Mark+Karen
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50 miles from home is usually around an hours driving on good roads, so I don't see that as an issue at all.
I just got a cache published 66 miles from home, but then I work across the road from where I placed the cache, so that wasn't an issue either.
One good way of demonstrating to the reviewer that you are capable of travelling up to 100 miles away from home is to get out and find a load of caches in that sort of area.
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Heya guys, I'm based on in the UK and from what I'm reading, isn't this Criminal Damage? Not sure what the offence is called in the States (destruction of property?)
Yes, it's criminal damage. As even though you've put the cache out in public, it remains your property the same way as something in your house, and you can be guilty of theft or criminal damage just the same.
Maybe if he's doing this often the police could be informed. They would have the power to seek this idiots details from Ground Speak and make an arrest.
While you could tell the police, would they be interested? They will have better things to do than trying to catch someone stealing caches.
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The cache owners made a very informative post over on the Yorkshire Geocaching site.
http://www.yorkshiregeocaching.co.uk/index...w/id,9535/#9665
Very informative indeed, thanks.
Interesting the advice that "I'm just out for a walk" and not to mention geocaching. I can somewhat see the point there, no point in letting everyone know what you're up to.
A thought did spring to mind, if you're going to create a large cache series such as this, to also produce a leaflet which describes the entire route as a walk - no mention of caches! Then if residents are really curious they'll see the increased foot traffic is because they are now on a recommended walking route...
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ok thanks people for your input it has made some useful reading,i do use an iphone 4 which i find is very accurate compared with my 3gs. when planting new caches tho i use google maps for a more accurate placement. maybe one day i will justify paying a subscription but until then ill carry on the way i am.
once again thanks for everyone's input
Groundspeaks guidelines do say that caches should be placed with a GPS receiver - rightly or wrongly.
Having said that I've placed three caches now with my iPhone 4 and after getting the coords from the phone and putting them in google maps they are both in agreement, so I think you'd be fine just using your iPhone for cache placement.
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OK, I have my GPS (Garmin eTrex Legend) loaded up with a few geocaches and I'm ready to set off for my first hunt. Using the GPS is simple enough and I'm sure it will take me to within a few meters of each cache. However, do you guys also take a printout of the clues as to where each cache is or just look in places where you 'think' the cache might be when you get there?
Thanks
The description and the hint are always very useful IMO. Some prefer to do without the hint unless they get stuck, each to their own.
But I find that I did need a printout of the information when I was at the cache site, but now I have the iPhone app so I don't need it.
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after a lot more hard work by Barry'n'Shirley...
Ah cool! They were 2nd to find on a cache I placed yesterday
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What about caches which you've previously found and you *know* where the real hiding place is? But walk past and find it's not in the correct place?
I found a similar one with a nano a couple of days ago, but I couldn't put it back where it was supposed to be since the magnet seems to have failed / gone missing.
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When you know without checking when a location is within a 0.1 mile radius or not.
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Don't listen to him,
Nobody does, after all
Just my humble opinions.
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Please don't hide nanos. They are not geocaches. That's some other game.
Am I the only person who actually *likes* nanos?! Sure tupperware / ammo boxes are good, but I like searching for tiny caches hidden in plain sight.
The best ones are where you can walk by the cache location and see it sitting there and yet nobody else can!
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+1, and keep in mind that smart cachers will poke into unseen areas with a stick to avoid getting bitten or stung by critters who might be hiding there.
My wife says that one of the tell tale signs that you are close to the cache location is that there will always be a "pokey stick" lying around!
There aren't really and hard and fast rules but I would advise that a nano should be placed where muggles are very unlikely to see it, but a cacher if they look in the right places, should be able to see it. i.e. They shouldn't have to feel around in places out of sight in order to retrieve the cache, but they could look around the back of a fence post, for example.
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The sad thing is, nothing will really stop this person. Even if you contact Groundspeak, and they delete his account.
Not much you can do, unless you go out to a cache and wait for him.
Eventually this person will get bored.
It may be possible however for Groundspeak to block their IP if its static, like a cable modem. Then they wouldn't be able to get on the site.
Just like it's impossible to stop someone joining a forum if they are determined enough, there's not a lot you can do, if he wants to go and destroy caches
.PS. I'm sure this person is jolly nice and we should all show him the respect he deserves...
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I just discovered the York Mega series last night and following the loop of caches around it appears to be only half done, but a log on the final cache talks about the entire series possibly being archived due to complaints from local residents? Does anyone know what this is about? I did think it would be great to do the lot, but don't want the rug pulled when I'm half way through!
