[GeoStL] Re: Finding but, not logging caches
- From: John & Lois Roberts <goshhawk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 10:29:08 -0600
on 1/8/03 2:36 AM, Mike Griffin at griff@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
That truly is a bonus. I just wish that I could get the waypoints to sort in
alphabetical order too. It would make it nice when your just driving along
and you do a get nearest waypoint on your GPS. Now, I have to wade through
screen after screen to find the correct mileage from my search. On the Palm
you don't have many listed on one screen and if you customize your reports
with several hundred miles from your location, then that's a lot of
scrolling and looking at every page until you find that waypoint.
Other than that, I love it too. It is well worth 30.00 a year!
Mike
The Brawny Bear
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From: Chris Schaeffer <mailto:krzcooter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:07 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Finding but, not logging caches
I don't know what I would do without Geocaching.com. I gladly pay the meager
yearly fee to get the additional perks. Before I joined the premium
membership, I didn't think much about it, but after I became a premium
member about 4 months ago, I don't know what I would do without it. I love
it that I can put the cache pages on my palm, and that they will email me
customized cache searches numerous times a week to add to my palm. That is
just awesome. I don't think that there are any premium member only caches
around here, but that is ok. The palm pilot thing is worth it.
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 21:52, GC-RGS wrote:
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Eric,
I think that's pretty normal. When I look through the logs on my caches,
there's always some entries that weren't posted on GC.com. Most seem to be
legitimate finds, not accidental, so they are trying to find them with a GPS
or compass. They might just be concerned about having to signup on GC.com
and getting SPAM or whatever. It gives them a chance to take the hike and
enjoy the hunt without any feedback about how or why they should have done
something. Keeping a low profile might be a good idea.
Rich
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From: "Eric & Dayna East" <lichanura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:37 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Finding but, not logging caches
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> I visited one of my caches today and found that there have been 5 finds
> recorded in the log but, only 3 of them have been logged @
> geocaching.com
> Is this something that is encountered often? I'm a competitive type of
> guy so, I don't get why someone would go to the effort of finding a
> cache & then not log it. Unless they just aren't concerned with keeping
> track.
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> God bless!
>
> Eric
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Eric,
I think that's pretty normal. When I look through the logs on my caches,
there's always some entries that weren't posted on GC.com. Most seem to be
legitimate finds, not accidental, so they are trying to find them with a GPS
or compass. They might just be concerned about having to signup on GC.com
and getting SPAM or whatever. It gives them a chance to take the hike and
enjoy the hunt without any feedback about how or why they should have done
something. Keeping a low profile might be a good idea.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric & Dayna East" <lichanura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:37 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Finding but, not logging caches
> -
> I visited one of my caches today and found that there have been 5 finds
> recorded in the log but, only 3 of them have been logged @
> geocaching.com
> Is this something that is encountered often? I'm a competitive type of
> guy so, I don't get why someone would go to the effort of finding a
> cache & then not log it. Unless they just aren't concerned with keeping
> track.
>
> God bless!
>
> Eric
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I find it a little easier to locate the cache that I want on my Palm by
making my custom cache requests very small. They allow you to have 5
different custom searches at a time and you can change them frequently. I
limit the search to the closest 20 and do one for each of 5 different areas.
Right now I have one for St Charles, Eureka, Kirkwood and Alton. So I only
have to look through the pages for the area that I am in. When I travel,
which isn't very often, I can do the same for custom searches in that area
or areas. This, to me, is a lot easier than when I was requesting searches
for 150 nearest caches. It also makes it easier to go to the hints
appendix. The only drawback is that you have to load multiple waypoint
searches into the GPSr. Hope this might help.
John
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