JohnE5

By the way, I have several invites and would like to invite geocachers! Email me through my GC.com profile.

I would be using my own caches. And some archived caches.

One per hour sounds good. Opt in/out option sounds reasonable.

I request an gc.com coordinate checker build into the cache listing. They already have the coordinates hidden from view, it would not be that difficult to add this feature. Of course the checker would have an attempts per hour feature, say 5/h? Once some one confirms the coordinates the lat/long at the top of the page should change to the new coordinates. It would make downloading PQ much easier than solving it, downloading a file then changing it on the GPS. I believe this would also help when hiders are looking for spots, now even if they solve it and find it, later when they want to hide a cache near the puzzle they have to resolve the puzzle. Adding an attribute of include/exclude puzzles/letterboxes I have solve/not solved would be a great way to stream line the PQ.

Also, while considering creating an event cache at disneyland. I thought that if everyone had the phones that could handle wave. (Droid) Once the event was over everyone could go attack those multis and virtuals that have you run all over the place, at once. Just updating the wave as they go so that not everyone has to go to every waypoint. Then everyone could meet back at the final!

I have been experimenting with it and discovered that GPX files can be dragged from your desktop into a wave. Then someone else in that wave can download it.

I am considering posting a puzzle cache that lists 3 or more GC codes followed by a number. Example- X892F- 526.5 0D2M- 1000.3 DSI3- 5325.1 Those would be the GC codes with the GC dropped of and the number would be the feet from that cache the puzzle cache located. The finder would have to realize 1. those are GC codes 2. those are feet from that cache 3. there is only one possible location that meets in the middle of all those coordinates. Any suggestions, pro/cons, unforeseen problems?

Just had the area's reviewer email me back. It's allowed as long it's located in the public access area.

My Wife and I go to Disneyland every year for New Years Eve, and I even get some Virts in while roaming the park. I would like to host a quick meet and greet in the "free area" around 12:00 pm for all the cachers that just happen to be the area the same day. Kinda like the last geocache event of the year! If you were at Disneyland that day would you go? See any problems with getting it listed? (I've already e-mail a reviewer in that area) How long should the event last? 15, 30, 60 mins?

Well the app in and of itself doesn't but the phone has its own forum and has a place on the home page. How many other phones have 1. An official app just for that phone. 2. A dedicated forum 3. A huge spot on the main page? Why no Cachemate forum? Everyone else seems to use it.

Cachemate pull caches from the site? Or do need to load a GPX file?

Geocaching.com has just released their 3.0 iphone app. Is this what they were doing instead of working on a first version app for the droid? I bet we'll see v4.0 before the droid version comes out. If GC isn't going to make it a priority, stop blowing smoke and tell us! I've been waiting patiently to find out if I need to drop Verizon to get an official app. Now a new version for iphone!?!?

You think people would use it to collaborate on tough puzzle caches across the country?

I have been asking friends and family and other cachers if they want an invite. None want any, they all think its a social network. Its hard to describe to them.

I did a search of public waves with geocaching in them and got back 51 waves. It takes some time for the search results to appear but there are quire a few public waves, some general, and some regional that have been started. That was my mistake. about: just searches your inbox.

Technically we could post the listing in a wave and those with wave could get a jump on the publishing, right? GC.com is just supposed to be a listing service. Might PO some FTF hounds.

looks like I have the only about:geocaching wave so far. I see potential for this.

I created a public wave for my geocaching event and included a vote bar yes/no/maybe. If I knew more cachers that had wave it might work better. How do you search for a topic in the public area?

More than three no's in this thread. Time to disable it?

No

I was reading another thread about people not finding cache and logging that the cache was gone, when in fact it wasn't. Is it common when these super powered caches that couldn't find it log their DNF they use Need Maintenance? What is the appropriate use of the NM log? Can you use it only if you found it but its damaged, or can you also use it if you never found it?

I would like an invite as well, trade for a google voice? ---Break--- Got one from Alabama Rambler, thanks! Google voice invite sent.

I am running an HP Pavillion dv2000 with Windows XP Media Center Edition SP3 Reproduced problem on both Google Chrome 3.0.195.33 and Firefox 3.5.5 This seems to only be a problem for large or too long of a distance routes. I have made the one I am having a problem with available in the public directory. Search Keyword "JohnE5", should be named Lemoore to Spring Valley JohnE5. Issue- 1. When a cache long a route is previewed in Google maps from the pocket queries page the default map appears and continues to load indefinitely. 2. When the same caches along a route PQ is attempted to be viewed as a list, the mouse shows the hour glass indefinitely. 3. Also, I when creating a PQ for a route I cannot include or exclude ANY attributes.

You've been posting like a rabid prosecutor and you want to preach to me how I should look at the facts? Who's facts are they? The CO could have easily made a typo, let's keep that in mind before we line up the firing squad...OK? I'm not defending the CO, nor do I pretend to know the facts in this case. Truly, whether or not the CO had a cache there or not is of little concern to me at this point. We already know this is never going to be addressed by the PTB, so whether or not the CO is lying really isn't at issue at this point. What IS at issue is how the situation was handled and how will future situations be handled. I want this next line to come across like I would say it, as slowly as possible, not sure how to type that in but I'll try. Every, single, one, of, your, posts, defends, the, cache, owner. Read this thread again and you will notice my stand shift from, "What's the big deal?" Take a picture send it to GS or re-list it, completely supporting the CO. To learning new facts, reading the CO posts in his other caches. That's the difference. I learn new things process the information, come to a new conclusion. You stand by your first position without regard to new information. Sounds like blind faith to me, you worshiping SF or TDE or who ever he wants to be today?

But here, he says he pulled it 3.5 hours before he sent the appeal. Can anyone explain this discrepancy? I don't know, maybe you should start another inquisition... Just another inconsistency in the CO's story. Oh what a tangled web we weave... Could have had the date wrong, could have been the next day or whatever. Since we won't know, what difference does it make? Don't get caught up in what might be nothing. That's right, take facts stated by the cache owner and dismiss them since they don't line up with the side you have been defending this whole thread. I'm glad police "don't get caught up in what might be nothing" when investigating. When details don't match up, they just let that stuff go.