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My favorite was the one that said this is being converted to a virtual because people are confused about there being no container here.

They remain active. He will not be able to create any more until his premium status is reactivated. However, I don't know what happens if the member has credit pending and his account is no longer premium.

Say a premium member has active Adventure Labs being played regularly. They drop their premium status and return to basic member status. What will happen to their active Adventure Labs ?

Once upon a time there was terracaching and opencaching, but I dont think those exist anymore. Letterboxing is another game, but is often done with clues rather than a GPS. Of course Adventure Labs and WhereIGos are other varieties of geocaching. Waymarking is another variation. Benchmarking could still be a thing, but is not supported by the geocaching platform any more. There are other GPS based games like munzee and foursquare. Probably others as well.

Another similar idea I had was to use a giant chess board in a nearby park and let the player play through a chess game by reading a code sheet and at the end of the game an arrow has formed on the board by the pieces showing where to go next. This is the type of puzzles I thought were encouraged, but it doesn't seem that way.

Sure, in the sense that everything on earth has GPS coordinates associated with it, and every location related to a cache should have its coordinates entered as a waypoint in the listing. But geocaching does not require that GPS coordinates be used to find every location related to a cache. It does require that GPS coordinates be used at some point while finding the cache, but there are plenty of examples where other ways of finding a location can be used in addition to GPS coordinates. For one, night caches that use a trail of reflectors don't use GPS coordinates while following the trail of reflectors. For another, library caches don't use GPS coordinates while actually inside the library.

Hallo an alle Geocacherinnen und Geocacher, ich sitze derzeit an der Planung eines neuen Multicaches. Konkret soll man hierfür zu Beginn eine E-Mail mit einem bestimmten Betreff an eine festgelegte E-Mail-Adresse schicken, um im Anschluss das erste Rätsel zugeschickt zu bekommen. Die benötigte E-Mail-Adresse muss zuvor durch ein weiteres Rätsel ermittelt werden. Das Zuschicken besagter E-Mail läuft automatisch ab und wird über ein Python-Skript mit IMAP und SMTP geregelt. Der Sinn des ganzen besteht darin, eine individuell auf den Geocacher / die Geocacherin / die Cachergruppe zugeschnittene Tour zu erhalten. Es soll die Auswahl von verschiedenen Schwierigkeitsstufen der Rätsel, der Wanderwege und der Dauer der Tour geben. Außerdem soll man den Cache auch öfters wiederholen können und jedes Mal ein neues, verändertes Rätsel erhalten. Ein weiterer Punkt ist die Schnelligkeit, in der man die Rätsel löst und den Cache bergen kann. Nicht nur FTFs sondern auch die schnellsten Funde sollen gekrönt werden, somit hat jeder die Chance auf das Siegertreppchen. In Bezug auf die Richtlinien habe ich allerdings noch offene Fragen, weshalb ich mich über konstruktives Feedback sehr freuen würde. "Kein Ansprechpartner erforderlich - Es darf nicht erforderlich sein, den Cache-Eigentümer oder sonst jemanden kontaktieren zu müssen, um den Cache zu finden." Zählt hier das Versenden einer Mail und die automatische Antwort als eine Kontaktaufnahme mit dem Owner? Vergleichbar wäre das Versenden einer Mail mit dem Aufrufen einer Webseite, woraufhin man eine Antwort bzw. eine Darstellung erhält, was ja wiederum erlaubt ist. "Anmeldung auf einer Webseite - Auf einer anderen Webseite müssen persönliche Informationen (außer Email und Username) eingegeben werden." Zum Verschicken einer E-Mail wird nur ein E-Mail-Konto benötigt, was grundsätzlich zur Grundausrüstung zählen sollte. Weitere persönliche Informationen werden nicht benötigt und nicht abgefragt und alle Daten werden nach erfolgreichem Fund des Caches (oder nach Wunsch direkt) gelöscht. Über eine Beantwortung meiner Fragen mit einer kurzen Begründung wäre ich sehr dankbar.

If I wanted it to be easy, absolutely. Personally I find it extremely monotonous to enter "AB°CD.EFG HI°JK.LMN" as a mathematical solution for every single mystery. I was trying to make an adventure focusing on solving puzzles through the environment, not a math problem on a screen. But if Geocaching is more about math problems instead of looking for clues outdoors so be it... Geocashing just isn't the treasure hunting app I thought. I'll stick to normal caches then.

You quoted an excerpt from a longer post that I wrote. See the rest of that post for the answer. Sorry, in case you want to convey that the answer is "no" then I can't see it. Maybe it's a language thing. I really don't want to be confrontational. But your (not so much longer) post confirms that there exists indeed a tool for reviewers (which you don't use) which archives caches without compulsory reviewer interaction at the moment of actual archiving. The only interpretation for a "no" might be that you already consider putting a cache in that tool for eventually archiving in the future already satisfies the "human interaction".

