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Carsten

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  1. That would bog down your facebook status updates and bog down your friends news feeds if you sent a status update for every single log/find that you get....

     

    No, it wouldn't, since the request is for an option to choose for each log if it should be shared or not just as to avoid your scenario. Sharing all logs on Facebook/Twitter is possible right now, even with the API.

  2. When posting a log using the website, you can choose whether you want to share this log on Twitter and/or Facebook. If you use a 3rd party application (like GSAK) for logging your caches, you currently have no chance to do any selective sharing of your logs. You can only globally activate or deactivate sharing on Twitter/Facebook in your profile.

     

    Please think about enhancing the API so that you can set a flag for each sent log indicating if it should be shared on Twitter and/or Facebook or not!

     

    Thanks in advance!

    Carsten

  3. I'm not sure what to make of it. But it doesn't exactly tell me what it's doing.

     

    The first part says, you have to login to verify, that you are a premium member. All cache data in the database is property of Groundspeak and may not be published according to their TOU.

     

    The last sentence is interesting: "I have permission from Groundspeak to make the cache data available to premium members only using the member check above.". An official statement of a Groundspeak lackey would be nice.

     

    Edit: Just looked up the username: He isn't premium member himself but states to have permission to publish cache data to premium members? Where does he get the cache data from? Really strange.

  4. So you're proposing that every notification that goes out to every PM with notifications set up grows by 400% ??

     

    Sorry for quoting you a second time, but since there was already another answer I don't want to edit my original posting :)

     

    You won't need a GPX file attached to every notification going out. As suggested before, it could be an option to toggle and furthermore it is not necessary for every logtype. But it would be great to have it sent with at least publish, archive and update coordinates notifications (and perhaps enable/disable listing).

  5. So you're proposing that every notification that goes out to every PM with notifications set up grows by 400% ??

     

    Yes, where is the problem? We are no longer living in a low bandwidth world (the majority of users surely has a broadband connection). What would the alternative look like? Accessing the website to download the same GPX and generate about 400 to 500kB traffic for loading the average cache listing page.

  6. Control-click or shift-click on the cache link in the list to open it in a new window or tab. Then when you're done with that cache, close the window or tab and go back to the original list.

     

    You can do this, but it's still more than one click. At least 3 clicks: Open the new tab, click submit, close the tab. With a little help of AJAX this could be easily done with one click.

  7. No use to reinvent the wheel. :D

     

    I agree, no need to reinvent. But the process of bookmarking could sometimes be easier if it would require just one click to bookmark a cache. It would be great, to have something like a quick bookmark function: Additional one click bookmark ability from listing and map view that adds the cache instantly to a predefined (default) bookmark list without the step of specifying the target bookmark list and then navigating back through the browser history.

  8. I have checked with Brian, and his definitive answer is that these 'rogue' TBs are not of concern to us - reviewers and GS staff. We cannot govern their usage, and Geocachers are allowed to give out GC codes. I hope that helps, and puts minds at ease.

     

    Sandy,

     

    just to get this clear: Is it allowed to give out GC codes *and* the corresponding coordinates or is it just allowed to give the GC code without coordinates?

  9. I found Google Earth invaluable for a quick check of the caches in a region and to choose which to go for.

     

    That's a task you can easily complete using Geocaching.com-GoogleMaps. No need to install and use an external application for this.

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