BaseOverApex

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I've often said that it doesn't matter what the rules to a game are, so long as we all play the same rules. That' probably why I never consider Geocaching to be a "game"! Just a passtime!

Ha ha, I had my first ever single character log on one of my hides today. Just a "thumbs up" character, nothing else!

Wow! Amazing story!

So far, I'm hearing a distinct agreement with my "it's a game" philosophy. My best guess, though, is that the disgruntled ones maybe don't join in too much on the forums? I'm also thinking of instigating "DFTF" (Dedicated First To Find) for folk who find BEFORE publication! In all this, the person I feel who lost out is the original (pre-publication) finder. I've no ideas who they are and they've not logged their find on geocaching.com!

I can't pass a red telephone box without nipping in and having a scan around. Even if I don't have my GPS or my phone app isn't loaded with caches. You know what I mean? Some locations are just SUPPOSED to have caches! I've created a cache. Well, I'm not new to caching: I've created many. This particular cache is near a holiday destination we visit frequently, so the local reviewer allowed it. It's in one of those locations which was bizarrely lacking in a cache. We were pretty busy that holiday I didn't publish the cache until a few weeks later when I got back home. Within a few hours of it being published, it was found - as you might expect with the local FTF race being what it is! But the finder was less than happy. Why? It had already been found. It had been found and someone had made a logbook entry several days before it was published. I know FTF isn't a formal part for the game. I have an attitude where "game" is the pertinent word. It's a passtime. A fun passtime. A fun family passtime. No winners, no losers and nobody dies. For discussion, what does anyone else think? Has it been discussed before? I could take some "blame" for the confusion in that I should have registered the cache sooner. However, what happens, for example, if you publish a cache but the reviewer rejects it, and in the meantime, someone finds it?

I’ve never had a problem with the app, but today I’ve had to log on about 6 times. Really getting on my nerves.

Hi. I normally renew by PalPal. Today, I'm struggling. I've hit the Renew button on the geocaching.com website, selected PayPal under "Your Plan", my Billing Address autofills as usual. I'm presented with my payment history, where this has succeded in the past, I press the Renew Membership button... ...and it takes me right back t the "Your Plan" screen. Any ideas what might be going on, please?

Well, it does ASK for a username (correct, that doesn't mean it needs one), but that's a good point, we never enter a password. So, how the heck does it authenticate? It must just use the fact that the non-PM is already logged in on another session... Phew!

This. This is how I do it for my friends account. no issues there. It's a nuisance compared to the sites that allow it without all the logging in and logging out. But "The Other Stu" rases a concern with me now: users of that geocachingadmin.com site are potentially giving their passwords out to a third party.

That be a useful site, but don't be under any illusions that it was placed by Groundspeak. For a start, it doesn't mention Groundspeak anywhere on the site. And it's registered by a fella in California that doesn't work for Groundspeak. Yes, entirely correct. What was I thinking? Dammit - I could have sworn I had my hands on one touted by Groundspeak.

I trust you now know about: http://www.geocachingadmin.com/ ? It's the non-PM backdoor placed specifically by Groundspeak for this purpose. Sorry for resurrecting this thread, but it's one of the topmost found by Google and I wanted to ensure that it contains the correct answer to the question!

Apparently the C/O emailed all the attendees a list of the TBs. What's getting me is not only the number of folks who've logged who weren't in attendance at the event, but the fact that my trackable wasn't there, either! My trackable http://coord.info/TB50N34 has been up some mountain in Norway (http://coord.info/GC32RK1) since July! This is just a seriously unfunny joke.

I've just received an email titled "BaseOverApex couldn't find ..." When I open the log, I see that it's in response to my having deleted a photo from one of my trackables in a log posted by a finder. When I open teh linked log, it's titled "BaseOverApex posted a note for ..." There's no note in the log, but the photo is gone as expected. Is this normal? Did I find a bug? Do I get a prize?

My 12 y/o has had his own account since he was 10. For the first few months we cached, all the logging was done under my acc. Going through logging his finds later when he had his own account was a right pain. I would get it started now. One tip is that his account can look at your finds, so you just go down that list and click "visit log". As well as the link to the cache listing, then, that also gives you the date you visited.

Hmmm... I'd considered this as a possibility and what you've described is certainly accurate. I wonder (as a curiosity) then, why we're only allowed to run a given PQ once per day and only a maximum of 5 different PQs per day. I would guess it's because there's a lot more information goes into the prepared XML file (description, past logs, etc.) whereas for a preview, only the position information is sent to the map.

Groundspeak sell them, but the minimum order quantity is 50 and, while that was too many for me in the first instance, I wish I had ordered them that way now! There are a few of resellers. Not sure if I'm entitled to post a link, but if you Google "tracking numbers for personal geocoins" you will find something on the first page. NB: the following: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=116641 is the up-to-date policy (with change history) on creating trackable coins.

Yes, I understand that, but when selected on teh map view, will the PQ become executed again such that the caches presented are from an updated PQ rather than from the last time the PQ was executed?

I see what you're saying, but I want the query to run. I wan to be able to click the query from the www.geocaching.com/map screen and have all the caches displayed that way without having to resubmit the PQ each time. Oh, I hadn't spotted that. Nice one. I'd assumed it was some kind of date code. I still have an issue, though. My phone wants to sort the files by alphanumeric order, but I'd prefer them sorted by query name, so I still ave to manually strip off the number!

Two suggestions here: 1) Could an additional "Output To" field be added where the result of the query is not sent as an email? Sometimes, it's nice to look at a PQ result on the map, but I wouldn't necessarily want to download it to my GPSr. (Of course, if someoen weree to tell me that each time I select a PQ on the geocaching map, it runs the query afresh, then this is a nonsense suggestion.) 2) An option to not prepend the numeric part to the filename of the download. I normally take it off manually, but I want the new file I download to overwrite the old one, which it won't do if each has a unique number.

I'm pretty sure that was only given as an example. It's entirely possible to superimpose something on the default silhouette. And why not? I think it's a brilliant idea.

There can be no doubt that many geocaching features aren't documented. The PR number (distinct from user ID, in the format of a TB or GC) is at the bottom of every in game message sent. The big question is: without sending someone an IGM asking them what your user ID is, how do you find it out? Mine is: http://www.coord.info/PR496WD

I've subsequently started to make "anything I want" a trackable coin. I found a retailer of official personal geocoin numbers. I can bed pretty well anything in polyester resin, along with a decal identifying it as trackable on geocaching.com. Here's one I made for myself: http://coord.info/TB50N32 One for a friend: http://coord.info/TB58NYJ (look at the gallery for this one!) And one re-used number for my son: http://coord.info/TB3Q4BJ (we kept the original).

I'm pretty sure there's a way to identify yourself on coords.info/somethingorother.

Nah. I didn't include the period. I just typed the URL and the forum included the period as part of the link. Here they are again, but this time with appropriate markup: One chap logged that he broke his leg on the way back to his car after visiting one of my caches: http://coord.info/GC2EAFT. This cacher caused someone's cache to be blown up by the bomb squad in Yorkshire.and got an official police caution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14042170.