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Windows 11 screen resolution - 1920 x 1080 Chrome version 124.0.6367.79 - display size 1365 x 901 Hope that helps!

Even the old search doesn't work properly. I tried to search with my username and filter by "Event" caches. It shows the first page, but when you try to go to page 2 or 3, the list does not continue it reverts to your total finds not filtered by type.

Yep. We were night shifters when we first started, and it was simple to head to caches early in the morning and got numerous FTF. Locals found out by the "reigning FTF king", who B and moaned at events about those, "new kids interrupting the game!". We received a lot of emails asking us to keep it up, as it finally got this guy knocked down a few pegs (and fun to watch him freak). Unfortunately (I'll call it peer pressure...) the other 2/3rds became a FTF monster, and we got notifications for her addiction.

Thank you so much! I wasn't sure which Geoaware covered my area.

Wenn man seine Funde auf "Öffentlich" stellt dann sind die alle sichtbar. Wenn man die Sichtbarkeit einschränkt dann sind diese auch für einen persönlich nihct sichtbar... Bug

We are aware of the four issues you point out, and are working on all of them.

Cross posting these on ebay since there doesn't seem to be much interest, but feel free to contact me to see what's still available.

@Groundspeak: Why can't you just post a quick response here to show that you've understood the problem? As soon as someone writes that the issue is being "ignored," everyone freaks out again. I have no idea why you're so hesitant to involve us...

Following my post above giving feedback on your progress so far, I was happy to wait patiently until you got around to fixing the remaining problems. That is to say, The list will not print text box information The list TITLE text box (that is to say the text box under the title on the list page) STILL does not recognise line breaks and appears as one line of text. Amending a list takes you back to the top of the page (annoyingly) The word wrap on an ordinary list entry is not recognised and text falls off the right hand side of the page. However. today I received a promotional email from you pointing to the official blog: https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2024/04/our-favorite-premium-features-lists/ extolling the virtues of lists as one of your "favourite premium features" to use your own words. This leads me to believe that you think you have solved all the problems listed above which remain. Let me assure you, you have NOT. These four issues remain to be addressed and it would also be good if you could give us some indication that you are aware that the problem still exists. Starting to feel pretty frustrated by now.

It's even "better": If you change the sorting in a search result, say from "Placed on" to "Distance", then step through the pages one by one, the sorting alternates page by page: - 1st page: "Distance" - 2nd page: "Placed on" - 3rd page: "Distance" - 4th page: "Placed on" - ... Same happens if you change the actual sorting from ascending to descending or vice versa. The only way to get proper results is to change the sorting, then reload the page. Now the sorting is kept when stepping through the pages.

Thank you all! I found my city’s park department and how to contact them, hopefully I can get permission to place the cache!

I recommend contacting the EarthCache reviewer for your area, GeoawareUSA10, by email through his profile page. GeoawareUSA10 covers all the states near your home (PA, OH, KY, WV, MD, NY, etc.). If your ideas come from more distant travels, let us know where. If you stray much further south (Virginia, Tennessee, etc.) you would switch over to geoawareUSA9. Both of them have handy maps on their profile page to show how coverage for the USA is split up. Many Reviewers, including myself, do not use the message center for "official business," but others do. It's always a safe bet to start your contact with an email through Geocaching.com, and then ask later if the message center is OK. Don't be surprised if you're asked to write up a draft cache page with all the details. Email is fine for general questions, but at some point the geoaware will want to see the exact text for the background information and verification activities/questions.

I'm sorry if this has been asked before or not, but is there a way to contact Geoaware? Do the accounts have a generic email address that they all use? Or should I contact them through individual accounts? Do they check messages when you send them a message through the message system? I am trying to get a couple ECs together, but I would like get some guidance from them before I proceed much further with these ideas. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

It's an irrelevant question, because the OP must certainly have permission from the land manager in order to have their cache published as an exception to the Geocache Hiding Guidelines. I appreciate the OP's question, which demonstrates they've read the following guideline text:

I can reproduce this. Maybe it's a narrow screen with the right columns hidden. In such cases you can use the three dots on the right above the columns to replace the last column with another one. A small consolation. You can also reduce the display of the content on the narrow screen slightly so that there is space for more columns on the screen. Or you could reduce the unnecessary white space between columns. But that is probably a wish that is unfortunately not being heard in Seattle.

