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    Category Proposal: Painted Bus Shelters

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

    Posted · Edited by Aushiker

    Since the proposal was knocked back, the group is no longer required unless one of the existing officers or someone else wants to try again. So assuming that there is no interest these be closed down/removed or do they just languish in the system?

     

    I will also ask the existing officers if anyone wants to try again just in case.

     

    Thanks

    Andrew

    Garmin Edge 800 for geocaching

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I have written a blog post on my experience with trying to use a Garmin Edge 810 (replacement for the 800) and this is what I concluded ...

     

     

    I would have to say no it doesn’t. In closing I have decided to generally stick with Garmin Oregon 600 on the bike when I want to add some geo-activities into my ride mix, however that said to allow me to maybe to grab a cache or Munzee or Waymark on my commutes I do load up a few route based waypoints to the Garmin Edge 810 to get me to ground zero and then use my phone for the close.

     

    But for more planned geo-activities I go with the Garmin Oregon 600 or for activities such as off-road bicycle touring and bushwalking as well as geocaching I again intend to use the Oregon 600.

     

    I did consider using the phone in-combination with Garmin Edge 810 but geocaching with the phone seriously eats into battery life, plus the screen can be hard to read at times so I find it really only an option for the quick grabs on my commutes. That said for Munzee capturing the phone is still a must.

     

     

    Andrew

     

     

    Category Proposal: Painted Bus Shelters

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

    Posted · Edited by Aushiker

    The category has now gone to peer review as Artistically Themed Bus Stops. I can discuss the other suggestions with the group officers but I feel we are starting to push the category in a direction that was not intended. Also for example sculptures and abstract objects may well fit into existing categories.

     

    @Tante.Hossi I would suggest that such bus shelters should have their own category ... they are quite distinctly and clearly different to the type of bus shelter being suggested in this category. I would be happy to support you in setting up such a category.

     

    Andrew

    Garmin Oregon 600 Geocaching Profile Turned Blue

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted · Edited by Aushiker

    Hi

     

    I have today updated the firmware in my Garmin Oregon 600 to 2.8 and with that I now have a corrupted Geocaching profile as per the attached images. I can thankfully change to other profiles and can access setup that way and get some functionality but obviously this is not ideal. I cannot seem to make any changes to the Geocaching profile to get any icons happening and all that is available when I roll-up the screen is what is shown in these images.

     

    I have also done a full reset numerous times without any joy.

     

    Suggestions anyone?

     

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    Thanks

    Andrew

    Don't grab it if you can't log it same day!

    in Trackables

    Posted

    I will simply say that I completely disagree with the opinion of the OP on this. And I am no noob either. :anitongue:

     

    It would never occur to me to be so rude and self-centered as to not give the cacher who dropped the trackable the chance to properly log it. Grabbing the trackable from the other cacher messes with the caching history of that cacher as well as the history of the trackable.

     

    Learn some patience and wait a day or a few.

     

    This is pretty much my take with the added proviso I would have based on the updated information from the OP dropped an email to the cacher to find out if they had overlooked logging the TB or there was some other issue that I could maybe help with so we got it all logged properly.

     

    Anderw

    Category Proposal: Painted Bus Shelters

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

    Posted

    I think these could be interesting. Around here I really don't have many bus shelters and those in the city are dull and utilitarian so I would have to watch for artistic ones during my travels but still a good idea.

     

    Thanks. Trust me we have lots of those utilitarian ones too but some more creative ones are popping up. Maybe it will become a world wide craze? :)

     

    BTW the one in the photos is pretty cool as it is outside the old Fremantle Prison which was built with convict labour in the 19th century and only closed down as an operational maximum security prison in 1991 so the painting on/of the bus shelter is quite appropriate.

     

    Andrew

    Relocated Waymark.

    in General Waymarking Topics

    Posted

    I don't know what other folks would do, but I'd just change the coordinates, get rid of the GONE and change the description to mention that the monument was moved from place A to place B, as an item of historical interest.

     

    This is what I would do as well.

     

    Andrew

    Category Proposal: Painted Bus Shelters

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

    Posted

    have you thought about Waymarking them in the murals category? Your examples would fit there nicely.

     

    I did think of that and meant to contact the category owner about whether they would fit. That said to me murals are paintings on walls, big paintings and I am in two minds about these being murals. Happy for input into it but.

     

    Also I wonder if they would benefit from their own category or is that just fragmenting things more?

     

    Andrew

    Category Proposal: Painted Bus Shelters

    in Recruiting and Category Proposals

    Posted · Edited by Aushiker

    At least locally and I am sure elsewhere in the world one can find painted bus shelters, ones painted in an artistic way such as the sample below. We have categories for the likes of painted mailboxes, Painted Hydrants and the like so my proposal is a category to document painted bus shelters. If you support this category please consider joining it to we can move it forward. Two more officers are required to get past the first stage.

     

    You will find the group here.

     

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    Thanks

    Andrew

    Logging a DNF

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I've always thought that to put a DNF on a cache that it should be one you've searched for and couldn't get in hand.

     

    That is the approach I take. I also feel it is important to log a DNF (some seem not to) as it provides information to those that follow as well as the CO.

    Thoughts?...

     

    And while on the subject, should you post a DNF in the case of where you went to look for the cache but something stopped you from getting closer to GZ? Example, I went to look for one the other day, the ditch was full of swampy water that I wouldn't have been able to clear if I tried to jump so I discontinued my search. I didn't log a DNF because it wasn't that I couldn't physically find the cache but because I chose not to risk a soaked shoe & pant leg.
    :laughing:

     

    I would have probably written a note about this experience. Again good information for those cachers who may wish to follow.

     

    Andrew

    iPad

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    It is on the website. It shows number of logged visits but does not show any logs. Also when I hit the play tab at the top of the page it only gives me the seek/hide a cache. Nothing for travel bugs at all.

     

    Have you cleared the browser cache? Is the problem still occurring?

     

    Andrew

    Geocaching with a Garmin Edge 810

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted · Edited by Aushiker

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    More as an experiment than anything else I thought I would try out my Garmin Edge 810 bicycle GPS as a geocaching GPS as preferred mode of geocaching transport is my bikes. Well it didn't work out as well I would have liked ( I think the Edge 810 goes some way to being useful but not all the way). I wrote up my experience on my blog and I am interested in suggestions on improving the approach but in summary I concluded that he Garmin Edge 810 allows me to geocache in the sense that I can navigate to a cache locality but that is about it. Once there I need to use my phone or a hand-held GPS to lock into the cache itself.

     

    Anyway I thought it was worth a try and that others might be vaguely interested :)

     

    Regards

    Andrew

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