Zekester & Simon

Anyone else notice that an announcement log made for an event cannot be edited? The edit link is still there, and still takes you to another page, but the little pencil icon you click on to edit the log entry has a yellow exclamation mark, and the tool tip for the cursor says "edit disabled." Frustrating.

APLCachers, the geocaching club at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (the birthplace of satellite navigation) will be hosting ann event featuring a variety of seminars on various geocaching topics. More details can be found in the event listing here: GC6QTMR. Hope to see you there!

It's your TB. You can delete the bogus logs and Recalculate the distance it has traveled. Yes we can. Perhaps you should read the line after the one you quoted. It is a lot of work fix that problem on numerous TBs. Given that we've paid a couple of thousand dollars for tags over time to Groundspeak, it does not seem unreasonable to us that they could fix the problem they caused, as opposed to burdening us with it.

Don't believe that has been corrected. Mileage is all over the place, as well as the labels for places they have been. The Google map, however does not appear to show that same data. For an example, you can check the logs of this one, starting on page 11 or so: TB56CC3 I would note that this was not something which we chose to have happen to our TBs, rather it is something that others who participated in the joke forced on us by logging our TBs through the bogus caches. Many of the over three hundred TBs in our ZTB project (as well as other tbs that we own) were affected this way. While I recognize we can delete the logs, that is a lot of work for those of us who own many TBs.

Not so sure I'd see more retrieve and drop logs at the same cache, as that is more work for the discoverers, but I must admit that had not occurred to me. I do think, that it ought to be the tb owners choice as to whether or not discovery is an option for their trackables. For most trackables, discovery serves no purpose, as it does not move the to towards its goal, nor does it really establish current status, as there is no geolocation associated with that form of log.

Is there an option to make one's trackable undiscoverable? While I can see that some trackables should be discoverable (my trackable tattoo for instance, or a sticker on a car), for many other tyrackables, this option and log entry serves hop real purpose and is an annoyance to the TB owner. Discoveries at major events can result in hundreds of email notifications. I think what most TB owners want os for their TBs to move from cache to cache. It should be the TB owner's option as to whether discovery is a an available log type to those who encounter their trackables, but I can't seem to find a way to turn this off. The only thing I have found is "local" which prevents ANY logs. Can't understand why anyone would want to do that, misses the point of putting the trackable out there.

The introduced lock feature totally misses the point for us. While I welcome the ability to remove a TB from the game by locking it, I doubt I'd ever do that. What I want is the ability to prevent discover logs for each of my TBs. the lock feature is not a solution to the problem, it is an admission that Groundspeak does not care to deal with it.

What we were hoping for was a means to prevent the possibility of discovery logs, while still leaving our TBs in play. This tool is useless for that purpose. The folks who paid Groundspeak Money for the trackable number are not given control for how that item gets used in the game. The folks who paid nothing and log discoveries get to do what they want. Utter failure to deal appropriately with the problem.

I guess we are off topic for this forum then. Not nearly as concerned about a means to filter "false" from "true" discovery logs as we are about a means to eliminate discover logs completely. Our opinion has changed over time, we have trackable name tags and a variety of other paraphenalia that is really meant for discovery only (Z is better off if you don't grab his tattoo and stick it in a cache), but at this point, as far as we are concerned, all discovery logs are invalid, as they do not move the TB towards its goal. If the goal is discovery only (like a tattoo or car sticker, as examples) then the ability of the TB owner to turn that feature on or off as they desire for each of their trackables accommodates both use cases.

We have a project involving hundreds of TBs so we are very much aware of the nuisance caused when a number of them appear at mega events, or on circulating lists, etc. Think we have a different view than most of you. We are not really interested in a solution that helps 80/20 or 100% get rid of FALSE discovery logs. What we'd like is a means by which we could turn discovery off completely for our trackables. It is our view that discovery serves no useful purpose whatsoever for a travel bug owner, who wants their bug to MOVE. That being said, if there are those who do care, they could leave discovery turned on, and maybe some of the solutions proposed here could be implemented for them. But we think the TB owner should have the option of whether or not the option to discover appears in the logging menu at all for their bugs. That would give us the level of control we desire.

APLCachers, the geocaching club at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (the birthplace of satellite navigation) will be hosting ann event featuring a variety of seminars on various geocaching topics. More details can be found in the event listing here: Geo Symposium 2015. Hope to see you there!

