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  1. Same here as of last night, no logs on any cache page, link to 'view logs' gives page with ...no logs to show. I'm using a windows and firefox. But at least the emails of logs on my owned caches are coming through now ...
  2. You have to get your picture into the system , then give the cache page an address ( it's called a URL) to look for so it can find the picture and show it in your cache page , you are dealing with a web page, rather than a document in 'word' or another word processor , so just copy/paste won't work. The link cerberus1 gave you explains what to do pretty well.
  3. Church micros are practically a religion to some UK cachers : according to that site, as of today there are 14,089 published Church Micros , nearly 11 thousand of which are active, and the number of cachers who have found one or more of them is 153,987 . UK rules forbid them being in the church/churchyard itself or the wall around it (unless very specific permission for that hide can be shown) . The information given on their cache page varies from huge swathes of architectural and historical information and photos to just a simple a link to a relevant page about the church .Quite a common CM type in my area is a multi cache based on information from the graveyard which surrounds many of the old churches. I've found a few ( not many as they are often in villages or urban areas, so not my kind of caching, more attractive to the drive by folk on the whole) and can confirm my atheism has not been adversely affected by the finds or reading the pages
  4. No. This was near the end of the message sent out about Community Celebration events to those who posted a 'will attend' "We understand it can be very disappointing to miss the connections that are made at Events. But please remember that geocaching is a location-based game, and locationless Events or virtual logging of Events are not permitted by the Geocaching guidelines. " Plus all of those platforms need individuals to sign up to other services/websites I suspect, so even if the situation eventually got so desperate that virtual events were allowed, those would probably not be the channels used.
  5. Ding to MartyBartfast, special mention to searcherdog for not knowing, but in exactly the right way . Oh, and I just got a letter from a Mrs. Trellis of North Wales ... she wonders if it is true that German shoppers are stocking up on sausage and cheese to be prepared for the Würst Käse scenario ?
  6. Thanks for that, I'll stick to the ISIHAC theme , please don't all shout the answer at once ... 'What do points mean ?'
  7. It's a grotesque and appalling failure of planning by political and medical bodies that supplies of PPE, respirators and trained staff were not increased in anticipation in every country of the world after this particular virus emerged in December last year. A pandemic was entirely predictable at some point after we had close escapes with MERS and SARS , it wasn't a matter of 'if' but 'when' another relative of theirs would emerge, and we've had nearly 2 decades to prepare. But they have not thought it worth spending money on. As you say, the economic outcome is going to be enormous, so the gamble of optimistic inaction has failed big time. Interesting that your statistics differ so much as far as gender goes from the Wuhan study , maybe some cultural difference coming into play ? Anyway, you take care, and keep washing those hands ...
  8. Me neither. It's a weird quirky cache type that can be a fun outlier from the normal, where it's always best to read the listing before you set out to find it , but one thing you can be sure is that it will be a container that's not a nano. There are plenty of people who come on here to announce that high terrain caches, puzzles, wherigos etc etc are not 'proper' caching and should be killed off , they don't like them, they are not caching, they should be abolished . That is utter, blinkered , thoughtless , nonsense. It's the diversity of cache types, terrains, hides and the inventiveness of cache setters which gives some depth to the hobby beyond the scrabble for numbers, and keeps us interested when we've been caching a while .
  9. I was unclear there : what I meant was that the map macro only accepts one circle radius at a time for the whole map, so it is not possible to set GS circles to 161m radius, and other cache circles to 150m (or whatever) on the same map. I've used the variable circle diameter facility a few times to find good places for dummy puzzle co-ords .. or see if my solution to a puzzle is within the allowed 3,22km distance ... It's all academic though, as the OP is not GSAK capable !
