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BUG: Groundspeak Newsletter no longer shows Canadian Events


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Over the last couple months I've noticed that local events are no longer featured in the Groundspeak Newsletter emails I receive. In fact, no events located in Canada show up in the newsletter.

 

Here's what I got in my August 19th newsletter, even though I am located in Ontario, Canada and Groundspeak has my home coordinates. I still get my "Recent Geocaches" properly. I'm missing a lot of upcoming events with this, and well it used to work properly here so I'm under the impression something got broken. I know there are closer events than these coming up, and they are in Ontario, Canada:

 

Nearby Events

 

Sittin' Round; Talkin' Cache 20 August 2013


292.25 km SW - Ohio - United States





A Month of Meet and Greets - #20 20 August 2013


298.99 km S - Pennsylvania - United States

 



1/2 A Month Worth of Night Meet & Greets #3 8/20 20 August 2013


276.97 km S - Pennsylvania - United States 



 

Bike To It Flash Mob 20 August 2013


313.87 km W - Michigan - United States 



 

A Month of Meet and Greets #21 21 August 2013


292.38 km S - Pennsylvania - United States 



 

1/2 A Month Worth of Night Meet & Greets #4 8/21 21 August 2013


276.97 km S - Pennsylvania - United States 



 

An Ice Cream Social for Day 21 of 31 21 August 2013


311.37 km SW - Michigan - United States 



 

Are You Still Sponge Worthy? 21 August 2013


202.23 km E - New York - United States

 



The Eye Scream Social: Royal Oak 21 August 2013


294.3 km SW - Michigan - United States 



 

I Scream (for Ice Cream) w/ 10 Days Left! 21 August 2013


281.73 km SW - Michigan - United States

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Can you link to an event listing that's closer to your home and which was scheduled for August 20 or 21?

 

Not for August 20/21. On the other hand if the newsletter is next two days only.... it's lost it's value to me anyway.

There's a large event cache this weekend in Ontario - http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b392467c-a875-4293-aa45-3d7d34114794

 

Now that I look back at my August 12 newsletter I see one Ontario event located in it. The August 12 newsletter showed me events for Aug 12-16. Why does the August 19 newsletter stop at two days?

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So it looks like it's not a bug, it's that I'm getting a report of the next 10 "close events" but since the newsletter considers a 500km drive "close" I miss out on more local events that I am more likely to attend. Is there a way to tell the newsletter to pull that search in a bit closer, so I can get less notifications about event caches in Pennsylvania and more event notifications for events in Ontario, say within a two hour drive?

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Here's the list of events "nearest" to me listed in the August 19th Groundspeak newsletter:

 

Are You Still Sponge Worthy? 21 August 2013

131.85 mi SE - New York - United States

 

Sweet Treats 22 August 2013

186 mi SE - New York - United States

 

9th Annual Thousandaires BBQ 24 August 2013

142.71 mi S - Pennsylvania - United States

 

Cow Wars: The Event! 24 August 2013

164.95 mi S - New York - United States

 

Bayfield's Meet and Greet Event 24 August 2013

119.67 mi SW - Ontario - Canada

 

Discovering L&A County 2013 24 August 2013

128.77 mi E - Ontario - Canada

 

GOLDEN SMILEY AWARDS by WNY GEOCACHERS 24 August 2013

115.5 mi S - New York - United States

 

Fifth Annual GeoRoc Summer Picnic 25 August 2013

123.01 mi SE - New York - United States

 

Ice Cream Summer Social 25 August 2013

137.04 mi SW - Ontario - Canada

 

CCC Meet & Eat - August 2013 27 August 2013

199.14 mi NE - Ontario - Canada

 

 

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Here's the list of events "nearest" to me listed in the August 19th Groundspeak newsletter:

 

Are You Still Sponge Worthy? 21 August 2013

131.85 mi SE - New York - United States

 

Sweet Treats 22 August 2013

186 mi SE - New York - United States

 

9th Annual Thousandaires BBQ 24 August 2013

142.71 mi S - Pennsylvania - United States

 

Cow Wars: The Event! 24 August 2013

164.95 mi S - New York - United States

 

Bayfield's Meet and Greet Event 24 August 2013

119.67 mi SW - Ontario - Canada

 

Discovering L&A County 2013 24 August 2013

128.77 mi E - Ontario - Canada

 

GOLDEN SMILEY AWARDS by WNY GEOCACHERS 24 August 2013

115.5 mi S - New York - United States

 

Fifth Annual GeoRoc Summer Picnic 25 August 2013

123.01 mi SE - New York - United States

 

Ice Cream Summer Social 25 August 2013

137.04 mi SW - Ontario - Canada

 

CCC Meet & Eat - August 2013 27 August 2013

199.14 mi NE - Ontario - Canada

 

 

B.

