Goldenwattle
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6 minutes ago, kimsjosh said:
Try this. On the left side of the page where the cache types are listed, look at the bottom for "set map preferences". Click on that the switch from google map to Leaflet map. Seem to work on my pad.
Thanks that worked.
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Same problem today for me.
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Yesterday this was fine. Today it looks like this. Anyone else having a problem?
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48 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:
Please don't. If you want to teach these teens about geocaching place some temporary geocaches for them to learn how to find.
If I was a local I would not want you to take those teens, who will then take their friends, to my geocaches.
Agreed. I wouldn't want them taken to my caches either.
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Teens! Be careful who you show caches to. This is from having experience with scouts finding caches and things going missing, such as trackables. Never to be heard of again.
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9 hours ago, thebruce0 said:
Phones or GPSrs, everyone I know who doesn't log right away has something - a draft or a flag on the device - that they set when they find it. Offline. Chance they'll log them all when they get home? 50/50 at best. I regularly hold drafts for a few days these days unless I feel the urge to post them or have an imminent immediate reason to (like ftf logs). I don't know anyone who tries to mentally "remember" which cache they found, let alone that and forget the date they found it.
I write notes in the field on paper. Then log when I get back. A few times I haven't had internet for several days, so I will type my logs into a word document while the cache is still fresh in my mind. Also put any photographs through Photoshop to prepare them. Then when days later I get sufficient internet, logging is simply copy and paste. Quick.
9 hours ago, thebruce0 said:Side note: I feel like sometimes there's a bit of cross-talk about the term 'date you found it'.
I log for the day I found the cache.
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1 hour ago, arisoft said:
You could use a notebook. Writing down the code
And write the wrong numbers. Then you can't log it.
1 hour ago, arisoft said:Token cache works similar way as virtuals or earth caches where you are supposed to take notes and later use this as a proof.
No comparison to writing down the wrong number.
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16 hours ago, FDor said:
Here is a photo of the one cache I found and logged yesterday. Need I say more?
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You needed to mention the state of the log, and possible make an Owner Attention log. As your log stands now, the log seems okay to those reading that. How will the CO know the log needs attention if people don't mention this in their log? You are new to the game, so understandable you didn't know this, but next time you will know to do this.
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2 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
mandatory archival after five years or whatever, risk killing the goose that laid the golden egg by wiping out all the really amazing experiences and leaving just a sea of urban micros that will still get soggy and tattered logs every time it rains.
And the countryside littered with abandoned archived caches.
2 hours ago, barefootjeff said:mandatory annual (or even quarterly) owner visits
If I had to do an OM that often I'm archiving many of my caches. I am making that comment and I DO regularly check my caches. To see how often I checked; 142 OM against 3 NM logs on my caches. And two of those NM were on a problematic cache, now archived. I put it at the base of a tree. The tree was removed. I found the cache and moved it to another tree. It was cut down. Moved it to another tree. Same thing happened...again
. Moved it under a small bush. Someone dumped a load of rubbish on top of the bush and my cache. Archived!!! Was over this cache ...
2 hours ago, barefootjeff said:In a recent podcast about Missing DNFs, they said their study revealed that as many as one in five caches were missing or unfindable. That's sounds pretty horrible until you turn it around and see it's saying that at least 80% of caches were fine. To me, that sounds pretty good. If people were proactive in logging OARs and RARs on those 20% of problem caches, that percentage would probably be a lot lower.
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2 hours ago, Hynz said:
Please be specific and accurate.
This site provides a multitude of different map styles (including the opentopomap).
EDIT: Sorry I read appealing.......
I have loaded maps for several other places in South America without a problem, but Santiago just won't load a map on either of the two sites mentioned here. My guess, both sites use the same map source and there isn't one for Santiago. I tried several different map styles, all with the same result. Only the largest of the highways are shown, with no roads in between. Not sure if these came with the map, or are the original very basic map in the Garmin.
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5 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
I've used https://garmin.opentopomap.org/ after someone suggested it in the forums a few years back.
Thank you, I have saved that address. I ended up using the following link. I have downloaded all the places I need. They all worked except Santiago, for unknown reasons. Will try that one again. If it doesn't work I can load Chile off your link.
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It's great to see you're enthusiastic about this, but if you waited until you found more caches, you would have a better idea of what caches to publish and wouldn't need to ask these questions. Finding a variety of caches will give you more ideas.
Anyway, welcome to geocaching and I hope you find lots of caches
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. Got it. It's not straight forward though.
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1 hour ago, StefandD said:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download
brings you to a portal to several OSM providers.
I had already found that. I know the one in Wuppertal closed, but last time I was directed to another site which used the same maps. That's what I want. I have changed computers due to a fault with the old one, and so no longer have that address. I have been searching for that, but can't find it. Anyone have that address please? I thought it was open street maps, but could be wrong. I have searched open street map, but can't find the map I want. On that map you click on and highlight sections of the map you want. I might not have mobile coverage where I am going and need to add maps to my Garmin.
Added: I think I found map. Will see.
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Where do I download maps for Garmin? Anyone have the link?
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4 hours ago, lee737 said:
You can get some pretty tiny stamps.....
I have yet to see one small enough for a bison tube. I have logged a bison tube letterbox cache. No stamp; there wasn't room. The log also needs to be big enough for others to stamp.
