OldNickCov

I agree with this wholeheartedly, but there could be caches several miles inside another County as there are people who refuse to believe that they live within a particular administration boundary. I feel if you are using data then then that data should be as accurate as possible. If there is no set standards (clearly defined boundaries), then it is not worth implementing. The problem with the top running choice (Rutson's list) is that it has no standard behind it, as it does not clearly define an area for each County. So what we will get are Caches which have a muddy existence, in a mixture of each individuals personal choice of County. This would mean that caches several miles inside of one County might only be picked up by PQ of search on another county; this will just cause confusion, and maybe annoy people when they realize they drove past a cache but were unaware of it's existence. This kills the idea for me, as no defined boarders just means the data will become hugely error ridden. I would not be emailing owners over a few feet as that is nothing in terms of the mean error, but 8 or 9 miles could be an error of greater than 40% on some counties. Maybe skipping the counties and using Regions might be better, as these are usually more clearly defined in the majority of peoples minds. So - there'll b a few mistakes. For the rest of the caches it's a significant advantage. People make all sorts of mistakes when they set caches, but that doesn't mean we should prevent them from being set - the same will apply when sating counties. No one will be forcing you to look up caches by county - but please don't try to block those of us who want to do so from doing so with these spurious reasons.

Neithrr have I. Once the discussion had completed its first circle, I stopped reading it. I see no reason though why we should ask people to stop discussing a subject while it's still related to the original topic.

I expect I am being stupid here, but with no boundaries, how does the filter work? When setting the cache, people select the county from a drop down list. The county selected is stored with the cache details. When searching, the searchers may select a county (or several? not clear) from a drop down list. If they do, the list of caches returned is filtered to match the selected county(ies).

You've given it a clue, you've given it a reasonably hard difficulty rating. You've double checked that it's still there. I'd say give it until after the weekend before doing anything more to help people.

Of those two, Rutson's list, every time. The alternative has far too many unitary authorities, which in most cases, to most people, are not counties. Many of them aren't even cities.

So he did - maybe a series of caches is called for, featuring only locations as shown on Speed's maps.

Since the proliferation of unitary authorities, there is no such thing as a completely accurate list, as large parts of the country, and massively larger parts of the population, no longer have a county. Can I urge the adoption of the 'Ceremonial Counties' list as being the best, generally-recognizable list of counties. Unitary authorities are too localised and meaningless except to people that live and work in each one, and earlier county lists than the Ceremonial list have been modified so many times as to be over-confusing.

...and I thought I was bad with my 06 Focus estate on 46,000!

35mm film canister tucked onto the back of an Armco barrier ditto, velcroed onto the back of an information board / road sign.

Unless it takes you through a golf course [ME][DUCKS] No golf course, but instead a couple of sessions live on air from a park in Coventry, as we tried to find a reentl (and recently found successfully by others) cache. The reporter 'got' geocaching quite nicely, I burbled on, with only one bad wobble that I wasaware of, ad at the end I have to log a DNF. Mind you - that made itmore fun, as, while theprogram ended for the ten o'clock news, we were still searching. Thanks to The Allotment Gardener for his PAF help, and for setting a cache that was ideal for this - a pleasant convenient location, and a suitable puzzle. Thanks too for everyone's advice and help on here. I could't use it all, but it all came in useful, and helped my confidence knowing the sort of things to get across.

Thanks, but it's not that. It's an area I know well, and where I've used Google Maps at higher resolutions many times before.

Thanks. I'll try it from home then. Looks like it's not a central problem.

From GC18HK8 Multi-cache Just Milling Around http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gmnearest.a...mp;lng=-1.51938 Works fine on map, but not on Sat/Hyb. I've just experimented with Google maps on various locations , and am getting the same result. I'm currently wondering if it's a work firewall issue. Oddly it's giving the same message generated by Google everywhere.

As an aside, I always find it a bit tenuous (and possibly bad taste) to compare other people's behaviour, opinions or ideology to the Nazis, no matter how obliquely. Indeed - sly attempts to bypass Godwin's Law, to my mind, automatically result in losing the debate, as defined in the first corollary (as against Case's corollary). There is no c*b*l.