  10. Health care professionals throughout the world are the front line in this, they deserve our respect and thanks for continuing to walk into danger for us each and every day. Anyone assuming they are unlikely to suffer themselves because they are (according to mainstream media) 'not in an at risk group' might find this from the US CDC sobering (my bold) : "Since February 12, 4,226 COVID-19 cases were reported in the United States; 31% of cases, 45% of hospitalizations, 53% of ICU admissions, and 80% of deaths occurred among adults aged ≥65 years with the highest percentage of severe outcomes among persons aged ≥85 years. These findings are similar to data from China, which indicated >80% of deaths occurred among persons aged ≥60 years (3). These preliminary data also demonstrate that severe illness leading to hospitalization, including ICU admission and death, can occur in adults of any age with COVID-19. In contrast, persons aged ≤19 years appear to have milder COVID-19 illness, with almost no hospitalizations or deaths reported to date in the United States in this age group" An academic study in the UK medical journal The Lancet shows male mortality is greater than female mortality in every age group observed in a study of the Wuhan outbreak. Statistics from epidemiological studies are all fine and dandy, until you put faces in place of numbers, especially if those faces are your friends , family and self. Risk of severe illness after infection may be statistically higher in older people, people with existing conditions, pregnant women, and those with Y chromosomes, but we are all at some risk, and we can all be vectors of the disease, passing it on to others. But ... in the immortal words of Corporal Jones , "Don't panic!' It is known (with a good degree of certainty) how the virus is passed on, and what we can do to to limit transmission. It's pretty straightforward, advice is everywhere . One big problem is that there are no symptoms whatsoever that you have this sneaky virus for several days, so feeling OK some folk think it's OK to continue with life as normal. Not wise : best treat everyone as if they had it and you have it , even if you think you don't. Social distancing is keeping other humans at a safe distance, but not necessarily the same as staying in your home. And (as long as no laws forbid it) keeping your lungs, immune system and general physical and mental health in good shape with a solo walk in the relatively unpopulated countryside is risking nothing as long as you avoid human contact, and wash your hands.
  11. There is no easy way to do what you want, no co-ordination between GC.com and the other cache listing services. What you could do is use GSAK and make a database of the area you are working on. Populate it with a PQ of Groundspeak caches (making sure you have the final co-ords of any multis or puzzles etc) , add the other site's caches to the database, then use the GSAK mapping option which allows you to show 161m circles around every cache on the map. Bear in mind at least one other listing site I know of uses 150m circles, but as the map only accepts one circle radius you need to use the greater one. If you are familiar with GSAK this is pretty straightforward, I've done it . if you are not already familiar with GSAK ... it will be a steep learning curve. A more straightforward option would be to simply put all the relevant caches in your GPS or phone and go walk around the area until you see you are 161m from any existing cache, a low tech approach might involve a paper map and a pair of compasses...
  12. And yes, there is nothing in my spam folder , and no, I've changed none of my settings. As I have received both personal e-mails sent from a cacher via the system, and an announcement on a cito I was hoping to attend, it's not a problem with my setup..
  13. I got an e-mail yesterday (19th) from another cacher (via Groundspeak) about something they noticed at one of my caches which suggested they found another of mine nearby, they had logged that other find , but their log did not get e-mailed to me. I had to check the cache page to see what they wrote. Auto e-mails of logs to C.O.s does appear to be not working.
  14. Yes, the 'delisting' ought to be accompanied by an announcement to all who placed a 'will attend' , but does such a mechanism actually exist already ? And if it does, why on earth wasn't it used as the listings were retracted ? I wonder if the 'announcement' log type is only available to the E.O. , and not HQ/ reviewers currently ? I often 'watch' events I hope to attend, as not every setter uses announcements for updates , I wonder if any message would arrive in my inbox to show a listing had been retracted , I know if it was archived that would appear as a log.
  15. Should this need to be done again (and assuming no contingency plans are put in place in the meantime ) it strikes me that the achival/withdrawing is only truly urgent for events in the very near future, say the next few days from the date of the decision. Given that many events will be more than a few days away from 'decision day' why not send those C.O.s advance notice of the imminent de-listing, which will occur in 24 hours, and suggest they send out an announcement before then so it will be received by those who have posted a 'will attend' before the event page evaporates ? Events for the next day or two could have a similar pre-warning of their loss, but a shorter deadline to send out the announcement : a few hours would at least give an alert event setter a chance to do the right thing and communicate reasons for what is happening. It would be easy for HQ and/or the reviewers to sort events by date to decide on the urgency required: I just checked and I can do it in GSAK as the 'placed' date column is the date on which the event takes place.
  16. I'm wondering if maybe you are interpreting the phrase in listings 'magnetic nano' as nanos that need magnets to retrieve ? If so, then you probably don't need to worry, as what you will find is a tiny container which is held on to some bit of street furniture by a built in magnet . Just pick the thing off with your fingers (not easy with winter gloves on !)
  17. OK, not quite done then ! Best wishes Cerberus, take care .
  18. You are simultaneously suggesting events worldwide be summarily archived by reviewers, because of the possibility of infection, and suggesting a souvenir to encourage people to go out and find caches . Finders can have no idea what time period has elapsed since the cache was last handled: someone might have visited five minutes before they arrive . I'm done with this thread : the prefix 'pan' in pandemic is derived from Greek and means wide geographical spread, it appears to be interpreted as 'panic' !
