Hynz
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9 hours ago, fizzymagic said:
I have put on myself the requirement that all my logs are original and unique. Not claiming I am better than anyone else, but just putting my methodology out there. For an example, see my logs starting here.
Thanks for telling your way. Writing only unique logs is also my personal requirement when heading out. But I'm basically refusing to search for caches along trails where the only way to manage it is splitting up a longer text.
Looking at your example may I suggest that you link not to the cache but to your log. Otherwise it's almost impossible to read your adventure.
I've done a similar thing (linking my logs forward and backward) following a set of hiking multis forming together a longer trail. See here: https://coord.info/GLNXB2HY
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19 hours ago, TriciaG said:
from Origin... home coords
within distance... change to 10,000 miles if you like
It's been some time that I set up a PQ but I'm sure there is a rather limited maximum distance (I think it was 100 miles, right?)
So If you want a worldwide search you need to have two PQs.
In one you should select countries and in the list click-select the first country, scroll down and shift-click-select the last country
I think the USA is the only country not included in the above PQ so you need another PQ selecting all (or at least all US) states.
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3 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
I'm having a hard time imaging how someone could hide 1000 caches within the allowed distance from home without resorting to power trails or large geoart constructions, and if they do create those they shouldn't expect to get long appreciative logs on every cache. Even if they've been in the game for 20 years, that's still an average of almost one cache a week. Maybe I'm wrong, but if you're creating awesome-enough caches to legitimately complain about the logs you're getting, they're probably going to take more than a week each to conceive and put together.
Thanks, you put it in much better words than I have done.
9 hours ago, dprovan said:In short, there's no reason to think someone with 1000 caches would have caches any less interesting than someone with 10 caches.
You must definitely have another definition of "interesting" than I have
But I certainly agree that placing uninteresting caches is not bound to high number owners.
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7 hours ago, SamLowrey said:
I know of one who has put out a lot of hides (~ 1000). I've watched a few and he has expressed his frustration at the lazy logs left behind.
I have a hard time believing there exist hiders able to hide and maintain thousand(!) caches and all of the caches deserve nice and individual logs. But what do I know....
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On 10/5/2021 at 9:46 AM, Max and 99 said:On 10/5/2021 at 8:07 AM, VeganHiker said:
You can do them around muggles
That's one of my favorite things about adventure labs in addition to learning something from the locations it brings me to.
Strange. This must come from comparing stages of ALs with urban Trads without hint (regarding muggles) and without location (regarding learning).
I understand the immediate feedback and streak issue but I would say the rest of the Like-arguments in that list could be much better experienced by following a proper set up Multi.
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21 hours ago, Isonzo Karst said:
You may well have had trackables marked missing by cache owners, reviewers or admins, but when the "bot marks missing there is no log, no email notice. Really.
Amazing!
Has this bug ever been reported?
Or is anybody of the opinion this is not a bug?
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I'm not playing this side game and don't want to start the old dicussion about FTFs but I do get the thrill being the first finder of a cache.
But what stretches my imagination by far is how can it be satisfying for anybody being "giftet" with an FTF by hindering others to claim a find?
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9 minutes ago, Andreas260477 said:
War jetzt in Italien unterwegs, war auf offline-Modus weitestgehend angewiesen, war blöd. Ein paar Mal hätte ich halt schon gerne navigiert (ging offline nur dann, wenn ich im Hotel-WLan mir die Caches auf der Karte anzeigen ließ.
Hast du die dir in diesem Thread mehrfach gegebenen Hinweise, dass du naemlich innerhalb der EU weitestgehend ohne zusaetzliche Kosten das Internet auf deinem Smartphone zu den gleichen Konditionen nutzen kannst wie zuhause:
( ) nicht verstanden
( ) vergessen
( ) ignoriert
( ) nicht geglaubt
( ) oder willst du uns deine Selbstbeschreibung als DAU weiter demonstrieren
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12 hours ago, frostengel said:
Groundspeak übersetzt das Mantra "location, location, location" also mit exakten GPS-Koordinaten!? Jetzt mal ganz ehrlich, kommt mir das nur so vor, oder hat Groundspeak (in Form der Autorin Brigitte, vermutlich eine Lackey-in) keine Ahnung, was die Geocacher meinen, wenn sie fordern, dass die "location" gut sein soll!?
Du hast voellig recht. Frau Brigitte hat offensichtlich kein Hintergrundwissen zu diesem Ausdruck und mit diesem Blogposting wird er wohl noch weiter verwaessert werden.
Man muss aber positiv anmerken, dass Punkt 4 inhaltlich ziemlich stark ist. Wenn Leser diesen ernst nehmen wuerden gaebe es einen massiven Einbruch bei den Neuveroeffentlichungen
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10 hours ago, 2quigs said:
I don't use the Geocaching app so I rely on my GPSMap 66s
Sorry, I thought you mean using the app.
But it's also new to me and embarrassing to learn that Garmin only allows to make actual logs and not also provide the ability to write drafts.
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11 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
It's still broken for me (Windows 10 and Firefox 92.0). The problem is only on the public profile page (either my own or someone else's), on other pages the top menu works normally.
Yes now I can confirm ("Play", "Community", "Shop" and the "Down Arrow" on the right side only reload the profile page)
Sorry, I missed the link to the public profile in the OP.
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I have no problems (Win10, Firefox and Vivaldi)
All links in the green nav bar are working as expected for me.
