Q10

Give me the possibility to click DNF-logs on and off the map as I can with Found-Logs. Then I would use DNF-logs whenever I DNF a cache. Logging DNF as Found, not logging anything, using the Ignore-list, using GSAK to remove the cache etc. is just method to bypass the missing possibility: Clicking DNF-logs on and off the map. Seen from my point of view. (I would never ever log a cache as Found after e.g. 2-3-4 DNF on a cache IF I DNF it!).

I miss this from the main thread - lots of answers refers to this as a start of the debate: ---> I'm definitely sure, that quite a few geocachers from time to time are in this situation. They know that they were there, they don't want to go back to this place (they have been there) - AND they want to get rid of the cache on their geocaching map. Just this: They want the cache away from the map (to prevent seing the cache again and to avoid it in your next Pocket Quieries). What to do? If they read this thread they definitely know what to do: Write something about the area etc. - don't mentioned that you didn't found the cache. And then move on - you have been on the spot - the cache is only seen as a mark bringing you here. I really think this is about what we want from geocaching - what is most importent: The box itself or it's surroundings? --<

Oh, I love this

You are my hero!

Still haven't had the time to wait for the Aerial View to show up ... :-( But I'm glad, that I now can click on a cache and get direct link without having to zoom very close. And that mouse over show the name of the cache. Also from a distance.

Jeremy about bickering over a cache "find"

I'm definitely sure, that quite a few geocachers from time to time are in this situation. They know that they were there, they don't want to go back to this place (they have been there) - AND they want to get rid of the cache on their geocaching map. Just this: They want the cache away from the map (to prevent seing the cache again and to avoid it in your next Pocket Quieries). What to do? If they read this thread they definitely know what to do: Write something about the area etc. - don't mentioned that you didn't found the cache. And then move on - you have been on the spot - the cache is only seen as a mark bringing you here. I really think this is about what we want from geocaching - what is most importent: The box itself or it's surroundings?

Then they really have to find something better than those slouuuuuuu maps, they have provided.

Please, please, please - give us the old map back. The new one(s) are sooooooo sloouuuuu and you have to zoom and zoooooooom and zooooooooom before you can click on them. Not worth using at all Please please please

"This post has been edited by BlueRajah: Today, 03:31 AM Reason for edit: removed info" Why don't you archive the cache - not only remove my link? It's a test cache that Groundspeak has forgotten and it is logged again and again. Has been "found" 80 times. Last found log: Found it 11/Feb/2012 I'm still not really sure what happened. All I remember is I was on a ship with this creepy guy named Michael and a Korean guy named Jin. We were just working away just like any other day when something felt wrong. Now, Michael was a maverick. He would do the wildest things which would get anyone killed. Yet somehow, he survived it all. It was as if he was testing his mortality and he was winning (not in the Charlie Sheen winning sense, he is even stranger but we're going off course just like this ship). We could see this island off in the distance which wasn't on our charts. Could it be Atlantis? Were we just hallucinating from being out at sea for so long? We started going for it when we see this copter flying out and one dude bails. What is it with all these suicidal lunatics?!?! The copter gets closer and this woman starts yelling out Jin's name as he's waving his arms like he's at an 80's rap concert (put your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care!). At this point, I'd had enough and walked over to the other side of the ship as far as I could to get away from these guys. Then, there was this explosion. I got jettisoned hundreds of yards out into the ocean with 3rd degree burns and a horrible headache. That's when I noticed the strangest thing yet. Remember how I mentioned we were near an island (at N 30° 55.525 W 140° 26.531, btw)? Well, it just vanished. Just a flash of light and it got swallowed up. That was seven years ago. It took a long time for me to flag down a passing vessel to rescue me out at sea and get me medical attention. It was five years afterwards when I found out about geocaching and now, after intense psychotherapy, I am able to speak about this horrible event without collapsing emotionally. However, it wasn't until today that I realized that the island was just the largest cache ever created. What's scary is that cache was muggled by God, Poseidon, Davy Jones (not the Monkees guy) or some other powerful being. So, this cache needs maintenance. I wasn't able to sign the logbook though. It was probably damp anyway. I'd say thanks for the cache but, dude, really, years of psychotherapy. I'm sure you understand.