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So tempted to be sarcastic here, and suggest you go out and buy, the cheapest, tiniest and worst caches you can find and lay hundreds of those along roads, and then fail to maintain them. That's what some do. However, don't follow this 'advice'. Get waterproof caches, some big enough for trackables. Anything that is the size of a film cannister or smaller is a micro. If it's not big enough to hold a log and a couple of trackables, it's also likely a micro. A stamp for a letterbox cache is not optional, and a micro letterbox cache is an oxymoron. (End sarcasm!)
I see though that you have only nine finds. I would wait until you have found at least a hundred finds before laying a trail. I waited to I had found 800 caches before placing my first cache. I didn't consider I was experienced enough before then. But if you must place a cache, start with a single one first and see how that goes. Good luck
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8 hours ago, TeamRabbitRun said:
fake mailboxes
Some of the best letterboxes caches are real letterboxes. All the real letterbox caches I have found in letterboxes have been in places where no real letterbox will be found. Here in Australia people own their own letterboxes, and each letterbox is individual. Not all the same as in the USA. Most letterboxes, although varying, look like letterboxes, but we have unusual ones too, especially in country areas.
On 2/11/2024 at 11:24 AM, Goldenwattle said:Depending where it is, you may need to inform the locals what it is.
I quote myself.
8 hours ago, TeamRabbitRun said:Do you want someone sticking their hands in yours?
No, but soon we will need to find another use for them. Mine is locked too, which is fairly normal. These days there's hardly any mail, as most things are done by internet. And parcels are left on the doorstep.
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17 minutes ago, pollyapfel said:
Hi. We excitedly hid 2 new caches less than a week ago. In one of the first dozen or so logs, someone mentioned the container might not be waterproof. We were surprised as the hide was in an official geocache micro key ring container. On checking the hide today we found someone has taken our container and we now find our log book in a plastic sweet container. We’re really disappointed in this, our son hid the cache. What should we do next? Feel like disabling the cache, really sad - does this happen often?
That's disappointing. That's never happened to me yet and I hope it doesn't.
I did though years ago have a very cute tortoise cache disappear, but that could have been someone who wasn't a geocacher, or a dog.
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I have seen what looked like a wall light on a country hall, that was the cache. Plumbing fixtures. Combination key lock containers attached to a fence with other, real key containers. A letter box lined up with real letterboxes in the countryside. Sometimes it's a matter of find a group of real things and then adding a cache to them that looks the same. Depending where it is, you may need to inform the locals what it is. Also saw one of those horrors, nanos, placed on a wall covered in bolt heads. A nano on a strategic place on a sculpture, very much in full view. Being where it was on the sculpture made it funny. Ones though that aren't horror nanos usually get the better reaction.
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7 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
one of the advantages of paper logs is that they're visible to anyone visiting the cache, so if someone is routinely claiming online finds without signing the logs it soon becomes apparent to the community.
Yes I know some geocachers like that. One in particular I don't doubt she visits the spot, but find the cache or not, she still logs a find. I have deleted a couple of her logs of my caches. I became aware that she does this, when I couldn't find a cache, so as she was the last finder I messaged her if she would give me a clue. Weird emails back, what did I want; what cache is this? I replied the one I gave the GC number for. Back and forth; basically the same questions asked back to me. Then, finally, oh, she says she can't remember. Too many caches. (From two days ago!)
It then dawned on me; she had never found it, but unlike my DNF, she logged a find. Now I have noticed with some other caches (usually the harder to find ones), after some searching I found, but no signature of hers in the log, but she claims a find. Easier caches she usually manages to find and so signs the log. That's why I have no doubt she visits the areas, but she doesn't believe finding the cache is necessary, if she can't manage this. She was there! That's enough 🤣. Now if I see she has visited a log before my visit, her past behaviour has drawn attention to herself enough, that I often check if her signature is in the log, and I don't always find it. As you wrote, "it soon becomes apparent to the community".
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3 hours ago, barefootjeff said:
Most of the events here are pretty low key, with the attendees themselves bringing nibblies for the table, and about all the host does during the event is draw the FTF prize. Even for my Community Celebration Event, where I provided a puzzle based on identifying ten Classic Central Coast Caches from a set of photos, most of the preparation was done beforehand and there was little for me to do other than mingle during the event.
Same here in Canberra. Mostly all the CO has to do is attend. A few might put on a sausage BBQ, but that's not the majority. Usually if there's food any attendee can bring it, and then it's placed on a table with other's contribution to share. I've been to other meet and greets in other places in Australia and it's similar. Actually the few international ones I have attended have been low key too.
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. Moved it under a small bush. Someone dumped a load of rubbish on top of the bush and my cache. Archived!!! Was over this cache 
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Earthcache history/guidelines through the years.
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I had one of those too. A pain! Especially as the layers I had to draw were unclear. It was a long cutting, so I walked along and took lots of photographs to cover the length and then stitched them together. After which I traced what I guessed (had to and even them I wasn't sure) were the layers. NOT one of my favourite Earthcaches.
My favourite Earthcaches are those that take me to something unique (not just another granite monument) and with clear easy questions. Then I can enjoy the fascinating feature, get up close, take photographs from different angles and study the interesting feature. Some Earthcaches appear designed to turn you off what you have been brought to see.