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I was trying to add my found caches to lists. Since there is more than 1,000 of them, it has to be more than one list. I painstakingly searched five times, using the "find date" filter to exclude the ones I had already listed. After each search, I clicked "add 1,000 to list" followed by "create a new list" and named the lists with the date of the first find in that list. The result was this, except I have since then added 200 caches to one of the lists. So I got five empty lists. No caches added. Then I made another search, not involving own finds, resulting in over 1,000 caches. Tried to click "add 1,000 to list" again, and was presented with this: Note that several of these lists are empty, still it is not allowed to add 1,000 caches to them. I clicked the check mark to select the caches on the first page of the search result only, clicked "add 100 to list", and then those were added to the selected list. Finally, I made a search resulting in over 900 caches, and those I could add with one click to one of the empty lists. So in conclusion, it seems not possible to add the first 1,000 out of a search result of 1,000 or more caches even to an empty list. Of course making it even more excruciating to make lists out of a large search result, e.g. to be able to compile a list of your own find history.

clickable link no, but links in text yes; shortlinks are best, or just short urls, easy to remember and re-type. Don't copy/paste some long 200 character article url with id numbers and all that

> I find myself geocaching by phone these days I think you've hit the market summary spot on. They're in a tough spot. Look at their product line and you can see a hole and some rollup opportunities. Etrex: small and large. $100 and $200 are good price points. GPSMap: separate product entries at $300, $350, and $400 - each with submodels of different sensors, mapping options is too crowded. Clean house. A BME280 and a HMC5883L combined are under a buck in quantity. Does a camera make sense in these at all, especially at $100 when the sensors are < $3. Volumes for the multi-SV chipsets and antennas have driven the price to nearly the same as the GPS-only solutions. Printing and stocking different SKUs with training sales and support people (bwaaahahaha ) costs more than that. Fold all the 64, 65, and 66 devices together into one model. Remove Topo as a SKU and make it a download. Rhino and Montana are niche products at best. I just can't imagine that people are buying $800 Montana 750is. Make Spot a separate unit that connects to the phone for a keyboard and location. Just don't even put it in the GPS. Just like the camera, that's on a different upgrade cadence than the core GPS tech. New volume lineup: eTtex small $100 and large $200. GPSMap touch or dpad at $350. (Ask if we really need three different UX's with click-stick, dpad, and touch at all...) Hire a team to fix the problems that have been in these things for >10 years. The self-destructing buttons, switches, and rubber band problems are just not funny any more. Hire a usability engineer to count the number of button presses to street/foot navigate for a day of power geocaching, then go fix the UI. Read AC's list of long-standing bugs in the firmware and actually fix them. Crashing on certain PQs has been with us since Colorado. Make a legit sustaining engineering group to fix and support these things Last time I picked up a eTrex, the performance was just torture. When we had 8Mhz Dragonballs, I understood why keypresses lagged by a second. Modern multi-core RISC-V and ARM parts with a good peripheral set and good power management are, again, about a buck in quantity. Quit using parts that just make the hardware so laggy to save pennies. But you've exactly called out the elephant in the room. All, but particularly the entry level devices, have to be feeling the pressure from phones. As long as your touch screen device is $600, it's really hard to justify one instead of the touch screen you already own. That really leaves their island between those two points: hyper rugged (compared to a phone) hardware. They'll never be able to compete with the volume economies of Samsung or Apple - heck, probably not even Oppo or OnePlus. I think there's space for them to survive with geocaching-capable devices inside the larger "outdoor" class of devices, but I suspect the $500 touch screen Oregons are so indistinguishable in the minds of consumers from a phone (that the already have) in an otterbox that we just won't be seeing more of those. Instead of trying to shove everything into every device, consider your handheld "power geocacher" unit using BT to pair with your Drive so the cache you just marked found disappears from the map and your next (auto-routed) GOTO is the navigation target. Quit trying to solve driving directions on a 2.4" screen and an AA battery budget for some users. They used to have 20 Nuvis and then mobile phones happened. Now just have models at 5", 6", 7", and 8", I think it's time for some tough love in their outdoor line to clean the models up and lock them down into a sustainable maintenance mode product line. In that product line, like their fitness devices, external competition forced them to clean up. In handheld GPS, their hand isn't forced, but they can't coast with this product line forever. If I were King, things would be a lot different here... I'm just not sure we need an Oregon 800 at $500.