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People who cannot win prizes in real sport can get a subtitution by the FTF-side games

I appears to me that you overlook some aspects. When I brought up this cache I did it for a single reason, namely that there has been a NA log from a local more than two years ago which has not received any attention at all. An accident like Willi's could also have happened at that cache and it would not have been prevented by the mechanism of NA logs. The cache itself is not that special and there exist many similar ones, however not many similar ones for which negelected NA logs exist because there is no local culture for NA logs in such cases for many reasons. It only serves to prove that Geocachers and Groundspeak are unable and unwilling to police themselves in some areas. Nobody likes it when an outside authority has to be called in to moderate actions. Most people would prefer problems would be better handled amongst themselves. There would be no need for any police department in any town if that were the case. However, there often are calls handled by local agencies. If the local agencies become unable and unwilling to correct an issue, then the state agencies are called in. If the state agencies become unwilling and unable to correct issues, then federal agencies take over. None of this would be necessary if it was able to be settled at a local level. In this example, the game serves as an example to openly break laws. Eventually it will rise to a level where many other people will hear about it. Many of those people will not like it, and may try to put a stop to it. It is rather odd to see forum posts being so heavily moderated while openly illegal caches are overlooked. Reviewers receive e-mail notifications on NA logs. In this case, the local reviewers decided to overlook them. Now that Groundspeak has been notified and has not acted, it appears that the problem will fester until another agency independent of Groundspeak will eventually discover it. This is not something which should happen, or that any Geocacher would want to happen. I like the idea of libertarianism, which emphasizes freedom, individual liberty, and respect of property rights. When property rights of others are violated and common laws are ignored, that creates a environment in which individual freedoms are risked. In this case, it is the freedom of an outside agency needing to babysit geocachers like a bunch of kids. So well written ...

I would like to be able to clearly mark my caches with green, blue, red or black. Colors indicating the danger around finding the cache. As you do in skiing and hiking.

My absolutely favorite from Keen: WMS Targhee II http://www.eventyrsport.dk/shop/stortbillede.aspx?varenummerid=13323

You can. Done it before and have just made a test.

If you don't want to use the old cache any more and really want to get rid of it, then create another account and let the other account adopt your cache. Then it will disappear from your real account. But you have to do the adoption before you archive the cache, after archiving you cannot get rid of the cache.

Now you know, why a lot of us aren't in the FTF-game. Lots and lots of bad behavior in that game. But - anyway - if you want the FTF to count in GSAK, you can just make your mark about that and you can make a statistic showing that you found the cache first. Some people in Denmark do it this way - even they know they aren't FF.

What I will do and have done Write on the log on geocaching.com, that I have taken the old log with me. If the owner want the log, he/she can contact me within a month.

I liked the idea from the beginning. Created one at once. But then I discovered, that I didn't own the challenge. There came some bogus log I couldn't delete. And now my found challenges are starting to disappear from my challenge page due to this: "Challenges You've Completed (Last 30 days)". It's now over 30 days since I completed my first challenge. Now I can't even find challenge I have completed on my pages. I have to find them again in a search. I liked the idea from the beginning ...

Yes, but definitely not me. Go for it!

You just made my day. Thanks a lot - so wisely written.

This is 100% right. Sad but true.

Me too, it was very useful. Don't know if there has been written something about it on Feedback. Since the new look on Feedback, I have almost given up using it. And PQ's is still showing all other caches as well. Why are Groundspeak doing this to the site? Why are they not listening to us, the users?

How can I find all challenges in eg. my country Denmark? I can use search around a city eg. Copenhagen, but it will only give me challenges in Copenhagen. I have tried to search using "Denmark", but it only gives me one - and I know there are more. As far as I can see, I can only search very close to a given point - or am I wrong?