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  1. I pre search when I travel and make lists. My caching is less random, especially these days. I am travelling now. I searched and listed unfound SideTracked caches, 200 caches, caches in county (council) areas I still haven't found any in, Mary Mackillop caches, a web cache, Earth caches, Virtual caches (I need to increase the finds of the last two for challenges. I used to ignore Earth caches.), and caches that I need to fulfil challenges. Then, if on some days I want more caches, I look for small sized caches and above. It has to be a very low available cache day to list micros, unless they fulfill one of the previous listed things. I don't need to do power trails; I would rather focus on fewer 'speciality' caches.
  2. Near me is a "Bikeway Challenge Trail", 30 or so challenge caches along a a bikeway where our local group holds a CITO each year. When I first started geocaching, I attended the CITO and was encouraged by others to sign all the challenges along the route (we walked it). At that point I didn't think I'd ever qualify for any, with my handful of finds and some of them needing thousands of caches to qualify, like the 4444 or 7777 type (4000 trads, 400 mystery, 40 event, 4 webcam, for example). But those more experienced told me to sign anyway, and see what happens over the years - I might be surprised. I have actually completed 11 of those challenges, and I am very close to 2 or 3 others; still far away from 4444, 7777, the 200+ in a day, 10 icons in a day, 6 states in a day, etc; and I may eventually get those too if my health and motivation keeps up. I don't see these challenges as meant to "isolate or exclude", but as they are intended to be, a challenge to up my geocaching game and have some goals to reach! There's a lot about the geocaching experience that those new to it need to learn - and it does take time. Not everyone does travel bugs, or challenges, or mysteries, or Wherigo's - not that they are being excluded but there is a great variety to this hobby, and a you spend more time "doing it", you learn more and expand your horizons. Or not. It's your choice. Find those you can find, or want to, and ignore the rest, until the time comes when you DO want to go for more. Thanks to this thread, I just found one more along the trail that I can now log as a find! And a couple that have been added that were either missing or not a part of the trail when I first signed them all in 2018. I look at it as I've got more caching to do!!
  3. Sure, that's what I usually do in the end. Or, if the cache allows it, resort to "alternate" solutions ... e.g. for one of the unsolved puzzles, I'm quite sure about the general area where the cache is (a roughly 200 m long and 20 m zone) and there are spoiler photos. Geocaching with very fuzzy coordinates ! Well ... I don't have to, but it would still be nice .
  4. 200? "Tis but a scratch! My longest is 437 days, between my daughter introducing me to the game and me deciding that I could have fun with it
  5. Mine is 200 days. Oops. I can see where MNTA is coming from, my philosophy is that you can't enjoy summer without winter, or day without night. Plus a big dose of GeoElmo6000's "don't stress about it" ideal.
  6. So true! one of my favorite multis and caching memories with my late father Weekend 1 - Hit wp1 30 miles north Weekend 2 - wp2 200 miles north was visiting my parents on a planned trip, also visited GCHQ since we were one neighborhood over. Weekend 3 - wp3 final 120 miles southwest my father drove down the following weekend he was eager to finish and get the FTF and a nice trip to the beach and Mo's for dinner. Great times, thank!