Wow, this is a sad update. I have personally spent hundreds of hours researching and finding over 200 benchmarks. I like the activity so much that I have one of my GPS units loaded and designated just for finding benchmarks. While finding benchmarks I have experienced meteor craters, beautiful open deserts, breath-taking mountain tops, secluded water falls and hidden rain forests - all places where placing a Geocache would not be appropriate and didn’t exist. It’s been a shame watching this part of Geocaching being neglected as the years have gone by. I would have loved benchmarking to be grown and maintained by Geocaching COs on the site in some way. I have always wondered why COs couldn’t adopt benchmarks and maintain the listings to keep them in play? Similar to Earthcaching, why not allow the benchmarking community to unite to maintain them like Earthcaches? To see the benchmarking challenges being archived is beyond sad for all of us that enjoy doing them. While on hikes up various mountains for numerous challenges, I have really enjoyed sharing benchmarks to new cachers and muggles. People like hearing about them and some have taken up Geocaching for just that reason. I will mourn the days where we can share the history of surveying to local scouts and then take them to a variety of benchmarks on mountains and desert areas nearby. I’m not sure what harm it does to leave them in our stats or why there is a move to remove the challenges associated with them. As a premium member, I can’t remember being surveyed or asked about a move in this direction. I’m thankful for the ping from another cacher concerning this specific update. If this is around the cost of ownership of the data or database size costs are an issue, maybe offer benchmarking as an add-on option to our memberships. So many of us have great ideas. Please re-think this update. Offer premium benchmarking members alternate options vs removing the fun options that exist today.

Your search URL searches for caches in the state of Utrecht. The three missing caches are listed in other regions than Utrecht. use this instead: https://www.geocaching.com/play/results/?st=city+of+utrecht%2C+netherlands&oid=-1&ot=query&r=200&hf=1&nfb=ardila.nl&nfb=HHL&ho=1&att=52&asc=true&sort=distance

Is there still something broken in the search system? I wanted to look for night caches so I picked "Utrecht, Netherlands" for it's central location with a 200km circle and the night cache attribute: https://www.geocaching.com/play/results/?st=Utrecht%2C+Netherlands&oid=388&ot=region&r=200&hf=1&nfb=ardila.nl&att=52&asc=true&sort=distance It only finds 4 caches but I would expect it to find these for example: https://coord.info/GC80AGC https://coord.info/GC2HC1F https://coord.info/GC90VR4

I have found a number of benchmarks, and recovered some buried and hidden. They were treasure hunts. However, as a player I know that it does not warrant work when no one is using it, there is no owner to check logs, and it is decades out of date. I do not know this for sure, as I have heard no discussions, but eventually you have to put work into it or it breaks as you update the rest of the site. Your coding is decades out of date and will require a major overhaul. And it is for the 75 people that used it in a summer month to log 200 of them. One of those people was myself, finding a half dozen. Sad to see, but I could see it coming years ago, just sad we finally got there.

My advice is to fix it. Buying something newer will only disappoint you. All devices will have their weaknesses, but the older ones were not built to break to the same degree. I'm using a Garmin Nüvi 200, the single most durable piece of electronics I have ever owned. The amount of punishment it has been subjected to would have destroyed anything else. It has one flaw, the USB connector (used for charging) comes loose after a few years of daily use. When that happened, I bought a second-hand identical replacement unit for $10 and used that until it developed the same problem, then I repaired the original one and have been using it ever since.

