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  1. I suggest you contact the reviewer who has handled your caches (assuming these are going to be in the same area) and ask how they'd like you to proceed. Ask that they be published together in a reviewer note. If two different account names will be owners, specify that. Write 'em up as soon as hidden and submit as soon as ready. Don't sit on them. Better that they trickle in over time than hit the review queue all at once.
  2. There are some examples. I can think of some early in the Geo-art craze in the U.S.A. However for some years, reviewers have been told NO exceptions to the 2 mile limit on Mystery caches for the sake Geo-art, and to be careful about the mis-use of cache types for geo-art. That information has been part of a Help Center article for several years.
  3. Looking at your cache with my admin account, I see one set of coords at the top of the listing, and this same set of coords is preloaded into the checker, (as it is always.) And a different set of coords, about 380ft away as Final, hidden but with the usual "cache is not here, but a good place to park" language. I believe the coords are reversed from what is correct, as your Q&A = your listing coords. You can fix this from edit. First, update the listing coords to what's now your final. Then update your final to what's now your listing coords. The checker will automajically update itself. This reversal has nothing to do with the checker or using it. You entered them backwards initially. I see this from time to time, the set up on the Mystery page of the cache report confuses people, and they enter their bogus coords first, though it asks for the Final first (and then won't let you hide it until you add another stage, but doesn't explain that). That page of the cache report needs help with its language to make this clearer.
  4. Caches won't be unarchived for adoption. If you're moving the finals anyway new listings make more sense. You don't need to link to the cartridge in the related web page field, in fact, I'd suggest NOT doing it that way. The current cache report system doesn't support that, and not all devices will have that link. Link to cartridge in the body of the cache page. You'll need to be able to rewrite the cartridge to create the new final, ie, you'll have to own the cartridge. Or at a minimum, have the current owner's password on Wherigo.com. OR he can send you the GWC and you can work from that and upload it to Wherigo as a new cart, under your name. There may be a mechanism for transferring listings on Wherigo.com, ask in the Wherigo forums about that.
  5. My take on why 2 different standards: Earthcaches are reviewed by a small number of reviewers. ( For a long time, they were all reviewed by one GeoAware. One guy, reading pages from all over the world; and then him and another GSA staffer). Local knowledge by the GeoAware accounts is variable. Virts are reviewed by the area reviewer. Presumably with a better sense of the locale, and a better sense of when to ask questions about access, or request an explicit permission statement. The permission standard for Virtual Rewards is in line with permission standard for caches generally.
  6. Apologies, I did respond to something different than what you originally wrote of. To see the profile of a player with special characters in the username, go to any cache they own,( or a log of theirs on any cache )- using your example: go to https://coord.info/GC7CR0T go to the top, and click on the link of the cache owner's name there. that link uses the players guid, which will work. https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=2afd21fe-f667-40e3-a079-d6be494b04ae
  7. I wanted to reiterate this point, anpefi is correct. Create the PQ, RUN IT ! (set a day for it to run, usually, today). Once it has run, you'll see under the Pocket Queries Ready for Download tab on the pocket query page. It will remain there for a week. During that week, it behaves as a "list" and can be loaded and saved to your smartphone.
  8. My response assumes you have the username. One of the search panes is Hidden by. That pane will suggest usernames as you start filling it in. I assume it's the same module as "find a player"
  9. Here's a link to the guidelines for publication of the 2017 Virts photo CAN be required, not a photo of cachers face. "cross your fingers and make a photo so object is visible behind your fingers"? That seems okay to me. Helps eliminate random vacation photos. Throw hat, no, I'd have to wear a hat, and I'd have to be good enough with a camera to capture it in the air.
  10. Other special characters do this as well. I reported this quite some time back, not going to hunt for when. I find it adorable that not only does it not work, but it takes you to Old Search, where any special character username will fail. New Search will handle those names.
  11. Assuming by "this app" you mean the Geocaching.com app, then you can place your items, take coordinates for them - see this Help Center article on accurate coordinates. Scroll down to see the section on the Geocaching App. See also this This Help Center Article: Add a waypoint Once the waypoints are in your phone, others can use them to find the items from that phone. Not from some other phones, though you can share the waypoints for hand loading into other phones. I'd suggest you pick them up when you're finished instead of planning to leave them. Search, find, pick up. For "others to find" you'd have to successfully submit the 5 waypoints as caches to be published, as "others" would only be able to see them through publication on this site. See Hide a Cache I suspect that your 5 point search will be unlikely to meet this site's listing guidelines, and the effort to learn what's required for publication exceeds what's reasonable for your adventure.
  12. If you're wanting some reviewer input, YES, submit for review, or, email your local reviewer with the GC CODE of the cache. Some reviewers prefer one, some the other. If you don't know which, I'd go with Submit, possibly titling the cache Not Ready to Publish, or Coords Checking, or something so that it doesn't accidentally get published. Ask your question(s) in your reviewer note. If you're wondering if the cache holds the spot, yes, even unpublished, it will be seen by a reviewer IF another cache is submitted near it, and you'll be given "dibs", provided yours is the older cache page, and the reviewer note offers info about when you're going forward, and it hasn't been many months since you last posted something to the page. I'd modify this as, you should not send any cache for PUBLICATION without a container in place. You can submit to ask questions, making it clear that the cache is NOT ready. ( I expect we've all seen the novice hider who writes up page, submits, and then finds out that it got published and people are out hunting it before they actually placed it.) (Is it visible to a reviewer? In a sense, any unpublished cache on the site is visible to a reviewer, if they go look for it. .Reviewer notes are NOT forwarded to reviewers. They're just sitting on the page, waiting to be read by whichever reviewer opens the page on submit. During review, if a reviewer asks a question, they may put the cache on watch, so that logs to it come as email.)
