South Lyon Trekkers

Please add county information/boundaries/label/whatever anyone wants to call it to cache information.

Since the new Lists came out I have been using them more and thus find features I'd like to see. I've been keeping some notes and am finally getting around to posting them here. Sorry of these have been mentioned before, I put them all here since they all deal with Lists. I'd really like to see the Ignore List done away with and any list allowed to be toggled to ignore. There are caches I ignore for different reasons. One reason is seasonal. River caches near me are not typically accessible during the winter. Making a list and being able to toggle it to ignore gets them out of the way during the winter. I can then add them back in the summer. And back to ignore in the winter when I end up not getting to them. This may be a phone app issue. On some of my Lists I alter the title of the cache to order them or add a note. This does not appear on the phone app. Another phone app item related to Lists. The description added to caches on a list do not appear on the phone app. I'd like to be able to see it. I'm a list person in general. More than a 100 lists would be nice. Convert a PQ to a list. Search within a list by keyword. A toggle between downloading all caches in a list and unfound caches in a list. Allow to order a list by description.

I like the Geocache of the Week and often will look for those caches when caching in an area. It seems like I have not even seen a post for Geocache of the Week in a long time and found that I was missing new ones being added, and maybe still am. Still going or not, the Lists people kept were often not up to date. Can an attribute be created to tag the Geocache of the Week caches?

I guess I missed that. My phone is pretty old and doesn't have a GPS chip. Another reason to upgrade, I guess.

Does anyone know, especially have used, the Geocaching app with a Garmin GLO 2? Does they work together?

I like the idea here. I really would like to see my Unfound caches in a list. So if I'm keeping a list of caches on GeoTour, I can just pull up the ones not found. Also, exporting the filtered caches to a Pocket Query would be fantastic. Not sure if it does now, I have not tried to export Found caches.

I have been reviewing caches on my Lists that have Personal Cache Notes. In some cases, I removed the Personal Cache Note completely, but the icon remains on the Cache Type icon in the List. The picture attached here shows the small Personal Cache Note icon over the Cache Type icon. None of these caches actually have a Personal Cache Note.

I was reading about that. I have not tried that, but was thinking of doing so. A question I have about the extension is: does that extension add the county info to the PQ, or does it just add it when viewing on a map within Project GC or Geocaching.com? Right now, with GSAK, I can load the original PQ from Geocaching.com in to GSAK, then run the macro to add info to the PQ. Lastly, I load the PQ into a GPSr through GSAK. Ideally, I'd like to avoid all the processing and just have it there.

I use GSAK to add additional information to a log of each of the caches I am looking for, when using my GPSr. One of those pieces of information is what county a cache is in. Having the county information already on the cache page and in the GPX file would be very helpful. It would also appear on the app. I would really like to see this information added to the cache information.

Yes. kunarion pretty much explained it. I keep a few starting sentences or paragraph that apply to the day and add something cache specific at the end. If what I paste in is long enough, I can't see the bottom of the text to add to it.

When using the app for a day of caching, I will often type a log in a note app. I then copy the text from the note and paste it into the log when I find a geocache. I then type something cache-specific at the end of the pasted text. A problem occurs when a lengthy log is pasted and I add to it. The log will not scroll up and the text is not visible due to the on screen keyboard. I would like to see this bug fixed.

Please put a link to the Gallery at the top of the Your Profile page.

There was a recent update - one that I can not find anymore - that added a whole bunch of souvenirs and came with a cryptic message that, to me and some others, seemed like GC.com was abandoning souvenirs. Will there be more souvenirs? For EarthCache day, GC.com produced what looked like a souvenir. I and many others thought it was and found a cache on that day thinking we were earning one. Alas, it just looked that way and the post I read never indicated it was. Now the same thing for CITO Day. The Latitude 47 Blog has a nice little picture that looks like a souvenir, but the write-up mentions nothing about it being one, just like what happened on EarthCache day. So, if this is not a souvenir, why not?

I think that this is a very good suggestion that does try to balance the situation out. It will force the cacher that is trying to grab the bug to be patient but also remind me that I need to check it into the cache where I dropped it, just in case I forgot. If they are really impatient and have tried to grab it before I have even returned home from today's caching adventure, I can easily drop a note on the cache to drop the bug, then delete the note and post my found log when I get time. I think that this would actually help keep the travels of the trackables recorded properly. The trouble is not everybody has a device that lets them write logs in the field. If a cacher away from home drops a travel bug but won't have internet access for several days they have no way of logging the bug drop, so the next person who comes along with their smartphone and tries to grab the bug will have to grab it from the current holder. So you have the problem of the current holder then wondering where it went. If you deny the next finder the opportunity to just grab the bug you potentially end up with a situation where by the time the person is back from their break and back online the bug has made two or three more moves, further compounding the issue. Any method of restricting the grab by requiring the current holder to authorise it could easily result in ongoing delays as people cache on holiday (I like to gather up travel bugs any time I'm going abroad - although I'm rarely offline for more than a couple of days there have been times I've been abroad and had no internet access for a fortnight). The only other way to avoid it that I can think of is to encourage people not to take bugs away on holiday, which rather defeats the point of travel bugs. The bottom line is to have communication. Granted, there will always be exceptions. A hand written note may work in the case you described. It might work in the situation I described. I admit not logging caches and trackables for a few days after due to a variety of reasons. Occasionally a trackable does get grabbed from me then. But when my name and date are on the log and the trackable is grabbed the same day, I get irked. I have resorted to copying the trackable code to grab it back. I also write a friendly e-mail to less experienced cachers, sometimes telling them I am grabbing it back and why. (I don't always grab it back.) So far, all have been receptive.

