wsgaskins

Ok, so you have to own a GPS in order to go geocaching, so why not "you have to install Firefox to use our awesomest maps with the mostest and bestest features" . Us Firefox users are not opposed to having more features than IE. Actually, we're quite used to the situation.

... directed over here from another thread. First -- big DITTO! Great look on the icons, I especially like the fact that disabled caches show with the orange surround. Also, I just noticed the 'Topo' and 'DOQ' button options for the map data. Excellent! Now one tweak.... when I click 'hide my finds' and 'hide my caches', could those be removed from the list on the right sidebar as well? There are areas of a nearby town that is pretty cache dense and I have found many caches there, but when I want to use the 'hide my finds' option to see what is left, I can spot them on the map pretty quickly, but I can't easily see them from the list. And, I just did read in this thread about how updating that list of caches will be very difficult with each click of a checkbox. Could it be done with a 'refresh list' function button that would take into account the checkbox settings? I wouldn't be opposed to hitting 'refresh list' when I needed to. Thanks! (Firefox 2.0.0.8)

First -- big DITTO! Great look on the icons, I especially like the fact that disabled caches show with the orange surround. Also, I just noticed the 'Topo' and 'DOQ' button options for the map data. Excellent! Now one tweak.... when I click 'hide my finds' and 'hide my caches', could those be removed from the list on the right sidebar as well? There are areas of a nearby town that is pretty cache dense and I have found many caches there, but when I want to use the 'hide my finds' option to see what is left, I can spot them on the map pretty quickly, but I can't easily see them from the list. Thanks!

Most excellent! Thanks for this one!

Does this poor WAAS coverage explain why the east coast is typically higher PDOP than the rest of the country on the NavCen maps: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps/pdop.htm

That's a tricky one, isn't it! I was recently in South Lake Tahoe on vacation as well and I went to find that one, but I ended up on the wrong side of the fence -- just because I thought that it looked like it would more likely be over there. It looked to me like the fence was the state line, though, so the cache was definitely in Nevada. I think the 'state' designation on Geocaching.com listings are the value that is chosen by the hider when they fill out the hide-a-cache form. I don't believe that they geocode the coordinates to determine which state the cache is in. ..... Upon further review, the booth rules this "Nevada"! .....

logscaler -- It sounds to me like your Found It = Found It and then you went the extra mile (or <0.1 mi in this case ) and helped out a cache owner. I think that's wonderful karma points there! I've done this before as well, but the claim of FTF is, I thought, usually reserved for the first person to find the cache after it's listed on the site. Kinda like when a tribute cache is placed and the honoree goes with a larger group (or by themselves) to find the cache before the public listing is enabled. They aren't really the FTF even though they found it first. Is this too fine a line to draw? If it were my cache, I'd say that the next person to find the cache after it's listed can *also* claim FTF. Maybe what you have there is an FTFPTP -- First to Find Prior to Publication.

Hmmm.... Jsam -- how interesting, because I was just reviewing some of my first GasCans' coins logs and came across this: I think they're traveling together!

Come on down here and cache some in North Carolina. We could certainly use the rain. Our 5-star canoe access only caches are turning into park-and-grabs. See my log here for a canoe-only-access cache: Anyway, back to the races! I'm probably going to try to pick up another few from the NCGO Fall Fling 2nd Hippie Bus Launch. I saw another one in dflye's post about drilling that had a GasCans GeoDiesel along for the ride. Who else is doing the 'attach two coins together' thing?

Maybe you'll win in the category of most non-english log entries. Fire up that babelfish engine!

Very very cool.... where would the tracking # go? And there has already been one coin that purports to spy on your activities... I can't find a picture of the back, but there's a tiny circuit outlined on it. http://cointracking.com/photos/dflye_trade...py_Front300.jpg I like this one too! If you want to solder "real" components to the back of the coin, it would have to be prepared for soldering with the proper plating. I've never tried to solder to any of my geocoins before, though, so I don't know if the gold (or any other metal) is good or not.

I like this thread.... I come across it once and a while, so I figure I should contribute:

You're welcome ? Actually, what I "traded" with Moop Along here was an excellent setup and hosting of a game of GeoCoin Poker at GW5, so it was a trade in a way..... remember, I said that not all my trades were for other coins, although I did get a cool GW5 LE Poker Marker, so I'd say I came out ahead in that trade.

I gifted and traded a bunch at GW5. I was there to trade for just about anything that people were willing to trade. Mostly, I got trades for other personals, some trackable, some not trackable, and some hand-crafted items (not even geocoins). After GW5, I traded for more of the GeoTags from the first customers. Then I released a few to travel, and I have one on my keychain in case I loose it at/near a cache -- I know it's gonna happen sooner or later! I have run out of them now and need to re-order, when funds allow! One of the early customers was Islander1988, and I liked an idea that he had for them. He was using them as prizes for finders of his Puzzle Street cache series.