  7. I have examined a specific segment of my trackables to establish a baseline rate of travel that should represent my entire collection of trackables…see the large figure and appended table below. The methods used to assemble the data are detailed in the previous five parts to this post. As before, the bottom row in the table is the n, or the number of trackables in the series that achieved each successive drop. The sample sizes decline from 3449 trackables at Drop 1 to 154 at Drop 30. The decline results from high attrition between early drops, losses of 11-16% while trackables are in the US, to 4-9% when the oldest-surviving trackables are outside the US. The solid-colored lines in the graph represent the top three rows of the table. They are the maximum (blue line) and minimum (gray) number of days required for a single trackable to achieve a specified drop. The orange line is the average days (the baseline) for all trackables to achieve a specific drop. The dotted line is the trend line for the average. The baseline is derived from the 24 series of trackables shown in the baseline contributors table below. The series are sorted into potential groupings that will likely be the basis of future comparisons. In those comparisons, the maximum and minimum lines will be omitted. They are retained here to illustrate the huge range of days for trackables to achieve specific drops. For example, for Drop 1, the min/max range is 0 to 3902 days, meaning there was one trackable released, retrieved and dropped again on the same day, whereas another trackable took 3902 days (10.7 years) to achieve the first drop. At 30 drops, the min/max values are 580 and 3966, respectively 1.6 and 10.9 years. The average to 30 drops is 1552 days (4.3 years). For convenience, I have also provided a days-to-years conversion table for each drop (see also below). The data at every drop are badly skewed because zero is the absolute limit to the minimum number of available days between drops, whereas there is no limit to the maximum. For the readers with a statistical bent, the standard (or average) deviation from the mean for each drop ranges from equal to, or more than twice that of the measured mean (average)…for normal (bell-shaped) distribution of values, we like to have values less than five percent of the mean, as opposed to the 100-200 percent seen here. Regrettably, the methods to attach any statistical significance to observed differences for skewed data have receded into the mental fog. Still, I can entertain myself by calculating averages and determining trends. The average rate of travel over 30 drops is 51.7 days (1552 ÷ 30), but that doesn’t tell the complete story. The rate of travel during the first 15 drops (when more than half of the trackables are in the US) is 67.2 days per drop (1008 ÷ 15), whereas the rate for drops 16 through 30 (when more than half of the surviving trackables are outside the US, mostly Europe) is 36.3 days per drop ([1552 – 1008] ÷ 15). While I do believe trackables move more frequently in Europe than in the US, these values do not constitute proof, they are merely suggestive. The reason being there are unquantified fractions from each region represented in early and late drops. That said, if I ever decide to winnow and compare US-only and Europe-only cohorts, I have every confidence that the difference will be even greater than reported here. That there are differences in the early and late rates of travel can be seen by comparing the baseline with the trend line. The trend line is straight while the baseline is a gentle arc, reflecting how the rate of travel decreases with subsequent drops. This the concluding part of this post. This project will continue later with another multi-part post comparing series of trackables with each other, and to the baseline.
  8. There are recurring questions about trackable endurance and travel on the forum for which there are often very good responses, but based on limited information. The writer in a position to address most of the questions in more detail, and will do so in a series of posts over the next couple of years. I will explain. From January of 2010 to January 2023, I have released over 5,000 travel bugs at a rate of 200-450 per year. Over 13+ years some of the trackables have visited caches all over the world. They have been to every state in the US, every major administrative district (state, province, canton, oblast) in the countries of western and northern Europe, including the principalities of Andorra, San Marino, Lichtenstein and Monaco. My trackables have visited caches on every continent, including Antarctica. For now, the best supports of that claim are my past forum posts and the screen-captured map below, produced by gctrackables.com in open beta testing. What is shown is the distribution a sample of only a thousand of my trackables, sorted into either traveling trackables (blue markers) and missing trackables (green). For reasons unknown to me, not shown are the distribution of some trackables in caches. My trackables are not uniform in shape, size or composition. Some are simply the celebration tags marketed by Groundspeak (Makers, Holiday, CITO, Geopets, Zodiac, etc.), usually without attached items. However, most trackables do have items attached to dog tags (by chains or rivets) which can be glass, stone, wood, leather, metal, cloth patches or laminated images. Many are the size of poker chips (some are poker chips), others are smaller. There are keychain and jewelry pendants. The largest are laminated images measuring 2.25 x 3.25”. There are very few geocoins and no bowling pins or beanie babies. Should the reader wish to see photos of the trackables, they are all listed alphabetically by series name behind the “owned trackables” link on my profile page. I keep records on my trackables by series, based on either a theme or a general shape…see the first entries of the partial Comics spreadsheet below. After I enter drop dates, elapsed days between drops and the cumulative days between release and the most recent drop are calculated automatically. Shown in the first two columns are the number of drops achieved (Cnt for count) and the most recent drop log date (Last Log). These are also calculated automatically. A zero in the Cnt column means the trackable has either not moved, or has disappeared from, the container where it was released. I also maintain a catalog of my trackables…see partial catalog spreadsheet below. It displays part of the catalog with details about the Art Deco series. I hid many columns to make important information viewable as an image. There are two catalog numbers, the annual and total. Trackables are not cataloged until they are released. All entries start with the name, ID and tracking numbers and release dates and locations. The colored ID cells indicate missing travel bugs. For those, there is information on the last logged locations and dates, along with the count (Cnt) of drops achieved (retrieved from the respective series spreadsheet). The ultimate objective of this approach, decided upon years ago, was to enable comparisons of the rates of travel and survivorship among the series. For example, as a group, do poker chips have better histories than laminated images? For a series to be included for comparison in this project, I determined that each series must have at least one trackable achieve 30 drops, but there is a problem with that choice. Being 83 at this writing, there might not be enough time for me to do as much as once conceived. So, I will content myself with limited comparisons. Part 2 of this post defines release and drop, as employed in this project.