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18 hours ago, 2quigs said:
As stated you can edit the default log from the field but it is kind of cumbersome from the GPSr. I usually just let the default log stand until I get home and then edit them all from my computer.
You know instead you can (and IMHO should) write drafts and edit them at home? There is no need for sending out any default logs from the field.
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17 hours ago, ycjapan said:
Is it a problem with the site?
As already mentioned it is unfortunately not a problem with the site but an intentional cutback for basic members.
So the actual problem is that Groundspeak considers this just as an unimportant convenience and not as an essential source of information.
Currently you can still use this link but there is no doubt it will go away sooner or later
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17 hours ago, BasicMemberFred said:
the wife unit feels it shows a lack of
appreciation and wants to put a more appropriate message
of appreciation as the default message.
IMNSHO *every* default logtext which is not edited individually for the very cache demonstrates lack of appreciation.
Please don't let yourself draw down to such behaviour already in your early days of this fine hobby.
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3 hours ago, kunarion said:
Maybe it's always been that way
That's what I think.
Not to forget there is and always was the action "Recalculate Distance" TB owner could trigger to straighten an eventually messed up log history.
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On 8/9/2021 at 1:04 AM, Team Tierra Buena said:
Was there a reason for this change that I just can't figure out?
Thanks for confirming that I'm not the only one who is sure there was a silent change in that list of the map view.
I started the thread Max and 99 is refering to and to my surprise the few responding participants have the opinion that it always was the case and is logical anyway. I can't argue about the second reason but I'm missing the one-page view of *all* logs.
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On 7/30/2021 at 10:37 PM, klossner said:
At the old search page, https://www.geocaching.com/seek/, enter a value in "Hidden by Username:" and click Go. This takes you to e.g. https://www.geocaching.com/play/search?u=irish&submit4=Go which displays, not search results, but the new search page.
Below on that seek-page is a link to "advanced search options" this leads to https://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx from there it workes (for now.....)
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On 7/30/2021 at 11:41 PM, Rampensau said:
This representation is by no means new. I have been geocaching for about 10 years and know both pages, the overview of all logs (i.e. the "homepage" of the trackable) and the exclusive movements of the trackable with a display on a map. It also makes sense in this representation alone in my eyes. Is it possible that you simply haven't "discovered" the map display yet?
Interesting.... I'm caching for 17 years
and could swear that the "map"-display always (and even some months ago) was a way to view *all* logs in a non-paginated view. I regulary use it. Maybe I'm getting old 
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In that specific case of the OP I most probably would write a Note but it could also be a DNF especially if this cache was the only target on my hike.
36 minutes ago, Calypso62 said:I believe a DNF log is all about the actual search for the cache, not the journey to get there.
To those who repeatatly state that without reaching GZ they never write a DNF:
Do you only have Traditionals in mind or is this equaly valid for you when you fail finding a stage along a Multi? In that case I definitely will write a DNF.
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Twinklekitkat followed up via a personal message to me. Since it's on topic and maybe intersting for others here my answer:
QuoteBut I was wondering how to use this link:
https://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?ul=TwinklekitkatThen modify it to just show multis or traditionals.
If I use your link you provided I get ALL of the type regardless of whether I found it or not.When you open the link you should see two drop-down menus.
On the first you select what cache types should be searched for and the default is "All Geocaches"
The second drop-down menu selects by what criteria you want to search.
Depending on the selection additional drop-down menus or text boxes appear.
Doing this for your question (Multis found by Twinklekitkat) I'm getting this URL:
https://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?ul=Twinklekitkat&ex=0&cFilter=a5f6d0ad-d2f2-4011-8c14-940a9ebf3c74&children=n
A problem is that this only works for the first resulting page. When you click on page 2 the restrictions on Multis unfortunately is not followed any longer.I wonder if eventualy there exist a solution to that.
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7 hours ago, Z_Statman said:
Tks Hynz but not clear as to point #2. In GSAK how did you limit the extract to your logs only?
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4 hours ago, Z_Statman said:
Looks really helpful and tried as follows:
Generated the gpx out of GSAK that contains ALL finds regardless of type, i.e., geocaches, terracaches and opencaches so that could be the reason.
If so, would be great if could include this approach
Tks
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Two comments to that posting:
*) After installing, using and closing Fizzy.exe I also got this error message when I startet Fizzy.exe again. Since a reboot of my PC it works flawless
*) I also generated the gpx out of GSAK and learned that I need to restrict the logs to exclusively my own logs. Otherwise the program throws interesting results
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4 hours ago, GeoElmo6000 said:
In short, the map is showing the locations that it knows the trackable has been in the most succinct way possible.
Thanks for your reply.
As you phrase it, it might indeed be seen as a new feature and not a bug.
But my point is, this unpaginated view including all logs and all log types was (even at times with much less "discovered" and "took" logs) basically the only somehow sensible way to scroll through the history of a trackable and to eventually detect interesting logs or particular issues.
But I guess you're right and this new way of presenting is welcomed by most......
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Has this bug ever been reported?
and could swear that the "map"-display always (and even some months ago) was a way to view *all* logs in a non-paginated view. I regulary use it. Maybe I'm getting old 
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IPhone or GPS...
in General geocaching topics
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I think this is not entirely true.
I mean certainly the compass in itself is not related to GPS but whenever people are taking about a "compass view" they certainly mean the arrow pointing towards the selected waypoint. And this is very much related to GPS and the closer you are to the WP the more eventually jumping GPS coordinates will result in an flickering or otherwise strange behaving arrow.