  19. Why 3 days ? WHO says there are as yet no research results on how long the virus persists on impermeable surfaces. Do you have better information ? What makes you think your family members are OK , but other humans are not ? How would Groundspeak ensure no-one had found the cache within the time period but simply not logged it online yet ? Plenty of people type their logs days later . Think it through.
  20. WHO current and factual advice is set out here, and includes this "People can catch COVID-19 from others who have the virus. The disease can spread from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth which are spread when a person with COVID-19 coughs or exhales. These droplets land on objects and surfaces around the person. Other people then catch COVID-19 by touching these objects or surfaces, then touching their eyes, nose or mouth. People can also catch COVID-19 if they breathe in droplets from a person with COVID-19 who coughs out or exhales droplets. " and " It is not certain how long the virus that causes COVID-19 survives on surfaces, but it seems to behave like other coronaviruses. Studies suggest that coronaviruses (including preliminary information on the COVID-19 virus) may persist on surfaces for a few hours or up to several days. This may vary under different conditions (e.g. type of surface, temperature or humidity of the environment). If you think a surface may be infected, clean it with simple disinfectant to kill the virus and protect yourself and others. Clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water. Avoid touching your eyes, mouth, or nose." So it seems authoritative information specifically for covid19 is still quite generic I don't think disabling caches or shunning trackables is needed, just clean your hands after handling a container or TB and don't touch your face. Reluctance to travel is more of a factor in reductions of finds and discoveries I suspect. The airline industry is having a really bad time , tourism is affected , the thought of going on a cruise or coach trip is not going to be popular with anyone, and that's bound to have an impact on caching.
  21. HQ is not responsible for anything beyond being a listing site for caches (and events ). They have legal disclaimers which deny such responsibility , this is on the first page of the geocache hiding guidelines: "Geocaching HQ and community volunteers are not in any way responsible or liable for caches or their placement. All aspects of your geocache and its placement are your responsibility, and you may be held liable for any resulting consequences. ." Pandemic means continent and or world wide, conditions vary enormously country to country, day to day .Groundspeak made a sensible decision for what is a global game, let the locals decide. Most cachers are not stupid, it is unlikely that anyone would set an event in a place where the risk is high. And if they did, or if you are in a vulnerable group (principally the elderly and people with underlying medical problems) simply don't go. Would this be a souvenir for not attending an event ?!
  22. OK thanks, I'd forgotten that ... probably because hiding the statistics seemed a silly idea to me back when I started , and looked at such settings. It was a long time ago, and I probably had little in the way of stat.s to hide anyway !
  23. I do not understand how this other user is able to hide his statistics on geocaching.com ( on project-gc, yes, that's easy, but here ? Please explain) If the wording of their messages via Groundspeak is offensive, then complain as others above suggest. However, if you personally found all those caches that day, signed them all yourself, and replaced them all yourself with no team logging or (as I've seen some do) cachers with one account for the family splitting to log separate lots of caches in one day, if you are confident your finds are beyond reproach why take any notice ? Looking for their stat.s to find, compare, and perhaps take issue with their 'caches in a day' might seem a good idea, but it's really not worth arguing. Ignore them and get on with life. Comparative statistics are affected by that old line some people trot out ' you cache your own way , and I'll cache mine' and are therefore often not truly comparable between cachers : there are some high numbers finders who place throwdowns to keep their score up, or simply log a find because they were nearby ... prolific FTFers where 4 cachers somehow multiply one little micro's FTF because they were all there and agreed to share whoever was really 'first' so a single cache is claimed to have 4 FTFs, and people whose stat.s are inflated by 'finds' on virtuals in countries they've never visited... placing too much importance on statistics and comparisons does not lead to happiness.
  24. Here's a random thought : could TB's 'out in the wild' have their discovery log only permitted if the 'discoverer' also logs the cache they are in as found , and if the CO deletes the cache find, the TB discover associated with it also vanishes ? I can imagine this might help for the trackables actually in boxes , and any attempt to subvert it by holding an 'event' where some ninny posts a list of codes 'dropped' in the event so people can log an attended and discover all the TBs would at least be under Groundspeak's jurisdiction, so could be stopped. For personal TBs held by the owner , that won't work I know. Some control given to the paying customer who owns the code would be a good idea, maybe a specific, select able category of 'personal TB', for which a discover log requires an extra step of some kind to confirm the agreement of the trackable owner ?
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