haggaeus
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If you find some out of place dots, email Ed. Everytime I've done this he was happy to remove them, it helps keep the maps accurate.
this could be even semi-automated, removing the need for an e-mail: you could enter a waypoint name and it would be queued up for refreshing the cache status (remember how the inaccuracies have been handled at Dan's stats page?)
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Last time when Groundspeak tried to ban Buxley, it made Slashdot news, now they are apparently feeling stronger. What a shame. With no maps outside the US, Buxley and regional sites which are "scrapping" coords from gc.com pages, are the only options to visualize caches in the area.
Oh and I assume that the timing of the fix which prevents nonpaying users from zooming gc.com maps was just coincidental.
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I absolutely agree: not only the owner is notified of the problem, but the cache accident logs are usually an amusing read (after everything is back in order). Many months after this log, people were telling me at events: "Oh and we have found 'Where's the Trail' last weekend, that's the one you dropped off the cliff, right?"
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Yes, the same change seen here.
The caches found by me and the country/state search results are ordered ok though.
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I was wondering if it is a kind of cache rating, or DNF/found ratio... didn't think of the size first and had to look at the website forum
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ok, it eventually got logged, maybe after one hour... it just puzzled me as I never noticed this before. Shouldn't the log invalidate the memory cache?
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I just noticed a strange error I have never seen before: I posted a find to the cache and the cache page didn't show my log, even after a refresh, but I can see the find counted in my stats and my "All Geocaches Found":
The bottom of the cache page says "Rendered: From Memory", even if I allow a few minutes between the reloads.
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I think it's been building, since the crack-down on virts, which seemed to encourage a rash of lame micros.
Now what would a crack-down on micros cause... a rash of lame offset caches? Read the year on the plaque, continue across the town to a cache under a bush?
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No, there was no reason for me to attend the group hunt you mentioned ... I had logged the FTF on that cache two years earlier.
That's no reason
there were some previous finders just watching (I don't think they logged the second find). Yes that probably belongs to the socializing part of the hunt (I think most of the group went to celebrate the find afterwards), but the caching part was also fun.Fro: is the fence new? I don't remember even stepping over a fallen one.
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Well I can't think of a group hunt yet that was put together so "that people lacking a specific skill or activity could participate".
I can. If memory doesn't fail me, that was precisely the reason for the earliest group hunts in our region. I can think of a tree or two people couldn't/wouldn't climb, a reach or two where long arms were required and people wouldn't/couldn't "stick their arm in there," a hazardous climb or two where people afraid of heights (or who were of a certain girth) could not access the cache.
You probably don't mean Where to go? Vertigo!, at least I don't remember meeting you there. Anyway, that was truly a collaborative effort: the more experienced cachers spotted the cache after some search and allowed the newbies like me and Dave to go retrieve it.
Doesn't seem to me much different eg. from the island multicache I did recently with my sister: I needed a paddling partner for our double kayak and she was glad to have me there when she found the stage 1: a micro a little bit up in the tree, which I could reach from the ground.
[edit: fixed the url]
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So, for those who have contracted the disease, how has it affected you and your geocaching experience? Do the meds help alleviate the symptoms?
I had Lyme the summer before I started geocaching, took the antibiotics for a few weeks and the symptoms disappeared almost immediately after I started taking them. (BTW it was my first summer in US, so when I got fevers and headache, I thought it was because of I was not used to the hot weather - only after I got the rash, I remembered it could be related to the tick bite). The unpleasant side effects of the cure were:
- increased sensitivity to sun: long pants and sleeves all the time
- no alcohol: I guess it would be tough to attend Beer & Wings type events and sip cranberry juice there.
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Probably a note like "Attention, the coords of stages 1-N have been changed - if you found them before Aug 11, you have to revisit the cache" would be appropriate. There might be cachers who did a few stages and ran out of time so they saved the rest of the multi for the next time. Sometimes the seekers post a note in such case, but it is not required.
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Anyway. I play with two competing travellers, and I'm glad to announce that one more competing travelling gamepiece was born today, a Russian-speaking froggie traveller
Ya hochu lyagushku! But I don't get this: they accept orders from all regions of Russia, because there should be no borders for the travellers?? I guess they are not shipping them abroad :|
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And as far as the nude caching thing - Would you have a problem if I came up to you during a hike and pushed a religion on you? Then why should anyone else be allowed to push their belief system on me (or my nieces/nephews) should I be out there? There are accepted places to be nude in this country - the parks aren't one of them.
Sure I wouldn't be offended if you passed me on a trail in the official robe of your denomination and said Hi - that's exactly what Nudecacher and other nude hikers do.
As for the original topic, yes I think it is appropriate to warn the others in the cache description or log, so they can decide not to hunt for this cache if they would feel there incomfortable.
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It has been mentioned in comp.risks newsgroup some time ago (the link points to a forwarded memo, which makes more sense than the CNN article: there are restricted areas with no two-way electronic devices allowed and a Coke can transmitting its position certainly falls into that category. I wouldn't wonder if similar policy would be adopted in other places with restriction on electonic devices (airplanes, hospitals, etc.).
