+ChileHead Posted February 13, 2005 Posted February 13, 2005 As a cache owner, it would be nice to be able to tap into whatever database the admins use to check for proximity for the coords of the intermediate stages of my own multi-caches. I try and keep the coords on my own computer, but it would be much nicer to have this information tied to the cache so owners and admins can both access it! Alternatively, when submitting a multi-cache the form should require entry of the coords, since the admins want it anyway, and then it would be accessible as well.
+sbell111 Posted February 13, 2005 Posted February 13, 2005 I don't exactly know how the approvers do that voodoo that they do, but this sounds like it might help them out.
Keystone Posted February 13, 2005 Posted February 13, 2005 There's no "master database" where this information is housed in any formal way. Some regional volunteers store the additional waypoints in an offline database. Others use different methods to check multicaches and puzzles. For obvious reasons we would not want to grant general access to a reviewer's private offline database, as it would thus reveal the coords for everyone else's puzzles and multi's as well as your own. Did you know that log entries never totally go away, they just disappear from the page when deleted? This is true of reviewer notes as well as other log types. So, an easy solution is to bookmark the permalink for the "note to reviewer" where you tell the other waypoints in your multicache. The log should also show up in your master list of log entries. From the cache page or the list of log entries, go to the separate page for the log and that is what you'll want to bookmark before it gets deleted automatically upon the cache being listed.
+sbell111 Posted February 13, 2005 Posted February 13, 2005 I read the idea as fields that would only be visible to the cache owner and the reviewers. Further, these fields could be used by the reviewers to check a new caches coords against. Having this information kept on-site in an organized way would help new reviewers or reviewers helping in areas that they are unfamiliar with.
Keystone Posted February 13, 2005 Posted February 13, 2005 Yes, phrased in the manner just posted by sbell, that would be a useful tool. The reviewers have discussed this previously as a feature enhancement. One significant challenge is the legacy of X thousand existing multicaches and puzzles that either do not capture the information at all, or include it in a note to reviewer rather than a searchable field.
Jeremy Posted February 14, 2005 Posted February 14, 2005 We will be addressing this on the site by allowing GPX uploads. I'll make sure when this feature is implemented that it will allow the ability to create GPX files that are unsharable (much like the upcoming bookmark feature will work). That way you can add sharable GPX files like for parking locations and steps of a multi, or non-shared locations like puzzle answers.
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