[GeoStL] Re: Reusing Event Cache pages

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I agree, Tim.  Events should have new GC numbers for each event.

Also, there's a few people that care about stats.  By re-using an
event page, it would show as multiple finds on the same cache page.

Andrew

On 1/15/09, Tim Taylor <tnlnsl57@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Personally I don't care for re-using the event cache pages, simply because
> it seems like each event is a different event. Last years Potluck is not the
> same as this years potluck. Some of the yearly events are put on by
> different people and have better or worse turnouts, being more or less
> successfull than the previous. If you lump them all into one event page,
> it's kind of a slap in the face of someone that went all out to make an
> event successfull. Is this going to be a recurring trend in caching
> worldwide or just in our neck of the woods? What about previous seasonal
> picnics, are they going to be lumped into one event? An inquiring mind would
> like to know!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Bensman" <junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:20 PM
> Subject: [GeoStL] Reusing Event Cache pages
>
>
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> Here is an exchange between Glenn and I.  As he suggests I am posting it
> here for comment.
>
> Event cache pages. . . sure, why not. I never gave it any thought.
> Most folks can find an event page either way but I don't care. Why not bring
> the subject up on the list, pitch
> the why's and why nots and see what most folks think. I really don't care
> either way and can make people do
> whatever everyone thinks is best.
>
> Glenn
> CC: RotC
>
> On Jan 12, 2009, at 10:06 PM, Jim Bensman wrote:
>
> > I would suggest if someone wants to unarchivie an event cache to
> > reuse the
> > cache page, you tell them no and suggest they cut and paste the text
> > and
> > create a new one.  If it is unarchivied, it does not show up on PQs of
> > people who attended the event the first time since they already
> > found it.  I
> > spent a couple of hours trying to figure out why the winter pot luck
> > was not
> > showing up in my PQs before I figured out the problem was you
> > unarchivied
> > it!  The number of will attend logs also would not accurately
> > reflect the
> > event since they include the previous event.  So does not it make
> > sense to
> > tell them to make a new cache page?
>
> My thought is when this was done for the winter pot luck no one thought
> about the complications this would cause.  But now knowing reusing an event
> cache instead of creating a new one causes problems, from now on let's not
> reuse event pages.
>
> Here are a couple of more complications it could cause.  Someone could know
> about the event from SLAGA email blasts, assume it is on their GPS, and
> discover it is not there when they start driving there and want to use the
> event cache to navigate to the event.  Some people are into number issues
> and when you reuse an event cache and log it twice, while it counts in total
> caches, it does not count as a separate cache which some number analysis
> track.  And those of us with garmin field notes enabled GPSs, in order to
> use the field note, it has to be in the PQ.
>
> I have found a workaround, go to the cache page, use the save as gpx and
> save the file with my PQs.  Then when it loads in GSAK change the setting
> from found to not found (you have to change it from found to unfound each
> time you send the caches to your GPS).
>
>
>
> Jim Bensman
> "Nature Bats Last"
>
>
>
>
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