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    this thing is so screwed up

    in General geocaching topics

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    So... I enter in the name of the city where I'm looking for caches. That's screwy -often taking me to an assumed cache and not the town/city I typed in or often just taking me to my hometown caches. Once I do find the listing for the caches where I'm going I used to click "MAP" to have the caches displayed on a map. Not anymore. I can't find the maps. "MAP" used to be right there on the page. Not anymore. So I tried  pressing the three little dots to see  if I could  get the maps from there. That worked for a bit, if it didn't take me back to my hometown caches.  Now when I try clicking those three little dots  all I get is" placed on info" whatever the heck that means.

    brochure

    in General geocaching topics

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    When I went to the city clerk's office there were a bunch of old ladies who didn't know what I was talking about and didn't really want to know. So I thought I'd send the mayor a letter with a brochure. Didn't know geocachingu was no longer around.I can use the brochure that geocaching.com has, but it is a lite version of geocaching and I'm going to have to include one heck of a letter with it to get the idea across.

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    brochure

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    But what would it say? It needs to be something that I can give to the mayor that would explain geocaching and impress upon him the legitimacy of the game, not just some kooky hobby, so that he hopefully would allow me to hide geocaches in the parks.

    brochure

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    Yea, I read where people have been posting on TikTok that caches have money in them. Bad publicity.

    What I liked about the trifold brochure from geocachingu is that I could give it to people I was trying to get permission to place a geocache from that didn't know what geocaching was. I also had one with me to give to the police should they ever question what I was doing. It made geocaching sound very legitimate unlike having this crazy woman trying to explain what she was doing. Thanks for the brochure webpage- it will have to do.

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    Things only cachers say

    in General geocaching topics

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    The youngest of our group always is assigned to do any difficulty. I'm 66, my caching friend is 70.

    "Okay, I'll climb up that incline, struggle over the loose rocks, and wade through the pricker bushes and spider webs to bring the cache back down for you to sign."

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    Things only cachers say

    in General geocaching topics

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    On 2/4/2020 at 7:15 AM, HunterandSamuel said:

    Does screaming count as things cachers say? Opening an ammo can...out popped a realistic looking rubber snake. SCREAM! 

    My friend and I went looking for a multi in a park. We started it, but couldn't finish it. I came back later to try for myself. One of the stages was up high overhead. When I went to pull it down all these earwigs that had made a nest behind it fell down on me. "Agh!" I managed to find the rest of the stages and log a smiley. Later I was with my friend and we decided to stop and eat lunch in the park. She went off to complete the stages to the geocache. I had just settled down to eat my lunch at a picnic table when I heard my friend scream. I grinned, "Ah, she must have found the stage with the earwigs."

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    Looking for lots of opinions

    in General geocaching topics

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    4 hours ago, NYPaddleCacher said:

     

    All https means is that data sent in between a client (your web browser) and server is encrypted before sending it across the internet.  That's important for sites which require a login an password.   It doesn't protect a user if the contents of a site are nefarious.  Although Groundspeak allows puzzle caches which use external web sites, there are restrictions.  One of them is that the site can't require a login.  Html isn't a program, but just a markup language.   Web pages that appear to be interactive more most likely using "javascript", which *is* executable in a web browser.  It's not inherently bad (the geocaching.com site contains a *lot* of javascript),  Flash and Java Applets are two other mechanisms for executing code in the browser and both are risky.   Downloading and installing something from a web site is the most risky and Groundspeak won't allow a puzzle to be published that requires such a download.  

    NYpaddlecacher-  This website I'm thinking of using is java enabled and is probably used to run their games. I wonder if there is someone at headquarters who could look at my the webpage  before I publish it. Don't know about running it by a reviewer- would they be able to tell me whether or not it's a good idea.

    Looking for lots of opinions

    in General geocaching topics

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    I'm just thinking about the time I downloaded some music into a well used website and told someone to look at it. They got back to me and said to send it to them in an email. When they went to the website all kinds of bells and whistles from their antivirus went off. I know if I go to a website without the "s" on https in the URL my antivirus tells me I could be heading for trouble- not that there is trouble- only that the website could be compromised because there is no security "s". The program I want to use is run as .html. I don't now how to make an app- not that computer savvy.

    Looking for lots of opinions

    in General geocaching topics

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    Hi all,

      If I wanted to do a puzzle cache and it involved playing a game on another website or doing some computations on another website to get he answer, would you be willing to do it? Would you be risking getting a virus or tracking cookies or malware? Would having an antivirus on your computer be enough for you to want to run it? Would it make a difference if it was a well used website by many others and not some flybynight?- maybe even get my own website, but not sure if I'd have protection with that? Am I even allowed to do that?

    downloading waypoints

    in How do I...?

    Posted · Edited by Luckless

    I do see how to download each one. I used to be able to download multiple caches, but now I can't see how to do it. Did they change it?

    (since you're both premium members maybe your search pages are different.)

    What the heck!

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by Luckless

    arisoft,

    I had a problem checking the map. The stage coordinates didn't show up as too close when I typed them in. Nothing showed up until I typed in all 11 stages. It wasn't until I typed in the final coords that they then all said I was too close. Then I came here:)  Being new to the new system I thought maybe the problem was that I couldn't place my physical stages so close together, not that I was too close to another cache. Maybe I need to start with the final coords first so I don't have to do all that typing?

     

    What the heck!

    in General geocaching topics

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    Yup that was it. It was too close to another cache. Oh darn. It was on the opposite side of the road, but still too close.
    Interesting, I used the new mapping system to see how close my coordinates were to other caches. With the old system I could type in the coordinates of one of my caches and  it would tell me how close to any other caches (but not any hidden stages of those caches) those coordinates were. This new system doesn't do that. The old system says one of my stages is 178 feet from Tundra Wolf's cache, Wolfsbane.  Wow, one more reason not to like the new mapping system, but then I wonder if the new mapping system is designed more for  smart phone use. Does any one know if there is a way to use the new system and learn distance to other caches?

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