We've found it quite useful to schedule an event in an area where we know we'll be at a specific time. In America, Panera's work well, as they have free WiFi, and menu choices that appeal to most, and are pay-as-you-go, with no wait staff. In your event description make clear that you are from out of town, looking for recommendations on hides to search for from local cachers, and hoping to meat locals who may have hidden some of the hides you have searched for while you were there. We have thad great success with this, hope you do to.

Yeah, but I don't really see the difference between that and a cache that is located in a park that is only available between certain hours.

I'm probably missing something basic, but it is hidden at the posted coordinates, and it has a container and a log. Isn't that a traditional?

In reference to # 8, we have encountered more than one cache listing that has this requirement. Here's one example: GC12MEM

Not sure how I'd know if the ratings had been changed, but if changing the ratings changes my statistics, that explains it. Thanks!

Nope. Some travel bugs ARE zombies. Your attention is drawn to: Zombie Travel Bug Tracker

There are caches that I have found with specific D/T ratings that I do not get credit for in the D/T grid when I look at my statistics. The statistics are updated minutes ago, the caches have been logged either months or more ago. How do i get this corrected?

Guess I wasn't clear, I meant the order of caches logged on any given day. Don't care about milestones. I was afraid delete and re-enter was the case, that sucks.

I would like to know if there is a way to change the order in which caches were logged, short of delaying and re-entering them.

Find it interesting that Groundspeak decided to allow this cache which has moving coordinates, and no log, but archived and locked this one: International Space Station

Three of our travel bugs were recently dropped at Groundspeak HQ. While we were extremely pleased that they made it out there from the east coast, no photos were taken. Any chance any of you locals could drop by and snag a few photos of them there? Here's the data on the TBs in question: Patient # 40 - Zoe Patient # 41 - Jack Patient # 43 - Edna They should be relatively easy to identify, as there are photos of each of them on them description pages. We know that there are usually lots and lots of bugs at GC HQ, we are grateful for any assistance any of you may be able to provide! Happy hunting - r/ Z&S

There is a virtual cache at Mile Marker Zero at the south end of the white house lawn (GC2E52). Good spot for a photo opportunity, and you can run through TB through the virt (just select visited). There are two other virts close by one of which my be a nice photo opportunity at this time of year. Where it our bug, we'd certainly be grateful if you contacted us and asked us what to do. We'd likely edit the bug page and give it a new goal, towards which you could send it. As the owners of many TBs, we'd also like to thank you for your diligence in trying to move the TB towards its goal. Hats off to you, there are too few folks like that left out there!

Particularly enjoyed this post, as it a came at a time when we are considering what our caching goals for 2013 will be. Like many others, we would likely be considered hybrid cachers. While we don't like to think of ourselves as numbers hounds, (1400 some odd finds in about 8 years of caching), we do go after some goofy stats sometimes. We've almost filled in the calendar, but we only started looking at that this year; not at all interested in making caching a daily grind. We love virtuals and earth caches. We take no pleasure in puzzle caches where we have to figure out the coordinates; for us the joy is in finding the hide, not finding the coordinates of it. We certainly enjoy a good hike. Would also note that as caching has changed over time, perhaps we have too. We have no real interest in finding repetitive hides of the sort we have done before; that being said, another tupperware under a log in the woods is always something new for us because of the hike. A guard rail may be if there was a worthwhile drive to get to it; a light post, not so much. To be clear, we are not passing judgement on anyone else here, just illuminating what appeals to us. As we think about what we've done and where our goals are headed, I'd say we are geographic cachers. We keep some radius around the house clear and try to expand it. We have completed the ADC challenge for our home county, and the DeLorme challenge for our home state. We have cached in all but two of the states on our home country. Where are we headed in 2013? We hope to become more socially involved with our local caching crowd - we'll host an event every month, try to participate in the upcoming Maryland Municipal Trail, and the Cache Across Maryland Events. Hopefully we'll make it out to either Montana or Alaska to snag one of those two states. We hope to attend a mega-event, which we have never done. Help a few more bugs on their way in their adventures. Knock out the rest of the earth caches and virtuals we have not yet done in Maryland, and do spend some more time in D.C. But our biggest goal for the upcoming year is to give back some of the joy we've gotten from this fine hobby. We are already working on a variety of quality hides which we hope will provide some joy to our fellow cachers.

We concur. That is one of the reasons we started using geocoins with holes drilled through them for TB tags. Another alternative is blank dog tags (just search for "blank dog tag" under shopping in Google), which you can stamp yourself. Number and letter punch sets can be had at McMaster-Carr, just search using that term.