fab_seeker

Knowing you were associated with this one makes me feel inclined to say it was published fairly. You have been more than fair with my caches in Florida. This is Ok for me too! If "guidelines" may have exceptions when the cache is on a city property and we have the manager permission! I think every finder of such beautiful caches agree with that! We geocache to have fun finding such caches!

Sorry quote functionality doesn't work at the moment I write this: Clan Riffster: "The relevant question should be, despite the guideline's claim that caches are never buried, would such a placement be published, if the property owner gave explicit permission for the post holes to be dug?" This could be a good solution. Local authorities could allow this. But well, without any other information, I will simply follow the guidelines... and maybe I can find a way to fix such a cache on a tree stump for example.

And you think the rectangular frame was there before? Not me, I think it was set there by the cacher after digging to better fix it in the ground. It is the same wood as the one for the posts supporting the box.

Hello and happy new year!!! I am asking myself some questions after the discovery of the geocache of the week: http://coord.info/GC3JQQ1 It's clear that the owner had to dig in order to fix the geocache in the ground. But in the guidelines it is mentionned that it is forbidden to dig when searching AND caching a geocache. That's why I don't understand this rule. Can someone from Groundspeak explain when it is tolerated to dig and when it's not. Extract of the guidelines: Geocaches are never buried, neither partially nor completely. If one has to dig or create a hole in the ground when placing or finding a geocache, it is not allowed. But of course, I think this geocache is great and would love to discover it! And if someone from Groundspeak confirms I can, I would love trying to make a similar one.

Hello! I saw that the search tool (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/) does not work with special characters: é, è, à etc. Could it be improved by technical teams? Thanks for reading, regards, Fab_seeker

Hello! I bought a pencil/lamp UV on the Internet (Ebay) which cost 3 euros. I hid a stage of multicache which required UV: I simply placed a microfilm box, in which I set a piece of paper on which I wrote with invisible Ink. Maybe the solution not to write on natural environment. Have a nice day!

As mentionned in another topic, some geocachers were against the mass caching (idea that I understand, I prefer finding a beautiful cache than 20 microfilm boxes, but that's only my opinion, I also understand those who like searching for many caches, research is a part of the game). So do you agree with that limitation, and if yes what could be the way to prevent this mass caching? Some ideas exposed: - create a timeout between each cache creation on the website. - Make it longer to create a new cache webpage. - Prevent the publishing of caches which have a description containing less than 150 words. - Limit the number of geocaches of each cacher in order to be sure that the maintenance can be done. ... What do you think about that?

Maybe we could stay in the topic and not add remarks about hypothesis you make about my placements and maintenance (by misunderstanding the topic). 6h were nothing compared to the time of building, prospecting and placing... I invite you to seek my caches and see what kind of cacher I am. I won't have any other answer about that. The best answer to the topic was written by The A-Team: It most likely depends on the address portion of your Account Details. If you haven't already, go there, click "Edit" in the top-left section ("Your Profile"), and fill in at least the country and state/province portions. Don't worry, that information isn't visible to the public. Thanks for your remarks Beach_hut and NYPaddleCacher: It's not especially hard or time consuming to determine the country/state based on a set of coordinates. It's called reverse geocoding and there a few services hosted by external sites that can be used (Groundspeak does not have to do the calculation themselves) such as Geonames that are fast and easy to use. The could also cache the results so that it only has to make one request to the external service for the first cache, then use those results of additional caches in a series.

It most likely depends on the address portion of your Account Details. If you haven't already, go there, click "Edit" in the top-left section ("Your Profile"), and fill in at least the country and state/province portions. Don't worry, that information isn't visible to the public. Thanks a lot ! Even if it's not in the region I live, I'll use this in the future! THANK YOU!

Sorry if instead of "also" I should have written "another solution", that's what I meant. Don't worry, I took time to write properly the descriptions, but I think the general information of cache webpage could be faster filled in, instead of reloading each time the page... and it can be very long when the server is saturated (and it can totally discourage to make proper descriptions!) Please, could you indicate me how you proceeded to get automatically your country and region filled in? I don't think that my caches placement is a "mass" placement... The containers are nearly all different, following a hiking circuit or besides places to see, and when I read enjoyed finders comments describing they would like to set several favorite points on a single cache because it would deserve it, I don't think it's a mass placement: http://coord.info/GC4BYMN http://coord.info/GC4C05W http://coord.info/GC4BYPP Another phenomenon is that geocachers don't go on the road for a lonely cache, they want to have several caches to find... and I would add that many people only automatically get coordinates and hints, and go seek those caches, without even looking at desciptions... that's another problem.

Hello! For information, here is what I wrote to Groundspeak developers to improve the time to fill in a new cache webpage: Here is fab_seeker, a french geocacher. I wanted to share with you an idea about the way to create a geocache webpage, and particularly when you want to create series of geocaches. It is very long to load the webpage each time when you pick the country... then the region/province... whereas I think many software tools could fill in these fields by checking the GPS coordinates. Is there any improvement plan on going in this way? Some geocachers have the time to publish many geocaches and fill in the whole information about their geocaches, but some may be discouraged to set series because of the required time to create the webpages of their caches. It took me 6h last time for 30 geocaches. I would have loved spending much of this time making other geocaches! I love imagine and create new unique geocaches but much less spending the whole afternoon in front of my computer to fill in web information. So if efforts could be done to lower the creation time of each cache web page it would be great! I think many other geocachers would thank you too! Thanks for reading! Best regards, fab_seeker I hope this may help. Maybe they could also automatically remember the last country and region used... this would waste much less time!