Geochecker down…

[-cheeto-]

Anyone else missing Geochecker today? 😥

Come back geochecker come back…

[sandlanders]

Yep. Been like that all evening for me.

[DGDK]

I’m having the same problem, and it’s no better this morning.

[ACME_WildCachers]

@DGDK wrote:

I’m having the same problem, and it’s no better this morning.

The “Bandwidth Limit Exceeded” message means that the site has received more traffic within a given period (usually a billing cycle) than the hosting provider allows for the owner’s current hosting plan. Unfortunately, it could be down for a while until the next billing cycle starts or the owner decides to pay for more bandwidth to get the the site back online. I guess we’ll just have to wait to confirm our puzzle solution; or we could just email the cache owners to confirm.

My comments are mine alone and may not necessarily reflect an official stance of the WGA Board of Directors.

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

What’s Geochecker?

[ACME_WildCachers]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

What’s Geochecker?

I don’t know you, so I’ll assume that’s a legitimate question and not sarcasm. Cache owners can add a link to Geochecker on their puzzle caches so potential seekers can see if they have the correct coordinates before attempting to find the cache. When you click through to Geochecker, you enter the coordinates you’ve determined from the puzzle and the site will give you a simple yes/no answer on whether it’s correct. If you’ve got the right coordinates, it will show you a map with a marker. I like seeing it on puzzles because then I can figure out right away that I’ll be headed to the right spot, and I don’t have to bug the owner or wait for his/her reply.

My comments are mine alone and may not necessarily reflect an official stance of the WGA Board of Directors.

[uws22]

bad timing for me… i’m finally trying to clear out a few of the madison puzzles. got two of them taken care of, but without geochecker, i have no clue on the others, and one of the puzzles i’m stuck on is an owner that hasn’t been around in a while.

[ACME_WildCachers]

Looks like the domain is registered to Groundspeak…

Whois Record

Domain Services Provided By:
000domains,
http://www.000domains.com

Registrant:
Groundspeak
PMB 321
24 Roy St
Seattle, WA 98109 4018
US

Registrar: 000DOM
Domain Name: GEOCHECKER.COM
Created on: 26-JUN-06
Expires on: 26-JUN-11
Last Updated on: 24-SEP-08

Administrative, Technical Contact:
Administrator, Groundspeak
Groundspeak
PMB 321
24 Roy St
Seattle, WA 98109 4018
US
206-405-1945

I was expecting an individual or small business since that’s usually the case with a bandwidth problem. Maybe they’ll get it back online sooner than I thought.

My comments are mine alone and may not necessarily reflect an official stance of the WGA Board of Directors.

[greyhounder]

It makes me sound old, but I remember the days of solving puzzles without anything like geochecker…

Bec

[-cheeto-]

the days of solving puzzles without anything like geochecker…

how in the world did you solve them without the ability to repeatedly guess ❓ ❓ 😯

[labrat_wr]

I wonder if anyone uses the “close enough” setting on Geochecker.
trying to think of a time when that could be used. I think I saw it used once where it said that “you don’t have it exactly correct but close enough to give it a shot….or something like that meaning those coords will get you to within a few seconds of the correct solution.

Oh, and I believe Hemi WAS being sarcastic 🙂

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[-cheeto-]

I actually used the “close enough” option on a cache that is now archived. You didn’t need coordinates to find the final only the starting point and you didn’t need geochecker to solve the “puzzle” but I added it on there with the “close enough” option just because I could.

Interesting on the bandwidth limit. Groundspeak must not have stepped in on all fronts financially. I believe I read that geochecker was assisted by Groundspeak financially and not initially created by them.

To learn more about puzzle coordinates “checkers” you can read the February 3rd post by gotta run on this thread:
http://wi-geocaching.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8517
Interesting to note that the only listed “con” of geochecker is issues with outages… 😮

[ACME_WildCachers]

@labrat_wr wrote:

I wonder if anyone uses the “close enough” setting on Geochecker.
trying to think of a time when that could be used. I think I saw it used once where it said that “you don’t have it exactly correct but close enough to give it a shot….or something like that meaning those coords will get you to within a few seconds of the correct solution.

The other day I was working on a puzzle and had all but the hundredths place for the north coord and the thousandths place for the west coord. This was a series final for which I was in the hunt for FTF, so I started wondering If I could make the find without actually knowing the last two digits. (I wouldn’t have actually attempted the find without doing the rest of the series, but I was curious if it would be possible.)

I don’t have exact numbers anymore, but I believe it was something like 60 feet for a hundredth of a minute and 6 feet for a thousandth. With 10 possibilities for each digit, I could narrow it down to within approximately 60 feet east to west and 600 feet north to south. That might not be so bad if only one digit was unknown, because then I could search in a line. With both digits unknown, it’s an area of 360,000 square feet which doesn’t seem very reasonable. This particular cache told me the name of the park it was in, and I had enough to know it was near the northeast edge of the park. So I probably could have shaved off at least half of the 600 feet, but that didn’t seem very sportsmanlike. Anyway, I thought it was interesting to think of minutes in terms of a measurement I’m more familiar with.

Edit: now that I’ve started to read cheeto’s link, I see a lot of this is covered there.

@labrat_wr wrote:

Oh, and I believe Hemi WAS being sarcastic 🙂

Being a sarcastic person myself, that’s how I read it (is that sad?). Still, I haven’t been reading this forum long enough to know for sure, so I didn’t want to seem like a jerk if it was a real question.

My comments are mine alone and may not necessarily reflect an official stance of the WGA Board of Directors.

[sweech]

Oh sure, I get my first puzzle up and running this week (complete with Geochecker) and now it’s out for a bit? MAN! 😀

[Timberline Echoes]

But sweech your info is so precise one does not need the checker. Found it today and it is a great one. Is the Doc near by the final?
TE

[Author]

Posts