Tassie_Boy

Best bet would be to add attributes back into the app however i do have 2 pieces of advice: - if you're after something specific in a cache jump on the website and play around, for some reason planning is a lot easier when you have everything there in front of you. - water caches are generally quite simple to spot, the are surrounded by blue on the map.

But that's not the point. He's setting a geocache that requires lock picking to get in and with the correct difficulty level there is nothing wrong with that. So what if you go out and find out you can't get it there and then? Go home, watch some YouTube videos, drop into bunnings and get a cheap lock to practice on. Then once you're confidant go back, crack the lock and sign the log feeling proud that you've taken on a challenge (a real one) and beaten it, learning a new skill along the way. Some people need to slow down their caching and remember that a) you don't always have to get every cache and is about more than jumping out of the car, undoing another 2 fruits bottle in the obvious hole and moving on to the next one.

I have a QR code cache in the works now. I have one in the works with QR codes and NFC tags, but the NFC tags leave the Apple folks out, so I need to offer up a plan B for them. And QR codes leave those of us without smart phones out. I solved a puzzle cache that was a QR code and had to bring it to work to have someone with a smart phone get the answer for me. You can get a photo with a normal camera then up load it to a Web service that will do the reading for you.

This is the second time I've seen this come up in this thread and i do have to ask; what do you expect from the police when you tell them someone is busting up the tupperware you are leaving everywhere? In an ideal world nobody would touch anything that isn't their's but this is far from an ideal world.

Might be worth you asking that question in the ios forums.

Good luck with that. It's not a thing limited to Groundspeak, in fact is probably the norm in commercial IT. Much of the software out there these days, including from companies with much bigger budgets than GS, put out many smaller updates rather than taking the time to get it right the first time. And i suspect we're the cause of it.

The NA posted by the OP surely got the reviewers attention. Looks like the reviewer took good cate of that NA ? Do you mean that the reviewer ignored the NA posted by the OP? Looks like 19 of us have that cache on our watchlist. Can it be considered ignoring if they pressed the delete button on it though No, but the reviewer has not archived the cache and it is still published, so I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly. The NA and associated logs from op are gone.

The NA posted by the OP surely got the reviewers attention. Looks like the reviewer took good cate of that NA ? Do you mean that the reviewer ignored the NA posted by the OP? Looks like 19 of us have that cache on our watchlist. Can it be considered ignoring if they pressed the delete button on it though

The NA posted by the OP surely got the reviewers attention. Looks like the reviewer took good cate of that NA ?

If any of your assumptions were were correct, the reviewer would almost certainly not have published it. This CO has thousands of finds and hundreds of hides. Calm down, this is not a trap. Your N/A post was really inappropriate. I disagree. I think it is appropriate, but that's just because there is no container. You don't know that. Just because the listing says there is no container does not mean there is no container. Do you really think the reviewer would have approved the cache listing if he thought there was no container? Really??? It's not unknown for descriptions to be changed after publication, it's not as though the site is set up to electrocute you through your keyboard if you lie. But on the other hand we don't, as usual, know what has gone on on the back end of the cache page prior to publication.

Look at the logs. I did, again. And there's nothing in the logs or the description that mention anything about going out at night.

He's got almost 300 caches and you're worried he's staking it out to grab the first finder? Hope he's got plenty of patience.

Read the description, then read it again. You'll find the CO has any details required in there, otherwise flick them a message.

Lackeys have explained several times that the classic app is well and truly past it and to bring it up to the standard of what they want out of the new app would have meant scrapping it altogether and staying afresh, which is what they've done.

As others have mentioned Groundspeak is a business and the app in basic mode is a taster. They get the chance to go out and find a few then if they want to see what the ones behind the greyed out they must either pay to upgrade or start visiting the website. Don't forget that a basic user on that app pays nothing. They do not contribute to Groundspeak at all. Which means nothing is going towards keeping the servers going, paying wages to the staff that support the Web page. Think of the tadpoles!

He has a point at the end, you point to a big (assuming you mean 20L) bucket as a 10. There are actually caches in place constructed from 40' shipping containers. Where do they fit?

That would be correct considering the UK uses the Metric system.

As far as using a geocaching app goes, one system is about as good as the other. From what i gather the apps available on the two are pretty much fairly similar and there is basically zero difference if you go for the GS option. Where you will notice a difference is with the unit it self. If you decide on Apple then you get an iPhone, that's it. It is what it is and you need to live with it. If you decide on the android system then you are able to get something that is more "best fit" for you. You have the option for anything between a $10,000 machine designed to be carried around by your butler and handled with cotton gloves to a machine put out by the caterpillar group that is not only built to take a beating but includes extra goodies like an IR camera. Point being that when it comes to caching features such as waterproofing or screens that work in the rain are really handy and can usually be matched to features you need away from caching too.

On the one hand i want to say they probably enjoy them, if nobody logged finds on them they wouldn't get hidden. On the other i want to say you don't get 10,000 finds chasing high rating caches.

I always believed it was to do with a situation that I've seen pop up on the forums in the past where to log the cache you had to ask the shop keeper and they would go and get the container from it the back with the cacher therefore feeling obliged to purchase.

This is what I'm trying to get at. Several of the nearby national parks have big visitor's centres with souvenir shops, interpretation centres and cafés. They also have to justify their existence by the number of people through. Government run our not is still a commercial operation. Also on keystone's comment on the military bases. What are the chances of your average Afgahni cacher being allowed in to find them?

This might create a problem if it requires entering a business and interacting with the staff. In South Africa many hikes require permits which you need to collect before you set out for the hike and in many cases you also need to "sign out" on your return. So I don't believe that this would cause a problem. I'm unfamiliar with South African practices, of course, so your reviewer will be the authority on this issue. But in the USA, having to check in with a privately operated facility (such as a Boy Scout camp) would constitute "interacting with the staff" like NanCycle said, and would present a problem under the commercialism guideline. In contrast, having to obtain a hiking or boating permit from a public (governmental) land manager would not be a problem. So question for you then keystone, what's the difference between the two? If i read the OP correctly the interactions with the staff are just to sign in for the walk, not anything to do with the cache. As far as they're concerned you are there for a walk in the bush and the sign in procedures are a part of their WHS obligations. At a national park there is usually a fee to pay that involves interacting with staff who, like it or not, do have an agenda to push. I have seen from conversations on the forums that there are plenty of caches on military bases. How are these different to what's being proposed?

I tried the free app for the first time on the weekend and have to say i was fairly happy with it. The cache page has all the essential info on it, it's relatively easy to navigate and i was able to log trackables in the field, something that in the past meant pulling up the cache page in the browser and struggling along with that. I won't be saying goodbye to the classic app yet as i still need offline caching but i think the 2 can happily coexist on my caching machine.

Thought on the adequate permission issue OP is running up against. OP may be in a position of authority in the club at the moment but clubs are generally very fluid things and those who are on the executive may not even be members in 2 years time. The reviewer wants to make sure that a cacher doesn't get the third degree for being on "private" land in 3 or 4 years time when there is a flush of new members. Easily solved be getting the secetary to send them something on the letterhead or a copy of the meeting minutes in which the club approved the cache. All this is perfectly normal when a club deals with another organisation.

Climbed plenty of evergreen trees, it can be quite easy.