+DocMagoo Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Alright, I have a wishlist. Canada Day is coming and for Canada's Birthday, I had some ideas that might make GC.com a bit more hospitable (not that it already isn't) to the uniqueness of Canada. These would make great presents to the members north of the 49th parallel (and lower in some areas ) in time for July 1st: 1) why do the geocaching.com maps show Canada as this great big grey void? Yet south of the border the map images show lakes, rivers, mountains, etc. At least, we could be the "Great White North".... WISH #1....maps that would show Canada in it's majesty.....lotsa lakes, water, mountains....you get the idea. 2) under the user stats "list of items found", you can see a breakdown of various items including US geocoins, Moun10Bike coins, and other coin counts..... WISH #2..... that this page would recognize Canadian Geocoins. Darn, ran out of steam already..... What features would you like to see on GC.com that take into account the "Canadian" factor? Quote Link to comment
+PDOP's Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Doc I agree that both items would be nice to see. Jeremy's working on the maps but there's a problem with out of date politically incorrect place names. As for the geocoins I think the original USA coins were grandfathered in under the TB system and those that came later are out of luck. There was some discussion in the forums about being able to buy just the TB numbers which coin makers could put on their products but the increased cost might raise the price of the coins. Another thing I would like to see is benchmarking hunting in Canada. There've been several discusions in the forums but nothing has been implemented yet. Quote Link to comment
+DocMagoo Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 ...As for the geocoins I think the original USA coins were grandfathered in under the TB system and those that came later are out of luck. There was some discussion in the forums about being able to buy just the TB numbers which coin makers could put on their products but the increased cost might raise the price of the coins. Another thing I would like to see is benchmarking hunting in Canada. There've been several discusions in the forums but nothing has been implemented yet. Thanks for the response PDOPs. The geocoins as a TB was something I didn't know about. Recently, we had a US geocoin locally and I thought, "Hey, that's neat that a graphic shows up on the cache page notifying all that something special was dropped in the cache." I wonder if they would reconsider and reinstate geocoins as a moveable type TB item. Good point on benchmarking....the closest benchmarks that we have access to are on Point Roberts, near Blaine, Washington. Anyone else? Quote Link to comment
+RobertM Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 So it is about the numbers then? ;-) Quote Link to comment
+Team Tigger International Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 Maybe they can require everyone to spell words correctly. It's colour, not color! Eh! koo loo koo koo koo koo koo koooooo! Bob & Doug Mac Kenzie Quote Link to comment
gm100guy Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 I agree with the benchmarks and would like to hunt them here also. Last year I went to the dollar store and bought all that Canada stuff they had for cheap and placed a Canada Day cache. But it went missing and I archived it. Why not have everyone find a spot in Canada that they really think is great and place a cache there so all others can enjoy it. This would be a really neat coast to coast project we could work on so. Maybe we could do it on the trans Canada trail and have a link of caches right across the country or the trans Canada highway for those traveling. I hope this does not high jack your thread. If it does we will start another one. Quote Link to comment
+DocMagoo Posted June 19, 2004 Author Share Posted June 19, 2004 I agree with the benchmarks and would like to hunt them here also. Last year I went to the dollar store and bought all that Canada stuff they had for cheap and placed a Canada Day cache. But it went missing and I archived it. Why not have everyone find a spot in Canada that they really think is great and place a cache there so all others can enjoy it. This would be a really neat coast to coast project we could work on so. Maybe we could do it on the trans Canada trail and have a link of caches right across the country or the trans Canada highway for those traveling. I hope this does not high jack your thread. If it does we will start another one. Naw, the comment about benchmarks seems to be a common thought/wish. The Trans-Canada series of caches would be kinda cool....never thought of that. Quote Link to comment
+DyverDown Posted June 19, 2004 Share Posted June 19, 2004 I agree about the Canadian Benchmarks... I asked last year about the Canadian ones being added and was told they were working on something, but it seems to have died out.... Hey! IS there anything we can do to help Admin???? DyverDown Quote Link to comment
+WCoaster Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 Maybe they can require everyone to spell words correctly. It's colour, not color!Eh! koo loo koo koo koo koo koo koooooo! Bob & Doug Mac Kenzie It's "koo roo koo koo koo koo koo koooooo!" not loo Are you sure you're Caadian 'eh Quote Link to comment
+Team Tigger International Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 I sometimes wonder about that myself Windsor's always been more of a suburb of Detroit, so our CAN CON was Friendly Giant and Hockey Night in Canada. Wulf Quote Link to comment
+The Blue Quasar Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Apart from the "Great Grey North" maps, I think I'm pretty happy with the GC stuff. I cannot think of other "Canadian Style" content. I also think that asking for stuff usually invokes one of the two responses 1.... "We are working on that" (Go away, it's not interesting enough) 2.... "That's been suggested before" (We don't know how to do that) The Blue Quasar Quote Link to comment
+geoSquid Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 I've launched a few Canadian geocoins. Bit of a pain not being able to track them on geocaching.com, but it's not the end of the world either. Improvements I'd like to see: 1) Link to a translation site like babelfish.altavista.com or some other place that can translate the english cache listings into other languages, and vice versa. Yeah, it's machine translation, but it's better than nothing and would allow more exposure to this hobby, particularly for French Canadians. 2) A general item, not specific to canadians, would be a link that shows what accounts are watching a cache or TB. 3) The WAP gateway, which is a really cool idea, seems to have a few issues (at least with me, it keeps rejecting my log entries ). A WAP gateway is a very handy feature that I'd love to use more if ti worked better. Generally, the geocaching.com site is pretty good. It seems to be well run and quite stable, so kudos to the people who operate it. Quote Link to comment
McKenzie Clan Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Try: http://rtr.ca/geo created by cacher mlord. Works great for me... better than the offical one IMO. As for the original question.... I would like to see the main page changed to red and white in honour of Canada Day! That's it..... Scott Quote Link to comment
KimAndMollie Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 Try here! Proud Canadians Click Here! Quote Link to comment
thorin Posted June 24, 2004 Share Posted June 24, 2004 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=73371 Quote Link to comment
+Wildwoods Posted June 26, 2004 Share Posted June 26, 2004 Im a Canadian living in Iowa. I have lived down here for the last four years. Although many have tryed no one has be able to: 1) get me to take the u out of colour 2) convince me that I must know their friend, brother, uncle..whoever in Toronto 3) get me to speak french. Nothing against Quebec but I grew up in Alberta. Not all Canadians speak french! 4) convince me that Texas is bigger than Canada. I was actually asked by someone in Kansas" Do you have towns and cities up there?" I miss Canada very much. Last month I was able to go back for the first time since leaving. We loaded up with all the dollar store Canadian stuff we could carry. Almost evey cache we visit we place something Canadian in it. Sometimes it may only be a toothpick with a Canadian flag on it. Other times it may be a Looney or a tooney. I have not seen Canadian Geo coin in Iowa yet. I agree it is "koo roo koo koo koo koo koo koooooo!" not loo I found the DVD down here at Best Buy Quote Link to comment
+geoSquid Posted June 28, 2004 Share Posted June 28, 2004 Try: http://rtr.ca/geo created by cacher mlord. Works great for me... better than the offical one IMO. I exchanged some emails with mlord, and got my #3 issue worked out woot! Quote Link to comment
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