When using Geocaching.com Google Map links, the Google Map Search page works fine when on the "Map" settings, but no longer works correctly when switched to "Sat" or "Hyb". Instead of seeing the satellite image, the message "We are sorry, but we don't have images at this zoom level for this region" is now displayed. Zooming out doesn't cure this error, and it used to work fine. Any idea what's up?

I know that various people on here have appeared on local radio talking about geocaching, so I'm posting for any advice they can give. I've been approached by a local radio station to do a short piece on a morning show. The person concerned sounds very enthusiastic on the hobby, and has signed up to geocaching.com (so may be reading this!) So - any hints or tips anyone can provide? Anything to try to get across, or to try to avoid? (and no - I'm not saying when it'll be on air - I'm nervous about this without knowing that I'd be preaching to he converted)

I've used it to represent something somewhat softer, and also more commonly found in the area the cache is placed where there are quite a few horses. In effect, what I did was closed the lid of a large tupperware box trapping a sheet of plastic bin-liner between it and the box, so as to stop the foam from getting into the seal, turned the box upside down, then sprayed a good layer of the expanding foam over it. Once the foam was dry I painted it roughly with brown emulsion paint. The cache sits a few yards from the side of a busy, well-lit path, on the outskirts of a village, under the base of some overhanging ivy. It's totally visible but also unnoticeable - the irregular shape, muted natural colours, and lack of glare mean that it just registers as a dark natural shape under the ivy. I'm planning to make something that looks more like a building block the same way, by casting the foam in a rectangular mould, and painting it grey. That should be just as unnoticeable in another environment.

My holiday last may was in Armenia. At the time the nearest cache was IIRC in Georgia (the post-Soviet country, not the American state) Now there are two caches in Yerevan, set in July two months after I was thre.

Can't reinforce this enough - even more so at dusk. Thin branches can be dadgum near invisible even with torchlight. This is my nose, after an encounter with a bramble while skirting around a field in the dusk last week: I wear glasses anyway, and have a pair which are small enough lensed, and close enough to me head that they'll not get knocked off. What I've found particularly useful, especially for night caching is an 'Australian' style brimmed leather hat. It's thorn proof, the brim keeps the rain off, and it's a firm enpugh fit that it doesn't get blown off. I've resisted the temptation to add corks. The only problem is that I occasionally forget it's on, and have problems getting my GPSr lanyard over it without strangling myself. As to night caching - I've done very little in the way of planned night caches, but plenty of FTF chasing around Coventry and Warwickshire. I've probably only failed to find twice because of night conditions, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. There's also the fun on these unplanned evening FTF chases of spotting the LED-blue headlights, and traditional-bulb yellow torches approaching when you're searching aa GZ, and wondering of you can find (and if possible sign & replace) the cache before they get to you.

Looked more like Nuremburg to me. I thought maybe he was attending a Rally. No, if you look at the spelling it's quite different. What puzzled me is it's nowhere near the town of Lactodorum

My birthday's on the 9th, but I'm working in Leamington Spa all that weekend.

Last year I spent an evening chasing a FTF on a cache posted that evening, and had a very pleasant walk on a crisp clear evening. Not a true night cache, just a night-time chase for a cache.

Excellent, many thanks for taking care of it Sarah The more pledges the merrier! Still 6 weeks to get those cahces set up folks to be in with a chance of winning a prize when I do the draw on 9th December at The Cachehoppers Event. Did I remember to let you know about GC154HM which I set a few days after signing the pledge?

Well, the attacks on the event, and on the organisers that have appeared on this thread have pretty much guaranteed that I will make the effort to attend. The one thing that pretty much puts my back up in the geocaching community is the section of it that loves to tell people how they should or shouldn't take part in it - and once again that reaction has been counterproductive here.

Is 4:30pm OK?! I didn't make it home at all last night (don't ask!) - so couldn't even see that it had been published until my coffee break at work this morning. Still, 3tf ain't bad. ;-)