  9. I remember trying to drop off a TB I brought from London that wanted to go to a particular suburb in Sydney and I was trying to do this. Cache after cache I visited were micros listed as smalls. It got VERY annoying and did nothing to make the game enjoyable. Finally I found a real small and could leave the TB in that. It's not hard to rate the cache size correctly. Those &%$@ & NANOs, they are the cause of many wrong size ratings. You would have hated my caching trip today. Bush bashing through dense vegetation. After more than an hour we had only got 100 to 200 metres closer to the cache. Called it a day, but will try again.
  10. And as far as the other reply: I disagree about integrating the builder with the site, at least from a technical level. If we had a web-based builder app, we could perform a seamless redirection between both applications. Besides, with the API in place, the Urwigo builder can also offer a seamless experience. You can use the app to search for cartridges either by the map or any other UI because, you know: API. Templates are a good idea. I was mostly thinking about smaller snippets, but it's reasonable that someone could build a larger template. I'd rather start with cartridges being closed source because almost all are tied to a final geocache. I can't simply remove the last zone in a cartridge when it's copied because there isn't a simple way to tell what the last zone is. Other cartridges simply tell the final coordinates. I'd rather incentivize open source sharing or say a cartridge automatically becomes open source after a period of one or two years after its last update. I forgot about the media resizing feature. But, yes, media should automatically fit the view, but should be capped at zooming in 200% to avoid being too pixelated. Hopefully, it's more about downscaling. Yes, there won't be completion codes because of the API. When the cartridge marks itself as complete, the player app will send that information to the site via the API when the device has a data connection again (or immediately if it does at that time). Assets get a bit difficult to work with because we'd need some sort of community curation. Fortunately, someone could create an asset management application and API for builder apps to use. It does not have to be tied to the listing service's API (really, it shouldn't anyway). I don't have experience with Unity. However, the player app itself should be able to load different player runtime environments. This would allow for v1 to work, v2, and anything more complicated, such as something with Unity. Wherigo v1 wasn't map-based because it predated devices being Internet-connected. These days, Internet connectivity is the norm. So, the UI should be primarily map-based I'll be relying on others, then, to come up with a good UI for the website. I can hold my own, but a graphic designer and animator I am not. Perhaps Wherigo Invaders is the perfect way to gamify the site. I should probably make a long post to cover what Wherigo Invaders is. You have concepts from travel bugs, Ingress, Munzee, trading card games, and whatnot, and this provides a sort of meta game that gets you to revisit cartridges. And the other items: If you're considering integrating Waymarking with Wherigo, you'll need to answer some questions. First: what is Wherigo at its core? How would including waymarks strengthen Wherigo's core fun factor? (Waymarking could have been Swarm/Foresqure, but was never developed upon after its release.) How easy would it be for an average Wherigo author to include AR? We need it to be easier and more enticing to set up Wherigo cartridges. AR could be explored in the long term, but building a fun core game that can be fairly easy to create content for is a priority. We need the map to fill up with cartridges. Skinning was on my shorter list. However, I didn't think about skinning the map itself. (That is, allow the author to create a map upon which the game is played instead of the satellite or road map. We'll have to either have map tiles or just a very high resolution, large map file. That could be doable. Credits and such play into Wherigo Invaders. Challenges would be interesting. I forgot about adding to the player API the ability to query the current time. Good idea.
