Nakedbamboo

I notice that the link to the printer friendly page does say (no logs) at the end. This would lead me to believe that the change was intentional. As to why, I would have no idea since I don't see how it could be anything other than length. Some of the descriptions are long enough to push it over one page long, so including logs shouldn't matter in my opinion. Personally, I cache paperless, so I have no experience with it. Just thought I would mention that it looks intentional.

I look at it this way: this is by far the best site to use for geocaching, you might say the only site worth using, which basically means they have a monopoly on the sport. They could, therefore, do whatever they wanted with regards to ads, because admit it, not many die hard cachers are just gonna quit as a statement. However, they choose to make this a VERY affordable website to use as a premium member, AND they even choose to make the few advertisements that are there unobtrusive. They could be pop up ads all over the place or take up large sections of the page, but they don't. I never did see one of the "test" ads, but it sounds like they at least listen to their members about the ads (I would wager they were removed because of the content complaints more than the, "I hate them period," complaints.) I, personally, would very much hate to see this website go away because there is nothing out there to take it's place. All of those caches would suddenly become a lot of hidden trash in the world. If the ads bother you so much, maybe you should start up a competing website that offers it's users an ad free experience. I am sure it would go over well with everyone until you had to shut it down due to lack of funding.

I love it when people have no idea waht they are talking about. It has nothing to do with finding 2500 caches in one day. People sound like morons when they throw out that stupid question everytime something like this comes up. Every thread that talks about this topic always has to have the one guy saying that "as soon as you find 2000 caches in one day, then maybe you will have a point..." It has to do with having options. I live in Dallas where there are thousands of caches in a 20 mile area. I like to have options available for whenever I go out to run errands. I might be in one part of the town one day and another part of the town the next and it is nice to be able to just grab a few caches in the area while I am out running errands. It saves on gas not making a lot of specific cache runs. Having a larger database makes this process simple. I do not know that I would need a whole state, but I understand the desire for some to have bigger, up to date databases. Like CoyoteRed said, just because you wouldn't use it doesn't mean thousands of others wouldn't use it.

I also noticed that from what I can tell this doesn't do anything for the "more than 500" issue. If I zoom out it still tells me that there are more than 500 caches in the search. So what exactly is the use of these blue areas? What were they designed for since I can't zoom out any farther than before anyway, and now my normal zoom area is full of useless info. I at least figured we would be able to zoom out as far as we wanted and then just get bigger blue areas... This really means they add no new functionality as far as I can tell. If I need to see the roads behind the icons, I can zoom in; or use my GPS which is kind of what it was designed for.

I can understand that this is an attempt to address the "more than 500" everyone is complaining about, but living in Dallas, with a massive cache density, I have to say that this is actually worse for me than the "more than 500" issue. I can't even zoom to a level where the 500 wasn't an issue without there being fifteen of these purple blocks. I would recommend that it doesn't kick in until there are over 500 on the screen and then that the blocks are bigger than 10 caches each. I also vote for the option to trigger it on or off, although I have no idea if that is a feasible programming option. Thanks for your efforts to address the 500 issue, though.

The reason I have a large DB is that I like to have my GPS and Palmpilot with me when I go out running errands. There are so many caches in the Dallas area that it is easy to grab a few while running your daily errands. However, my daily errands are not confined to a two mile area which is pretty much all you need for 500 caches around here. I am all over the Dallas area. Anyway, the DB is already created so concerns about that are moot. I would just like someway to keep it updated, and this would require less PQs than the actual making of it if I was able to customize a Last Changed date range. Just to get a little off point, what was the reason for making the Placed Dates customizable? I would think the general population would find less use for that. I would think a Changed Date would be more useful to see which caches are active regardless of when they were placed. The only real benefit that the Placed Dates even gives you, other than searching for a few really old caches which might be interesting, is the creation of a DB like I am talking about. I mean, why would someone want to randomly search for caches placed in March of 2004? However, I am sure there are people that have a legitimate reason for wanting to do that. I feel that I have a legitimate reason for what I want, and I am just saying if you are going to have one be customizable, why not the other? I don't understand why everyone gets all pissy and argumentative about feature requests here.

Currently the PQs allow you to select a box that says "That have changed in the last 7 days." I would find this much more useful if it was a customizable range of dates exactly like the ones at the bottom for the Placed dates. Living in Dallas/Ft Worth, I have a huge database of caches I keep for when I travel around town and it is impossible to update the caches without recreating the entire DB. I had to create the DB by selecting placed dates that yielded under 500 results each and then dump them all into one DB. I keep the DB growing as new caches are placed by just doing a PQ once every 2 or 3 months with the new placed dates. However, all the other caches in the DB slowly get out of date as people find them, they are disabled, or they archived. It would be much easier for me to update the DB if the "Have changed in....." was customizable. Any thoughts on this? Thanks.

