Team Pink

It's already been done. I didn't get a ballot! My opinions were not represented. Who is the president? I would like to correspond with him/her. Where are the bylaws because I would like to read them. Where are the "official" rules for verifing finds? I understand what is being said about community. I appreciate the concept as well as the existing, but it is still all about the cache owner and the cache finder and no one else. I have "real" problems with muggles destroying caches and cache finders not rehiding the cache properly and finding three initials written with a sharpie on my cammo'd ammo cans wouldn't bother me much. If another cache owner in the area expresses his feelings in a post about finding three initials on the outside of his cache, I'd relate to it but I wouldn't take up a flag and march around town shouting down with "container signers". The game is not threatened by this! Hiding caches without permission threatens the game! Destroying the environment threatens the game. Bad mouthing other geocaches threatens the game. Let the cache owners complain and everybody else just stand back and say, "I hear ya". Unless you are the cache owner, you have no voice. Unless of course you are like the media that you probably complain about, or just like to stir the pot see how riled up you can get people over something that happened to someone else.

Can somebody tell me how to start a forum that I can moderate? I want to start a new forum with only two threads and I want the ability to delete any OT posts. Thread #1 I am the cache owner of a cache that was logged during the record run in Dallas and I am angry. Thread #2 I am the cache owner of a cache that was logged during the record run in Dallas and I am not angry or I am proud that my cache was involved. Any post by anyone other than a cache owner would be deleted. Let me seperate the wheat from the chaff and the pot stirrers from the legitimate points of view. Let's hear from the cache owners, the ones that count. Anything else is butting into someone else's business. Does it not matter that there is no such thing as a geocaching world record? There are no rules to the game. There is only a website that hosts geocachers postings, has some guidelines about what is allowed to be posted, and sells geocaching related merchandise. If you have so much negative energy to expend, why not refocus and form an official geocaching organization with rules and all the other administrative functions? Have elected officials, bylaws, recruit state organizations, etc.

tsmoloa, cardinal red, mopar I am going to squat down to your level and do the wrong thing. Go ahead and grab a pen and paper and start making notes now. By emphasing and focusing on someone's mistake or bad decision, and publicly ridiculing another human being in a public forum, you have embarrassed the entire geocaching community and I am surprised the moderator allowed this trash on the board. Rather that openly and frankly discussing a disagreement, you choose to do the equivalent of writing insults on a bathroom wall and it closely resembles the lack of class and maturity that is found on those same walls. I suspect you lack the ability to accept responsibility for things in your personal and professional lives and those around you consider you abusive and un-likeable. I will not post any further reponses so take comfort in the fact that your response will enjoy a lack of rebuttal and get a life.

Actually it is just a set of coordinates. The filter will allow you to accept or reject caches based on whether they are in the coordinate boundries. You still need a database of caches that you can apply the filter to.

The GSAK backup ZIP is 15 meg. That's about 3500 caches and it includes Memphis and other places outside the Arkansas borders due to the pocket queries extending outside. I'd say some states would require a couple of volunteers while some volunteers could do two states. Getting the route is not a big problem for me, it's getting the list of current caches.

Given the current limitations with pocket queries why couldn't a group of volunteers set up pocket queries for their state and upload their GSAK database on a weekly or monthly basis somewhere. Then when you were planning on a trip, you could go to the website and download the state GPX files for each state you would be traveling through. I do all of Arkansas on a weekly basis and I would upload Arkansas data if someone gave me a place to put it.

GPS with XM Radio! That's my dream!

My reason for posting the question in the first place is this: There is a geocacher in our area that is getting out of the game. He has hidden some caches in some beautiful places in the Ozarks. I have not been geocaching that long and when he gets out and archives his caches those places would have been lost to me forever. I just happened to hear about the quality of his caches before he got completely out and I have gotten all his hides from his profile. Other geocachers who will have started after he has gotten out will not have the opportunity to see the cache locations unless someone adopts them. I think it is erroneous to think that all caches are archived due to lack of maintainence or for violating the guidelines.

The owner fully intends to clean up his caches. A friend of mine and his wife went to one of his and they are still talking about it. They say they felt like they were watching a National Geographic special. Scenery, river otters playing in a crystal clear creek, etc. This special place would be unknown to many if he gets out, espcially if they get into the game after he has archived them. I understand what you are saying about the found logs. I wonder if there could be two type of archives? Maybe one archive called "violation" and another archive called "abandoned" for example. Violation archives could be ignored in queries and searches while the "abandoned" archive type would be available for historical purposes, searchs, etc. I know you folks have been at this much longer than me so I'll try to make this my last post on the subject. Again, thanks for the info and the forums and their contents.

Thanks for the tips. Seems like there is no clean way to manage archived caches. I personally think that caches that have been requested to be removed due to a violation of one sort or another should be deleted from the site and caches that have been archived due to other reasons such as the owner quitting the game, etc. should be left on the site and coded as archived. I am new to the sport and I acutally did a search on "archive" and "pocket query" before I posted and got no hits. There is a cache owner in our area who is getting out due to personal reasons and stated he would like for the places where the caches he placed to still be visited and the archives would make that possible. If I understand correctly, if I start geocaching AFTER his caches have been archived, I will never have a chance to see them other than someone sharing the waypoint name, coords, etc. Not a serious issue compared to starvation, AIDS, etc. but still less than perfect IMHO. Thanks for a great forum!

I can't seem to figure out how to get archived listings. I don't see anything in the Pocket Query form to indicate it. TIA for any help.

The ability to manually add a waypoint. Pharos just dropped that feature from Ostia. Keep the Ostia export option. I just donated to the GPXSonar cause. I am now a registered user of both GSAK and GPXSonar. Beta test volunteering Axim X50v WM5.0 Pharos Bluetooth GPSr

If you use a PocketPC and Pharos Ostia you will lose the ability to input Latitude and Longitude in 7.5. It will now only let you store a favorite as the center of the map currently being displayed. I talked to the tech support to verify this. It is not a terribly bad problem except in a two stage or puzzle cache where the coordinates haven't been saved in a GPX file or some other method. Editing to add Pharos tech support phone number: Support Hotline 888-742-7678

What are the thoughts about a user rating system like Amazon.com and others where a cache would be rated by the visitors. Seems like it would improve the quality of caches. I'm not saying there is a cache quality problem, I just think that a rating system as user feedback would have a positive effect. I know if I were planning a day of caching in a high density area, I would concentrate on the high user rated caches if I knew I couldn't hit them all before having to leave town.

I want to download 500 waypoints to import into MS Streets and Trips. I created a Pocket Query and it appears to be much larger than the 100 record query in the email and it returns 500 records on the website. GSAK is only showing 119. I can't find any filter settings that would prevent importing all the records. I have just started using GSAK so it is not registered yet. Is there a limit in the unregistered version?

According to this article: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/technology/...ology-headlines there are some new satellites being launched. Has anyone heard about it, discussed it, etc.