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I guess that owner was very trusting. The cache is still in place and I see it has just had its 7th birthday, not sure if its the same phone though:blink:

Welcome whoever you are

I would suggest that if the owner has any sentimental attachment to the plastic box and its rotten contents they would have been out to retrieve it many months ago. Why not recycle it as a new cache somewhere nice

When you run PQ's in the That (And) section put a tick in the box that says I don't Own. Then you will not get caches that you own appear in the PQ, I am guessing this is a lot easier than writing a VB programme. Make sure the box saying I Own does not have a tick in it as well.

Question : is there an indication in the GPX that the coordinates have been corrected? Is there an option (perhaps an extension to GPX) to send both the posted as well as the corrected coordinates? The reason for corrected coordinates is so that we can quickly determine which puzzle have been solved before we download the cache to our GPS device. No. I just downloaded a corrected cache into a seperate GSAK database and it has brought my corrected coordinates down with it but nothing tells me they are not the orignal coordinates, the published coordinates would be good as a child waypoint.

It is worth checking your spam filter.

I have found this with Garmin, I had a Colorado about 14 months old that had an issue, one of the Garmin reps wanted £90 for a repair, I did explain the fault had developed just before I went on holiday so had gone over the year warranty. I soldiered on with it for a few more months and rang again, explained the issue to someone else and was offered a free refurb exchange so I took it up. Now to get the software sorted on it.

Of course. Provided the cache/log is replaced and the owner maintains the cache page (maintains the coordinates and removes needs maintenance attributes etc), the cache is maintained. Can I ask, how many caches have you seen where a third party has replaced the container/log and should these be archive for non-maintenance? I would hope not as the objective is to have a collection of findable caches not a collection of archived cache pages. Andy Red Duster Volunteer UK Reviewer for geocaching.com UK Geocaching Information & Resources website www.follow-the-arrow.co.uk Geocaching.com Knowledge Books I certainly do assist owners by replacing log books, adding swaps, drying out wet caches etc etc, but have never replaced a cache that I did not find, I have found multiple containers in the same location on a number of occasions where visitors have not found the original and simply left another one, surely only the CO should be putting new containers out. Strangely always more micros in the location, never seen two ammo cans in the same place, yet? My other concern with the message is a new cacher seeing it on these cache pages will think thats how caches are supposed to be, ie they will now go and hide a load and put a note on the page saying all visitors should maintain them. Slightly off topic but to highlight this: Living on the edge of the Peak District with its drystone walls I do find caches in walls after extracting them I put them somewhere closeby that is less damaging, I then email the CO and let them know. The standard answer is that they put the cache in the wall as they had found others in walls and assumed it was acceptable. People will always replicate what they have seen, if someone reads or sees something that they think is acceptable they simply go and repeat it.

Can I ask why those comments were allowed past the reviewing stage? A new cacher coming across this series and then going out and laying their own caches, even if they do not say it on the cache page may well assume that the community maintain caches, so we end up with more unmaintained caches

Doesn't it get a bit warm wearing all that stuff? very good.

I always look like me I don't have a set look, I cache in a suit, jeans, walking trousers etc. It really depends on what else I am doing that day and what terrain I am expecting to find whilst out.

Yes.

There is a drop down somewhere, I think in your profile, that says how do you want to get your GPX's ? 1.0 or 1.1 Its here: http://www.geocaching.com/account/ManagePreferences.aspx down at the bottom. But it only offers them as either 1.0 or 1.0.1 I have not used Getamap but think that 1.0.1 is not the same as 1.1, maybe GSAK could be used to convert PQ's to 1.1?

Also need the ability to backdate challenges.

But has he come and found it

I looked at this earlier but did not reply as there was not much to go on. Do you have any clues? vague area? date? or if you are looking for the contents as well, was there a tracakble inside that could help identify the cache, even just its name might help someone? The names mean nothing to me. Did the Zulus own the cache or just visitors?

If they have been abandoned and they are in need of maintenace then its time to stick Needs archived logs on them. At the end of the day "finders" are only kidding themselves with logging caches they did not find and sign the log, or multiple finds on the same cache is also something you see. I have seen lots of cachers do similar things many of them soon get bored and disappear, I guess they find caching far to easy as they always get a smilie no matter what

I do not think you can, I have logged them on both a phone and computer and there is no date option. All you can do is write something in your log. I guess the lack of a date is because challenges are aimed at people using phones to find them and then logging them straight away while stood next to the challenge.

Not even a mention of the urban guidelines No chance of being discreet on this one, the cache is overlooked by a school on the middle of a roundabout that no one would logically walk onto, you can just see someone getting stopped by the police when getting it.

I was seeing this in the Beta version of GSAK 8, but only a couple of times. It was PQ's that I had deleted from the site but still showed up via the API, to see what would happen I clicked on one from GSAK and it downloaded it, even though it did not show on GC.com, it seemed to be that the PQ was still in the background somewhere but not visible to me. I hope that helps.

As per the previous reply the answer is no. But when you go the second time and the third time etc etc, just post them as notes rather than finds, as you have already found the cache. It is always a good idea when dropping and picking up trackables to include in your log which one you were leaving/taking, just the name or a general description is fine and do not include its tracking number in your log. This may allow an owner to eliminate you from their investigation to help locate their item if it goes missing.

Or the owner forgot to leave one in their newly sited ammo can.

some sad sods about. If it is who I think it is, two of them even posted found logs on an event they never went to but the other two did attend! I think they took a lott of flak on this and the attended logs did disappear. It is well known that between 1 and 4 of them find caches but all 4 always claim the finds online, at the end of the day they only cheat themselves.

Wow a giant

One benefit after the latest changes is on a cache page you can click on "View Logbook" then one of the tabs is for your friends, so on maybe busy or old caches you can quickly see all their logs. It helps you filter out all the TFTC type logs.