+Brenin Tegeingl Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 This might be a daft suggestion, and I know we already have a pinned topic regarding it. But I was thinking of what could possibly be an easier way for New Cachers to find an experianced cacher to take them out for a days caching. The Uk to be put into regions ie:North West England, North East England and so on. With one cacher in each area acting as Coordinator, he or she would keep details of all cachers in their area who are prepared to take out new cachers. Each volunteer would nominate a local town or city and the distance which they would be prepared to travel, and a contact email address (throw away one?). Contact details for each coordinator (preferably a link to that persons profile?) to be put in a locked and pinned thread, giving new cachers a quick and simple solution to finding someone to take them out caching. On being contacted the regional coordinator would pass on the contact details and request to the volunteer covering that area. Where someone lives on the border area between 2 regions and the regional coordinator did not have anyone one covering that area, he or she could simply pass the details on to the neighboring coordinator. To start things off, I'm daft enough to offer to act as regional coordinator for North Wales. I suggested volunteers nominate a town or city and a throw away email address so that the regional coordinators did not have store any personal information about any volunteer so avoiding any privacy issues. Dave Quote Link to comment
+Happy Humphrey Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Dave, Do you mean this type of thing? HH Quote Link to comment
+Brenin Tegeingl Posted February 5, 2006 Author Share Posted February 5, 2006 Dave, Do you mean this type of thing? HH Yes mate. But I've got to admit thats the very first time I've visited the Waymarking site. So what chance does a new cacher have of finding it, hence the sugestion of a pinned topic on here, and/or if it's concidered suitable on GAGB. Dave Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Dave, Do you mean this type of thing? HH Would that not be better as a list on Geocaching.com and not elsewhere? After all it is GC.com that split this site, so IMHO keep Geocaching on Geocaching and Waypointing can stay where it is, the obviously have no similarities or TPTB would not have split them! Moote Quote Link to comment
+Happy Humphrey Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Well, I would suggest simply adding the Waymarking link to the pinned topic. That would save quite a lot of duplicated effort! Nice idea though. It's about time I added myself to the list... HH Quote Link to comment
+doctor scotland Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 sounds like a good plan to me! Quote Link to comment
+Happy Humphrey Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Thanks - the nice thing about this is that you can pick an area you want to visit, and if there's a tour guide in the area he/she shows up on any of the local cache pages. For instance, if I wanted to visit Perth, I can just choose (say) GCQJG9, click on "Find...all nearby waymarks on Waymarking.com" and <Wham! > there's the Perthshire Cachers! HH Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 Thanks - the nice thing about this is that you can pick an area you want to visit, and if there's a tour guide in the area he/she shows up on any of the local cache pages. For instance, if I wanted to visit Perth, I can just choose (say) GCQJG9, click on "Find...all nearby waymarks on Waymarking.com" and <Wham! > there's the Perthshire Cachers! HH Not considering whether anyone ever looks at wm.com, I can see that this would work quite well. However, when searching on wm, by my own postcode, it doesn't pull any guides - i was hoping it would order all the guides by distance from me - as I wanted to see who is listed for the UK. Is there another way to do this that I can't see? The site doesn't make it all that obvious..... Dave Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 Yep now that theres a show nearest waymark button on all geocache pages its a good solution as most cachers dont ever come to the forums and leafing through pages of thread replies is awkward. The proposed link between profiles on both sites will also help with this integration. Quote Link to comment
+Happy Humphrey Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 However, when searching on wm, by my own postcode I don't think that the postcode search works on wm.com for UK postcodes - I don't know why. However, underneath it is "advanced search" and in there is the facility to show a list of entries for the category you're in, within a country. So you just select "State/Country search", "United Kingdom" and press "Search" - then you have a list of geocaching tour guides for the UK (all six of them so far ). HH Quote Link to comment
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