Vooruit!

It would be nice if Project GC's calculated difficulty rating for a checker would be available on the fly.

An event at 3 o'clock in the night (to celebrate the end of DST) would definitely be D5'ish to me...

Slightly offtopic, but reading this topic I thought of another way a webcam could play a role in today's game. You could have someone show a QR code in front of the camera, that would result in revealing for instance the coordinates of either the next waypoint, or the cache itself. Maybe setup a website that generates a custom QR code in which an email address is embedded, so the coordinates get mailed to that address.

The new deadline for these events is December 31, 2021, so no problem IMO.

The APE cache in Washington has been definitely one of my favourites. For my standards, an extremely tough hike to get there, and the view was stunning (though being from the Netherlands, I get that a lot when I'm abroad). The HQ visit on the other hand, was kinda boring. Very nice people there of course, but it didn't really trigger any geocaching euphoria or something.

This HAS to be Karlsruhe you're talking about; that was actually my first virtual ever, and man, how special that one was indeed!

There is a working REST endpoint at https://labs.geocaching.com/gpx/search?latitude=<lat>&longitude=<lat>&skip=0&take=500. In theory, someone could use it to create a working map, though I'm not sure if that's against any TOS.

For countries, there's also this: https://project-gc.com/Statistics/Overview. It's got numbers for archived caches as well.

You can use Project GC for this. Use Map Compare, check None found and One found, add the 'Show disabled/archived' filter, check both of them. One caveat is the 10.000 caches limit, so you may have to split it up into regions and/or counties. Tedious, but this is all I could think of.

I've seen some funny things on Google Maps, but this beats it for real!

If there will be a third round, I'm hoping it's more like 1.0, rather than 2.0. The quality of the 1.0 virtuals is WAY higher than the 2.0 ones, at least in my area. Despite all the criticism Groundspeak took for picking the top XXX cache owners, in hindsight it was a very good idea. Letting 'everyone' place a virtual is just a bad idea.

Aside from the cache listings themselves, I find myself hardly using the geocaching.com website itself at all. As things are getting dumbed down more and more, it's a good thing that other websites step in. Overall, not sure if this is a good thing though.

If you wouldn't mind sharing it, I'll be happy to have a look at it.

Indeed, a must-have. But you won't believe how often I get to watch misused jpg images where CLEARLY png should have been used. It's all in the trend of the whole internet being dumbed down slowly...

Does Groundspeak actually read this topics? So many unanswered questions. You guys need to step it up bigtime!

It would be nice to make uploading available to those who don't use the WYSIWYG editor. Uploading images through the 'Add images' link works of course, but that way is just so full of clutter, not to mention that links to images uploaded this way appear at the bottom of the cache description. Also, just noticed that when uploading an image the new way, the link contains a :443 suffix to the domain, which is redundant.

I don't know if the script has already run, but I'm guessing it hasn't, since right now, of all challenges I have found, only 30% has got the attribute. As no script can identify all challenges, I'm just wondering if you are aware of Project GC's community efforts in identifying challenges.

In 2013, you could have one souvenir per found for each day of August, so although cool, it's definitely not a record.

In the meantime, Project GC does support this.

Also, now that challenges have their own attribute, are there any plans for dropping the mandatory 'challenge' in challenge cache titles as well?

I fully agree. When filtering for this attribute, people don't care what kind of checker (Groundspeak/Certitude/GeoCheck/...) is used, they're just looking for puzzle caches that allow their solve attempts to be checked. I'm all for adding this attribute automatically for caches that use the built-in checker, but please make it an option for other mysteries as well.

Not being a Windows user, I'd still try to find a way to get Urwigo to run. It's the best builder out there IMO. I think the effort will by far compensate the hassle (sp?) of not using a builder at all.

Exactly right. I'm afraid you will have to analyze the LUA file and recreate everything in Urwigo. Not the hardest of tasks, nor the most fun one.

How about someone making a webpage to which you can upload a GPX, and it spits a de-emoji'd GPX back out for you to use? To help a fellow cacher out, I would be quite willing to make something like that.

Just edit the GPX either by hand or by using GSAK or whatever your TOTT is. And yes, Garmin should have fixed this a long, LONG time ago.