MikeofKorea
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I see "download .loc file", but not .gpx file. Hmm.
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I just renewed my premium membership after a lapse. I used to be able to download GPX files to my Garmin, but that option doesn't appear anymore. Can anyone fill me in on what the deal is now?
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Is there a way to adopt geocaches en masse instead of one by one? I left South Korea and moved back to America, and the ROK Geocachers will adopt my Korean geocaches, but I am sick of doing it one at a time. If mass adoption isn't possible, then I'll just keep them and archive them as they deteriorate and nobody can find them anymore.
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I will be visiting and traveling around Australia in January and February next year. As I find geocaches in Australian states, will I get a little icon on my profile for each state as I do in America and Canada?
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After you make any search, you will see a "Map this Location" on the top (right under the yellow bar).
Click on it.
The map page will open and inside the sidebar, on the bottom left, under the cache type icons, you will have "Save as Pocket Query".
Click on it.
Or simply build a Pocket Query.
Thanks for the reply, but my point is on the map page, there is no longer any sidebar as there used to be.
I would post a screen capture, but the forum doesn't seem to allow it.
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With the old map, there was a little sidebar you could slide into view and out of view in order to make your current map view a pocket query. That is gone with the new mapping system. Can someone fill me in on how you make pocket queries nowadays? Without pocket queries, my geocaching will be pretty scant.
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I have found a work-around. I can't use the main page where it has the little magnifying glass, but I can click a tiny little link on the side of my profile page to search my local area and create a map. That brings up the old style map with the side bar. What a pain in the backside. Who "designed" the new pages?
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Everything on the geocaching.com website has changed, but now I can't make pocket queries!
There used to be a side bar that you could open to request a pocket query for the map you make, but that's gone. Can you help me find out the new way?
I have a screen shot, but you can't upload screen shots to the forums, so trust me, there is no side bar tag to open.
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Is it possible to establish a Waymark in an online virtual world?
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I was just thinking that if everyone checked their hides on Google Maps or something, they could make sure their coordinates aren't too totally off. For example, this cache isn't in the middle of the road; it's on the pedestrian crosswalk nearby. The owner could reset his posted coords to the crosswalk by using the map. What do you think?
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Today while hunting a cache, I found a plastic container not hidden, just kind of in a depression in the ground leaning up against a small tree. This is in Korea. On the outside were faded Korean letters, but I could read a name and "time capsule". Inside were some notes, an article about Chinese characters, etc. On the paper with the article, a geocacher I have met but don't really know wrote her name and the date of her "find". From experience, I knew this container was not a geocache. There was nothing geocache about it at all, really, except it was a plastic container off the beaten trail. I found the real cache less than a meter away tucked between two rocks. When I got home, I looked at the logs for the cache, and noticed that the geocacher in question had recorded the find and noted that the cache was missing a logsheet. Normally, I'd just send a note and say that they need to go back and straighten this out, but she recorded it as her only Day 25 find of the 31 Geocaching Days of August event. Technically, she did not find a cache on Day 25, but I don't want to embarrass her. What would a more experienced geocacher do, ignore it? tell her?
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I saw someone commented on this topic a year+ ago, but no follow up. Is it possible to get that terrible map at geocaching.com to come up with only the cache hides of a specific geocacher so I can look for those specifically? Currently, if you go and look at all a certain geocacher's hides then click Map this Location, you get everyone's geocache hides in that area with no indication whatsoever of which ones belong specifically to the geocacher you're looking for. What am I missing, or has geocaching.com "improved" something again?
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Worms, lots of worms.
Plus not really geocaching.
Thanks for the reply. I'll probably won't pursue this idea further.
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Sounds to me like what is known as armchair logging - which I believe contravenes the guidelines.
I would also expect - assuming the souvenir is an official Groundspeak one - that Groundspeak wouldn't like this either.
I suppose it has the possibility of abuse. I think it's a fun activity, deciphering coordinates just for the sake of deciphering them, but that probably falls outside the realm of geocaching. Thanks for your reply.
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I've seen this done before, but I don't know how common it is. I want to create a Mystery Cache in which any premium member will have the opportunity to solve a puzzle or code to determine a set of cache coordinates but not have to visit the physical cache location. By this method, a person could earn a South Korea badge (I live in South Korea) without having to actually fly to South Korea. I would like to hear some feedback about this. As I said, I have seen it before, but I'm not going to say where just in case it's a can of worms. If it's a can of worms, then I'll drop the idea.
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I've read and seen a lot of folks talking about centroid geocaches, but I can't find anything sensible on how to determine your centroid geocache. Is there a program or an equation with your farthest East West North South caches, or what?
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I'm American, but got started in geocaching here in Korea, and the Korean situation is a little different. It's a tiny country, so a Travel Bug isn't going to travel very far anyway unless people who are leaving can get to the TBs and take them. I like the idea of a TB hotel near the airport, though. I wish it were bigger, though. It's a fake rock and holds only a couple regular size TBs at a time.
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There is a travel bug hotel I want to go to, and the cache page seems normal, people have found it and logged and taken/dropped TBs there, but the name has the word "exiled" in it in parentheses. Does these mean something I should know, or did the creator of the cache have some esoteric notion in mind?
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OK, I just didn't want to be doing something crazy! Thanks!
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I want to send a geocoin to a specific cache on the other side of the country by geocachers taking it cache to cache to cache. At the destination, I want my friend to take it and keep it. How would that work? Is that unusual? Unacceptable?
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In my profile I selected my local time zone (Korea Standard Time) as my time zone, but on geocaching.com, everything I do comes up as the previous day, like it's USA time. I found a cache on Saturday morning, but my account records it as Friday evening. Is there anything I can do to make the dates on my activity reflect my real time rather than it being translated in to USA time?
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I read the geocaching.com blurb about souvenirs, and all it did was intrigue me without explaining anything. Can anyone take the time and maybe direct me to a better explanation or provide one yourself?
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Check the list of vendors in the pinned threads at the top of the geocoin forums.
I checked them, and I found most of them do deliver to other countries, just the American one won't. Thanks!
GPX Files and Garmin Montana
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I see what I've done. I am trying for geodetic benchmarks, and they don't have .gpx files. I don't know what to do with .loc files, though. I'll look around and see what it takes to open them. Regular geocaches I see have the .gpx download option. Thanks to all.