I have several bird house caches in parks in my community. In one case I contacted the township supervisor because they have a park but no parks department. In the other case I contacted the Parks & Recreation department. They gave permission and later asked me to put on a Geocaching 101 class. In both cases they want people using the parks and welcomed the geocaches.

Fantastic!!! A GeoMay8 Day event has been published in Andalucía, Spain. Check it out....... https://coord.info/GCAPKZC

Would you need permission to dig a post hole for a real bird house??

You’re too kind! If you think this was fun to read, just wait until you see some of my logs…

Often they'll be tagged with the "field puzzle" attribute, so you can start by searching for caches with that. Like this

You'd start by figuring out who owns the land, then contacting them to ask. I use Regrid to figure out who owns a particular piece of property. Often what people think of as public land is unused private land, so it's worth a check. That's the question you need to determine. Sometimes it may be easier to create a birdhouse that just stands on its own, and then attach it to an existing structure (in a manner discussed with the landowner).

Yes, it should still work. You should still be able to copy pocket queries (specially formatted GPX files) to it, just like you could back in the old days. If you upgraded to a premium membership (a few $/month), you'd be able to specify the types of caches you like and round up files containing just those types, with details, hints, and logs, and just copy (drag and drop) them to your receiver with any software on pretty much any mainstream operating system. As for host OS software, the thing just shows up as a disk drive in your computer and you can copy/delete files to/from it as you wish; no special drivers needed. ] The manufacturer, Mio, has long abandoned the handheld market generally and the geocaching market specficially, so don't enter into any breath-holding bets on when you'll see updates for "new" features that may be even 7-8-10 years in our past at this point. Notably, don't bother looking for new maps. The MIO world is just frozen in time in 2008 or so. A prior thread, , shows that there was a firmware update in mid 2011 that made it a bit more likeable, but if you can't find it/don't care, it doesn't look to be a life-changer. Just messing with the unit, you stand some non-zero change of converting it to a potato so if you liked the way it worked back then and really don't care about the update features, there's some rationale for not updating it. All that said, it had what was a great antenna/GPS receiver (SirfStar III or IV, depending on what litigation was raging at the time) for its era and it's much more likely to survive a tumble down a rock embankment and into the drink than your iFone. You're probably less likely to cry if it shatters. Smaller children may more enjoy/be more trusted the green-rubbery device with a color screen that's droppable than your $$$ phone. Ditto adults with vision or fine motor-skill issues or wearing gloves. The buttons are just plain big and clicky, exactly like mobile phone OS buttons aren't. I won't lean hard into pitching a 14-15 y/o tech product. Its certainly not the optimal device for everyone. If you have it, are familiar with it, and expect it to work in 2024 about like it worked in 2010 or so, you should be pleased. The ecosystem around it has held up pretty well. It should work pretty much as well as it ever did. Enjoy. or recycle it. I'm not your dad... :-)

Searching by city name doesn't work properly either. This problem exists since 2022 or so. After entering a city name, the default sorting is "from near to far", which is fine. But "near" is not seen from the city center, but from my home location, which makes the results useless. When choosing "Map geocaches", the map also shows those caches that are nearest to my home location. The picture shows the map result for Berlin. You can see that I live southwest of Berlin - no caches in the city itself show up. A workaround is setting the home location to the center of Berlin or your desired search center. But it's annoying to do that each time. Another workaround is to use the old search (https://www.geocaching.com/seek/). Will there be a fix for that one day?

I used to search by coordinates all the time. Sometimes I'd use the coordinates from photos to identify the cache we were at. Can't understand why it stopped working. Anyone know if there is a fix in sight?