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My two in Chester-le-Street are still awaiting a FTF
But I put one in York yesterday and it was published last night and I got a FTF within about an hour! In fact I had two people racing to get to it first!
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ok so i have to pay a subscription :-( i bought the full app for my iphone now i have to pay more ,a bit of a con in my opinion but hey each to their own i guess.
i would pay but imo i think it takes far to long to get a cache published and there is not enough benefits for paying.
i just payed £5.99 for the app and altho i really enjoy the game i cant help but think that every thing is just money money money,i just wanted a simple game to get the kids and myself out.
Nobody is forcing you to pay any extra money. If you want to be FTF on caches then the notifications are important, but FTF is a very small part of geocaching IMO and completely unnecessary to your stated aim of getting you and the kids outside.
New caches are generally published in the evenings - reviewers are volunteers and are often at work during the day. So FTF hunting will often involve going out in the late evening when it's dark and cold. It's something best left to the hardcore cachers!
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Actually I'm worrying about it not being found for a day. I just think that caching isn't massively popular here, I've looked at the logs for some of the local ones and they sometimes go months between posted finds!
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A TB Hotel would need to be big enough to accommodate several TBs and would generally be located in a position near to good travel links,
And presumably would have to be in quite a secure location that the CO would be sure that it wouldn't get muggled.
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Regardless of the time it would take to up/download, that would be a massive dent on a 3G allocation from a provider!
Not really, you just have to make sure you do it while on wifi.
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Hiya guys, I have been looking to log caches via SMS, and have come across
http://coord.info/textmarks.aspx
I have however not been successfull. I send the SMS to 41411, and my phone will not send the SMS. I have tried to sms other numbers and it is not the phone.
Has anyone else had problems with this. Or can we not use this in the UK
Cheers
Andy
Unless it specifically says it's for the UK then I would be almost certain you can't use it in the UK.
Unfortunately those in the USA have a habit of not considering that there are people in other countries too!
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It's not so much the phone's physical capacity, it's the apps I'm thinking about. Having the big file isn't a problem, lots of folks on here already have the whole of the UK in GSAK. It's having something that will handle it and present the data in a meaningful way. Memory Map and HTML files per geocache? Memory Map & Cachemate? Anyone know what record/waypoint limits they have?
Well; I wasn't thinking about the likes of memory map, although that could possibly work. But more like the Geocaching iPhone application where the normal function is that you "Search for nearby caches" and it interrogates Groundspeak's servers to pull out the caches nearest to you.
I would envisage it working in the same manner except that it would pull the caches out of the database stored on the phone instead.
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Just browsing through some nearby caches and I came across a travel bug hotel.
Which curiously had this line in the description "ONLY TAKE A TRAVEL BUG IF YOU HAVE ONE TO DROP OFF"
I'd thought having such a requirement was against the rules?
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Hmm... I'm not convinced the current mobile apps would handle a file of that size - maybe someone who's got the whole of the UK in GSAK could advise if they've tried exporting somethng that size to a mobile app?
As I've said a single file of that size, well no, it would be too big to search through serially. But you just need to organise it into some sort of database format, which can be searched by location and it can be any size you like.
As I say, TomTom comes in at 2Gb, and mobiles can handle it with ease.
Don't underestimate the power of modern phones, they are of the level of desktop computers from just a few years ago.
Obviously if you included *everything* such as photos, satellite images, map squares etc, it would push the requirements way out of what's possible, but if you just have the basic description, hint, and a few logs, then no problem at all.
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According to iCache when it was around a few months back, a full Uk PQ was 288Mb unzipped! That's one hell of a GPX file to parse!
288Mb, is that all? As I say, it's nothing.
My phone has a capacity of 32Gb.
The TomTom application takes 3Gb.
The UK maps take 2Gb.
Sure, you won't want to be storing that just as a flat file, you'll want some database infrastructure behind it to enable things to be retrieved quickly, but even if that doubles the size that's still only 600Mb-ish. I wouldn't even notice that space being taken on my phone.
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Go on then... Have a guess at how big a Pocket Query it would be for the whole of the Uk! And let me know how much free space you have on your phone too.
Well that would be difficult without two basic bits of information. Namely, the number of caches in the UK, and the average size of each of the entries. We'll assume for the moment they just contain the basic information, no photos etc.
Why do some areas have so few geocache trails/circuits?
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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I would concur!
I did caching in the Lakes as part of my Stag party!
Planning to go back later in the year with my wife to solve the DNFs!