GeoJunkie

Thanks, Jeremy, for taking the time to look at implementing what I know is a tough nut to crack! And thanks, raine, for spelling out the details of what happens when a session expires (those were the details I said I wasn't going into in an earlier post). The ironic part was that the OP identified two problems: one about the 40 minute timeout and the other about how gc.com doesn't have a mechanism to remember you when you've logged in. He was wrong on the second count, and if he'd used the option, he wouldn't have the first problem! (Something I didn't realize until Jeremy pointed it out). Sometimes people just need to pay attention to the site they're using. OK, off my soapbox now. Thanks for letting an old web designer dust off some of his ASP knowledge!

Um...yes, they do. When you log in, there's a check box that says to remember you. I haven't used my password to log in to the website from my home computer in over a year! Without going into specifics, the process that would be used to remember information in this scenario (losing the session after a 40 minute time out) would require a lot of work. If you enter bad data, the site DOES remember what you typed and fills everything back in for you, with information about what to correct. The problem only comes when someone has taken more than 40 minutes to type in the information, which I think would be a significant minority. To put that much effort into redesigning a specific page in a specific scenario that affects so few, when there's such a simple workaround and so many major issues they're trying to correct, would be a waste of their time, IMO.

Here's a question...I've got a cache camera that's been there for about a year. Last time I checked, there were still 8 pictures left to be taken! When do you say enough is enough and go ahead and develop? Just looking to see what the consensus is...

Well....it does say "Save this sticker!" You can use the Groundspeak Help page to request the activiation code to be emailed to you. HTH!

1) Yes, you are...every active session holds a spot in memory, which includes if you visit the web page and then close your browser, until the server times out the session, it's taking a spot in memory...given the volume this site has, I think 40 minutes is pretty generous 2) A trick that should work if this happens is to use the "Back" button...all your data should still be there. THen open another browser window to relog in and copy and past from one to the other. Data can be saved in this way, but only if the session is still active. I don't know that any of them would be able to save the data from your form if you tmed out. GC.com does work this way if you enter bad data, but they can't do a thing once the data is gone from memory!

US Air Force 1988-present Enlisted October 1988 Cannon AFB, NM 1988-1992 Maxwell AFB-Gunter Annex, AL 1992-1996 RAF Molesworth, England 1996-1999 San Antonio, TX (lived on Randolph AFB, worked off-base) 1999-2004 Commissioned in 2004 and stationed at Offutt AFB, NE, where I work now.

Was the cache under home plate? It's a lot of decoding to just say that, but if it works...

This is a test of the GC Posting system.

There's a macro on the GSAK Macros Page called CacheMateLog.txt: I haven't had a chance to try it since I found it, but I plan to on my next outing!

Well..since I have a domain and can add and delete emails...I've got a new email address subscribed to the list. I wouldn't mind seeing the movie, but I'm too cheap to see movies in the theater! I wouldn't mind getting in on that ultimate GPS contest, though! Especially if it's that guy's $2 million! Goin' on a GPS hunt! Me and Andrew! Now it's stuck in your head again!

If something like that was in one of my caches, I would allow the find (I mean, look...there it is!) and go adjust the cache to make sure it was reachable. In this case, as a level 2 cache, it should be accessible. That's exactly what the owner did.

Sorry, I misunderstood the linear query you were describing. I thought it was describing the wedge option. Now, what I understand you're saying is that it would be a fixed distance from a line between two endpoints. In effect, it would define a rectangle. It could work better than the rectangle proposal, because then you wouldn't be limited to a rectangle fixed along the equator (which is what I had in mind - You would define two longitude and two latitude bounds, and the corners of the rectangle would be defined by the four possible combinations of these bounds). It would also make the issue with approached limits easier to deal with. Bottom line, though, I would love something that gives a little more control over the regions of a PQ. I've had so many times where I've planned a trip and ended up spending days trying to define queries along the route so I could actually see all of the caches I would encounter in a minimal amount of queries. It's worst in very cache dense areas. I have to define points along the highway and such small radii to keep it below 500 caches, which means I have to run more PQs, and end up filtering 90% of them out because I really only wanted the stretch of highway within the circle, not the ones further out.

One other option that's been brought up, that may offer a medium between linear projection and generating off a route is running queries within a boundary set (i.e, within a box set within N, S, E, W coordinates). This would give more control than linear projection but be less disk and CPU intensives than tracking along an uploaded GPX route.

Found this guy on my way to a cache: The size reference photo I took has been lost, but with the legs, this guy was as long as my eTrex!

Worst one: I was on the road without my PDA. Working off of a printout. Had to manually decrypt for the first time in a while. I had searched for a while and was having no luck, so I finally decided to decrypt the hint: CHEATER

Clyde, A new bug I just realized this morning: When I'm entering information into a multi-line text field within the GSAK window, I can't use the enter key to go to a new line. i.e., if I'm putting a log entry in the bottom pane, hitting enter does nothing, but if I do it in my web browser, enter works as expected. It's relatively minor, but somewhat annoying. BTW, that change log looks awesome! I can't wait to see it working on my copy!

An interesting one...this is one of a series of caches centered around a Monopoly theme. Each location is next to a location tied to a square on the Monopoly board. You need to FIND the micro. For extra credit, you can email the owner with the tie in to the board: Well...I didn't find the cache, everybody else logged a DNF, the cache is disabled...yep, that's a find!

You can read all about the "money tracking" legend on Snopes.com. Of course....just because your paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you

A quick way to find most policies is to use the GeocachingPolicy.info page. It has land use policies for most states and countries. I know it's eliminated a lot of the questions I had. If it's not here, then you're most likely safe to place the cache!

You will need to send a message to the approver of your cache. Only an Admin can update the cache type.

There's a third box: "Clear all user flags first". If you check that box, then at the end, only the caches added by the PQ you're loading will be checked.

I don't see anything wrong with this. I wouldn't post a find. They hid the cache, not found it. It would be like me posting a find on my two caches that I replaced this weekend. Well, two points. First, this isn't the issue of the thread..."Found it=DNF"...since they clearly "found" the cache. And, this also isn't the cache owner claiming a find on their cache...it's a friend accompanying them. Now that may be a very easy find, but at least it is a find...unlike many of the examples in this thread. Not that I really care how others play the game...I like to have fun! But, I still don't see where this person actually found the cache...they saw the cache was MIA, then they helped hide it. Of course, if the owner is cool with it, then I don't have a problem!

I don't see anything wrong with this. I wouldn't post a find. They hid the cache, not found it. It would be like me posting a find on my two caches that I replaced this weekend.

Testing, testing, 1,2,3,

Has anyone had a chance to try out the new Gizmondo? It looks like it could have real potential as a "do-it-all" device for caching! You can navigate to a cache, find the cache, take a picture, send it all out, and play games while you're enroute! It's not available in the US yet, but it's being sold in Europe. So....any Europeans have one? Any Americans get an advance version? Inquiring minds want to know!