[Is geocaching decreasing in popularity?]

4 minutes ago, MartyBartfast said:

One factor about the GPS maze is that it's apparenty VERY expensive to get the maze to come to your event, as far as I know it's only been to the UK once, so can't read a lot into that.

The only conclusion you can really draw is that big events might not be so popular, the percentage of cachers who go to large events is tiny, and many cachers won't have even heard of Mega or Giga events, so I don't think you should read too much into it.

 

Having driven the Maze around the US for three and half years I know from personal experience that it wasn't that expensive, assuming you treated like a business. It didn't cost the the event holders anything but volunteer time. 

Not sure that agree with your "percentage" analysis. 

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4 minutes ago, RuideAlmeida said:

 

Any cache nearby?

GC88ZT3 
Not sure where nearby is? But not near the Midwest of the U.S. 

[Rule Changes]

The rule I have never seen written that got me (my Reviewer said it was just in the Reviewers forum) was that a cacher had to take a complete step away from stage one of a Multi to stage two. Is there a such a database of unpublished guidelines?

I could be just missing it in the guidelines.  

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[Is geocaching decreasing in popularity?]

I asked a senior Lackey at Spring Fling why there aren't any GIGAs or GPS Mazes in Europe published and she said that they have to earn the GIGA status back.

 

Also, there was a Czechia caching couple at the same event promoting their Mega in August near Brno and I posed the same question. They told me that the GIGA in Czechia is returning in 2025 because they aren't seeing the interest. Project 13 in Essen had a poor showing last year as well. 

 

So, this tells me things are decreasing. 

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Since Google Fusion tables have been retired, is there a new link for this topic?

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5 minutes ago, thebruce0 said:

 

haha, it's funny, but seriously, obviously trying to locate geoarts can be a pain in densely populated regions. Scrolling around the map for clumps of mystery caches that could be as small as a few kms wide to many many kms. There is a practical benefit to having an easier of identifying them on a grander scale.

True, but there are also three places where I know that the geo-art overlap each other making searching by a attribute complicated. In all the cases I had to just search by CO to get the mess straight. BTW all three were cachers in turf wars for the same space. I just want to state for the record that I would like a geo-art attribute regardless of these situations. 

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8 minutes ago, thebruce0 said:

 

I was thinking about that old request too. I think they banked on the fact that most geoarts (just eduguessing on this) are already as powertrail/roadsides. I've done maybe a couple of geoarts where they're scattered around a region, but by far most geoarts I've done or seen are just hiking/biking/driving powertrails. 

 

If I want to find a geoart, I'm thinking I'll be searching the powertrail attribute most often ;P

I was thinking that if you need a attribute for geo-art they aren't very good artists... LOL

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2 minutes ago, thebruce0 said:

(for those with 100's of power trail series :P)

That's a huge task one-by-one.

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Can the new attributes be added to existing caches with 'edit'? 

[Visiting dallas]

Hi

 

Visiting Dallas soon from UK, would like to drop trackable in city centre; any cache recommendations gratefully received!

 

 

GC13789

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Where did the D/T average on the D/T average section. That's my driver in caching to stay above 2/2 and try for 2.5/2.5 @ 15k finds. Sure hate to lose that stat.