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[Guest lathama]

When yiou scroll down to find caches in the UK there is now a topic for "Scotland UK" - why have this when thje UK covers England, Scotland, Wales, NR Irland??????

It sounds crazy to me almost like someone is trying to undermine the organisation by being stupid.

[Guest JasonW]

No idea - drop a note to contact@geocaching.com - get them to shift it to the right place - it's probably because the cache approvers are North American and don't understand European geography

[Guest JasonW]

ds on to another question do we need to split up the UK into regions so you can have a look at whats in a particular area of the UK (like I'm unlikely to be interested in SE England unless I happen to be going there - which I strive to avoid if at all possible) - I know it can be done by putting in a Lat/Long and searching on that, but it's not terribly intuitive.

 

Of course splitting the country up into regions is bound to upset some as they become classified as being in the North, Midlands, etc

 

Anyone else got any thoughts on this ?

[Guest Yomper]

Yes, I think we should split it up. Now that the cache count is rising, it might make things easier.

 

How about:-

England

Scotland

Wales

Surrey

 

Yomp

[Guest The Scout]

I think we should split into regions but not untill the cache count grows a little more.

I was tempted to log my cache "Tomb of the Warrior" in the Wales region but I was afraid it might be overlooked by some one living in the South West or the Midlands. One of the problems with leaving it a while, would the people who have already logged under the broad title of UK want their cache to be regionalized?

The Scout

 

[This message has been edited by The Scout (edited 16 October 2001).] Bad spelling Double Doh!

 

[This message has been edited by The Scout (edited 16 October 2001).]

[Guest The Northumbrian]

I think we should keep it all as UK, I live 40 miles from the scots border and if I was looking at a cache page for say Newcastle area , Under nearest caches would it list any for scotland? Probably not

I always thought that England Scotland and Wales WERE the United kingdom

KEEP THE UNION

 

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The Northumbrian

[Guest theGophers]

Here Here. I live close to wales so I would want them included in my nearest caches.

[Guest McDeHack]

Why not some how enter the cache sites in countys. It would save time looking at each site to determine how far the site is from ones home.

[Guest DoomSlayer]

I doubt the boys in red, white and blue know what the county's are over here .. I know I don't

For me I like the UK setup .. it's such a small place anyway ... why split it up ?

[Guest JasonW]

McDeHack if you set yourself up with a shortcut to the "Seek A Cache" results page with your home Lat/Long in then it shows you the caches in order of distance from that point - I use [url = this one for me - the Lat/Long isn't spot on, but then again 100 miles North is way more than 100 driving miles anyway.....

 

For my two eurocents worth, I think splitting it up on the same line as the US & Canada would be a spectacularly bad idea for all the reasons stated above, although I notice that the boys in NZ are thinking of doing just that (I can see why you'd want to do it for the North & South Islands there but that's it not into counties/regions/whatever-they-call-thems).

[Guest element14]

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Originally posted by JasonW:

However, this leads on to another question do we need to split up the UK into regions so you can have a look at whats in a particular area of the UK (like I'm unlikely to be interested in SE England unless I happen to be going there - which I strive to avoid if at all possible) - I know it can be done by putting in a Lat/Long and searching on that, but it's not terribly intuitive.

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Have you seen this map?: http://www.brillig.com/geocaching/united_kingdom.shtml

[Guest The Northumbrian]

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Originally posted by element14:

Have you seen this map?: http://www.brillig.com/geocaching/united_kingdom.shtml

 

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[Guest The Northumbrian]

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Originally posted by The Northumbrian:

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Hello Jason, I seen this map last week , Its quite handy, But when I checked it this morning and was clicking around the souter point area, just sort of south is a little bit of white and when I click on it it says

Where's George? nearly home by Jason W.

Have I missed a cache in this area? I cant see it at Geocaching .com

[Guest Moss Trooper]

Where's George, nearly home was a one off and has been Archived. It was a microcache with a WheresGeorge.com dollar bill in it. I know cos I got to it first

 

Moss

 

[This message has been edited by Moss Trooper (edited 17 October 2001).]

[Guest JasonW]

It's what he said (points to MT).... thus illustrating the limitations of the otherwise brilliant (or should that be brillig) map.

 

The other thing that's missing from it is any zoom functionality - some areas just have waaaaaaaay too many in to be able to resolve them. Of course if there hadn't been countless caches within spitting distance then it wouldn't be an issue either

[Guest JasonW]

Oh and the errant cache is now in the UK and the "Scotland UK" and "Wales UK" have been removed from the report form

[Guest The Scout]

Wales Gone! sob sob

[Guest JasonW]

Well I haven' noticed any anguished howls of protest following it's removal.