 

I'm 150km from the Bayfield one and 246km from L&A.

I guess I live to close to event rich States to make use of the geocaching newsletter for events, because that Bayfield one is not in my list. Also there is an event 8km from my house on Aug 28th that isn't on this newsletter. Do you notice the average distance to a "close" event for me on the August 19th newsletter is over 200km?

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Geez, I just noticed that the distance in the newsletter is miles. Not sure why that is. I'll look into that.

 

I guess all the "nearby" events that are less than 200 kms away are done with.

 

Last week's newsletter listed these events:

 

Vertical Challenge Pizza Party 6 14 August 2013

153.09 mi S - Pennsylvania - United States

 

BIG visits COG 14 August 2013

34.05 mi NW - Ontario - Canada

 

Hobo Campfire along the OC&T RR 16 August 2013

184.72 mi S - Pennsylvania - United States

 

All Aboard the Flash Mob II 16 August 2013

184.53 mi S - Pennsylvania - United States

 

GeoTrain II 17 August 2013

192.32 mi S - Pennsylvania - United States

 

Geocaching 101 - Quadeville, On 17 August 2013

127.74 mi NE - Ontario - Canada

 

International Geocaching Day & TB Race- Peta Mob 17 August 2013

159.63 mi NE - Ontario - Canada

 

COG’s International Geocaching Day Breakfast! 17 August 2013

38.75 mi NW - Ontario - Canada

 

2013 International Geocaching Day 17 August 2013

151.19 mi E - Ontario - Canada

 

HNAG First Annual Family Picnic 17 August 2013

111.14 mi S - Ontario - Canada

 

 

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Here's my list of Nearby Events from London, Ontario. I'm hosting the Bayfield's Meet and Greet Event on 24th of August which is 75kms from my home and plan on attending the Ice Cream Summer Social event August 25th which is 32 kms from home as well as BaconWarrior's Birthday Bash September 28th which is even closer at 18 kms. None of which are on this list.

 

For the most part, not saying they aren't as good to attend, but way would I want to know about an event 175 kms from home.

 

Nearby Events

 

Sittin' Round; Talkin' Cache 20 August 2013

190.59 km S - Ohio - United States

 

A Month of Meet and Greets - #20 20 August 2013

269.43 km SE - Pennsylvania - United States

 

1/2 A Month Worth of Night Meet & Greets #3 8/20 20 August 2013

221.84 km SE - Pennsylvania - United States

 

Bike To It Flash Mob 20 August 2013

194.27 km W - Michigan - United States

 

August 20th Flash Mob Event 20 August 2013

286.66 km W - Michigan - United States

 

A Month of Meet and Greets #21 21 August 2013

257.88 km SE - Pennsylvania - United States

 

1/2 A Month Worth of Night Meet & Greets #4 8/21 21 August 2013

221.84 km SE - Pennsylvania - United States

 

An Ice Cream Social for Day 21 of 31 21 August 2013

190.57 km W - Michigan - United States

 

Are You Still Sponge Worthy? 21 August 2013

292.92 km E - New York - United States

 

The Eye Scream Social: Royal Oak 21 August 2013

173.56 km W - Michigan - United States

 

Also, noticed that the nearby caches this week only go out as far 25 kms away from home and know that there were some published less then 75 kms from this past week. I used to get caches published out as far as Kitchener and Goderich areas, some 75 kms plus.

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I've either gone blind or lost my marbles.

 

I can't figure out where to make it so the newsletter shows distances in kms.

 

It's configured in our profile to use metric units, and that works everywhere except for the newsletter.

My profile is set for metric and my newsletter is showing KMs as the unit.

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