knowschad Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 This was just brought this up in Getting Started, but it really belongs in here. Geocoins near your home location brings up a different location every time I load it. Just now, it brought me to London. I refereshed the page, and ended up near Seattle. The next time, New York. Very cool page (new to me, if not new) but it isn't working right. Link to comment
+Cache O'Plenty Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Check in the upper right corner to see if you are logged in. I tried your quoted site and bounced from New York to Seattle to Denver to London each time I hit refresh. Then I noticed I wasn't automatically logged in (as usual). Once I logged in, it gave me the right home map. P.S. Thanks for the site pointout - I just may use that more. Link to comment
+blb9556 Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 This was just brought this up in Getting Started, but it really belongs in here. Geocoins near your home location brings up a different location every time I load it. Just now, it brought me to London. I refereshed the page, and ended up near Seattle. The next time, New York. Very cool page (new to me, if not new) but it isn't working right. Are your home coords imputed on the acoiunt page? Link to comment
+Raine Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Since you don't have Home Coors setup in your account it decides that you should move and randomly selects a place for you to start looking at If you update your home coordinates then it will show you that location. -Raine Link to comment
+Brassine Family Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 (edited) I don't have my gps yet so I can't put in coordinates. but how do you get the coins to show up? I have zoomed in on Cal, FL, IN, and NY and no coin icons are popping up. Is there something wrong on my end? or are the geo coins really that rare? I looked and it shows that I am logged in. Edited October 4, 2008 by Brassine Family Link to comment
+Cache O'Plenty Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 (edited) You could go to GoogleEarth and zoom to your house. The coordinates will be displayed in the lower left area. Just be sure the "hand" is on your house. Or, there are several websites where you can input your address and it will return your coordinates. These tend to be somewhat inaccurate, though (mine is off by two houses). Edited October 4, 2008 by Cache O'Plenty Link to comment
+Brassine Family Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Hmmm, how often does google update the pics? It shows an empty lot where my house is, and we started building it back in March of 2007. I checked out my parents house on google earth, and it shows my ford ranger sitting in the driveway. I haven't had that truck for over 3yrs!!!!!! Link to comment
+markandsandy Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 I don't have my gps yet so I can't put in coordinates. but how do you get the coins to show up? I have zoomed in on Cal, FL, IN, and NY and no coin icons are popping up. Is there something wrong on my end? or are the geo coins really that rare? I looked and it shows that I am logged in. I don't think you can see the coins in other locations. I noticed that if you move the map, it doesn't update to display coins other than the ones that were initially displayed. This may be intentional, as the caption is "Geocoins near your home location". Link to comment
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