  13. I expect sTeamTraen already knows this, it's not a response to the original request - you can see your owned hides absent archived from both a Pocket Query and from Search. A PQ of caches I own will NOT include archived and from Search, here's search for caches owned by hcy https://www.geocaching.com/play/search?ot=4&owner[0]=hcy You can use a pocket query to see caches I own with the NM attribute. You can use the maintenance page as well, https://www.geocaching.com/hide/cachemaintenance.aspx but it includes unpublished listings, which for some, really muddies the waters.
  14. Hi m3rcapto - I checked, and your cache is in the South Island queue, which looks to be pretty busy. ,
  15. Both caches were resubmitted. Expectation for reviews is 7 days. I hope you received the email that is generated each time a cache is submitted; it contains that info! If not, check that the email address on your Geocaching.com account . It should be one that you check, and be sure that the service provider doesn't put email from "noreply@Geocaching.com" into a spam folder.
  16. You can get back there by going to the Help Center, linked at the bottom of every page on Geocaching.com and there, enter Benchmark as a search term. It's also linked from the top of forum, Geocache Types and Additional GPS Based Gameplay in the intro to the Benchmark section.
  17. You cannot. Lab caches are (mostly) awarded to Mega and Giga event hosts. In the past, once, there was a period where any Premium Member could create a single Lab cache. My memory (possibly wrong) is that the cache they created could only be logged once. So it was created for a specific individual.
  18. Windows Pro, Firefox, Greasemonkey off.. tried in both Player and Admin accounts, just to be sure I wasn't seeing some oddity of what an admin account will see On Play Search clicking the Quick Search for Events. As set up, this is all event types within 30 miles of my home coords On getting a on no, a DNF! (no events upcoming with 30 miles) I altered the distance from 30 miles to 60 miles, and then down to 31 miles, just for kicks, as suggested - "Increase your search radius" This creates a list of ALL worldwide event caches 3,397 ranked on placed date, so the first many are 4000-5000 miles away. Editing radius for the other Quick Searches retains parameters, and just adds radius, as requested.
  19. RE the trackables page, and my post above, this email today from novice cache hider: I have tried to figure out how to add the trackable to the cache, but I'm having difficulty find the info on how to do that. The current trackable page provides misinformation on this, and to find it somewhat correctly covered in the Help Center, you'd have already know that logging a trackable into a cache involved, "inventory". I've contacted the staffer who is working on the Help Center updates about the wrong info in the current logging a trackable article, which I assume was copied. Drop or Visit of a trackable is done as part of logging a cache, not from the "trackables details page".
  20. You should get an automated response via email very soon after filling in the Contact form. If you did NOT get that, then try filling in the form again. If you did get that, then wait a bit. It could well go beyond 3 days. Summer is a busy time for staff, and they just released Virtual Rewards, which I expect occupied the same staffers. Things could be a bit slow now. Request Received y Thank you for contacting Geocaching HQ with your appeal. We will do our best to get back to you within 3 business days in an effort to resolve your appeal. Please note: Geocaching HQ rarely makes an exception to the geocaching guidelines or overturns a decision of the local volunteer reviewers..........
  21. In Reviewer mode this morning, I clicked the Trackable link assuming I'd find (as in the past) a "how to log a trackable into a cache". The explanation in the FAQs now covers half of trackable movement, GRAB, and ignores the other half, DROP. This is critical info, and needs to be there. Drop is not done from the "trackable details page", it's part of logging a cache. Please, this info must be presented. Once I realized I could not use a link for this, I wrote In my Reviewer note : Post a log to the cache page and select the trackable from your INVENTORY to "drop it" into the cache. I'm not sure how this looks on apps, but that's how it looks on the site. I know you guys are trying to make it clean and simple, but please, " Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. " Thanks
  22. Hello VermonterAtHeart, you've written Reviewer notes, but you have NOT submitted the cache to the review queue. If you log onto the cache page,https://coord.info/GC7AJTP (only the cache owner or a site admin will see anything there ) at the top, you'll see a box of text with a Submit for Review button. Click that. Then a reviewer see your cache. Sorry you missed the opportunity to have your friends hunt it.
  23. This reads as a question for the GSAK forums Macro subsection, you may find an answer in the FAQ
  24. QUOTE: Mine is well spread out, but not quite 161 metres from one of them as the crow flies. Two of those micros are less than 161 metres apart, There are no caches in the area that violate cache saturation, though the PMO status of the Multi may be confusing you on this. You moved your final from being too close to the final of multi-cache, which as a PMO cache, you could not see to find and hence had no way to know where it is - a completely understandable issue, and one for which you'll get sympathy - to being much too close to a Traditional cache, which is not PMO. You were given good advice about using site tools to avoid cache saturation, and apparently failed to note it. The bulk of the heavy lifting in creating your cache page (which IS a nice one) will not need to be reworked, just fiddle with the numbers in the text, once you find a final location. You really need to start with understanding cache saturation and how to use site tools to avoid it. I won't repeat those links.
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