Cache series

[RJ McKenzie]

@gotta run wrote:

@ToyotaRyan wrote:

@sweetlife wrote:

…We have never had any other complaints about them…

I have a few times from a few cachers that reside in and around Forest County.

Well then they really should not be seeking these caches if they have complaints about them! Finding caches is not obligatory!

Honestly, I have no patience for trivial complaints like that. Gripe about lack of owner maintenance or the like, not how owners choose to name their caches.

I’m the same way, I don’t really care.. I keep everything on my GPS as a GC number anyways. Which is easier for me to lookup info on my iPhone anyways.

[Team Deejay]

@SammyClaws wrote:

Oh yeah, that right, you like to just clean out all the caches on either side of you while you drive down the road.

The defined route is what had us not driving up the farmers driveway to get to the caches in the park behind his house.

I still think it would have been ok. Surely the cache owner had informed the nearby homeowner of the cache just across the property line, right?

[gotta run]

@marc_54140 wrote:

What’s wrong with long names? Most become unreadable when displayed on Palm and GPS units.

I like series, but get frustrated with trying to figure out which cache I might be looking at.

For older units, there is a limit of 6 or 8 digits. This results in entries such as….

buerga – for Buerger Trail – South View
buergt – for Buerger Trail – Tall Stump

GC1T1M9 – “Another Puzzle”
GC1T1M7 – “Another Puzzle”
GC1T1M8 – “Another Puzzle”
GC1T1MA – “Another Puzzle”

😯 😕

So I guess my idea of putting out a dozen caches called “Cache” just to annoy Marc doesn’t have much of a point any more 😈

On the Left Side of the Road...

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

@gotta run wrote:

@marc_54140 wrote:

What’s wrong with long names? Most become unreadable when displayed on Palm and GPS units.

I like series, but get frustrated with trying to figure out which cache I might be looking at.

For older units, there is a limit of 6 or 8 digits. This results in entries such as….

buerga – for Buerger Trail – South View
buergt – for Buerger Trail – Tall Stump

GC1T1M9 – “Another Puzzle”
GC1T1M7 – “Another Puzzle”
GC1T1M8 – “Another Puzzle”
GC1T1MA – “Another Puzzle”

😯 😕

So I guess my idea of putting out a dozen caches called “Cache” just to annoy Marc doesn’t have much of a point any more 😈

Slam

[Barry Butrymowicz]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

So I guess my idea of putting out a dozen caches called “Cache” just to annoy Marc doesn’t have much of a point any more 😈

Slam[/quote]

But you have to get all 12 in the same small park 528 ft from each other

[Barry Butrymowicz]

So I guess my idea of putting out a dozen caches called “Cache” just to annoy Marc doesn’t have much of a point any more

But you have to get all 12 in the same small park 528 ft from each other

[-cheeto-]

Do as I say, not as I do?

I get where marc is coming from in the initial “plea” but when not even he follows what he is proposing, we know how successful it will be.

I think geocaching.com should require unique cache names by state.

[marc_54140]

Well, after a lot of negative feedback and complaints on what I considered a very reasonable request, I decided to prove I was willing to change.

So I start doing things the way ‘they’ are doing things, and what do I get? More complaints!?? 🙄

[gotta run]

@marc_54140 wrote:

So I start doing things the way ‘they’ are doing things, and what do I get? More complaints!??

🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄

Cue the violins…

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[gotta run]

@marc_54140 wrote:

Well, after a lot of negative feedback and complaints on what I considered a very reasonable request, I decided to prove I was willing to change.

So I start doing things the way ‘they’ are doing things, and what do I get? More complaints!?? 🙄

Now I see these are changed to include unique identifiers…whazzup with that?

‘Though you know, you really should put the unique letter before the name. 😈

On the Left Side of the Road...

[marc_54140]

I do not name my caches for the convenience of others, but for my own use.

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

@marc_54140 wrote:

I do not name my caches for the convenience of others, but for my own use.

Yet you want others to name their caches for your convenience?

[marc_54140]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

@marc_54140 wrote:

I do not name my caches for the convenience of others, but for my own use.

Yet you want others to name their caches for your convenience?

This topic turned a corner, or two, several miles back!

[gotta run]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

Yet you want others to name their caches for your convenience?

SLAP

😆

On the Left Side of the Road...

[Miata]

Stand there in the field with a Palm and find the right Walking in the park cache for an example using Cachemate. WSQ is no better, I have opened many a cache entry in Cachemate and compared the coordinates to see if it is the same cache on the GPS.

I will not spend more than the national debt to print cache pages when an old PDA will work just fine. I can carry thousands of cache pages in my shirt pocket and 500 in the GPS.

In a localized home area packet where you may only have a dozen or so of the same series, it’s not as big of a deal. Go on a graveyard tour or a trip in the heart of the Just a walk series and you have 5 pages of cache names that are not all that different. You have a name field limitation of about 30 characters and when the first 29 are the same is where it gets tough,

Maybe having a new fangled GPS that uses a .GPX packet would be the key since the info is already tied to the cache you are standing at.

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