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I did not mean to imply that there is anything wrong with sock puppet accounts. As a matter of fact, there is nothing in the geocaching.com rules and regulations and guiodelines about sock puppet accounts. That's only mentioned in the forum guidelines to prevent supposedly anonymous flaming and such. The TNC caches I mention all state who actually created the puzzles, who supplied the containers, who hid them, it's only the 'main' account that is a mystery if you can't figure out who it is, but all us locals instantly knew who it was. P.S. Are all 19 of the ones you mention on a bookmark list? I'd not have to ask if I were a PM and were able to see your cache, or if I spent the time to see if any of the others are not PMO caches.

Use 'Search' in the GPS forums here, or just scan the last 50 or so topics there, you will see perhaps 3 that have links to free maps.

If a map were to only have a sinigle cache on it then why have maps in the first place. The list of "Picked" and "Placed" it logs would serve YOUR purpose. I love seing the whole history at once of a travel bug, that's what the maps are for. Why don't you zoom in if it's too much for you?

The world is big, there are millions of Robots be glad that you don't have to append some silly sequence of numbers to it. But I would be concerned if they were local and it were possible to confuse you with them, are they a sock puppet account to try to make you appear to be doing things wrong? At least one bit of obscurification has been disallowed for a long time now, it used to be that you could append a space or perhaps multiple spaces after a user name, and it would exactly appear to be the same as the completely different person with that username with no trailing space(s).

Since when did Advanced Search have the searcxh by Keyword option? I guess it was one of the last half a dozen Releases where they go through great pains to detail everything that was done, but wait I guess not, it slipped in by some programmer. Perhaps without testing like all their changes?

Hey, are you mispelling a quote from my 1.5 year old web site? http://ray.jerome.jobs.googlepages.com/majormagellanproblem But isn't this about the 5'th time in the last year that Magellan has been sold, or that their map maker company has changed.

I'm thinking Tuesday is too close to the end of the week. LOL. And 12/16 is too close to Christmas and to the end of the whole year in general. So I think they don't want to 'break' anything else 'fixing' this while everyone is away on vacation (perhaps caching?). I know, everywhere I have worked, we kept a skeleton crew on during any and all holidays. But sadly I was 'Exempt' from overtime pay for any of those times I was IT.

This has not been completely resolved. I still see unpublished geocaches on the cache listing. http://www.geocaching.com/hotels/locale.as...amp;lon=-118.37 If you refresh a couple times, eventually you will get some unpublished caches. Since i know the names of all the caches near her it's easy for me to tell which are, try it in your area... I can't get 'refresh' to do anything for me. But by manipulating the coord I can 'see' unpublished waymarks. No unpublished caches though and there should be at least one right where I'm looking. A bug in this whole thing appears to be the distance calculator for proximity. If I choose coordinates right on top of an unpublished waymark it will not appear in the 'list' of nearby waymarks, I appear to have to be about 2 or 3 miles away for it to show up. And I think that goes for caches too, but with some other donut shaped proximity zone. As for hotels, if it won't show you a hotel 100 yards away when you put coordinates right there, but will show you that hotel when your coordinates are 5 miles away, I'd say this is a really GREAT big useless feature. Edited to add. And if you try to do any of this 'while you are logged in', it appears to log you out since there is no 'my account' tab and there is a 'membership' tab. Quite buggy. Buggier than most. And why did this go out without a Release Notes posting? Don't you want 'everyone' to be your beta checkers? Further edited to add, If you are not logged in you can see the coordinates of waymarks, is that right? You can't for geocaches and that's as it should be. If you play with the coords a bit, you might see hotels right nearby, but all nearby geocaches and waymarks are "5292.3 miles E of your location" well that's apparently 0,0 on the globe. But if you change a single least significant digit all nearby waymarks and geocaches are within a few miles. What's up? Can I lead the pack and say "don't try to implement this feature at all", I see no need for it. Everyone else please speak up also.

I see only 1 PMC cache by you. Are the others hidden by other locals? I can't read that one since I quit being a PM over a year ago.. But I wonder if it's like http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gcr6me part of a series of 10 caches, all by a sock puppet account. Each container was provided by a member of a local team, and each hide/puzzle was provided by someone else. I took over a year to do it, others are still doing it. I think the FTF of the Final was done within one week of it's publishing. This was one of my favorite local series, and local it was, the farthest one was only 25 miles from home, and the farthest extreeme span was only about 25 miles.

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...p;#entry3570735 shows what you can use.

I have successfully used the vpsace= and hspace= (vertical space & horizontal space) attributes successfully. The specify the amount of white space around an image. I was just going to point directly to 3570735 but you beat me.

Maybe to the cache owners, but not to watchers, at least the last time I did it, and I do it a lot intentioanlly for a reason.