It is not uncommon for retirees in Australia to spend months travelling in a caravan or mobile home. One couple I know (through caching - not personally) has been travelling for at least 2 years, caching as they go. I know of people who have taken a year or so to drive right around Australia which is 15,000 Km without detours. GoldenWattle's trip was probably 3 months or so. 6000 Km per month or 200 Km per day. Not so bad

Not to mention it is 200 hours at an average speed of 90 km/h. That's 25 days behind the wheel if you can manage eight hours per day. Not much of a vacation, unless you really love driving.

It's been like that here for the last four or five years. When I started in 2013, there were between 100 and 200 new caches being published in my region each year but that's now down to a couple of dozen. The spate of natural disasters in recent years hasn't helped either. This region (the NSW Central Coast, Australia) was largely spared from the fires of 2019 but the almost constant rain and flooding since then has taken its toll. I've archived five of my hides so far this year, about half due to rain damage destroying access to the cache, and have another two long-term disabled due to trail closures which will likely end up archived too. Last year there were just 16 new caches in this region, one of which has already been archived. This year's doing a bit better, with 25 new caches so far (1 already archived). I have a new one that's nearly ready to submit, although in visiting the location yesterday I ended up collecting about a dozen leeches so I might have to wait for some drier weather before placing it. The total number of caches in the region is currently 506, down from about 550 a year or two back.

Here is a great example that makes me wonder about the usefulness of this 'feature'..... the information in the hidden posts was about the (large) rock the cache was hidden under being now unstable, and as you were sitting between it and a very high cliff (probably 200'/60m) about 2m/6' away, that care should be taken lest the rock nudge you over the edge should it become free.... If you must (I really don't get it though), hide the users (anonymous?) name, but why censor out the info? This info may actually be important..... And of course it wasn't unobtainable in any case, as the user's name and info was quite easily gathered from the official app.....

Also ich halte nichts davon. Ich mache sowohl einen schönen Multi, als auch einen Powertrail gerne. Und solche PTs mit 50 bis 200 oder sogar mehr Caches würde es dann nicht mehr geben. (Kommt natürlich auf das Limit an, was du setzten wollen würdest). Diese schönen Radtouren würden mir fehlen. Sicherlich mag nicht jeder gerne PTs, aber denen, die diese gerne machen, sollte die Möglichkeit meiner Meinung nach erhalten bleiben.

There's a lot. Really active folks. One local friend travels regularly across the US, and hits other countries in-between. They might be a few months behind numerous times, maybe depending on whether there's an interesting person in flight. Started before us, has over 20,000 finds, almost 200 hides, and it doesn't look like there's any signs of quitting...

Well, I tested the two sites and I can confidently say that Geocaching Toolbox is incorrect. By a surprising amount. The Dutch site agrees exactly with my calculations. Interestingly, the Geocaching Toolbox result is not the spherical-Earth approximation. It is just wrong. Data Line 1: N 37 50.000 W 122 00.000 - N 37 00.000 W 121 00.000 Line 2: N 37 00.000 W 122 00.000 - N 37 50.000 W 121 00.000 High-accuracy Intersection = N 37 25.203 W 121 30.000 (37.42004708, -121.50000000) Residual = 2.85e-24 it=68 From N 37 50.000 W 122 00.000: Fwd = 316.255086 Rev = 135.949825 From N 37 00.000 W 122 00.000: Fwd = 223.744914 Rev = 43.442542 Spherical Intersection = N 37 25.203 W 121 30.127 (37.42005687, -121.50211660) Residual = 1.79e-23 it=68 From N 37 50.000 W 122 00.000: Fwd = 316.375194 Rev = 136.071226 From N 37 00.000 W 122 00.000: Fwd = 223.622234 Rev = 43.321141 Geocaching Toolbox answer: N37° 25.307' W121° 30.000' (off by almost 200 m!)

Me too! I went out to a park that I've been scoping out on the map with the intent to get 8 so I could finally get to 200. I think I found 14. I actually heard about it from a coworker who knows I go geocaching. Apparently it was mentioned on the local news because we landed a mega event, GeoWoodstock XIX - 2023. I might have to attend that, the only other event I have attended was a CITO a few years ago.

