duhgee

I like the idea of an alternate icon for the found icons, or it could be a new image overlay that could be unchecked. I don't know how flexible google earth is for personalized content (ie. checking gc.com account-specific info), so it may not be feasible, but yes, it'd be nice. While you're at it, it'd be great to further customize the list of caches displayed - ie. by type (multi, traditional), size (micro, small, regular), date created (within past year, month, week), etc. Yeah, I may be dreaming. And to take it even further, can you imagine being able to select various caches (either by individually clicking on them, or by dragging a box around an area) and saving them to a .loc or, even better, a .gpx format. This would eliminate the need for pocket queries, especially if one could schedule these selections to auto-generate on a user-specified schedule. It's fun to imagine, and maybe 6-12-18 months, some of these will be possible.

PEI Sunset near a geocache at a lighthouse on the southwest side of PEI.

My follow-up question may be better suited to a new forum topic, but I'll ask it here anyways. I assume that a muggle/muggler is by definition a non-geocacher, so what exactly defines a geocacher? I'll lay down a bit of context - I was at a cache yesterday and ran into this guy who admitted to not playing the game of geocaching, but a few years ago ran into someone finding the nearby cache, and at that time learned about the game. Since then, every few months, he comes back to the same cache just to read the log, check out the cache, ensure it's still hidden, and think some more about geocaching as he sits and looks out over the river. He's never found another cache, doesn't own a GPS, is fascinated by the game, and has a higher count than probably quite a few geocachers. Does this describe a geocacher, or is he a muggle/muggler? Or maybe geoinquisitor? Or maybe a passive or honorary geocacher. What do you think?

Regardless of whether it was first in timing or just sequence, it's still something to get excited about. The cache write-up is pretty interesting, and res2100 was pretty lucky to get it. It represents growth of geocaching, for which we can all appreciate. I for one am proud to have FTF of the first (numerically speaking) 7-digit geocache.