My favorite was when a CO posted that on their own cache page. I Needs Archived that immediately.

This seems like a needlessly difficult and convoluted way to achieve that goal. This is geocaching. Everything seekers are expected to find should have GPS coordinates associated with it. A better way to achieve the same goal would be to list several waypoints, with GPS coordinates, where seekers gather information. After visiting all locations they have the coordinates for the final. It meets the GPS requirement no question.

Which maps? They are already on the geocaching app maps. I would love to be able to add an adventure lab to a list.

We have a town parents Facebook group and I've considered setting up a free informal get together one Saturday morning to teach people about geocaching and get some local interest. I have taught a class to a group of middle schoolers and also at my company. Teach others about the game to get new geocachers. As an added bonus, you'll instill good fundamentals to these new cachers, things that those who discover the game on their own might not pick up.

When I am planning a route i have to take a mental note of what adventure labs I would like to do along the way Given that AL labs are being encouraged and rewarded on the GC site, would it not make sense to have them more integrated? - Add them to Lists - Add them to Maps - merge the apps so you only need one

Who is your audience? If you're trying to get current geocachers to be more active, then an event listed on geocaching.com could do the trick. If you're trying to introduce new people to geocaching (or to get people who have dropped out completely to come back), then listing your event on geocaching.com won't help. You need to list your event somewhere else. For example, I used to help with occasional "intro to geocaching" classes sponsored by a county parks system. The only reason these classes were publicized in geocaching circles was to recruit volunteers (like me) to help the actual students. After a brief explanation of what geocaching is and how it works, the students were broken up into small groups. Each group received an experienced volunteer and a GPSr that was preprogrammed with a dozen geocaches or so. Then we set out on a local "power trail" (not a modern numbers trail, but just a trail that had become saturated with various caches owned by different COs over the years). The students could find about a dozen varied caches and make it back to the trailhead by lunch. And because the trail had saturated naturally, there was indeed a great assortment of sizes, camouflage, hide locations, etc. It was a good introduction to geocaching, but it was publicized (for students) by the park system, not as a geocaching event.

You quoted an excerpt from a longer post that I wrote. See the rest of that post for the answer.

Pretty please with whipped cream and a cherry on top, see my post!!

I did an 81-day streak (which I know in the grand scheme of streakers is nothing!), and was umming and ahhing about when to end the streak. I think I'm glad that I ended it with a planned end point, rather than it just fizzling out. I hosted an event, used the star chart I'd made for myself as the log book, and it was a good way to round off the streak. It would have been a lot better had I not have my phone stolen from my hand in the park on the way to said event, but at least I guess I wasn't in a 'I had to stop my streak because my phone got nicked' situation (ignoring that I probably wouldn't have been in the park were it not for my event...). I say if you can't work out a way to make it work with the locationless cache, pick a date just before your trip to finish your streak, and host a bit of a party event to celebrate the achievement of whatever your streak ends up being.

I support this idea but even more useful would be the possibility to see only all logs from the cache owner.

The question has been well answered, but I just want to say that I for one love the photos on EarthCaches. And while I ask for them on my own EarthCaches as optional, I really do enjoy seeing the site through the eyes of the visitors. I've even been known to look at the photo gallery of other people's EarthCaches--just to enjoy places I may not ever visit vicariously.

Alright, I will try write a thorough reply to the reviewer to either get a clear definition/answer or make them reconsider on the condition that I adjust details such as the description to make it less ambiguous. Thank you all for your insight :)

Thanks for being diligent. I'm not sure if this was already disclosed but the statement "no cache is archived without human interaction of a reviewer" seems no longer to be true, right? Let's hope that those reviewers using that automatic archiving tool are appreciative being confronted with borderline situations of archived caches.

This is their policy. After the judgement is done you must accept it. Couple of weeks ago I got similar message from a reviewer. "Not adequate GPS usage". In my case it was enough to get reviewer informed that there are recently published over 20 exactly similar mystery caches by other reviewers without problems. It was somehow similar than the case in this thread. The GPS usage reason was used in a situation where the GPS is definitely the only way to find the cache. I understand that some guidance from the HQ about the accuracy of solution coordinates triggered this obviously incorrect conclusion.

My list of my epic caches https://www.geocaching.com/plan/lists/BM5B5EJ Top of the list: 3 Corners (SE Oregon Hatrick) Virtual Cache GC2101 - Epic 4x4 trip to the middle of nowhere Eliot Glacier Earthcache EarthCache GC2MNZA - Best hike ever great views Geocache 7/21/00 Traditional Cache GC17 -Best of the oldies great view Dangerous Creek Traditional Cache GC1GKHA - most memorable caching find Mission 9: Tunnel of Light Project APE Cache GC1169 - Tunnel is one of the most fun hikes