Twm-y-tonnau

Just got back from maintenance on our Last Welsh Dragon cache after the recent DNF secretly hoping to find one of these dragon coins - no such luck But as Merlin’s Hill cache was born from our cache we hope to head out sometime soon to check for signs at the other ’egg cache - Castell Allt-goch’ that was also born from our Last Welsh Dragon Cache. After all there was no log of found/DNF at Merlin’s so who knows! After searching gc.com for the coin I see there is only one other that now belongs to the Sussex Leprechauns also a very bazaar story attached to that, what’s going on? Thought it may have been a wind up especially after reading some of the logs in here but after reading the Colonels log on our cache page it all seems totally genuine. I gather Satellite Kid works for a printing company in Carmarthen which is not that far away from our cache and those said 'tomes and bindings' in the cache log all fit in, spooky or what! Ok so we have clocked up a couple of DNF on our way too, so if the good Colonel reads this - good luck on your next find. Must admit makes me feel human to know that I’m not the only one looses things while out caching, although its pens with me and not coins. Mrs Twm

Meaning what? Meaning a Welshman would never have put Snowdon down as South Wales.

What a mess, obviously the Wales area was decided by an englishman

Does the above highlighted piece mean if we dont choose, nothing changes, and nobody has to argue anymore. Sorted

How about this one as a rough idea, I’m no designer. It may stop differences of opinions over Flags/Emblems. Just a simple map of the Geocaching area with no boundary’s and everyone’s included. P.S. I still prefer Cryptik Souls Crews logo

If there's going to be a new War of the Roses, lets keep the bloodshed to a civilised level please Prefer Crypticsouls effort with the flags

Agree with McKryton about the Republic of Ireland. The T-girls logo shows the individual Countrys and represents the regional as well as the UK. With Blue Magicians changes looks even better. Have seen Fozzies new logo, but with the Republic having its own flag alone looks wrong. Give all the seperate Countrys their own National flag, and keep everyone happy.

My vote would have gone for T-girls, but I think Blue Magicians animated logo version is an improvement. The BIG in the static version seems too large though and obscures too much of the logo.

A Very Good Question I would expect all cachers taking part in this quest to act responsibly, and keep any code numbers they have found confidential, just as they would for any other puzzle cache. Also as in Draft Guideline 9, the cache owner would be expected to monitor log postings for "Spoilers". Anyway what good does it do to release the code numbers to others? It may mean that they finish the series before you do! Because the code numbers do not directly lead to the final co-ordinates it would be possible to issue new numbers to caches if the codes for them become common knowledge. That would then mean modifying the records of anyone who had already found the cache legitimately. However this might not be a trivial task, it depends how we manage to keep the records. If everyone who logs all their caches as they find them, and then either separately logs them with Big Quest, (or if some way can be found to extract that info from the Geocaching site) it should be fairly easy to update their records with the new code value and/or email the cachers with the replacement code. I had hoped that once all the codes for a region / Country/ British Isles had been found the cacher could simply enter the code on the BigQust site, or email the site, and have the co-ordinates sent to them. probably after a check that they had actually logged all the sites. However this is currently against the Groundspeak rules. They don't normally allow real cache co-ordinates to be issued by any other system except their site. But they may allow it in this case (Heres hoping). The DeLorme series of caches in the USA allow the owner of the "final" cache to supply real co-ordinates to a legitimate cacher, after their logs for claimed finds are checked. This is very similar to what we want to do, so there is a chance that we will also be allowed to do it. I am in he process of trying to put together a e-letter to them to see if they would give their approval. One thing I think they will need to be sure of, before agreeing to the request, is that this is a serious project. But, judging by the interest shown on this board I don't think that that will be difficult. Failing getting that approval I am working on a system, which I think will be fairly secure, where the co-ordinates for "final" cache are "Hidden in Plain View" within a largish number grid, published with on the final cache specification page. More on that later, if it is required. Re cheat proof: What about a photo of the cacher at each location as in the American version. This would prevent people signing on their mates behalf, so they can cover differant regions quickly.

This data gives the Welsh county of Dyfed, which existed for a short while and joined up the three Counties of Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion. So not good.

Brilliant idea. Bags Pembrokeshire.