Did a search for blue circles....

[+thicket23]

but nothing came up. What are they? When you search the caches some of them have this circle next to them.

TIA!

Ashley

[+StarBrand]

If it is the circle I am thinking about - it simply means the cache contains a specific geocoin. Not sure what geocoin goes with that icon but I will check.

[+StarBrand]

duh - just remembered - it is the icon for the diabetes travel bugs.....

 

Must be one in the caches you are looking at.

[+Ed & Julie]

but nothing came up. What are they? When you search the caches some of them have this circle next to them.

TIA!

Ashley

 

http://unite.geocaching.com/

[+gof1]

When you do a cache search, if you hover the pointer over one of those icons you will see a little box that tells you what it is.

[+DavidMac]

If you're referring to this circle:

then yes, it means there should be a diabetes TB in the cache.

 

When you do a cache search, if you hover the pointer over one of those icons you will see a little box that tells you what it is.

 

Another nifty feature not many people know about is this: if you hover the mouse over the stacked coin icon, you will get a breakdown of the different types of coins logged into the cache.

Edited March 15, 2007 by DavidMac

[chuckr30]

A blue circle also appears on my Garmin 76csx around the current position arrow. It means there is 100% probability you are somewhere in the circle, due to the GPS satellites adding error to the signal for civilians. It is the 20 foot accuracy circle so to speak.

Edited March 15, 2007 by chuckr30

[+thicket23]

Ahh, that's it! Very cool. Thanks for the responses

[+dkwolf]

A blue circle also appears on my Garmin 76csx around the current position arrow. It means there is 100% probability you are somewhere in the circle, due to the GPS satellites adding error to the signal for civilians. It is the 20 foot accuracy circle so to speak.

 

Just a point of information, but that has not been done since May of 2000, which incidentally, is right before the birth of Geocaching. When that signal error was still introduced, the best you could hope for with a civilian gps was a couple HUNDRED foot error. The error your gps shows now is due to atmospheric interferance with the signal, has absolutely nothing to do with intentional degredation of signal by the DoD.