Tehuti

I have the same problem as Scriptwright with UK locations. My own home postcode works if I search on it. However, when I try the locations of two meetings I will be attending, namely BS16 1NE and TA3 5JD (tried with and without the space), I get a "Sorry, I am unable to determine a location" message.

I'm having a problem with edited waypoints. The unit works fine with data from GPX files and leads me straight to the right place, within the limitations of prevailing conditions of accuracy, obviously. However, if I am doing a puzzle or multi cache, the waypoints I enter to find the cache are way out when I try to use them. I do it by creating a new waypoint with the user button, and then editing it to the exact coordinates I want. If I try to navigate to the waypoint and compare with navigation using my phone, I'm finding the Oregon is showing me a location about 350 feet away from the correct one. I checked this by manually editing coordinates to match those of a cache I had found in the middle of a bridge. The Oregon was pointing me about 350 feet away from the cache in the middle of the river below. Is there something I am doing wrong? I'm really disappointed, because having spent loads of money on the 600 and given away my old Etrex Legend in part exchange, I now seem to be faced with the prospect of buying another cheaper GPS just to use for entering waypoints. BTW, this has happened on several occasions now. Each time I have checked the coordinates several times to make sure I did not make an error while inputting them.

Thank you for all the encouraging comments, and especially to MrsB for pointing out that many caches go through a long toing and froing before being published. I really didn't think that was the case! I've reactivated the cache, now I know how, and hopefully things will move on.

Thank you Pieman!!! I didn't see that when I was putting in the extra waypoint, and afterwards did not realise I had to go back to that screen.

I know about the South Wales geocachers site. I was not aware of any other sites in the UK. I will have a look. As I mentioned in a previous reply, I do not know what to do to enable the cache other than make the changes that were demanded.

Hello Palmetto and Pieman and thank you for answering. Palmetto, I have made the changes requested to the cache, so I do not understand why it is disabled. I cannot see anywhere where I can enable it. The form warned me I might need additional waypoints for parking etc. It did not say that I needed a hidden waypoint nor did it mention that it was possible to put in a hidden waypoint. Pieman, I did sort the other caches and they are active. I got rid of the background on the Sidetracked micro, which is a pity because it had a link to a web site about the whole series. The reason for the banning was that the Sidetracked micros website has Adsense on it. Again, this is not something that seems an obvious crime since most web sites have Adsense, so how was I to know? This is the point I was trying to make: there are so many hidden rules here. I didn't immediately set up loads of caches. I waited a couple of years before even daring to make my first two caches, and I tried to copy as closely as possible what I had seen in caches I had found and enjoyed, but even so, that was not good enough. I think the page for registering a cache needs to be more informative and user-friendly. Krys

I have set up three caches. Each time I have been brought to tears by reviewers finding hidden rules that I have supposedly broken. The first time was because I put in a background on the web page that the Sidetracked micros web site asked me to put in! The second time was because a clump of ivy was deemed to be church premises, even though it was accessible without going into the church yard. The current one is because I did not put in a hidden waypoint to the final location of a puzzle cache. I was not asked to do this by the forms I filled in to set up the cache, so how was I supposed to know? However, I did put the final coordinates into a note to the reviewer, who presumably did not bother to read them. The cache was set up on April 17. On April 19 I got a a message from someone called Anthea saying she was disabling the cache because of the coordinates. I immediately trawled through everything to find out how to make a hidden way point and did this. My cache is still disabled, five days after I changed things. I have no idea if anyone has even bothered to look at it. I am extremely upset by the way I am treated on this site. It took me months to pluck up courage to set up a new cache after the upsets of the first two, and now I'm back once again to stress and tears and being made to feel like dirt. I love geocaching, even though I don't have much time to do it. Once again, though, I'm feeling that perhaps I should just chuck it in. Krys