On a Scale of 1 to 10, this is a Zero, but still Annoying.

[RedsSockpuppet]

OK, I flew from LA to Hong Kong, and logged some awesome caches in Hong Kong and Macau earlier this month.

 

Took my backpack, which has a trackable, called Réd's Backpack. I know, pretty original.

 

However, the line on the map shows me going EAST across the globe.

 

Of course, I went west.

 

Anyway to correct?

 

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=d331288c-e50c-4d29-a759-d85f86ca4036

[+wmpastor]

I see your point. I guess it's either a "known glitch" or a new one, & Moun10Bike will tell us if and when it will ever be corrected....

Edited January 22, 2015 by wmpastor

[+T.D.M.22]

I guess you could dip the coins in caches along the route and it would route perfectly. Don't have to log a find a note should do. I personally wouldn't delete a note like that(a find I wod delete instantly), but others might. There's also a chance if deleted, it would route in the same direction. Just a thought anyway.

[+Chrysalides]

I guess you could dip the coins in caches along the route and it would route perfectly. Don't have to log a find a note should do. I personally wouldn't delete a note like that(a find I wod delete instantly), but others might. There's also a chance if deleted, it would route in the same direction. Just a thought anyway.

You can log and delete a note in a cache, and the log in the coin's page will still be there. That's what I typically do if I forget to log a coin into a cache. My note would say "this note will self destruct in 5 seconds".

Edited January 22, 2015 by Chrysalides

[+kunarion]

I guess you could dip the coins in caches along the route and it would route perfectly. Don't have to log a find a note should do. I personally wouldn't delete a note like that(a find I wod delete instantly), but others might. There's also a chance if deleted, it would route in the same direction. Just a thought anyway.

You can log and delete a note in a cache, and the log in the coin's page will still be there.

That's right! The OP should probably ensure that fixes things, before trying it (like, between two of the dips, might the track turn back all the way around the world again?). Because if it takes GS to correct it, the dips just add something to the confusion.

Edited January 22, 2015 by kunarion

[+Viajero Perdido]

Actually it's northwest from LA, emphasis on the north part.

 

Why does this matter?

 

From (coincidentally) Hong Kong, where I noticed this myself (with mild amusement) half an hour ago.

[+Michaelcycle]

OK, I flew from LA to Hong Kong, and logged some awesome caches in Hong Kong and Macau earlier this month.

 

Took my backpack, which has a trackable, called Réd's Backpack. I know, pretty original.

 

However, the line on the map shows me going EAST across the globe.

 

Of course, I went west.

 

Anyway to correct?

 

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=d331288c-e50c-4d29-a759-d85f86ca4036

 

It shows that way on the trackable map BUT the distance it recorded is correct ( about 7,300 miles) so no big deal

[+tozainamboku]

Soon we'll all have 3D virtual reality googles and 2D map projections will be a thing of the past. Groundspeak will be able to show the trackable map on a spherical globe and the connection from cache to cache will follow the correct shortest route.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Soon we'll all have 3D virtual reality googles and 2D map projections will be a thing of the past. Groundspeak will be able to show the trackable map on a spherical globe and the connection from cache to cache will follow the correct shortest route.

 

I'm sure that get right on that after they add Nano as a cache type.

 

 

[+Harry Dolphin]

Obviously, the earth is flat. If the line on the map went west, you would fall off the edge of the earth.

[+colleda]

Obviously, the earth is flat. If the line on the map went west, you would fall off the edge of the earth.

And dolphins know that.

[+crazypig88]

Obviously, the earth is flat. If the line on the map went west, you would fall off the edge of the earth.

And dolphins know that.

Yes, because he has witnessed so many of his brethren fall off

[+timotheon]

I found a trackable once that started its life in Fiji, and when it made the 35 km trip eastward across the 180th meridian, the map showed it as going westward around the world. And when I've taken trackables over the Pacific from North America to Australia, the map has them going eastward, over the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, and the Indian Ocean. There must be something about that 180th meridian.

[+Chrysalides]

I found a trackable once that started its life in Fiji, and when it made the 35 km trip eastward across the 180th meridian, the map showed it as going westward around the world. And when I've taken trackables over the Pacific from North America to Australia, the map has them going eastward, over the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, and the Indian Ocean. There must be something about that 180th meridian.

That's hilarious! Thanks for confirming that the lines will never cross the Pacific.

[+Student Camper]

The world is round, the proof being that if it were flat, looking off into the distance you would be able to see the back of your own head.

[+Chrysalides]

The world is round, the proof being that if it were flat, looking off into the distance you would be able to see the back of your own head.

I can't see a cache when it is right in front of me. What makes you think I can see the back of my head from around the world?

 

The world is round, but scientific consensus is that the universe is flat.

[4wheelin_fool]

On a scale of 1 to 10, I don't know how this could actually be a zero, unless the map showed an actual 0 from flying around the world. It's more like a 1 turned 90 degrees. -

[+Ben0w]

The world is round,

Yep, thats a fact. The only question is, how thick the disk is.

[+crazypig88]

The world is a flat disk on the back of a tortoise. what's underneath the tortoise?, they ask. Well its tortoises all the way down