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I just started Waymarking a couple weeks ago and have found a lot of waymarks where the point of interest, building, business, or object in question are missing. So far I have logged these as "visits" or "finds" but others have told me now that this is incorrect. What is the official ruling on logging a waymark find or visit? What counts? Just to add some details. I have found a little over 200 waymarks, and so far for about 30-40% of these, the waymarks object or reference point was clearly gone. I imagine that many of the other waymark sites in our area are also missing as most of them have never been visited by anyone and most the pages appear to be updated prior to 2010. Just to clarify, I am using the term "Visit" and "Find" to mean the same the thing since this is what is counted on the waymark website. There are a plethora of additional logging requirements I have seen which are also very confusing. Here are some of the scenarios: A waymark at a sculpture where the sculpture is totally gone and removed from the park. Do I log that the sculpture is gone, post a picture of the empty ground and then log it as found? A waymark at a sculpture, where the sculpture is gone but moved to some other part of the park (I've seen these moved anywhere from a couple hundred feet to a mile away). Log a picture of the empty site and then also log a picture of where the sculpture is at the new location? Also add gps coordinates of the new spot and the log as found? A waymark about a boat ramp where the logging requirements say post a picture of you with your GPS and your boat. This park doesn't have a boat ramp and the closest car access is a mile away. I'm really not sure what to do at this one but will just skip it unless I can get a boat out there since the WMO seems pretty specific about having a boat. A waymark about a car show where the owner says you can only post a visit during the Easter holiday when the specific car show is happening. Will skip this one unless I can make it to the show. A waymark about sledding or fireworks at a location. Can you log a find/visit without doing or seeing the assigned activity at this location? (Btw, I have actually done both requirements but I was not officially Waymarking when I was sledding or watching the fireworks at that spot). The tricky part here, is the waymark page just says post a photo from the location. A waymark at a fallout shelter which is located inside police headquarters. The waymark page only shows the outside of the building but the description question mentions requiring a picture "inside." Honestly it seems like a really bad idea to go inside a police building to take pictures. I took a picture of the fallout shelter sign outside the building, is this qualification enough to count it as found? A waymark at a bar where the bar is totally gone and there is a new business there now. Do I take a picture of the new business and log as found? I really wish there were more specifics about what counts and what doesn't count as a find. I was searching around the Waymarking website but couldn't find a clear answer. A general faq about logging requirements would be really nice.

The peer review vote for my category is now closed and so I can give clarity to the members who din't recieve a message by me. In order to attract more waymarkers to the vote (and potentially get more yea votes) I asked each of the Dutch waymarkers I know to vote and I also sent messages to the 200 waymarkers with the most waymarks in which I asked them to support my category if they liked it. This message was not sent to the members that stated that they were going to vote nay. It was a rogue action, totally unrelated to the group of Spanish waymarkers with the Giant letters. It is lobbying, I admit it, but everyone was free to vote. If I am the one who introduced this I'm surprised it took so long.

I was about to post that myself. 6859 + 200 lab caches (which won't show up in the My Finds PQ) = 7059

It does not include your 200 adventure labs? Just a guess.

Sure, if you mean a particular smartphone. My iphone 8 can be 200 feet off and may "average" down to a really super amazingly average point that far off. It was almost that far off while I was caching yesterday. Fortunately I also had my Garmin. So "a" smartphone is other phones besides mine. Look at the threads about this issue and it applies to many more than mine. Sure, they all can average the error. And it may be a combination of App and Phone (and even the SIM card, based on the threads). And when you're all done, averaging produces an average. Go figure. I also think that adding "averaging" to The Official App would open a whole can of worms for cache hunters and hiders.

Well, I guess I'lll throw a few goals for next year here for now, and edit things accordingly. I'm scaling back my goals fro prior years, not that they were hard or anything, but just because I'm not exactly interesting in going to X, Y and Z if work slows down and I have less money to spend on travelling in my area. That being said, next year, => I'm intending on finding a cache in another state (New York), and also grabbing my first webcam there. => I'll try and host an event or two, one of which hopefully will be on a hill. => Continue streamlining my "cache" load. Basically I intend on continue archiving hides either removed due to local construction (I have 5 listings that have to be removed for a subway being built!) or due to no longer being a good hiding spot. EDIT: I just realized one of my goals in 2020 was to find a webcam cache...huh, that'll be good to get done next year then. EDIT 2, December 26th: Added one more goal. I'm not adding a find based goal, to me thats irrelevant, especially since I intend on geocaching less next year. Earning nearly 200 finds this year was a surprise to put it lightly.