  11. Resistiver Touchscreen Ein resistiver Touchscreen besteht aus Schichten, die auf Druck reagieren, der auf den Bildschirm ausgeübt wird. Da resistive Touchscreens auf Druck reagieren, können Sie den Bildschirm mit einem Stift, dem Fingernagel oder anderen Utensilien berühren. Resistive Bildschirme können auch mit Handschuhen bedient werden, was sie ideal für die Jagd, das Schneemobilfahren und das Skifahren macht. Achten Sie darauf, dass Sie nicht zu viel Druck ausüben, da dies den Bildschirm beschädigen könnte. Modelle mit resistivem Touchscreen: Alpha 100 Approach G3, G5 Dakota 10, 20 Montana 600, 610, 610t, 650, 650t, 680, 680t Oregon 200, 300, 400c, 400i, 400t, 450, 450t, 550, 550t Mit ein Grund warum ich meinem O 450 so hinterher trauere, da hat einfach alles gepasst.
  12. Just to clarify, there could be 200 of the same waymark titles in the same city? Starbucks - Wi-Fi Hotspot - New York City, NY, USA
  13. As someone who has searched for and documented well over 1,200 benchmarks over the past 20 years, it certainly was very surprising and disappointing to discover that the benchmark hunting section of Geocaching.com was gone without any warning to me. I do not regularly read the forums, so I had no idea this change was imminent. I only found out when I researched it after the fact. I receive plenty of emails from Groundspeak about souvenirs and their latest promotions—would it have been that difficult for them to send a message about the "retirement" of the benchmark pages? Another thing that should have been done was to add a deprecation announcement to each benchmark page, so it would be obvious to anyone viewing the pages that after a certain date, the benchmark pages would no longer be available. It's just standard practice. But apparently it's too late for any of that. I understand the need to move away from legacy code that has become a maintenance burden, hinders future innovation, and does not fit the current goals of the organization. Frankly, given the lack of updates to the benchmarking portion of the site, I expected this to happen a long time ago, and that's why I began documenting my survey mark recoveries on my own website instead. But many people did not have that option, and they put a lot of time and effort into their benchmark logs on Geocaching.com. We have also heard over and over how useful geocachers' logs have been for professional surveyors. We had built an impressive archive of historical documentation over the decades, much of which is not available elsewhere, and it is a shame to lose that. For anyone who wants to retrieve the text (not the photos) of their benchmark logs and see others' logs for a particular mark, you can use Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The benchmarking home page (as of December 30, 2022) is available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20221230041305/https://www.geocaching.com/mark/ The postal code search doesn't work, but the PID search does, at least for all PIDs I have tried. To go directly to a mark's page, you can use URLs of the form: https://web.archive.org/web/20221208090238/https://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=[PID] where [PID] is the mark's PID. Unfortunately, because I don't see a way to view the marks a user has logged, you will need to know the PIDs of any marks you want to look up on the Wayback Machine archive. The NGS Data Explorer can help with that: https://geodesy.noaa.gov/NGSDataExplorer/ I hope this is useful. To anyone who enjoyed this activity, took it seriously, and understands its value, please spend some time on the NGS website and learn how to submit your data directly to them instead. Survey marks are still in constant use and your efforts will be appreciated there.
