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Hey guys.... Something that will increase the quality of the stats: http://feedback.geocaching.com/forums/75775-geocaching-com/suggestions/2143349-everyone-has-a-favorite-point- Please add some votes to the system if you agree with my suggestion. Thanks.

(Not sure what the rules are here.... sorry... Are we allowed to Google things?) >>>>>>>>>>>>>> (edited) My bad guys... Forget I wrote anything...

Soz guys....just looked at the first post "No Googling"

Hahahahahaha Trevor... I loved that game! Treasure what little time remains of your lives. Somebody set up us the bomb! Hahahaha

@MadSons... I think we exist on opposite ends of the spectrum! I have spent hundreds of hours working on 5 caches! Only now am I actually getting the bugs worked out of them so they are robust enough to be handled by rough geocacher hands! But I too call myself addicted to geocaching - Illustrating all to well that people seek to advance the game in different ways. I respect the effort that must have gone into the GPS and I'm sure placing it must have been fun. I personally don't like the idea of a power trail -- but now that I write this I can't think of any good reason to justify why such a thing should not be allowed.... My personal feelings are this: Perhaps it is just because the vast majority of cachers don't like the power trail idea, and that the introduction of such a thing creates a great disturbance to the existing virtual geocaching order of things: There are people who love processing stats and flip there will be major disturbance there... There is a general understanding of how experienced a cacher is, and how much super-cool they are based on their number of finds (which is now really valueless if such a massive power series exists)... Those who don't like power trails will have to endure the green symbols on their previously conquered map... (my main reason) Those who are in Gauteng are inflating their finds but these numbers will now be considered less valuable... Ultimately there is a component to geocaching which is numbers... but just like currency, value is determined by relative scarcity. What a power series does in my opinion is the equivalent of printing money - Something the German's tried once - The find has less value, the log has less value... A bitter taste in the mouths of a great many more cachers than smiles on the faces of others. This said... You have every right to place a power trail. And the trail you guys placed is nothing short of epic!

Ok my new mission: Come out in one of Danie's statistics...

Thanks for the link MnCo... It does however just suggest a new icon for a subtly different flavor of a mystery cache. I mad a suggestion for an entirely unique challenge cache - as described above - and posted it on the suggestions board: http://feedback.geocaching.com/forums/75775-geocaching-com/suggestions/2039841-challenge-cache-as-a-completely-unique-cache-type If you like the idea above please cast some votes - three votes is a good number ***P.S. Re-installed Testing your Chemistry last night - it is in the publication queue again...

While undertaking Frodo's Journey with Zambesiboy and company I discovered that other local cachers have also pondered the idea of a challenge cache! Although I doubt such a radical addition would be embraced by GC.com I think a discussion could be fun (and perhaps yield something in future)... A challenge cache, perhaps the symbol could be a trophy, would be a physical cache hidden in the vicinity of the listing location (something like a mystery cache), the exact coordinates to which you are only able to unlock once you have found caches which meet certain statistical criteria... Those who design a challenge cache would have some tools with which to define the criteria for challenge. Some examples: 1) A demarcated area - find x number of caches in Table Mountain National Park - The CO would use a tool to draw a line around the park. 2) Number of caches per unit time - find more than 5 caches within the center of Cape Town in 24 hours - CO would specify the center of Cape Town and a radius... 3) Altitude - Find the 5 highest caches in the Western Cape - Altitudes for each cache could be read off the Google Terrain map and used for these statistics 4) Complete the Shipwreck Series - CO can specify specific caches which must be completed to unlock the challenge I'm sure more can be thought of... How the interface could look: You see a challenge cache listed on the map in a location you are willing to visit (as with a mystery cache)... The criteria for the cache are displayed, and perhaps even your progress towards completion of the challenge. E.g You have found 14 of 92 in the Shipwreck Series (4 disabled)... The statistics generating capabilities of the site are displayed on many cachers' profile pages already! When you have met the criteria it would unlock the cache which could be any of the cache types... Possible problems: You would need to use the caches placed by others to satisfy your challenge criteria... If a cache were to be disabled it could perhaps just fall away from the criteria? / or the challenge could be disabled? The tools may be difficult to use... Ok this is all I have thought of....

Um....although it HAS become fashionable to walk down the mountain using ones cellphones as a light source, the plan IS to be back using light provided by nature. Cellphone light charged.... on our way!

Count us in.... on the road now...

When it came time for the Fellowship to leave Rivendel it was Elrond Half-Elven who said, "Do not make a man swear to walk in the dark until he has seen nightfall"... We have booked ourselves for 7pm in Table View... Is the plan to be down before sunset?

Awesome thanks for posting the link...

