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I'd also like to hear the answer to this. I had an idea for a app that would use the API, but if there's no way to implement it legitimately I won't bother. Is there someone from Groundspeak who can comment on whether they have any plans to open up API access again?

The API license agreement is still online. I haven't reviewed it in detail, but I don't see any indication that they charge for API access. The business model seems to be to encourage users to buy premium memberships by limiting access for basic users. Note that the API partners page includes open source apps, and the c:geo FAQ entry quoted above indicates that their objection to using the API is mostly that their users would have to buy premium memberships in order to continue using c:geo. Cachebox is an open source mobile application that uses the GC API. They do ask for donations (as do many open source projects). I don't know if they embed advertising. Jim

Discovering new places and sharing with others! (We were recently on vacation and took the hosts of the B&B we stayed at caching in their town. It was wonderful showing them something they didn't know about in their town.) Meeting other cachers, but most especially caching with friends. The challenge of getting to the cache The challenge of the final find (I love puzzle caches) Statistics and numbers (working on a streak, 65 days and counting!) Swag (I always leave something, because I wouldn't want to disappoint kiddo's) Travelbugs and trackables

I would take my nieces and nephews when they were younger, they always said "Auntie Anne, your stuff is so much nicer than what is in there, can we trade for that?" I still always bring something I think a kid would like and always leave something. In five years of caching I've probably 'traded' for less than 10 things (they were cool tho! I'm packing my swag bag for vacation with patriotic things and bandannas. In the spring I put flower and vegetable seeds in caches and it's sometimes the first time kids have planted radishes or pumpkins or marigolds. Keep putting in swag, it's good for the kids and kids in all of us! Happy Caching. Anne

I'm a visiting nurse (hospice), and don't usually take the lunch break they don't pay me for...so if there is a nearby cache, I go for it. This afternoon I was in a different area seeing another nurse's patient and it was still light, so did a cache before heading back to the office, worked later but don't punch a clock, so it works. I got a coworker addicted, who said to me the other day "I did two quickies at lunch", I told him that was WAY too much information. Unfortunately I have most of my area cached, so need a new work territory for my patients!

I was looking through the forums for a template for the 50 state card, haven't found it. If you have, can you send me the link? thanks. Anne

I also like cemeteries and cemetery caches. It's never a quick, sign the log and leave for me. I look at dates and say aloud names when I walk in cemeteries. Perhaps it is the first time that name has been uttered in 200 years. When you think about it, what an amazing thing that verbalization then connects them to me and to our world. I found someone who was born 100 years before me and 200 years before me. I think of what life was like in those days and grieve a mother's loss of a child, even 100 years later. I taught my boys to ride their bikes in our little cemetery, when it was quiet and hoped they would bring joy if souls were about. I am a hospice nurse and deal with death and dying every day. Young children cannot always be sheltered from the reality of life and death. I encourage my patients to have a stone with their name, so that a hundred years from now, they will be remembered and named, maybe by a geocacher:) Anne PS. I don't like lamp post micro's...but that's another story. But lots of other people do.

done, tho Mr. Scarhill is in another catagory

Hospice RN, maybe that's why I like cemetery caches so much Being a home care nurse sometimes I can do a quick cache between patients! Almost 30 years a nurse, how could I be that old?? Taken some nurse friends out with me, we have fun hiking and chatting and they like caching with me.

I love cemetery caches. My favorite is in Valhalla, NY http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...a0-791883d7dc18 Even if I am a Red Sox fan. Plus if you read the log page, after this cache you can go down the road and see Lou Gehrig's grave. These cemeteries have very famous people buried here among them, Ann Bancroft, Tommy Dorsey, Danny Kaye and Sal Mineo. If you're really into cemeteries there is a good web site http://www.findagrave.com/index.html where you can look up famous and not so famous people. Lot's of stories in every cemetery.

When printer friendly changed a few weeks ago, I started using the "2 pages per sheet" printer option and could get at least a few logs on. I always specify print one page only. I did need my bifocals to read it tho. I also print in black and white and use the back side of scrap paper with local caches. When I'm away I double side print caches. Now with more new changes, I can't figure out how to use print friendly AND get last five logs. What am I missing?

Walmart sells 99 cent plastic orange vests and 99 cent orange knit hats. I buy a bunch of both and put them in caches, as well as wear when I am out. Cheap insurance.