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I did mostly linear hikes rather than loops, but a nice one (and not much visited) is in Schunemunks:
start at Salisbury Mills train station: Smoke Cache - alien cache (I didn't download a waypoint for this one, but it seems to be by the way)- Kodo cache - Another Schunnemonk View - Long Path meets Jessup Trail - , here I turned back because of the heavy rain and did just My Favorite Hike on my way back, but you should be able to continue at least to Schunemunk's High Knob or
And Above Earl and then hit the right trail to get to Dark Hollow Cache.
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About the "stolen goods" - I would agree if it would be an ordinary TB bought by a user for $4.25, but in my opinion, YJTBs are promotional giveaways, not much different from limited edition soda pops. I have received one YJTB from Groundspeak when buying geocoins and TB tags and there were no instructions or "license to use" which would prohibit me to sell it.
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I can't find a link where to download Plucker for Palm?
The Plucker Viewer .prc files are included in the host packages, eg. after installing Linux RPM you get /usr/share/plucker/palm directory. There is also a separate 'Plucker Viewer' in the Download section.
I have played with plucker a little and didn't like it much (tried to use it without GPX files and spinner). Cachemate, however, is great - the first shareware I have registered since Trumpet Winsock!
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Geko 201. I have used Mag 315 before (liked the user interface, didn't like that the unit floats but it is not waterproof) and shortly used eTrex Legend (I was already used to the smaller, lighter Geko). Plus Geko comes with many languages, including Croatian, which is my favorite language for electronic devices
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Congrats! Do you plan to do 500 (or 600) in CZ again? Lot of new caches here since your last visit
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Thanks everyone for the farewell wishes. It has been great time here but I am also looking forward to be back and start hiding caches in CZ (the available space runs out fast, about 8 new caches/week). The ammo cans are already in the boxes, ready for sea freight.
I will stay in touch on the irc (CET is 6 hours ahead, so no officials at 3:30AM), and in the forums here and on geocaching.globenet.cz (if you can understand Brian's post about the legendary army of knights sleeping in the hill of Blanik, take a look there). Let me know if you ever come to Prague, I can help you with translating CZ puzzle caches and guide you through public transit system there [
]Special thanks go to
- speleojunky, whose plundered cache accidentaly found in Lenape Park introduced me to the game
- the hiders who contributed the most to my find numbers:
Bayonets4U (11), BigBill6 (8), tneigel, ED634, Briansnat, Avroair (5)
- Harrald, Lunaruby, Bldebabe, Batonka, Kar, who gave me a ride from/to events or group hunts
- NJ Transit of course (and MTA too). I'll try to find some cute bus or locomotive and release a TB with mass transit theme before I leave.
About the sig items: somebody on IRC (I still think it was Harrald) suggested that I should place a Czech cache containing sig items of NY/NJ/CT cachers. Since then I have collected only a few of them, so I'll probably make the theme more general. If you want to contribute, send them by mail to
Marek Kubita
437 Willow Ave
Garwood NJ 07027
- if mailed on Wed/Thu, they could arrive until Saturday... or you can stop by and trade them for some furniture (if interested, let me know before Thursday night so we will not put it out for bulk waste pickup).
Happy caching!
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Still not decided yet about the best method, so far I tried these:
1. pants pocket: when I was using Mag315, it happened to me many times that I felt my pocket lighter and returned back the trail for the dropped GPSr. Now I am using Geko and it is just fine if it doesn't accidentally power on and drain the batteries.
2. jacket pocket: fine for any GPSr in jacket weather. Sometimes Geko poweres on.
3. backpack pocket: not so convenient but mostly ok - the same problem with self-powering Geko.
4. lanyard: tried it in the short period when I was playing with Legend - it acted like a pendulum or yoyo, I considered that quite disturbing.
5. holding in a hand - with Geko, I can still use my hand for support in moderately rough terrain. With bigger GPSr, the hand is not usable for anything else.
Currently I am practicing a combination of methods 3 and 5, looking for some hard leather pouch which would prevent Geko power button from being pushed.
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Congrats! Looks like a well chosen milestone.
Nice though.
there were some previous finders just watching (I don't think they logged the second find). Yes that probably belongs to the socializing part of the hunt (I think most of the group went to celebrate the find afterwards), but the caching part was also fun.
Buxley New Caches Not Being Updated ?
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I guess the overload issue is being exaggerated. Let's count how many pages Buxley needs to download:
210+50 country+state pages to get the list of new caches (with Canadian and Australian provinces, plus some large states which have more than one page of new caches, let's say the total is 400). The update was happening twice a day = 800 hits.
There are currently about 250 new caches approved daily (I counted the average interval between 1000 caches for a few recent cache IDs). It is probably more after a sunny weekend... 500? Buxley needs to get every cache page once.
This looks like 1300 hits in a day. Was this traffic really killing the website? One hit in a minute? If this is the case, then Buxley can use the $10 donation I sent him and buy Groundspeak a new dedicated server, I got my Sparcstation IPX for $5 off eBay.