dino-irl
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Wow! Tough crowd....glad we Irish are a little bit more forgiving and patient
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If I attend an event where I have spent all day hiking up a mountain and someone else turns up for a drink afterwards and claims a smiley I think it's hardly fair that we have we have not done the same type of activity to claim the smiley.
This might be taking things along a slightly different tangent and I'm not arguing with anything you say but if you do the task and get the smiley and feel great for it why should the fact that someone else only do half the task and also get it take away from what you have achieved/completed/whatever? Surely as the smiley is self-awarded then its merely self-gratification and a marker of personal achievement only. Another's smiley count shouldn't affect this
An example of this could be you and me at the recent Mourne event. You made it the whole way up the mountain and had a very significant personal achievement and that smiley means a whole lot to you. I drove 2.5hours to spend an hour talking to people in the car park before I had to go home again (against my will I might add!). My smiley is merely a marker to remind me that I was there, who I met and what happened. My lack of achievement doesn't take away from your significant one
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There's a free trial of Cachemate IIRC so might be worth trying that out for a while. I've used both and although they both had a lot to recommend and some +/- over the other I ended up using Cachemate as my preferred app
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I think the OP is referring to having as many people log a find on one of your caches as the number of found logs you have on other people's? It's also referred to as "Cache Karma" and the GSAK stats macro calculates this for you. If you check my (slightly out of date!) profile you'll see it about halfway down the stats under "Owned Cache Statistics"
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If you use Firefox as your browser, you can get "Geocaching Waypoint" in the search engine bit at the top of the page!
How do you do that please?
I use an Add-On called OpenSearchFox that allows you to add any search box from any page you want.....very useful
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Do a search here on this forum. I think it's been discussed a few times before? I don't think you can really compare the two though
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I know you're sorted but I have a Blackberry Pearl and think it's not only a great work phone but also runs CacheBerry which is basically Cachemate for a BB. Used it a couple of times now and it's great, much easier than carting around a delicate PDA especially when I'd have a phone with me anyway!
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I have a Blackberry Pearl and there's a cracker program for that called CacheBerry so the options are endless really.
If you have none of these and are starting off then a cheap Palm and GSAK are probably the best place to start
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Maybe this discussion is focusing on size too much, it's the recently increasing lack of thought and effort that goes into some hides that annoys me more. The majority of these do seem to be micros and nanos though...
I get the impression that there is a set of cachers out there that are "relatively" new to the game and full of enthusiasm. They want to contribute by placing loads of caches in places that they find interesting (but sometimes only to them!). They go prepared on a day out with 5/6 caches ready to place. Unfortunately so many caches get placed in one trip that the location isn't that well thought out, permission can be a bit "iffy", coordinates not the best, etc. To top it all off it's easier (and cheaper) to carry 5/6 micros/nanos in your pocket than ammo boxes and that's why (IMO) micro "spew" happens so much and why so many micros and nanos get bad press.
Many of these caches frustrate me as a reviewer but I get great enjoyment out of a first time placer putting loads of effort into their cache planning (regardless of size) and can share their fun when I see the great logs coming through
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Boots have at least 2,500 store managers going to a conference in Telford in October....surely I'm not the only one that's a geocacher!
Anyone else on here going too?
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The maps and GE Overlay are correct and can be found at UK & Ireland Geocaching Regions this is hosted by Croaghan the Ireland Reviewer on behalf of the UK/Ireland Reviewers.
Just an aside, I think the list of Reviewers is in urgent need of updating!
I wasn't expecting to see the link on this forum until I released it. I won't get a chance to fix and update the page either until the weekend so I guess you'll just have bear with it for a while!
All sorted now
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The maps and GE Overlay are correct and can be found at UK & Ireland Geocaching Regions this is hosted by Croaghan the Ireland Reviewer on behalf of the UK/Ireland Reviewers.
Just an aside, I think the list of Reviewers is in urgent need of updating!
I wasn't expecting to see the link on this forum until I released it. I won't get a chance to fix and update the page either until the weekend so I guess you'll just have bear with it for a while!
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Any marked trails in the area, signposts etc. Chances are the NT may know if they share a border? If in doubt ask someone living nearby
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Everyone's forgetting Mapsource. The basic maps come with all Garmins and you can pick up some decent bargains on eBay. Metroguide V8 or V9 is a good one to have and they're not expensive. Also in the UK there's a Topo version which some/many people find good.
