[Team Deejay]

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Originally posted by GrouseTales:
I would think that in order to fit into GC.com’s guideline, the event should be listed as being in the Geocacher’s name, since they would need to be the “geocacher” organizing the event.

I know this has been done several different ways in the past. It’s a learning process for everyone, including the admins . I think I’ve let some stuff slide in the past that probably should have been questioned .

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I think this answer is very reasonable.

Of course, this could get dicey if the manager of the local Gander Mountain creates an account called “Gander Mountain Manager”, goes out and finds a cache or two, and then tries to list his GPS promotion as an event cache. I can just see it now, the cache description starts out like “Stop in at 1 PM for Brats, beer and soda and discuss your caching adventures.”, then after approval, he adds “Garmin Etrex’s on sale for $69.95” or whatever. Fortunately, I don’t think any of our local businesses would do this, but with some of the national outlets, you never know what they will try. Thanks for your efforts in trying to get this to all make sense.

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[Team Deejay]

When we take something from a cache, which is a rare occasion, we always leave the same thing, which we ALWAYS have with us on any hunt…..A pair of AA batteries. So, if you don’t want to buy your own batteries, you can just trace back through all my finds and pick them up. Of course, since I only take something from about 2% of the caches we find, this could be a relatively inefficient way to procure battery power.

[Team Deejay]

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Originally posted by GrouseTales:
Nature center creates an account and hosts the event under their profile…. probably wouldn’t be approved.

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So what if the “Nature Center” (or Parks Department, to be on point) is listed in the editable text field as the owner, even though the actual owner profile is a legitimate geocacher? Is this still allowed? This would be when the cache description owner field reads “West Dogpatch Parks Department and Barber Shop”, but when someone clicks the “show profile”, they get the profile for Team Deejay (although some would say we are illegitimate geocachers, but that is another discussion…)

[Team Deejay]

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Originally posted by Cathunter:
The only time I have run into trouble is places where there are 10 overpasses criss-crossing in every direction (Milwaukee).

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The secret in cities is to use the POINTS filter, rather than the arc filter, and specify the exits. If I change the filter on my list to arc, I will also pick up “Oak Creek Tiny Park Tour”, which is within a mile of the interstate, but not within a mile of an exit.

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Originally posted by marc_54140:
Your sample is getting there.

I would assume if this works out, there would be a standard distance used by all.

And ‘back roads’ should not be ignore. A nice driving tour around the countryside could be useful.

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This is what I was trying to get at. Each person will have a different idea of what roads should be covered. The appeal of doing the interstates is that everyone (with a small number of exceptions) uses the interstate system to travel distance in a car. Now, if you are talking about from Appleton to Madison, or some other specific route where no interstate exits, there is obviously some value, so we should probably include 151 from Green Bay to Madison, 51 from Wausau to Hurley, 29 from Green Bay to Eau Claire, 53 from Eau Claire to Superior and maybe 2 from Hurley to Superior. That is, highway routes that someone would reasonably take when traveling through Wisconsin. Now, you could also do a second set of scenic drives through various places, but I would think those would need to be hand constructed, rather than generated with a filter, and would require that the creator actually have found the caches on the route. (I have only found 5 of the 16 on my particular list.) Just my thoughts.

[Team Deejay]

OK, here is a test list I threw together. Since I already had all these caches in my database, it only took about 20 minutes. Is this what you had in mind?

Caches along I-94 from the Hale interchange to the Illinois border

[Team Deejay]

An interesting concept. The problem I see is that each person has their own idea of what “along a route” means. For instance, when we go from from home to Indianapolis, I do a filter on all the caches within a certain distance of the exits along I-94 and I-65, excluding those exits in the Chicago area. Would anyone else want to use this filter/bookmark list? I kinda doubt it, but you never know. (BTW, if you do this filter, you will find several “Ammo boxes sitting in plain view by the roadside for multiple years without getting muggled” caches…very weird)

I am guessing the most useful would be caches within 1 mile of the interstate highway exits. (Anyone that intentionally travels the non-interstate highways to find more caches doesn’t need our help.) As you might guess, this is going to bring in a large number of park and ride caches, TB hotel caches, tourist trap/semi-commercial caches, etc., but if people want that, it would be simple enough to do it. Are you going to coordinate the project, Marc?

