littlewarthog

Just to try something new here: Thank you guys at GS for offering an awesome service and a great site! I personally don't miss Google Maps, as OSM is much faster (not kidding, here in Beijing OSM is lightening fast, while Google Maps was a pain in the a**)! Sure, the quality of the maps is not always the same, but if Google choses to charge for a previously free service, there's no use in complaining. Already in the short time that I use the website, I have seen some improvements and I am sure you guys are doing your best to further improve it in the future. The PM is absolutely worth the money and I'll continue to be a PM in the future! For all you other guys: If you get a free service (from Google) and they choose to charge for that, there's no need in blaming GS. If you guys would spend the time you are using to spam this board to improve the OSM maps, there would be hardly any reason to complain about. Sure the bad areal maps are the downside, but there are other solutions like GSAK, iCaching that still use Google Earth. Get used to the new situation!

I would like to propose an indicator for the language used in a listing, combined with an advanced search function. By allowing to search e.g. only for listings in one or more languages checked during the search process, geocachers that travel abroad can specifically search for caches they are able to read. Whereas this would probably of minor value to geocachers in the USA, especially for European countries with lots of languages on a comparable small continent, this would be a great help and could reduce the time of searching for suitable caches when traveling. The actual implementation might be as following: - When creating a new cache, the CO can choose the language (and add another language if the listing is written in two or more languages. - Such language-tag might be well combined with this suggestion to implement a nice display for different language descriptions of once cache in e.g. tabs: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=285574 t - Additionally, an advances search should be implemented, where the user can choose to only display caches with a description of a certain language.