When I do that, it still shows up in the cache inventory. Should it disappear? I hate caches listed with travel coins and bugs that are not there and I don't want my caches to be the same.

I have heard that cache owners can move TBs that are in a cache inventory but not in a cache physically to an Unknown Location. I have looked everywhere but cannot find a way to do this. Can anyone help? Thanks.

I just tried to log into the site today and got a malicious code block from our network. So I don't know how you guys got it back. Any suggestions?

There must have been something wrong in my GSAK database. I deleted the database and redid the finds and it was correct. Oh well. Thanks.

I just noticed that my stats say that I have 403 finds on 402 unique caches. I must have accidently double logged one. How can I find out which one is double logged?

Somewhere in these forums is a link to a website that has interactive state maps with benchmarks. It is a multicolored USA map and you click on the states. I cannot find the link at all in here. Can someone help? Thanks.

Would there be any way to have an option to hide Temporarily Disabled caches? I get so tired of people disabling them and then they never get back to enabling them. I have so many in my area that have been disabled for months; some for nearly a year, that I would like to just not see them on the map.

The map has really improved over the last couple of weeks. One bug that I came across today is that when I download to GPS from the bubble on the map, it locks the map. It downloads fine to my GPS, but then the map is locked up, and I have to refresh the map. Thanks for all the improvements.

I also did not like the 15 mile limit, but I wonder if anyone really knew what the performance trade off would be while they were complaining? I am curious of one thing, if I choose to filter by one type of cache, does the refresh still include in its results those of the filtered type? For example, if I want to see only events, I would filter everything else out and then I was thinking I should be able to zoom to the state level to see up to 500 events. It appears that the refresh still includes all other types as well so you still can only zoom out as far as 500 total of all caches. Is there any way to make the filters true search filters on the map? I know this could be done with a PQ, and I have no problem doing it that way; I was just curious as to if it was possible to get the map to function that way.

This sounds neat at first glance. My question is what kind of GPS devices are going to be needed? Is my garmin capable of doing all those things like "...generate media events on the device. For example, when a person enters a zone the device can play a sound or show a picture." Or do I need some fancy GPS enabled phone?

Please tell me you're joking.

I realize that a lot of people say that all the new changes work better with Firefox than they do with IE, however, in my opinion, if you are going to upgrade something that people pay for that works perfectly fine in IE, the upgrade should work just as well in IE. Not all of us, and I would say probably not the majority of us, have any desire to Firefox. Call us unflexible, dumb, whatever, I don't care. I don't want another piece of software on my computer that I am only going to use to visit 1 website.

I know I kept trying to find some magnets to hold an altoid can to a fence post, but nothing was strong enough. I tried ones from Walmart and Lowes, but they just kept adding more to the weight than the strength of the magnet allowed. Anyway, I finally stumbled onto something called Neodymium magnets. These are what you want. They are massively strong for their size. I am sure a lot of people already know about them, but for those that don't here is a good website: www.kjmagnetics.com. It allows you to by them singlely which I found to be very rare. Everyone wants to sell them in batches of 100 or more. By the way, I am not in any way related to this company, I am just a very suprisingly satisfied customer. Many other places sell Neodymium magnets, this was the only one I found where you could get individual ones.

Did you go back and check the actual coordinates set for the notification? The system plugs in your home coordinates as the default, since that's what most people will use. You may have just thought you entered new coordinates. Yes, I checked. I actually want my home coordinates there. But I also used the map icon to see where the coordinates were and they were right on my house.

Ok, so I finally got my first notification of a new cache. However it is way farther away than my notification radius. So what is up with that? I got an email about this cache, GC165FT. It is in Oklahoma. The email says that the cache is 17.7 miles away which is within the 20 mile limit I set. However, I set the coordinates of the notification in Flower Mound, Texas. I clicked on the linnk in the email that takes you to the notification page. I then clicked on the map it icon for the coordinates. It is centered right on my house. The cache is almost 80 miles away. I heard that 80 miles is the limits for a notification, so I am wondering if the system is somehow overlooking my radius of 20 miles. At least I got the notification this time.

So since this appears to have been realated to Cracker Barrel, I am curious as to what exactly the obsesion is with them. And since the other topic has been closed obviously, I guess I will post this here. I have seen the Off Your Rocker series caches around, but so what? Is there some guy out there with a Cracker Barrel fetish or something that will not allow him to place caches anywhere else? Maybe we should be looking into the long term effects the geocaching addiction could have upon the human mind.....

Ahh.. I got it now. I have never seen that time slider and had to use the help to know what you were talking about. It now shows all the caches. Ok, so now what is the use of this icon, , for a PQ since the map it uses does not have a time slider? It will only display the first cache.

Ok, I figured it out. I did not realize that if you changed your email address, you had to revalidate. My bad. Moderator you can kill this thread.