CachingCanucks Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Maybe this has been raised before, but I am wondering why we use postal codes to set home location when instead we could put our GPS co-ords (rounded off sufficiently that noone shows up at front door). Seems to me that if we did this, we would instantly allow all users to find caches near them with great precision, over the entire globe. The "G" in GPS does mean "global" doesn't it? Having just moved to Canada from the USA, I find the functionality not as good as when I was living in the US. This would fix it once, for everybody, everywhere? Or have I missed the obvious? Link to comment
+Stunod Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 You CAN set your home location with coordinates. Click on the Hide & Seek a Cache link and look a little farther down the page. Paying members can also select home coords on the Modify Your Account link from the My Cache Page. "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." [This message was edited by Stunod on June 04, 2003 at 10:20 AM.] Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 quote:Originally posted by CachingCanucks:Or have I missed the obvious? Yes. "Don't mess with a geocacher. We know all the best places to hide a body." Link to comment
+Team Shibby Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 I have always used my coords instead of zip. If I look up caches in my area by zip, it adds another 6 miles or so to the distance, not to mention my city has 4 different zipcodes. I think zip searches are a quick easy way to get an estimate of how many caches will be in an area you are travelling to. Kar Link to comment
Team Dragon Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 Someone who just found out about Geocaching may come to the site just to see if there are any near them. If they needed coords, they wouldn't be able to tell. Link to comment
+Brainerd Posted June 8, 2003 Share Posted June 8, 2003 Excellent point Team Dragon. I did just that before I got my GPS. [This message was edited by Tom Schmid on June 08, 2003 at 08:12 AM.] Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted June 9, 2003 Share Posted June 9, 2003 Because finding your own home would not be approved as a locationless cache. They had to give you an out. ===================== Wherever you go there you are. Link to comment
Vacman Posted June 9, 2003 Share Posted June 9, 2003 Example: I just finished a trip to the D.C. area. I knew the zip to my hotel, popped it here - walla had a list - done.... -------------------------------------------------- If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have "under"; in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness. Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted June 10, 2003 Share Posted June 10, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Vacman:Example: I just finished a trip to the D.C. area. I knew the zip to my hotel, popped it here - walla had a list - done.... You're kidding! A black jaguar had the list? Or did you perhaps mean voilà? (Sorry, but this one bugs me just about as much as seeing "noone" instead of "no one".) "Don't mess with a geocacher. We know all the best places to hide a body." Link to comment
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