Hi Guys and Girls l'm new here but i need some help from here and maybe from some dutch people. what is the correct settings for the magellan triton 200 for Holland. i tried different settings for "mapdate"and "degrees settings" but still my geocache coordinates are way of. i stand on top of one geocache that i know it's there,but still it send my into a different place.

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

there are two brothers who have set out 200 caches between the two. we have started turning the one gone in for NA because they are gone. me and another cacher have been replacing the missing ones and repairing the flat out busted ones. exactly how do you nicely ask them to take care of all their own caches from now on out or they will be turned in for NA if they are missing and if they don't want to do the up keep on them?

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.

I won't speculate which window manager operating system you're using, so I won't guess what your "copy and paste" generation actually generated. Generating waypoints en mass is trivial. From the 'teach a man to fish' department. [robertl@rjloud geo]$ i=0 [robertl@rjloud geo]$ while ((i < 250)); do echo 0.$i, 0.$i, $i; ((i++)) ; done | gpsbabel -i csv -f - -o nmea -F - $GPWPL,0000.000,N,00000.000,E,0*7B $GPWPL,0006.000,N,00006.000,E,1*7A $GPWPL,0012.000,N,00012.000,E,2*79 $GPWPL,0018.000,N,00018.000,E,3*78 $GPWPL,0024.000,N,00024.000,E,4*7F $GPWPL,0030.000,N,00030.000,E,5*7E $GPWPL,0036.000,N,00036.000,E,6*7D $GPWPL,0042.000,N,00042.000,E,7*7C $GPWPL,0048.000,N,00048.000,E,8*73 $GPWPL,0054.000,N,00054.000,E,9*72 $GPWPL,0006.000,N,00006.000,E,10*4A $GPWPL,0006.600,N,00006.600,E,11*4B $GPWPL,0007.200,N,00007.200,E,12*48 $GPWPL,0007.800,N,00007.800,E,13*49 $GPWPL,0008.400,N,00008.400,E,14*4E $GPWPL,0009.000,N,00009.000,E,15*4F $GPWPL,0009.600,N,00009.600,E,16*4C $GPWPL,0010.200,N,00010.200,E,17*4D $GPWPL,0010.800,N,00010.800,E,18*42 $GPWPL,0011.400,N,00011.400,E,19*43 $GPWPL,0012.000,N,00012.000,E,20*49 $GPWPL,0012.600,N,00012.600,E,21*48 $GPWPL,0013.200,N,00013.200,E,22*4B $GPWPL,0013.800,N,00013.800,E,23*4A $GPWPL,0014.400,N,00014.400,E,24*4D $GPWPL,0015.000,N,00015.000,E,25*4C $GPWPL,0015.600,N,00015.600,E,26*4F $GPWPL,0016.200,N,00016.200,E,27*4E $GPWPL,0016.800,N,00016.800,E,28*41 $GPWPL,0017.400,N,00017.400,E,29*40 $GPWPL,0018.000,N,00018.000,E,30*48 $GPWPL,0018.600,N,00018.600,E,31*49 $GPWPL,0019.200,N,00019.200,E,32*4A $GPWPL,0019.800,N,00019.800,E,33*4B $GPWPL,0020.400,N,00020.400,E,34*4C $GPWPL,0021.000,N,00021.000,E,35*4D $GPWPL,0021.600,N,00021.600,E,36*4E $GPWPL,0022.200,N,00022.200,E,37*4F $GPWPL,0022.800,N,00022.800,E,38*40 $GPWPL,0023.400,N,00023.400,E,39*41 $GPWPL,0024.000,N,00024.000,E,40*4F $GPWPL,0024.600,N,00024.600,E,41*4E $GPWPL,0025.200,N,00025.200,E,42*4D $GPWPL,0025.800,N,00025.800,E,43*4C $GPWPL,0026.400,N,00026.400,E,44*4B $GPWPL,0027.000,N,00027.000,E,45*4A $GPWPL,0027.600,N,00027.600,E,46*49 $GPWPL,0028.200,N,00028.200,E,47*48 $GPWPL,0028.800,N,00028.800,E,48*47 $GPWPL,0029.400,N,00029.400,E,49*46 $GPWPL,0030.000,N,00030.000,E,50*4E $GPWPL,0030.600,N,00030.600,E,51*4F $GPWPL,0031.200,N,00031.200,E,52*4C $GPWPL,0031.800,N,00031.800,E,53*4D $GPWPL,0032.400,N,00032.400,E,54*4A $GPWPL,0033.000,N,00033.000,E,55*4B $GPWPL,0033.600,N,00033.600,E,56*48 $GPWPL,0034.200,N,00034.200,E,57*49 $GPWPL,0034.800,N,00034.800,E,58*46 $GPWPL,0035.400,N,00035.400,E,59*47 $GPWPL,0036.000,N,00036.000,E,60*4D $GPWPL,0036.600,N,00036.600,E,61*4C $GPWPL,0037.200,N,00037.200,E,62*4F $GPWPL,0037.800,N,00037.800,E,63*4E $GPWPL,0038.400,N,00038.400,E,64*49 $GPWPL,0039.000,N,00039.000,E,65*48 $GPWPL,0039.600,N,00039.600,E,66*4B $GPWPL,0040.200,N,00040.200,E,67*4A $GPWPL,0040.800,N,00040.800,E,68*45 $GPWPL,0041.400,N,00041.400,E,69*44 $GPWPL,0042.000,N,00042.000,E,70*4C $GPWPL,0042.600,N,00042.600,E,71*4D $GPWPL,0043.200,N,00043.200,E,72*4E $GPWPL,0043.800,N,00043.800,E,73*4F $GPWPL,0044.400,N,00044.400,E,74*48 $GPWPL,0045.000,N,00045.000,E,75*49 $GPWPL,0045.600,N,00045.600,E,76*4A $GPWPL,0046.200,N,00046.200,E,77*4B $GPWPL,0046.800,N,00046.800,E,78*44 $GPWPL,0047.400,N,00047.400,E,79*45 $GPWPL,0048.000,N,00048.000,E,80*43 $GPWPL,0048.600,N,00048.600,E,81*42 $GPWPL,0049.200,N,00049.200,E,82*41 $GPWPL,0049.800,N,00049.800,E,83*40 $GPWPL,0050.400,N,00050.400,E,84*47 $GPWPL,0051.000,N,00051.000,E,85*46 $GPWPL,0051.600,N,00051.600,E,86*45 $GPWPL,0052.200,N,00052.200,E,87*44 $GPWPL,0052.800,N,00052.800,E,88*4B $GPWPL,0053.400,N,00053.400,E,89*4A $GPWPL,0054.000,N,00054.000,E,90*42 $GPWPL,0054.600,N,00054.600,E,91*43 $GPWPL,0055.200,N,00055.200,E,92*40 $GPWPL,0055.800,N,00055.800,E,93*41 $GPWPL,0056.400,N,00056.400,E,94*46 $GPWPL,0057.000,N,00057.000,E,95*47 $GPWPL,0057.600,N,00057.600,E,96*44 $GPWPL,0058.200,N,00058.200,E,97*45 $GPWPL,0058.800,N,00058.800,E,98*4A $GPWPL,0059.400,N,00059.400,E,99*4B $GPWPL,0006.000,N,00006.000,E,100*7A $GPWPL,0006.060,N,00006.060,E,101*7B $GPWPL,0006.120,N,00006.120,E,102*78 $GPWPL,0006.180,N,00006.180,E,103*79 $GPWPL,0006.240,N,00006.240,E,104*7E $GPWPL,0006.300,N,00006.300,E,105*7F $GPWPL,0006.360,N,00006.360,E,106*7C $GPWPL,0006.420,N,00006.420,E,107*7D $GPWPL,0006.480,N,00006.480,E,108*72 $GPWPL,0006.540,N,00006.540,E,109*73 $GPWPL,0006.600,N,00006.600,E,110*7B $GPWPL,0006.660,N,00006.660,E,111*7A $GPWPL,0006.720,N,00006.720,E,112*79 $GPWPL,0006.780,N,00006.780,E,113*78 $GPWPL,0006.840,N,00006.840,E,114*7F $GPWPL,0006.900,N,00006.900,E,115*7E $GPWPL,0006.960,N,00006.960,E,116*7D $GPWPL,0007.020,N,00007.020,E,117*7C $GPWPL,0007.080,N,00007.080,E,118*73 $GPWPL,0007.140,N,00007.140,E,119*72 $GPWPL,0007.200,N,00007.200,E,120*78 $GPWPL,0007.260,N,00007.260,E,121*79 $GPWPL,0007.320,N,00007.320,E,122*7A $GPWPL,0007.380,N,00007.380,E,123*7B $GPWPL,0007.440,N,00007.440,E,124*7C $GPWPL,0007.500,N,00007.500,E,125*7D $GPWPL,0007.560,N,00007.560,E,126*7E $GPWPL,0007.620,N,00007.620,E,127*7F $GPWPL,0007.680,N,00007.680,E,128*70 $GPWPL,0007.740,N,00007.740,E,129*71 $GPWPL,0007.800,N,00007.800,E,130*79 $GPWPL,0007.860,N,00007.860,E,131*78 $GPWPL,0007.920,N,00007.920,E,132*7B $GPWPL,0007.980,N,00007.980,E,133*7A $GPWPL,0008.040,N,00008.040,E,134*7D $GPWPL,0008.100,N,00008.100,E,135*7C $GPWPL,0008.160,N,00008.160,E,136*7F $GPWPL,0008.220,N,00008.220,E,137*7E $GPWPL,0008.280,N,00008.280,E,138*71 $GPWPL,0008.340,N,00008.340,E,139*70 $GPWPL,0008.400,N,00008.400,E,140*7E $GPWPL,0008.460,N,00008.460,E,141*7F $GPWPL,0008.520,N,00008.520,E,142*7C $GPWPL,0008.580,N,00008.580,E,143*7D $GPWPL,0008.640,N,00008.640,E,144*7A $GPWPL,0008.700,N,00008.700,E,145*7B $GPWPL,0008.760,N,00008.760,E,146*78 $GPWPL,0008.820,N,00008.820,E,147*79 $GPWPL,0008.880,N,00008.880,E,148*76 $GPWPL,0008.940,N,00008.940,E,149*77 $GPWPL,0009.000,N,00009.000,E,150*7F $GPWPL,0009.060,N,00009.060,E,151*7E $GPWPL,0009.120,N,00009.120,E,152*7D $GPWPL,0009.180,N,00009.180,E,153*7C $GPWPL,0009.240,N,00009.240,E,154*7B $GPWPL,0009.300,N,00009.300,E,155*7A $GPWPL,0009.360,N,00009.360,E,156*79 $GPWPL,0009.420,N,00009.420,E,157*78 $GPWPL,0009.480,N,00009.480,E,158*77 $GPWPL,0009.540,N,00009.540,E,159*76 $GPWPL,0009.600,N,00009.600,E,160*7C $GPWPL,0009.660,N,00009.660,E,161*7D $GPWPL,0009.720,N,00009.720,E,162*7E $GPWPL,0009.780,N,00009.780,E,163*7F $GPWPL,0009.840,N,00009.840,E,164*78 $GPWPL,0009.900,N,00009.900,E,165*79 $GPWPL,0009.960,N,00009.960,E,166*7A $GPWPL,0010.020,N,00010.020,E,167*7B $GPWPL,0010.080,N,00010.080,E,168*74 $GPWPL,0010.140,N,00010.140,E,169*75 $GPWPL,0010.200,N,00010.200,E,170*7D $GPWPL,0010.260,N,00010.260,E,171*7C $GPWPL,0010.320,N,00010.320,E,172*7F $GPWPL,0010.380,N,00010.380,E,173*7E $GPWPL,0010.440,N,00010.440,E,174*79 $GPWPL,0010.500,N,00010.500,E,175*78 $GPWPL,0010.560,N,00010.560,E,176*7B $GPWPL,0010.620,N,00010.620,E,177*7A $GPWPL,0010.680,N,00010.680,E,178*75 $GPWPL,0010.740,N,00010.740,E,179*74 $GPWPL,0010.800,N,00010.800,E,180*72 $GPWPL,0010.860,N,00010.860,E,181*73 $GPWPL,0010.920,N,00010.920,E,182*70 $GPWPL,0010.980,N,00010.980,E,183*71 $GPWPL,0011.040,N,00011.040,E,184*76 $GPWPL,0011.100,N,00011.100,E,185*77 $GPWPL,0011.160,N,00011.160,E,186*74 $GPWPL,0011.220,N,00011.220,E,187*75 $GPWPL,0011.280,N,00011.280,E,188*7A $GPWPL,0011.340,N,00011.340,E,189*7B $GPWPL,0011.400,N,00011.400,E,190*73 $GPWPL,0011.460,N,00011.460,E,191*72 $GPWPL,0011.520,N,00011.520,E,192*71 $GPWPL,0011.580,N,00011.580,E,193*70 $GPWPL,0011.640,N,00011.640,E,194*77 $GPWPL,0011.700,N,00011.700,E,195*76 $GPWPL,0011.760,N,00011.760,E,196*75 $GPWPL,0011.820,N,00011.820,E,197*74 $GPWPL,0011.880,N,00011.880,E,198*7B $GPWPL,0011.940,N,00011.940,E,199*7A $GPWPL,0012.000,N,00012.000,E,200*79 $GPWPL,0012.060,N,00012.060,E,201*78 $GPWPL,0012.120,N,00012.120,E,202*7B $GPWPL,0012.180,N,00012.180,E,203*7A $GPWPL,0012.240,N,00012.240,E,204*7D $GPWPL,0012.300,N,00012.300,E,205*7C $GPWPL,0012.360,N,00012.360,E,206*7F $GPWPL,0012.420,N,00012.420,E,207*7E $GPWPL,0012.480,N,00012.480,E,208*71 $GPWPL,0012.540,N,00012.540,E,209*70 $GPWPL,0012.600,N,00012.600,E,210*78 $GPWPL,0012.660,N,00012.660,E,211*79 $GPWPL,0012.720,N,00012.720,E,212*7A $GPWPL,0012.780,N,00012.780,E,213*7B $GPWPL,0012.840,N,00012.840,E,214*7C $GPWPL,0012.900,N,00012.900,E,215*7D $GPWPL,0012.960,N,00012.960,E,216*7E $GPWPL,0013.020,N,00013.020,E,217*7F $GPWPL,0013.080,N,00013.080,E,218*70 $GPWPL,0013.140,N,00013.140,E,219*71 $GPWPL,0013.200,N,00013.200,E,220*7B $GPWPL,0013.260,N,00013.260,E,221*7A $GPWPL,0013.320,N,00013.320,E,222*79 $GPWPL,0013.380,N,00013.380,E,223*78 $GPWPL,0013.440,N,00013.440,E,224*7F $GPWPL,0013.500,N,00013.500,E,225*7E $GPWPL,0013.560,N,00013.560,E,226*7D $GPWPL,0013.620,N,00013.620,E,227*7C $GPWPL,0013.680,N,00013.680,E,228*73 $GPWPL,0013.740,N,00013.740,E,229*72 $GPWPL,0013.800,N,00013.800,E,230*7A $GPWPL,0013.860,N,00013.860,E,231*7B $GPWPL,0013.920,N,00013.920,E,232*78 $GPWPL,0013.980,N,00013.980,E,233*79 $GPWPL,0014.040,N,00014.040,E,234*7E $GPWPL,0014.100,N,00014.100,E,235*7F $GPWPL,0014.160,N,00014.160,E,236*7C $GPWPL,0014.220,N,00014.220,E,237*7D $GPWPL,0014.280,N,00014.280,E,238*72 $GPWPL,0014.340,N,00014.340,E,239*73 $GPWPL,0014.400,N,00014.400,E,240*7D $GPWPL,0014.460,N,00014.460,E,241*7C $GPWPL,0014.520,N,00014.520,E,242*7F $GPWPL,0014.580,N,00014.580,E,243*7E $GPWPL,0014.640,N,00014.640,E,244*79 $GPWPL,0014.700,N,00014.700,E,245*78 $GPWPL,0014.760,N,00014.760,E,246*7B $GPWPL,0014.820,N,00014.820,E,247*7A $GPWPL,0014.880,N,00014.880,E,248*75 $GPWPL,0014.940,N,00014.940,E,249*74 [robertl@rjloud geo]$ You can use that set of waypoints to determine if the GO's actually do need a delay since they can't generate a handshake.