Then configure GSAK and EasyGPS's GPS settings for the com port speed taht you have your GPS set to, and the type of GPS if yours is not the default.

How about a barber shop feature, LOL. What's any of this have to do with geocaching? Even if planning a trip, I'd use other resources to find a place to stay, and a plane to fly and a train to drive and a MacD's to eat at... (well perhaps there I'd use Waymarking.com).

The Green Monster around Boston requires you to go to 22 specific caches almost all over Massachusetts, about 100 miles span from farthest ones. The Caching Across America series requires you to go to 50 specific caches, one in each state. The Fizzy Challenge reuqires you to travel far to get those pesky few terrain/difficulty combinations that you don't have that are created before such and such a date.

Yes, that My Finds PQ is so special that it is not limiited to a max of 500 caches, and it returns archived and retracted and locked caches too unlike regular PQ's. but it is so special and processor time consuming that you are only allowed to run it once per week. And please wait to run it at least an hour after you eat, I mean at least an hour after you write a whole lot og logs, unless you don't want those caches this week.

You mean like Markwells PQ and paperless stuff and G-O-Cachrs Colorado Wiki adn the many other already existing information? I think all these and more are pinned topics here.

As said before, routing is a feature of a map set. City Navigator is one such Mapsource program that has street routing. When you bought Topo, you should have figured that even though it has all the streets in the USA, it's not going to have routing information for those streets. Did it say anywhere on the packaging anything to the contrary? Personally, I prefer Topo. But on my Magellan I also have MapSend Direct Route and one feature I like about that is that its POI database has all public Libraries. Well re-read your post, I'm unsure about Topo 2008 MapSource, perhaps it does combine billions of bits of routing information, along with elevation information for every point in the USA. I just don't see how they could do both in one product and make it managable and usable on a GPS's limited processing power. As for multiple map sets, you can have dozens, not just two.

Anyone with georeferenced electronic maps can put them onto most mapping Garmins (I know that 60CSx can be done), and onto many mapping Magellan GPSr's. Just check these forums for 'free maps' there are links to things such as MapCreator, or MobileMapperII. That being said, i'm sure that one can use Delorme Topo as a source of mapping information to port into those products. But why? Isn't Delorme Topo really a low resolution vector mapping topo? I'd much rather use National Geographics Back Roads Explorer or 24K products, or MapTech Terrain Navigator Pro Topo products as source fodder to put onto my GPS. But I don't have the hundreds of hours time it takes to make/convert such maps using those programs.

There are perhaps millions of benchmark disks that are not in the NGS system. Just go to that Waymarking category, go through the motions to create one thee and you will see something like 300 agencies that have brass benchmark disks out there. If you can find a database that lists yours then send that to contact@geocaching.com and perhaps they might include those into their database as they somewhere state. But don't bother if it's a water monitoring station benchmark disk. 3 years ago I sent them a link to a database of thousands of those and they have not incorporated them yet. i'm doing my part to document disks, I just created 9 in that Waymarking category, and have about 20 more I need to take photos of.

Whenever I change any software for any of the Defense contractors I've worked for we always know how to get it back to the way it was. We actually use something called software version/revision control, and have something called testing of our changes before using them.

1. There have been events to honor fallen cachers. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gc18h6n http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gc10w93 2. I've created a couple accounts on geocaching.com and pathtags.com for fallen cachers. I plan on making an honorary pathtag for them along the lines of a pathtag I received in memory of a fallen cacher from Maine. http://pathtags.com/community/publicpathta...ile.php?id=6369 The usernames of the two I'm working on are: Toms Friends Forever and Land Rockets Friends

Yes, I was having a hard time getting the forums to comply with my editing, I as going to quote the guidelines that state that events are not usually published more than 3 months in advance. Most events I see, are published just about right at the 2 week minimum limit, and I've been to nearly 150 events. Time for the forum servers to be upgraded. Or time for me to take a rest today, they are so very slow. http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx Anmd that brings up another way to find them. Do a search, click on "by State (US only):" and selevt Nevada. Then you will see, mostly towards the top of the first page, all the events in that state. As for any of them being close to LV, well, the powers that be don't consider that to be a location based search so they do not put a distance and direction into the search results.

None that are logable through geocaching.com, but perhaps there are, or should be, a category for benchmark disks for Canada for the many millions that perhaps exist up there. I know that when I went to the Rendevous Quebec Mega-Event I 'found' many benchmarks, perhaps 50, but of course got nothing out of that.

None that are logable through geocaching.com, but perhaps there are, or should be, a category for benchmark disks for Canada for the many millions that perhaps exist up there. I know that when I went to the Rendevous Quebec Mega-Event I 'found' many benchmarks, perhaps 50, but of course got nothing out of that.