[Team Deejay]

Is there an actual Wisconsin Coulee Region Cachers organization? If so, do they do anything besides minting coins?

[Team Deejay]

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Originally posted by marc_54140:
Only 5 counties, Deejay?

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You know, its kind of funny. When I run a pocket query to get the 500 unfound caches closest to home, the farthest one is only 27 miles away. Between Racine, Kenosha, Milwakee, Waukesha, Lake Geneva, the Southern Kettle Moraine, Bong, and Lake County, Ill, there is an amazing number of caches around here. And people keep putting more up faster than we can find them all! We keep being delighted at what I find at the caches in this area, so its hard to find an excuse to travel just to get a county. I am guessing that our next counties (unless we take an in-state vacation) will be Jefferson, Rock and maybe Washington (if we can fight our way through all the caches in Waukesha county!)

[Team Deejay]

Hey, a mouse made of cheese. What a concept!

[Team Deejay]

Got down to Illinois on Sunday, so now our numbers are 05-04-00. (I forgot to count Wisconsin the last time I posted a new state.) And, ya know, there are a lot of caches between Racine, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Walworth counties!

[Team Deejay]

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Originally posted by jvechinski:
I think he starred in that movie “50 First Dates”.

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I believe the movie you are thinking of is “20 Dates”. “50 First Dates” is that Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore amnesia movie. I don’t have a copy of the still, but the picture I have of the 20 Dates guy doesn’t look all that much like the one in the picture. Didn’t see the movie, however.

[Team Deejay]

I agree, nice segment. Don’t know about that last bit with the guy in the still photo, however.

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Originally posted by pcfrog:
Back ground info:
I have a PQ set for Mondays for the area around my house. I do this so if I decided and can go caching during the week I have an updated list. I went caching this past Sunday, (02/05/06) and logged 3 caches in around 5-6 pm. I received my PQ Monday at 2am yet the caches I did on Sunday are not marked as found in the PQ.

So why is this?

Anyone know the deep secrets of the PQ server?

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The direct answer to your question is that PQs start running at 2AM CST in the order determined by when each was run last. So your weekly queries will run before everyones daily queries, but after the queries that have never run before. But I don’t think that is the issue.

If you have your PQ set up to retrieve caches that you haven’t found, and you load the PQ into GSAK (or any other management program), the caches that you have already found will NOT be in the pocket query, so they will NOT update in GSAK, and they will still show up as not found. This is because you told the PQ to give you information on caches that you haven’t found, and obviously the ones you just found are not in that set.

To remedy this, you have 3 choices:
1. Manually update GSAK with your finds. (right click the cache, select cache status, and set to found).
2. Change your pocket query to include caches you have already found. If you live in a cache dense area or have already found the 500 nearest caches, this won’t work so well, as you will not continue to expand your radius of available caches and eventually all you will get is the caches that you have already found.
3. Use the “Create a PQ of caches I have found” option on the PQ page and import this PQ into GSAK along with your regular pocket query.

I use option 1, but option 3 is the most elegant. Unfortunately it takes two steps. I just don’t find caches fast enough to need it. (Maybe I need a faster car….or faster boots….or faster teammate…)

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Edit – YES
Delete Own Post – YES
Delete entire thread – NO
Delete entire thread if it is only your own post – YES

While everyone’s point is valid here, we all sometimes puts things in a board post that are stated in a “less than optimal” fashion. This includes posts which were stated unclearly, posts that were intended as humorous, but really don’t come across in print, posts which appear to attack another member, etc. Given the limited editor available, it is sometimes difficult to visualize just how bad these posts will look until they are viewable on the website. A poster needs a “oops” period where they can go back and edit (selfcensor) their thoughts and (hopefully) prevent unintentional flame wars from occurring (or just avoid looking like an idiot). How about allowing edits/deletes for 1-2 hours after the post is sent, and then locking it afterwards? This would allow people to make corrections, self censor, add links/graphics/etc. and still preserve the integrity of the thread.

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