Vacman

Welcome, welcome to the machine.... Welcome to your new addiction. -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

Skippy2 - I have the same setup as you. I download my regions(from Mapsend) into the GPS, then I download the waypoint files from here(GC.com) into QuakeMap. I then use QuakeMap to transfer them to the GPS. What I have not figured out (I haven't even tried yet) is how to delete whole blocks of waypoints from the GPS - rather then one-by-one. I know there is way - I just haven't had the time to figure it out yet. -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

Well if you think about it - this happens to a TB anyways. You start it somewhere... you might have a general idea where you want it to go, but where it goes while on its way is anyones guess. The spots they stop in are always far more interesting to me then where they end up. My problem is that mine usually end up in a black hole. I no longer do TB's because they always end up AWOL. -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

The end. -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

Renegade - You summed it up perfectly. The reality is that this wasn't rejected because it was a vacation cache, it was rejected because someone, someday, "might" want to place a micro there.... Here is the jist of what he said "Generally virtual caches are placed in locations where a traditional cache would not be allowed or would be inappropriate, since the virtual prevents a later physical cache being placed within a .1-mile radius of that spot. Often a micro cache can be readily placed at or near the same spot submitted as a virtual cache. In places where a physical cache would be inappropriate other sources for numbers for the coordinates to an offset physical cache outside the park can be used to bring people to your special spot and forward them on to a physical cache." -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

quote:Originally posted by The Leprechauns:What I find "strange" is not the rejection, but the fact that you're placing virtual caches in New York when you live in California. Are the New York geocachers not capable of finding appropriate locations? Can I visit California and place a bunch of virtuals in your stomping grounds? Absolutely - You might find something interesting that I would not have discovered here in my own neighborhood on my own! This certainly has happened before. In fact with the whole concept of locationless (I know - they are no longer being accepted) caches, this would be an even greater problem.... mainenance-wise... I will concede you the point on the maintenance issue... I had not really taken that into account, but in my opinion if the approver listed that as a reason for rejection, I wouldn't have started this little thread. I just thought it was note-worthy to bring up. I realize that anyone can go visit the U.N. on their own. The point was to pay attention to a piece of art that I felt was interesting. To make the visitor see something that they might not have really examined too closely before. -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

I just had an interesting thing happen. On my trip back east a few weeks ago I discovered a cool statue outside the U.N. building that I wanted to make into a virtual cache. I did all the research - no other caches of any kind were within .5 miles, met all the usual requirements, etc. Here is the kicker. It was rejected because the approver felt that if he allowed it, that no one else would be able to put any other caches within .1 miles of it. And because of the U.N.'s high profile significance, that would not be fair to everyone else..... go figure? -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

You may want to join This site. There are a lot of So Cal Geocachers there.

I just had a deer experience while on this cache in D.C.! -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

Congrats! -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon. -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

New name is forthcomming: geocrashing.com -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

Announcement: The web site is changing its name to geocrashing.com -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

Example: I just finished a trip to the D.C. area. I knew the zip to my hotel, popped it here - walla had a list - done.... -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness.

Ahh, the beauty of living in Southern California... -------------------------------------------------- If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.

Maybe I should have really read the first post in this thread.... I was assuming we were talking about a female.... -------------------------------------------------- If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.

The primary reason I was asking is the delay (for me) is sometimes more than 10 hours! Even if I delete the old PQ's and create a new one (following the thread on this subject from Jerrimy) it still takes a long time.... anyways - just trying to explore newer ideas. I did d/l your app and will be checking it out tomrrow (at work of course).... -------------------------------------------------- If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.

Oh I do use the Pocket Queries regularly - but I don't like having to wait for responses to be e-mailed. Will watcher extract the .gpx files from the geocaching db? Also I do use Quakemap for details and d/l to my GPS. -------------------------------------------------- If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.

Well, I for one would have NO problem knowing what to do with a nude..... -------------------------------------------------- If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.

I have found an interesting site and was wondering if they were directly tied to geocaching.com or if they were just using some fancy scripts to access the db. The reason for the question is I would like use some of info for a custom ranking system on my web site for local cachers... maybe get some competion going. I do notice that there is a huge amount of lag time for some of the queries. I was trying to get a leaderboard listing for cachers in the US as an example. -------------------------------------------------- If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.

Vacman's Cache Page -------------------------------------------------- If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.

In the theme of what CARDA186 was asking for I like like to see an improved search engine for locating specific caches. I would like to see an ability to search for words that are in the description, not just the title of a cache. -------------------------------------------------- If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.

Git off ma farm or I'll shoot yer arms off nixt.... now git! -------------------------------------------------- If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.

You are assuming that the police know that it might be a cache container..... In other words, how are they going to really know.... -------------------------------------------------- If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.

Of course I am partial to mine, but I must say that I really like CYbret and Scurvydogs. -------------------------------------------------- If you drop your keys into molten lava just let 'em go 'cause, man, they're gone.