(emphasis by me) Out of curiosity, I just scrolled through the latest ~200 or so logs on the cache. The vast majority of "finders" blatantly ignore one or more of the logging requirements. Almost always the "revisit", quite often the "local place", and sometimes even the very basic requirement of telling where the photo was shot. ... all of which is just as I expected .

Your list is missing a virtual Are those other event types not available on August 13th when you could get the giga and theoretically get 16+lab? 13 + lab is the highest that has been possible in Finland so around 200 cachers have that. A handful have done 14 + lab somewhere abroad.

I've been seeing this a few times recently ... still. I try to avoid it by reloading an refreshing a couple of times and seeing if the results are different, but that sometimes doesn't catch it. Again, I just composed a bunch of drafts, reloaded the page, and 4 more for that date I just completed appeared. Now my logging order is messed up again. Why must drafts be a lazy load? Why can't they just all all the items on one page load to ensure none are 'missing'? It's not a complex query, and how often do users have say more than 1-200 drafts to compose? (I know it happens, as I do occasionally, but in the grand scheme, that page has got to be far from a heavy server load) It's quite annoying "missing" drafts while composing sequentially.

I have had this same discussion with Garmin. It Starts getting so slow since SW version 2.7. With introducing the 4. digit after the dash. It was also suggested to use smaler files with less waypoints. (max 200 waypoints.) only one file. Start using GGZ while this is not handy especially on events where GPX files are exchanged. Garmin says it is not facing that problem (They do not use so many waypoints for testing. This same occurs at the GPSMAP 65 and GPSMAP 66 and those are newer models. The problem still persists. Garmnin [ Edited for profanity: "cares little" ] about it. Moderator note: Please review the forum rules about family friendly language. Continued infractions can lead to a ban.

A rose by any other name... Cantons, departments, parishes, governorates, etc. are the administrative equivalents of states or provinces, so no problem there. Officers of the proposed category only need to be aware of the administrative level of the entity submitted in order to ascertain its admissibility. Again, no problem, beyond a category officer's obligation to become intimately familiar with the administrative structure of some 200+ countries. No problem... ... BUT I understand there's more than one Wiki for that. EX: Wiki1 - - - Wiki2 Then there's the wind, or lack thereof. Keith

Today, we released another set of small improvements to the Search Results experience: Players can now add 1000 caches to Lists Without any sub-selection applied, the default button now shows “Add 1000 to List” With the select-all box checked, the button reflects the total results of the page, e.g. "Add 200 to List" With a sub-selection checked, the button reflects the number of selected items, e.g "Add 1 to List" We’ve updated the cache type icon size and overall padding on the page. This reduces row height and prevents the checkboxes from bleeding into the background. We’ve updated some page styles to better reflect default, hover, focused, and disabled element states: Filter button "Learn more" links Add to List button Map geocaches button Column headers Cache Title Favorite point numbers Trackable numbers Part of a GeoTour icon

I have used this for many years and 200 caches around the world, but I am done with now. Please be the first to inquire!

Hi all, i am looking for one bed/bench/whatever for sleeping and not to be staying outside during nights. I will land the 6.8. in Seattle. Perhaps someone has a tipp for me, where to search for it. The 2 hostels i found on hostelworld are fully booked And Booking.com started around 200$ the night. The 8. my plan is to go to Vancover via Greyhoundbus 12.8. back to Seattle. Many thanks in advance. Michael/Mikkky from Germany.

Hi Kveldulfir, hätte ja auf ein evtl. lokales Problem am Rechner (Browser, Browser-Plugin, Security Suite etc.) getippt, aber da es ja scheinbar geräteübergreifend auch Deine Smartphone-Apps betrifft, hört es sich eher nach einem Netz-Problem (Router oder Provider) an . Treten die Probleme Smartphone nur bei Nutzung Deines WLAN oder auf auch über einen Mobilfunkbetreiber auf? Gruß Hendrik PS: Dein tracert sagt aus, dass innerhalb von 170 Millisekunden eine Verbindung zur www.geocaching.com unter der IP-Adresse 63.251.163.200 aufgebaut werden konnte.