[GeoStL] Reusing Event Cache pages
- From: "Jim Bensman" <junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:20:06 -0600
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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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