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It seems its cheaper also to buy the premium membership via an in-app purchase on the ios (iPhone) version of the official Geocaching app. Its then on £22.99 and you also get a VAT receipt from iTunes. This is particularly bonkers as clearly Apple take their cut too. So if you are an Iphone user with the official app and want an even better deal, buy a £25 iTunes voucher as you often get these on special offer (e.g. from cdkeys you will get 5% off + 5%extra off with a special code via facebook). So I paid £23.50 approximately for a £25 of credit which I then spent £22.99. The actual cost was therefore £21.50 and I know I paid UK VAT. It maybe the same for the Android app, I can't say.

Sorry , if I am ever in the area I will grab it anyway.... A FTF is a FTF :-)

Personally I like circulars and trails and if the caches are within a short distance all the better! I dislike walking for no purpose so a dozen caches over two or three miles is great and encourages me to get exercise, wanting to grab them all is also a good challenge or target. A single cache in the middle of nowhere unless it's close to a road I am on , holds little inspiration for me. As too there being x number of new caches published in a week there are also x number archived, removed or mugged. How many can the uk sustain, well looking at the maps at least 3 or 4 times the current amount. There are lots of areas with no caches for miles!

Does it really take a month to fix something like this? If GS can't maintain the website and produce fixes maybe they should ask their customers to help and release the code as open-source.

Personally I think if I had more than 5 DNF is a row I would od something, add a hint , make something more obvious etc, or treble check you haven't broken any rules by placing the cache somewhere it should not be. Yes we like a challenge , but what is the point in placing a cache that no-one can find? If I were looking after 10 DNF's in a row I would not even bother - we only after all have your word there is a cache there!!!!! AS a CO I get satisfaction out of people finding my caches not logging DNF's Saying all that if the cache is genuinely there and I lived in Reading again , i'd be in the location till I found it!

They explain here why they changed it and why Google maps is no longer an option. Whilst it reports what google says, it doesn't show that GS has actually had any conversations with Google. Everything is business is open for negotiation, they may even find that google is willing to sponser GS or indeed become a partner. What would be wrong for instance offerening google the oppourtunity to buy into GS (give them some shares) or to have a banner on each page saying Geocaching.com powered by Google. I am fed up with the Americian approach - there are lots of us in other countries where the new maps are just not good enoug. Why for instance couldn't Google maps be available in tyhe UK/Europe but not in the USA where obviously the bulk of traffic is. All I would say is that GS need to communicate with Google or alternitives (Bing, Yahoo, OS there are plenty of alternatives) and work out a deal.