of the Facebook Geocaching groups, if there's nobody who knows it from personal experience then there are revewers on there who will be able to look it up and let you know. this would be a good one to start with: https://www.facebook.com/groups/geocachinguk

But then again Groundspeak wrote the rules, they can rewrite/bend/ignore them if they want (and there's enough demand), these come to mind: Reinvented the Locationless idea to release 2 new Locationless "caches". Reinstated (after a fashion) Virtuals. Reinstated a cache which had been archived for ~6 years after going missing. They already allow Mega Events to publish Lab caches with more than 5 stages. I think there's a significant demand for Webcam caches to come back in some form but they carry with them problems, not least of which is the availability of the camera being in a 3rd party's hands; perhaps allowing Webcams to be published aligned to Mega/Gigas could be one way to do it.

No they're referencing a cache listing where the original container never went missing, and was there all the time.

That actually was the case here: 3 DNFs from newbies, but no NM or NA; reviewer temp disables it because of the DNFs; a local well established cacher goes and checks and reports that it is still there; someone else goes along and finds it; reviewer archives it because the CO didn't respond. So it was there all along and shouldn't have been disabled in the first place, but then there was no response from the absentee CO so.... I doubt Groundspeak will re-enable it, 'cos they've never done that before have they? err.... https://coord.info/GC1169

Locus maps with the Geocaching-4-Locus add on does this too.

If you're using those sort of tags, or any soft metal, then punches like this would do the job - all you need to provide is a small hammer https://www.amazon.com/SWANLAKE-37-Piece-Capital-Perfect-Imprinting/dp/B07PYQSPHT/ref=sr_1_4_sspa?crid=3C5SP474N2ED4&keywords=metal+stamp&qid=1651595777&sprefix=metal+stamp%2Caps%2C263&sr=8-4-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyWUVKQ1VLVERVUjc1JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMzgwMDkxTVJZSTJQSTUwNVVRJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA5NzM5MDExNkZWSjAxOFBWSTAwJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==