  14. I have used Erik's webpages quite frequently recently (THANKS again, great site!). Looking forward to the new developments in 2023. On the basis of his page showing the top posters (total, region, first in country&region), I was thinking who has posted and visited the most unique categories. On the basis of the top 200 posters in Erik's file ( https://wm.familie-frohne.net/count_user.php ), I did a manual check of each WayMarkers' profile (combined, post and visit). Created an document in Excel to capture the data et voila... see file attached. I will regularly update on my profile page. Hopefully Erik can do some of his magic in a future update :-) happy holidays season to every and hope you have a great start of 2023! Frank Update 28-12 Updated the file (missed a few people and made a mistake by adding someone by error). Used input of all top 230 Waymarkers (700+ posts). Nevertheless, I can not easily see when someone has visited a lot of different categories. I could potentially miss a few waymarkers with high levels of finds, if they have low level of posts.
  15. I've been thinking and pondering this for awhile - and I went back to see my goals for 2020 (I wonder what happened to the 2021 thread?), and apparently there was no 2022 thread....anyway: Here are my goals for 2020: Get my total find count to 2020. My goal for 2019 was to reach 2000 finds; I'm still over 200 away from that goal, and maybe 2020 in 2020 is attainable! Find a cache on Feb. 29 to finish my calendar grid. We filled every day in 2018 except for Feb. 29, and this will be our first opportunity to fill that day since we began geocaching in 2017. Host an event. We've attended events, but never hosted one. I applied for one of the Celebration events - we'll see if that comes through. Hide 12 more caches. Same goal as 2019, and I only got 6 hidden then. I'll go for 12 again! Complete at least one Adventure Lab Cache. A few have popped up in reasonable driving distance, and I'm curious to see how it goes. I enjoy Wherigo caches, when they work! How did I do? I did reach 2020 finds on 10/26/2020 - my log for GC91PE9 - https://coord.info/GL131EHA0 I did find a cache on Feb. 29 - in fact, I found 7 that day, one being a Feb. 29th event that happened to be one of the last events held in our area (or anywhere else!) for a LOOOONG time. I did NOT host an event in 2020; I did receive one of the Celebration events, but....COVID. I eventually hosted my event in June 2022, https://coord.info/GC8ZE3T I did NOT hide 12 more caches. I actually completed a couple of Adventure Labs by the end of 2019, and did a few more in 2020, so that goal was reached! 3/5 for 2020, despite COVID. GOALS for 2023 - as 2022 draws to a close.... Host a CITO, and possibly a "regular" event Reach 3000 finds - we've averaged about 500 a year since our start in 2017, I'm currently at 2587, so it's attainable, especially if we do more travelng, as we hope to do Keep my "traditionals" at 75% or less of total finds; in other words, up my puzzles, multi's, Wherigo's and challenges - though now with Adventure Labs, it's a lttle easier to keep trads below 75% Hide a few more and continue to maintain the hides I do have; between hubby's and mine, it's a challenge at times! Merry Christmas to all, and may 2023 bring all good things to all of you!
  16. Before the benchmark purge, I am looking for users with the most benchmark logs, particularly with numbers in the thousands. Not found logs, but logs in general. So far I know of: shorbird = 11,553 AZcachemeister = 4,658 VagabondsWV = 4,601 kayakbird = 4,278 seventhings = 4,277 seadog129 = 4,106 Me & Bucky = 4,062 wister6813 = 3,998 Ernmark = 3,424 PFF = 2,522 Skyboy01 = 2,426 ArtMan = 2,354 mloser = 2,251 CallawayMT = 1,960 2/3 Marine = 1,913 edexter = 1,832 Supercheeseburger = 1,812 NorthWes = 1,685 topflitejr1 = 1,562 magtfplanner = 1,484 2oldfarts (the rockhounders) = 1,465 sillywillie = 1,456 Team Geo-Clarks = 1,317 southpawaz = 1,308 Ragfoot = 1,282 foxtrot_xray = 1,271 bvrballs = 1,261 Harry Dolphin = 1,243 TerraViators = 1,200 finds, unknown total AZTech = 1,078 GeoBama123 = 1,071 Papa-Bear-NYC = 1,036 Please let me know if you know of anybody else with substantial benchmark logs like the ones above.