Hi there guys... I am sure that the number of favorite points for each cache would make a good addition to pocket queries... This would make for a wave of interesting number over at Statistics - Bend it any way you like! Is there any news as to whether this is going to happen?

Hi guys... Some of you will have found my caches - not a great number - but I absolutely love reading the logs and knowing that I am both frustrating people and bringing joy... I have plans to upgrade Earth and Fire and plans to re-install Water in the near future... Give the whole lot 2 months tops! I have 3 new caches in mind, and some almost in mind... And now I seek a novel series / a way to extend the Earth, Air, Fire, Water theme... Any suggestions welcome. (If you haven't found any of my caches there is an easy way to remedy that )

Thanks - I have sent them an email inquiring as to whether they offer static maps and as if they will offer a free service for geocaching purposes... ***Hopes...

Hi guys... I have initiated another similar thread but I wish to start this one with the sole intention of finding a solution to publishing a map on a cache listing. I have consulted a reviewer and they have advised me to design a listing and then describe my vision to geocaching.com to decide on its legality in terms of the rules... So let us not discuss the rules of cache placement here. I wish to know if anyone can assist me with the problem below: I have a GPS enabled cellphone, a fancy power supply and a pirate ship themed ferry boat. I wish to display a map of where the pirate ship is at all times. The ship ferries people from one harbor to another (on the other side of a peninsula) and then another two further along the coast. One will need to board the pirate ship to obtain clues / to unlock levels on a Wherigo type cache (haven't decided)... Problems: Geocaching.com does not allow dynamic maps on in a cache listing; they also do not allow links to outside sites which hold info used to locate a cache. So hence I need a means on displaying minute to minute (preferably 30sec updates) changes in the location of the ship. This is an example of a static map by blogloc: http://www.doceave.com/geocache/ What would be ideal is an online service that specializes in vehicle tracking and can display a static map -- heading, speed etc ***Instamapper.com - looks awesome! Free and they also allow access to their API (I have no coding skills) Perhaps someone could write a simple code that can display a 400x400 pixel Google/Yahoo static map showing location at zoom level 17? (something not unlike what geocaching.com has on every geocache listing on the right beneath the navigation menu - but at greater zoom) I think my problem is clear Please if anyone could assist with this they would be pivotal in the creation of a most awesome cache!

How does this sound? The cache is listed as an unknown, the final is hidden on land and an intermediate cache with the final coords is found on board the ferry. This way a final waypoint can be defined.

Sounds like a fun one. You need to ask your local reviewer nicely, since it's a very special deal, and in many cases wouldn't get approved. You'll need to think it through, and have a plan in place (say, if they change boats for some reason). If you operate that ferry, or ride it every day, at least everyone knows you're checking to be sure all is well. Good luck. There is a geocache on the international space station! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gc1be91 Rules are rules!

I wish to have it hidden on a ferry boat... Tickets are inexpensive and the ferry moves between 3 ports around the Cape Peninsula. There is a convenient spot on board to hide the cache... One would use the map to locate the ferry... Legal you think?

Mmmm... Planning a hide on a vehicle... Need greater zoom... A link to an outside page which hosts the dynamic map? Dirty method but can you think of anything more elegant?

Do you know of a service that can generate static maps at greater zoom?

The problem with the static blogloc is the zoom level... If I cannot have a dynamic map then I will need at least three static maps at different levels of zoom.

Hi guys... I wish to make a live map appear in a geocache listing. This is the code I wish to use. Is there a way to make geocaching.com accept and display the map? Thanks <iframe src="http://geekvault.no5.at/blogloc/gmap.jsp?user=doceave" width="320" height="190" frameborder="0"> </iframe>

Released much adrenaline while placing this cache... I'm going through a withdrawal now! Gonna have to think up another mad cache. Real pity you guys will be spared all the danger associated with the intermediate. Been 3 days now... I'm surprised ROTSIP or Fish Eagle have not published it yet... mmm...

Please forgive me for adding my testimony here without thoroughly reading this thread --- I use an app called GeOrg on my HTT Desire running Android 2.2.... This app is beyond amazing! It does everything! Most importantly it reads offline map tile packs that one can make -- No bandwidth! Offline maps can be made from any maps source you can think of - Google maps, Google satellite, Yahoo maps... My favorite is OpenStreetMaps -- this map even displays hiking paths! Seriously! Also has logging features; Has cool tools: Waypoint maker which averages your coords for super accurate readings; Geocache solving tools - ROT13 converter; a coordinate projection tool (where is 43m from here at 22deg for example)... And lastly the author of the app is a most friendly guy. He emailed me the install file for the app and emails me updates - although this was a special favor... Yesterday I saw that the market is allowing purchase of paid apps though! :)