South Lyon Trekkers

I like the Favorite option and used it today on a cache I logged. I was logging caches from Field Notes and noticed I needed to go back to the cache page to Favorite the cache. This takes away the quick link back to Field Notes. If Favoriting a cache from the log page was possible, the option to Favorite a cache would be more user friendly.

I use GSAK for the caches I have found, but sometimes I use the maps located here: http://www.hometownlocator.com/ Choose a state and then click Maps in the red banner at the top. From there, you can click anywhere on the map and it will tell you what county that point is in.

After uploading field notes and I start logging, I find myself going back to the cache page often to check out info about the cache. It would be a great feature (possible an option that can be turned on or off) to put info from the cache page "header" above the log comment box. Info like D/T, placed date, and cacher name.

I remember rumors of a separate spot for coins we own in our inventory and some other tweaks. I thought there was something called Project Phoenix that was supposed to be an integration of various things. I don't recall all of what. Anyway, I would like to see a separate tab from geocoins I own and keep in my inventory. How about moving the other trackables inventory up to a tab along the top. I also heard (a year ago?) rumors that there was a revamp coming for the left side sidebar. That would be welcome. Especially making coming links like PQs bigger.

I like the idea. I posted it two years ago, but it didn't seem to be met with a great reception. Forum post

Something happened and the order has changed. I don't understand why the caches are ordered they way they are now.

I don't know what I would like to see. I was thinking about it and couldn't figure it out. It's not alphabetical; the order in which I found them; or by when they were introduced. I was just curious. I guess it would be neat to have them ordered for each cacher by the amount found. Most of a cache type first, followed by second most....

I was just curious if there was a rhyme or reason for the order of the cache types/icons for Cache Found/Caches Owned on our profile. Is there?

I would like to request TPTB to consider making an option, when editing a cache page, to be able to create a copy of it by selecting a button or equivalent. For those who host reoccurring events or are creating a series of caches, the ability to create one cache page and then simply click a button to create a copy would be very helpful.

I would like to request that TPTB change the order in which Terrain and Difficulty checkboxes are presented on PQ page (when creating a PQ). Presently the two are listed as Terrain first and Difficulty second, yet when reading the cache page Difficulty is presented first followed by Terrain. When searching by those two features, I often transpose them and search the wrong combination.

My question to TPTB: Why not? If the photo is one of a handful of requirements, why not? Individual owners could make exceptions if a case was made by the cacher logging the cache. To say it is specialized equipment and a burden for the cacher logging the cache is fallacy (one of the arguments I have heard in the past). More cachers have cameras than GPSrs that can run Wherigos. My cache bag is full of thermometers, measuring tapes, test strips, and even a hydrometer. I see the photo as the equivalent of the cache log. Isn't the only required part of a cache the log book? Why is a log book required? I also understand that an EC with a photo requirement could have the answers passed on, but the picture could be proof of the visit. BTW, I have seen an EC log with a Photoshopped picture.

I didn't see this posted when I searched. I get a 500 Internal Error web page when I click on the Groundspeak Goodies link. I'm using Firefox 3.5.7.

I'm not looking for when the first caches were placed, but when was Geocaching.com brought online. I saw on the history section that it was September 2000. Is there an exact date?

I like to watch caches that I DNF. I would appreciate TPTB considering adding a check box to the "Post a new log" page so I can watch the cache I just posted a log for instead of going back to the cache page itself add it to my watchlist. (Did I make that clear?)

I thought I'd revive this thread to vent a little on a troublesome picture issue. I've become quite good at taking a picture of myself for ECs. No problem. Recently I've come across ECs that ask for a picture while holding my GPSr, my pH kit, facing a certain direction, while balancing on one foot, and singing the national anthem. Well, you get the idea. Asking to hold too many things AND take the picture. Some thought would be nice. While I'm at it, I cache with a friend who has an Oregon 550t. Her GPSr IS her camera. How does she get it in the picture?

Possible, but the file sizes are really not all that big. And, I haven't had a problem yet. I'm just asking for the option just as it is with regular PQs.

I like the choice of ordering up a PQ either zipped or not, but there is no choice for PQs on bookmark lists and, I think, caches along a route. Now that dropping a GPX file straight into some GPS units (like my Oregon) is possible, I don't like my PQs zipped. I like to download and save right to the unit. Having this feature would be appreciated.

There is a TYPO, unless it is really will be "automaGically" deleted.

I admit that, on occasion, I have waited too long to log a TB or coin I have picked up or dropped off. Lately I have found coins and TBs are getting grabbed too quickly. I have had some grabbed within two hours of dropping it off and I haven't even finished caching for the day. I'd like to see a 24-48 grace period in which a coin or TB could not be grabbed without first having the current holder notified and OKing it ("release it"). Coins and TBs don't get the mileage they have earned when this happens and it can be somewhat annoying.

The oldest active cache is Mingo in Kansas, May 2000.

I would appreciate notifications for events to be state-wide rather than limited to 50 miles. I regularly travel more than 50 miles for an event, but don't find out about many of them until I check my state page (which varies in time). I would like to see this for CITOs as well.

I know that the list of mega events is sent in the weekly e-mail. I would appreciate a simple listing of all the mega events in the world posted on the front page of GC.com (or some link to all of them). Many cachers are willing to travel long distances to a mega event and it would be helpful to have access to a list of all of them besides the e-mail.

Would the PTB please consider adding a checkbox to the map view that would remove disabled caches from the map. An option similar to "Hide My Finds" and "Hide My Caches"? It would further be appreciated if a color other than gray could be used as the background of disabled cache icons on the map. The gray is not very noticeable.

Have you checked out the Cache-a-Maniacs, Cachers of the Round Table, GeoTalk, or Geocaching Podcast? They are completely about geocaching. Sorry if you already knew about these...I just enjoy them. And actually, I heard about Geocaching from a podcast called "The Totally Rad Show." www.totallyradshow.com. It's pretty funny...reviews video games, movies, and other things for techno geeks. On the website you can find video of them finding their first cache. It's a pretty cool show. :-) Yes I have. In fact those are four of the five geocaching specific ones I listen too. Two of those are podcasts from local podcasters. I appreciate the tip though. I just thought it was interesting a "main stream" podcast had picked it up.

I subscribe to The Stuff You Should Know podcast from How Stuff Works. A new episode just appeared in my iTunes title: "What is geocaching." I have not heard it yet, but I am a bit eager as to what they have to say.