  17. What to do with the eXplorist 200, 210, 300, 400, 500 and 600 models I just purchased off eBay? Have not found an explorist XL I want just yet....
  18. Auch in diesem Jahr sind wieder einige bekannte Caches in die ewigen Archiv-Gründe gewandert. So möchte ich hier, wie in den letzten Jahren, einiger Exemplare im Jahresrückblick gedenken. Diese berühmten Caches stehen leider auf dieser Liste: GC4VXMT – Das Das Opfer des Bahnarbeiters An diesen Cache hatte man sich gewöhnt, und zwar über Jahre hinweg in den Best-Of-Listen. Das Meisterwerk, mit einer offiziellen und einer inoffiziellen Wegführung, wurde im Jahr 2014 gepublisht und entwickelte sich zum Dauerbrenner. Stets war der Kalender rappelvoll. Der kreative Owner maximaler Mustermann, der auch “Die Kinder des Buchbinders” mitverantwortet, hat hier mit enormen Einsatz ein überregional bekanntes Werk geschaffen. Immer wieder mussten Stationen aus verschiedenen Gründen umgeplant oder neu geschaffen werden. Als nun aber der ausrangierte Eisenbahnwaggon als markanteste Station in ein Museum verfrachtet wurde, zog der Owner schweren Herzens den Schlussstrich. GC366E9 – Isla de la Munecas Gemessen an der Anzahl der Favoritenpunkte war dies der viertbeste Tradi in Niedersachsen. Dieser verkehrsgünstig an der A30 gelegene Cache entfaltete sein schaurig-schönes Feeling am Besten bei Besuchen in der Dämmerung. Zum Schluss hat dem Owner evtl. die Zeit oder Muße gefehlt, dem Cache die notwendigen Wartungsarbeiten zukommen zu lassen. Den Logs nach zu urteilen, muss dieser Cache am Ende seines Daseins leider nur noch ein Schatten vergangener Tage gewesen sein. Im Juli war es dann nach zehn Jahren soweit. “Alles hat seine Zeit, diese ist nun abgelaufen” schrieb der Owner in sein Archivierungslog. Dem ist nichts hinzuzufügen. GC34Q9T – Steine 1 “Dies ist unser erster Cache”, so beginnt der Listingtext, der erfahrungsgemäß nicht gerade auf übermäßige Qualitätscaches hinweist. Nun, das war hier anders, denn mit über 2.000 FPs war es der viertbeste Tradi in Bayern. Auf den Plätzen davor, neben zwei TB-Hotels, noch „Steine 2“ vom selben Owner. Übrigens dicht gefolgt von „Steine 3“. Wer also mal Steine sammeln möchte: Die Gegend bei Aschaffenburg eignet sich dafür hervorragend. Die erste Steine-Version musste der Owner nun aber schweren Herzens archivieren, da der Zahn der Zeit doch an diesem Cache genagt hatte. GC1J52Y – Dragonheart - der Letzte seiner Art Dieser nordwestlich von Pforzheim gelegene Multi tauchte ob der hohen Bewertungen auch immer wieder in verschiedenen Besten-Listen auf. Krankheitsbedingt musste dieser 13-Stationen-Multi dann im Mai archiviert werden. Caches von Mystphi: Die Ownerlegende aus Hamburg stand wie kein anderer für urbane Cachekunst, über 30.000 FPs machten seine Caches weit über die Grenzen Hamburgs hinaus bekannt. Nach dem Tod des Owners im Jahr 2018 wird die Cachewartung mit seinem Account weiter geführt. Am Anfang klappte das noch recht gut, doch mit der Zeit sieht man an den immer längeren und häufigeren Deaktivierungsphasen, dass deren Ende naht. Die folgenden vier Caches sind leider bereits dabei: GC146KA – Zielinskissimus Agetatio Die geniale Idee, einen Cache an einem solchen Ort zu verstecken, kann nur von einem kommen. Die Reviewer drückten hier wirklich alle Augen zu, aber im April musste dieser Cache dann doch archiviert werden. Über 2.600 FPs bei einer Quote von 76% sprechen eine deutliche Sprache, insbesondere wenn man bedenkt, dass der Cache drei Jahre vor der Einführung der Favoritenpunkte gepublisht wurde. GC23JKG – Der magnetische Nordpol Auch bei diesem Cache ließen die Reviewer lange Zeit