I am finding more and more often, that cachers are grabbing trackables without trying to notify the cacher who is holding the trackable in his or her inventory. When I started caching the rule of thumb was to give a cacher 24 to 48 hours before grabbing a trackable AFTER sending a friendly e-mail. I know part of the issue is the accessibility of the Internet while out caching, but that does not excuse poor etiquette. Last month, I did receive an e-mail asking me to log a trackable. I appreciated that. However, I received the e-mail no less than two hours after I had dropped off the geocoin and I was still out caching. In fact, it was still morning. I don't see GC.com teaching patience, so... I would like to see a feature where, once the grab is initiated, there is an e-mail automatically sent to the holder indicating the trackable has been picked up and another cacher is waiting to log it. A 24 hour wait period follows (unless the holder accepts the grab) and then the trackable is released. This would not apply to trackables listed in (wrong) caches or unknown locations.

The "new" maps have been around a while. I thought I remembered, but could be wrong, that the cache type icons on the medium zoom level were going to be separated out into their own icon after the maps were up and running, no more sharing. I would like to see each cache type have it own icon and color on the medium zoom level and own colors on the low zoom level.

I was looking through my travel bugs and geocoins, which I have not done in a while, and noticed that many are and have been in the hands of cachers for an extended period of time. I would like to see Groundspeak/Geocaching.com take a more active role in reminding people to move the trackables they pick up. Something occasionally in the weekly newsletter would be nice. I really would like to see a simple button a trackable owner could press and generate an e-mail that sent a reminder to the cacher who picked up the trackable. The e-mail would include a friendly reminder, reference to the specific trackable, and link to the trackable's page. A notice on the cacher's profile would be nice as well. The trackable owner could only be allowed to send a reminder every week or two.

I skimmed through the comments and saw only a brief mention of this and I don't know if this was a recent addition or not. "Challenge caches relying solely on third-party software for verification will not be published." Geocaching.com has no way to verify county and Delorme challenges. Thus, county and Delorme challenges are not acceptable. While I realize just about every state, if not all, have these challenges established. If that were to change, a new one could not be created. I have not seen the Help section before on Challenges caches. I have had not need to look and the Help section has been pretty bad. There are a lot of rules for challenge caches listed there. I understand why for many of them, but it is still a whole lot of micromanagement. There is a reason for the Ignore button. A challenge cache that a cacher does not want to attempt can be ignored. Furthermore, the Challenges app and the Wherigos could be considered "third-party" apps or, better yet, third party devices. A smart-phone is essentially needed for either. Geocaching.com sorely lacks consistency and efficacy and it is not just this issue.

Many cachers have trackables that have gone missing or have been picked up and not put back into circulation. It would be nice if Geocaching.com would help take up the issue of trackables that have been taken and have disappeared. Promote some sort of Trackable Amnesty Day, maybe even encourage events or locations, no questions asked. Ask cachers to clear out, give up, return to circulation trackables they have picked up and to get them going again.

Pick and choose and make up your own context. You won't find my posts to be very negative. But as I stated at the end of the sentence:"but I am done with at when it comes to the maps."

Glad you decided NOT to focus on the intent of my message.

I try hard not to be negative, but I am done with at when it comes to the maps. Another series of useless updates. I can correct coords on GSAK and will continue to do so. No reason to switch if not in pocket query. It's half-baked. Effort, even acknowledgement, needs to be placed on getting the maps useful. They are broken, broken on purpose. A feature taken away. It has been, what, June? since the maps were working with PQs. There is nothing I want to see more than the maps working with pocket queries. Anything else is a failure.

Thanks!

There was a cache at the Midwest Geobash supposedly named "Flash Burn" or something similar. I have tried variations on the name, but can not locate it on GC.com. Anyone have information about it? It was an ammo box and a cacher was carrying it around Area 51. I tried the other cache listing site, but no luck there either. I also looked over Mount10Bike's bookmark list. No luck. Some help would be great.

We took a stab at this issue over the last week but weren't happy with the way it was implemented so it was rolled back. We recognize it's a big complaint from Premium Members so we're going back to the drawing board with some other ideas. I hope to announce a fix for this very soon. SO BUMMED. I was hoping this would be fixed. I wait patiently.