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  1. These days, my biggest pet peeve is when I drop a TB/coin into a cache or event, and I don't have the time to return home to log my found and drop and somebody already have grabbed it!!

    Can people be so impatient that they can't wait for a proper drop before doing a retrieve? that they have to do a grab immediately?

     

    I believe that the "Grab" feature should be treated just like last resort. Get a warning and a note like "Can't you wait for a proper drop, or contact geocacher by email in parallel before a grab".

    When doing a "Need Archive", you get a "You are submitting a note that this listing should be archived. Click "yes" to continue".

    When doing a "Need Maintenance", you get a "You are posting a "needs maintenance" log entry. This will add an attribute and alert the owner. Click "yes" to continue".

     

    Your thoughts?

    Pierre (Tipete)

  2. Well, that is the closest post I found for my exact same question... Why can't we have a smilley face at the top of the tracktable page when retrieved or discovered??

     

    I moved hundreds, I drop many just to pick them up later in another location. I discover some in events (although I usually forget to log these discover, and rather log the retrieve only), but then I see later that I already logged it long ago!

    So, yes, it happens all the time.

     

    I don't, but some use logging programs for mass-discover, regardless of having logged them before... so that is mass junk!

     

    A MUST in my mind!!

  3. Yes, I noticed that the LOC file is a collection of <waypoint>.

    Could you try to edit your LOC file before loading into your Garmin and see if it recognize them. I did the test and it worked n mine (after a few attempts).

     

    Mine will recognize "multi-cache", "virtual", "mystery" or "puzzle", "letterboxhybrid", some others I forgot.

    I just took a LOC file, all with "geocache" and replaced a bunch with the above, then loaded. Of course, when the type was truely invalid, it would show the cache as unknown.

     

    BTW, anybody knows the list of "type" or a place that explain the syntax of LOC files?

     

    Pierre

  4. Type to your GPS means things like "Boat Ramp", Fishing Spot", "Tower" and of course "Geocache". Not really meant to display the differen types of Geocaches.

     

    What software are you using to upload the .LOC?? What type of GPS do you have?

    My gps is a Magellan Explorist 500.

    I used Mapsend for maps that allows to load LOC files, and they all shows the same.

    I use Magellan cache manager, which just send the loc to the gps. I can improve on it, but it sends the same.

     

    So if I fix "geocache" to "multi-cache", then I see a multi on both software, and on the gps.

     

    So my question remains: why is the LOC file from geocaching.com all saying "geocache regardless of type?

     

    Pierre

  5. Can this be considered a bug that all caches types downloaded in a .LOC file shows up as <type>Geocache?

    After some investigation I found that my gps would appreciate to heve them show up as "traditional", "multi-cache", "mystery" or "puzzle", "virtual", etc... instead of all as "geocache".

     

    Of course, I can edit the LOC file before uploading to the gps, but I would like to remove this step.

    I say "my gps", but really any software I know can't differentiate the cache types if they all show as "geocache"!!!

     

    Is this a limitation that dissappear when you move to Premium member??

     

    Thanks,

    Pierre (Tipete)

  6. I know what you mean, I was around Quebec city and Lévis last week and spent lots of time geocaching underwater. And I used hwy22 (instead of hwy20) to get from Quebec to Montreal. I have started a list of discrepancies.

    It is a little infuriating to see that the detail level of "North America" drops by 10-20x when you cross the US border. The map doesn't seem to be shifted, just wrong, incomplete or done by somebody with a bad aim. Sometime a road will be North, South, East or West or where I am. Intersections are rarely in the good place...

     

    Think that if we complain enough, they will give us the Canada topo for free????

     

    Anybody knows of a good technique of converting the traces (that I assume are pretty accurate) into parts of the base map? I rely often on previous traces, but I think they max at 2000.

    Any other advice?

    Thanks,

    Pierre

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