Gnade vor Recht ergehen, aber dann kam es, wie es kommen musste: Im Februar wurde dieser Multi archiviert. GC13TK1 – Mind Attack Ich weiß nicht, ob ein Owner bereits vor Mystphi auf die Idee gekommen ist, an einem solchen Ort eine Station zu verstecken. Die dreiste Idee, die hier im Jahre 2007 umgesetzt wurde, wurde leider durch einen Brand im Juni diesen Jahres zerstört. GC3DP2E – Ich bin doch nicht micro! (Advanced Version) Wie kommt man auf solche Ideen? Im Jahr 2012 hat sich Mystphi auf geniale Weise den Einkaufswagen-Unterstellstand eines Supermarktes vorgenommen. Über 2.200 FPs bei einer für Quote von über 70% sprechen Bände. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt war es der Cache mit den meisten FPs in Schleswig Holstein. Die bauliche Veränderung an dieser Stelle hätte wohl aber auch Mystphi gezwungen, diesen Cache zu archivieren. Gerade noch „von der Schippe gesprungen“: GC8Q2DK – w.iliams Werkstatt Gemessen am Wilson-Score ist dieser Cache der drittbeste in Niedersachsen, auch die anderen beiden Caches des Owners finden sich in dieser Liste unter den Top 10. Im April wurden alle Caches aus gesundheitlichen Gründen deaktiviert, aber dann im Juni zum Glück wieder aktiviert. Da dieser Cache noch aktiv ist, soll hier nicht gespoilert werden, aber beim Anblick des Finals habe ich damals einen spitzen Schrei der begeisterten Überraschung ausgestoßen. Wie in einem richtigen Nachruf muss die Auswahl natürlich irgendwie beschränkt werden, in diesem Fall auf mehr oder weniger bekannte Exemplare. Etwa, weil diese Caches viele Favoritenpunkte haben, überregional bekannt sind, oder sonst etwas. Außerdem spielt natürlich mein persönlicher Bezug eine Rolle, denn die meisten der genannten Exemplare habe ich auch gefunden. Somit ist dieser Nachruf weder vollständig, noch in irgendeiner Art wertend. Wer weitere Caches hat, die hier reinpassen: Bitte ergänzen
  19. I see that the Benchmark Count will be retained. Will I still have access to see which of the 200 benchmarks I have found? Is there a way to save that data if it is no longer available after January 4, 2023? I am sad and wish this would have remained. I even have a benchmark coin that I take with me when I benchmark.
  20. The announcement was made in mid-October. You consider 5 1/2 weeks before Thanksgiving to be "right before the holidays"? Considering the vast majority of geocachers don't visit the forums it certainly did fly under the radar. Was it ever mentioned in the weekly emails from Groundspeak? Groundspeak is a business. Since the vast majority of their perceived customers have less than 100 lifetime Finds their decision-making is aimed primarily at those cachers. If getting rid of benchmarks costs Groundspeak 100 PMs (and I doubt it will), but new feature Groundspeak is going to roll out after getting the old benchmarking code out of the way gets them 200 new PMs that's a win for Groundspeak. And the new feature will be used worldwide instead of only in the US. Unlike most aspects of geocaching.com, Benchmarking could only ever appeal to half the customer base because of its geographical limitations. As long as Groundspeak is a for-profit business it will do what they think is best for business. Trying to keep 1% of geocachers happy isn't important for business.
  21. 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.
  22. I was about to post that myself. 6859 + 200 lab caches (which won't show up in the My Finds PQ) = 7059
  23. It does not include your 200 adventure labs? Just a guess.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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