That's one mighty big ammo can! I know that I've said I can't afford many new coins these days, but heck --- maybe I'll get lucky and be able to snag one or four of these. I'm with gridlox -- how do we get onto the LE list? Just have to be quick on the draw at the shopping page when they go live? -- Scott

I'm glad that I used the search here before posting this problem again.... I just noticed it myself. I saw some talk in another thread that indicated Jeremy (& crew!!!) were consolidating onto Google Maps for everything coming soon and that the old maps of all stripes were going to disappear. It looks like the GeoMicro maps are still what are used for Trackable/Travel Bug's maps for now. But those are limited to a 20mi fixed scale (at least for the TB I wanted to look at today), and you only have the option to pan around. I, too miss looking at the old maps that showed your traveler crisscrossing the country or the world in long straight lines. :-( It's just not the same to see a collection of squares. REQUEST Please bring back some kind of Trackable's map that shows cache-to-cache travel patterns.

Here's the answer to the question I have seen about "why did this change come on so suddenly".

I didn't have time to read all the whole thread here, but I'd like to add that I like the new maps. I was impressed when I saw them yesterday for the first time. I don't usually use the map to do cache planning because of the 20-random-cache limitation of the display, but this time I could actually target a region of the town that I wanted to go to and see all the caches in that area, not just a handful randomly popping up when I scrolled. I also enjoyed playing with the "My Place Marker" feature, which I notice today is gone again. After I figured out how to use the place marker, I got really excited that I could drop a marker onto an existing cache location and have it display the 0.1mi radius circle around that point so I could quickly and easily tell where a (potentially) valid location for a new cache could go. I've been struggling with this for some time now using mostly Google earth and crude image overlays to try to get these circles drawn. Also, the display waymarks feature didn't produce anything for me yesterday and now I see it's also gone. That kind of integration could bring some people back to Waymarking..... please bring it back as soon as it gets to working again. Thanks for all your work on these things. I appreciate the ever changing nature of integrating 3rd party mapping, and I know you are doing your best to digest the new code that's been stuffed onto your plate!

You have still given them value, form and color. Some truly valuable geocoins in this plane of existence are not capable of ownership or icons (think of the source of all geocoins - Moun10bike v1) but that may not make them less of a geocoin. That is up to you to determine, Grasshopper. Like most things Zen, the answers you seek often come back to reveal more questions. Go and meditate on these things because only your own direct experience with these geocoins can determine their true worth.

Grasshopper, ... a geocoin has no value unless you give it value. ... a geocoin has no owner unless you count it in trackables owned. ... a geocoin has no meaning unless you assign it a Goal. ... a geocoin has no postage unless you mail it to someone else. ... a geocoin has no form unless it is handled. ... a geocoin has no colors unless it is viewed. ... a geocoin has no icon unless it is activated. ... a geocoin has no experience unless it is discovered. ... a geocoin has no knowledge unless it is traveling. Go and ponder the geocoins in your binder, Grasshopper. How many of your coins have value, an owner, meaning, postage, form, color, icon, experience, or knowledge? If a geocoin has none of these things then is it a geocoin? By this reflection, you may discover that you have very few geocoins.

Just picked up a couple. My friend cacher 'Pink Dolphin' will absolutely love these! -- Scott

I'd agree with Avroair here. Set the coins aside for a few months or a year. Unsubscribe from the forums. Take down your trader list(s). Go outside. Cache in a new state or twenty. Then as you see coins in caches that make you long for those old geocoin collecting days, come on back and meet the new collectors who will be very happy to trade the new coins coming out at that time for your rare (1-yr old) GCC coins, etc.

Well, now that I've entered the race, I was thinking the other day that I had a really good idea for this contest... but seems like Avroair already had the same idea! I knew there was a reason I liked you, man!!! wsgaskins Hippie Bus Racer with a Full GasCan -- ready to rock and roll!

That's where kealia's "one month rule" comes in.... it takes a while to get to know someone's intentions and build up a personal connection.

It's hard to get an idea of 'marketability' unless you get some negative feedback as well. That's one of the good reasons that it is helpful to be active in this forum or in geocaching usually for a certain period of time before you announce a coin -- especially one for sale. That time helps you get a feel for what the community's likes and dislikes are before you dive in with a coin that you *have* to sell to be able to afford it. But if you just want to make a personal coin and you're gonna drop them in caches or give them away as gifts and you have the $$ to do so, then there are no other "rules" (outside of the ones stated in the pinned topic at the top of this forum for trackables).