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New website seems to be working fine … I feel right at home, thanks to beta testing.
I like the comment about the front of the geo-coin … I agree with that.
I also agree that we don’t need to show the GPSrs or Ammo Box. Yes it might not “explaining” things well to non-geocachers … but why would you anticipate that something like a logo would serve that purpose any way.
I suspect that if you never heard of geocaching … just about any symbols would be meaningless to you. I suppose to any outsider … they might currently see our logo and thing we’re into calculators and shoe boxes!
In our case a short visit to the pottery shop in Fish Creek, made Mrs EnergySaver very happy … best Mother’s day gift I ever had her pick out for herself. I must agree it’s a very attractive cheese tray … as long as I don’t touch it, all should be well.
So what’s making it so popular with Hungarians?
All great points … besides we’re not GC.Com … how could we make “rules” any way … not that I think we should. We can only train and suggest.
The thing that sits wrong with me … is when you go to a cache location and find it hidden under a branch of a tree, when 100′ away is a perfect hollow tree with just the coolest hiding place. Again it might be my excessiveness, but I feel like the “good spot” was “wasted”. But again, the hider did NOT do anything wrong, so at this point quality is just an opinion.
My 2 cents …
(1) I think this would be impossible to control, other than to “suggest” it to newbies, but how many newbies are exposed to the “suggestions” (such as this forum) before placing that first hide.
(2) I think it would be tough to suggest a SPECIFIC amount of finds before your first hide. That would be different for so many people. As an example, I consider my self an excessively creative person (to the point of driving myself and others nuts, in the non-geo world), so I quickly understood what makes a good cache. While a “normal” person might take longer. Then I’ve seen some caches out there that make me shake my head by people that have been at this a long time (no one in particular, no one that’s reading this).
(3) I think it’s not really practical to “suggest” good caches, my concern has to weigh heavier on the newbie that plants something and then forgets about it. I’ve got such a person in our area and I’ve been sort of babysitting his 2 caches for about 2 years now. One of which I suspect is no longer findable, but I’ve not had time/desire to deal with it. This issue bleeds over into Travel Bugs too … I’ve got 3 TBs that got picked up by people that have only logged 2 to 5 finds over their career, it’s been over a year ago and now they don’t respond to emails.
Yes, your suppose to log a joke … the joke was on me … it’s MY cache and yet I bought into the first part of the story … of course, I also know the approach to this parking lot and it could happen (well part of it could happen).
I log all my temp finds at events … yet I we don’t have a large number of finds, we’re in it for the fun of our family … at the moment, since I don’t have GC.com open, I don’t even know what are number is.
So why do I log all the temp finds since I literally don’t even know our count nor do I have plans of have numbers that are high or competitive in nature (we’re an exceptionally non-competitive family for the most part) …… the answer is, I don’t really know, something in me tells me that I should log the caches I find, if there is an event and there are 39 caches and we find 12 of them, it seems I should represent the fact that I found 12 caches (maybe if I don’t someone will wrongly assume I found them ALL, oh no); plus I like to comments on the individual caches when I have something fun to say on them (for the benefit of the person that put in the effort of placing it).
I’ve found that the new google maps in GC.Com work pretty good/quick to create a query of caches along a specific route. In about 20 minutes I was able to create a Pocket Query of 47 caches that are near the main roads between here and central PA.
Basically I started at a cache page of a cache at the final destination in PA. I clicked on the google map on that map page. I created a new Bookmark. I then kept dragging the map sidewalks along the route, slowly backtracking to Wisconsin. As I saw “pins” for caches along the way, I click on the “Bookmark” symbol behind each cache name. When I was done, I went to my bookmarks and requested a Pocket Query for my bookmark list.
Maybe this is old news to some of you … but I never bothered creating a query out of a bookmark list before … until these new active google maps, it didn’t seem like a very handy thing to do.
Ahhhhh!
If don’t know why … you didn’t try!
Try click on the pin on the map … it opens up a new map screen showing pins for all the caches in the area, along with a list of caches along the right side that you can click on … cool … basically a graphical location and list of “nearby caches”.
For an example after I clicked on one in my area, go here: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gmnearest.aspx?lat=43.410267&lng=-87.861267&zm=10
You might have to zoom in/out to see the pins.
EDIT: Oh yes, and if you hoover over a pin it lights up the cache name in the list and vice-versa.
[This message has been edited by EnergySaver (edited 05-05-2006).]
Wow, I read the problems of others on the groundspeak website. If I had that model GPSr and could return it, I’d do so as fast as I could.
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Originally posted by GrouseTales:
The timing is bad with the upcoming campout, but if needed, we will post any important items on the event cache page.
I would recommend that ALL “important items” get posted in some way on the event cache page … even if it’s a link to some non-WGA webspace. Two Reasons:
(1) Keep non-WGA people attending in the loop.
(2) In theory you could post something important on the WGA today, but then have a further outage closer to the event date, at the only time when someone might be able to check it. (One should remember that sometimes people make full blown vacations around these events, and might not have computer access a few days before the event. That was the case with an event I hosted last year, luckly I was able to email information to two teams several days before the event.)
Nice news spot on Fox 6 last night!
The only thing that suprises me is that Vince doesn’t really let on more as to how much caching he’s doing. He’s been doing a fair amount of caching, including finding 3 or 4 of mine, plus using one of mine as his favorite place to drop TBs when he’s out with the geo-dog.
Maybe it’s professionalism or something, but he doesn’t seem to comment on his own personal experiences, considering his high level of interest.
I don’t think it’s the same … the whole reason for the download is to get those little roads … I THINK (but am not sure), that all the extra data is for is to allow me to automatically have my GPSr pick a route (staying on roads vs. straight line), when I select a waypoint on my GPSr. My GPSr doesn’t support this function .. I can pre-design routes on my map software and load them, but can’t create a route ad-hoc on the GPSr.
So I’m just trying to see if anyone knows for sure it it will mater to me if I uncheck that box … I don’t thinks it does in my case, but can’t tell from my experiences.
05/02/2006 at 4:15 pm in reply to: My brush with law enforcement .. a request to properly label #1761501Cat Story … I love it. But I guess if it was me, I’d have reported it to the police, rather the hurling it. If you didn’t do anything wrong, why not now do what’s right?
The clear panel on the ammo box … Very cool and I can see the advantage in “windowing” what’s in there for the world to see. But I guess before I’d go through the effort, I’d just buy the best quality clear container of a similar size, that I could find. But then again, I don’t have the tools to cut an ammo box side open with ease.
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