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

Własnie zauważyłem, że niedawno doszedł nam kolejny geocacher >200 - bogobig. Gratulacje! http://www.cacherstats.com/Poland1_PL.html

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.

Not exactly true . I have an iPad (granted, it’s not a phone) that uses WiFi signals for location and that’s about it, no cell tower, no GPS. And it’s not clear what any iThing is using for location info at any given moment, the device won’t say. But It’s not improving anything when it’s WiFi only, for example when a phone is not getting a decent GPS signal. Mine wasn’t, it didn’t have the circuitry. AND my iPhone 8 seems to get confused by signals other than GPS when calculating its location. I have one of the phones that is 200 feet off in one direction, then 200 feet off in the other direction when using The App (and possibly in other cases). There’s an unaddressed thread about it. Not to wade too far into the deep grass on that issue, it seems like removing the SIM card helps — therefore removing ground based triangulation? Or something. Anyway, yes and no.

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.....

Hey all. Bass pro is currently running the 62S for $199.99, and has a deal in FEB for free shipping. The total was $215.99 with tax. http://www.basspro.com/Garmin-62s-Handheld-GPS-Unit/product/10206510/ Later!

Height and Width attributes (but nor for example Advisory title) are lost when reediting a TB page. Recreate by this flow. Attaching some images for this recreation flow, steps marked with *). - Go to a TB page with an image in its description - Edit the TB page - Right click and image in the description and select Image Properties - Set width and/or height, (for example Height: 200) *) - "OK" to accept changes to image - "Submit Changes" to save the TB page edits - "Visit the Trackables Page" to view the changes. (Images has height 200) *) - Edit the TB page. - The image in the description is not any longer with height 200 (shown in original size). - Right click image and select Image Properties to verify that width and heigth attributes are lost. *) Testing done on first image on https://coord.info/TB4XD0E, the rest of the images had height/width which now are lost.

No impact here in Colorado at all. Wouldn't really expect there to be any. 32 vs. 1450 bytes doesn't matter as much as the mechanics of actually routing it. Pinging 63.251.163.200 with 1450 bytes of data: Reply from 63.251.163.200: bytes=1450 time=42ms TTL=245 Reply from 63.251.163.200: bytes=1450 time=42ms TTL=245 Reply from 63.251.163.200: bytes=1450 time=42ms TTL=245 Reply from 63.251.163.200: bytes=1450 time=43ms TTL=245 Ping statistics for 63.251.163.200: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 42ms, Maximum = 43ms, Average = 42ms Pinging 63.251.163.200 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 63.251.163.200: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=245 Reply from 63.251.163.200: bytes=32 time=41ms TTL=245 Reply from 63.251.163.200: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=245 Reply from 63.251.163.200: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=245 Ping statistics for 63.251.163.200 Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:[/size] Minimum = 40ms, Maximum = 42ms, Average = 41ms Tracert still rational here, too: Tracing route to 63.251.163.200 over a maximum of 30 hops 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 10 ms 14 ms 9 ms 50.155.210.1 3 8 ms 9 ms 11 ms te-5-4-ur02.longmont.co.denver.comcast.net [68.85.107.197] 4 13 ms 12 ms 13 ms xe-14-0-0-0-ar01.aurora.co.denver.comcast.net [162.151.8.1] 5 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms he-3-4-0-0-cr01.denver.co.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.149] 6 13 ms * 36 ms xe-0-0-2-0-pe01.910fifteenth.co.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.84.26] 7 12 ms 14 ms 14 ms dvr-edge-13.inet.qwest.net [72.164.247.149] 8 * * * Request timed out. 9 41 ms 40 ms 42 ms 63-235-80-54.dia.static.qwest.net [63.235.80.54] 10 41 ms 42 ms 55 ms border9.po2-40g-bbnet2.sef.pnap.net [63.251.160.83] 11 42 ms 40 ms 40 ms 63.251.163.200 Trace complete

I completely destroyed the screen on my 6 month old GPSr and I hope to replace it with something below $200 (will consider above $200 if it's a good value). I use it only for geocaching, so paperless geocaching is a must. Otherwise I will consider any model if the price is right but my preference is something like eTrax 20 or better or eXplorist 310 or better. I live in Hamilton Ontario Canada, any Canadian geocachers with a used GPSr collecting dust? Give me a price. Thanks!