Memory Map is obviously the best but will cost a lot of money unless you know a guy with a wooden leg and a parrot
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An explanation from Groundspeak would be rather nice* at this point
Groundspeak is archiving this geocache due to a complaint from the local authorities.Surely that's a good enough explanation for anyone? GC.com has obviously been contacted directly by someone official and they've responded to their wishes.
Oh and just because a cache is archived doesn't mean that it can't be reactivated
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According to GSAK, my centroid is just south of the Isle of Man (in the Irish Sea). This is a somewhat strange as I have only found 52 caches north of these coordinates and 1001 south of them. I would love someone to explain how this can possibly be correct as some of the 1001 are a lot south of the coordinates and none of the 52 are very much north of them.
On the main subject, I think it's an excellent idea to cache by trying to manipulate your cache centroid! Like cricket, caching is heaven for stats lovers!
I'd not taken much notice of my centroid before this posting, but I've just had a look and plotted it on a world map. It is 747 miles NW of my house, about mid-way(ish) between Devon and Iceland at N57, W17.
This is confusing though, as I have never cached north of N56 before, and found almost 500 caches (a little bit under 20% of my total finds) in Los Angeles one week at N33, W118. I have also cached in Australia and have a handful at S33, E151. About 2200 caches are within a few degrees of N50, W2 near my home.
So, with all these "well south of N57" caches that I have found, how can my Centroid be at N57? I'm sure a mathematician may come forward and explain it in terms that the Wiki link failed to explain to me. Is it to do with the sphere that we live on? Gut instinct tells me that it would be somewhere near N44, W23.
Now who's sad?
Any chance you guys have some Locationless Caches in your database?
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Which waypoint is it? I assume it's this cache you mean:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...88e7e&log=y
Just to clarify you need to click edit beside the waypoint you want to delete
Scroll down and click "Remove Waypoint"
That should do it and I've just tested it on a cache of mine.
If all else fails you could just hide it so that only you and admins can see it
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So to clear this up: I won't receive emails relating to caches I've bookmarked or am watching providing I write the log, but I'll still get them if someone else logs them? To me that's the whole point of bookmarks, so you can get info about caches.
All correct
Except I'm not getting any emails at all.That's a whole other problem and not related to the above discussion. When tyhis happens to people it's usually as a result of an ISP issue (but not always).
Who do you use for email?
Have you tried using a different email address? GMail never seems to cause problems for people.
Is it only for GC.com and if not do you receive emails from other people?
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AFAIK in general you won't receive a copy of a log that you have written to any cache that own, is own your watchlist or on one of your Bookmark Lists.
What's the point anyway...you know what you wrote and all you'll end up doing is deleting it.
Sorry to disagree, but, up until the log I did last night, I always received an email of my own log of a watched cache, and always receive an email if I post a note on one of my own log. I have just tested the system by putting a test note on one of my caches - no email.
Makes sense and saves server bandwidth.
It's a recent change and I think it's linked to the last code change. Up until then all logs were sent out as you describe. I should have made that clearer in my reply
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AFAIK in general you won't receive a copy of a log that you have written to any cache that own, is own your watchlist or on one of your Bookmark Lists.
What's the point anyway...you know what you wrote and all you'll end up doing is deleting it.
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What's wrong with the UK and Ireland county map on INATN.com?
I think that's perfect for something like this, especially when there is so much crossover between the two geographic areas. Also you may find that a lot of the work has already been done for you.
Oh and as an advanced warning, the Northern Ireland can of worms you may be about to open is HUGE!
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I don't believe that there is a proximity limit for earthcaches, not sure for virtuals though.
Last time I thought about it seriously the proximity guideline only applied to physical stages of separate caches.
And that still hasn't changed so Earth Caches, Event Caches, Virtual Caches and virtual stages of Multi-Caches (Reference Points, Questions to Answer) etc aren't counted in proximity searches. Only Traditionals, Final Locations and Stages of a Multi-Cache (SoaMs*) can prevent a nearby placement.
This section of the guidelines covers it: http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#sat
*SoaMs should only be used if there is an actual container at the location say with a puzzle, hint or coordinates of the next stage/final
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