Tassie_Boy

5) No snake bites. One of our most prolific cachers here was seriously injured by a snake bite and snake photos appear in many of my logs. It's a big, serious threat here in cache locations. This morning on my walk I heard a rattle off the trail I was on. No need to stick your hand into a rockpile or a stump and end your life while nabbing a Jigglypuff No snakes is a bit of a stretch, wasn't the body find down by a creek? There's a prone spot for snakes there.

I'm getting the feeling that this sentence is the key to this long, long, looong conversation. Do you really need a constant view of the screen? Is this "problem" as simple to solve as turning the device off for a while and improving your bushcraft and sense of direction? Is everyone who goes out on these 8ish hour bushwalks geocaching using their caching machine (phone or standalone) as their sole means of navigation? Anyone carrying paper maps?

Was this a virtual cache? Maybe if the person knew the answers from when they were there they could answer them and say that they were there. Traditional

I would expect that if you had to buy membership for each region you wanted to cache in the forums would have gone critical by now.

I posted that other thread as a bit of a laugh, things have been getting pretty serious in general geocaching topics lately. It won't have any effect on geocaching, when a CO places a cache he takes the coordinates and then you return to those coordinates. Since geocaching began we've moved a little over a meter, a distance that's really to small for standard geocaching gear to distinguish.

Was just looking around the map and found this one on a really remote island that appears to host a US military base:

I've finally found a decent excuse for coordinates being off. It turns out were pretty quick here in Oz we've been moving north by 7cm a year, now scientists needs to re calculate latitude and longitude because it's all off by 1.5 meters since the datum was last redone in 1994. Link to ABC article http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/aust-latitude-longitude-coordinates-out-by-1-5m-scientists/7666858

1. While they aren't currently accepting new API partners, that hasn't always been the case. There are quite a number of apps on both the iOS and Android platforms that are using the API, and some are very highly-regarded and widely preferred over the official apps. 2. Groundspeak is under no obligation to follow the "open" movement. If they feel it's in their best interest to keep the API proprietary and closed to new partners, I don't see why they shouldn't be able to. As for the rest of your post, I wholeheartedly agree. I think there must have been some technical or legal reason that forced Groundspeak to prematurely kill off the old app and roll out this unfinished one, and they aren't at liberty to tell us the reason why. While I think you're irrationally forgiving with them as to "why," I agree there's no law requiring Groundspeak to be anything other that closed, proprietary, and anti-competetive. At this they excel. What's anti competitive about them not allowing other businesses access to their system? Is their data on their equipment. I'd consist being anti competitive as actively discouraging or harming other geocaching services.

Did you visit it, or did you just pick it up in one of your sweeps? Lol, "sweeps"! Good one. No, it was a cache listing I found and noticed it hadn't been found in quite a while. I didn't search for it for 2 reasons, 1: its many miles away, 2: its most likely MIA. So yes, yes you did.

It happens, I remember back when I was a Cub turning up one night to find the door to the scout hall smeared with the stuff. Sadly some people never really get it.

I can't see you getting a lot of support for this. Making hiders at least use a browser but more probably use a PC means that at least some effort has to go into a listing because you have to go out of your way to fill out the forms. Embedding cache page creation in the app is likely to lead to pressing a button to capture your (very fuzzy) location, dropping a cheap, crap container and never ever thinking about it again.

What I've heard around the traps is that the classic app was purchased by GS from a third party, the third party developers had to do any upgrades to the software and it was going to cost them big money to start putting new features like the messaging system in, so they brought it all in house and developed the intro app turned geocaching app. So no they can't just release the code and make it open source because it's not their's to release.

Cachely is an iPhone app not available on the Android system (yet?).

I religiously listen to Podcacher, have tried a couple of others (won't name names) but they just sounded like fingers down a blackboard grater to me.

How long afterwards are you checking? It would probably take some time for it to update on the servers and then again on your phone.

Nope, not a letterbox. I've seen hole punches put in to geotrail containers. You turn in your passbook with the punches to get a geocoin. But if they put stamps in to each container instead of a punch then yes, they could post it as an LBH. A tool that does the job described above is also called a stamp, making it valid.

Just wondering if there's any word from HQ on this? Found caches on Saturday that N'dM, had my thinking cap on for the first one and logged the NM via Classic however I now have the suspicion there was another one that didn't get the log because I couldn't through Geocaching app.

RFID technology can't be used for tracking. It is a passive system and the power for the chip comes from the reader. There ate however GPS systems that can be used for this purpose but they are meant for at least site boxes and wouldn't be feasible for a geocache.

Don't know if it ever happened but there was a bloke here a couple of years ago who was trying to turn his cargo ship into a TB.

I generally do but get very very frustrated when it's a huge read, deep into the topic and then 2 lines at the end about the actual cache. If the CO has to present that much about it then I'd prefer if it was at the top of the page or at least well separated some how so it stands out from the rest of the text.

I think you forgot Irukandji jellyfish but none of that compares with PA poison ivy and ticks I'll take a bit of poison ivy over a box jelly fish, a blue ring octopus or a king brown any day.

Who Cares? I really don't think you understand Geocaching. I do understand geocaching. I was giving an example of how communities are not always covered by a post office within them. That said, we have established that some don't even mention a community at all. Some because they're puzzles and don't want to spoil the location, others because the owners simply don't know where they placed the cache but the coordinates. Although they must've had permission somehow. You still don't get it.location often isn't mentioned because it doesn't matter. The map shows you roughly where the cache is and coordinates show exactly where it is. An imaginary line on the ground between 2 suburbs doesn't come into it at all. How do you handle a cache that doesn't have any sort of an "official" location?

Maybe you should post a needs archived for that. That could really mess up your cache planning. I know, and hopefully others will know, the park isn't in Newark but west of it so if they use the GPS coords they will be able to find the cache despite the misleading info. I'm not sure you quite get what you are saying, nobody pays any attention to the town the cache is in our near apart from getting to the general area. Here's a cache page that works on your system: This cache is in Dover. Good luck finding that, you could go adding more details to lead you there but that's a different game called letterboxing. We use gps coordinates to play this game which gets you to within around 3 meters of where the cache is, you don't need to know anything else about the location. Besides that, getting your knickers in a twist because a cache says it's "In Dover" when is actually "500 yards outside Dover" is just over pedantic, it's in bloody Dover. Get outside and do some geocaching.

It will get you close enough. There isn't a huge amount of difference in terms of accuracy between a modern phone and a modern consumer grade gps. I'd suggest making a start with the phone then later on down the track you might want to think and a stand alone gps if you ate getting worried about battery life or the safety of your phone.

They're talking about what is now the official geocaching app. Some people don't lilt the fact that anyone can download it and go looking for caches, somehow it makes them feel dirty.