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- 08 September 20 10:42 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: Change to Geocaching Australia find rewards
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2879
Change to Geocaching Australia find rewards
As of today, we will be changing the rewards for logging finds on geocaches listed at Geocaching Australia. 100 finds will receive a 100 finds pathtag the first time that you reach 100 finds. 500 finds will receive a 500 finds pathtag the first time that you reach 500 finds. 1000 finds will receive ...
- 29 November 19 7:41 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: GGZ file and retiremenent of old GPX schemas
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5303
GGZ file and retiremenent of old GPX schemas
We will shortly be supporting and providing a GGZ file format download for any of your MyQuery that you own. GGZ files are used by certain Garmin GPS devices to maximise the number of geocaches that you can hold and usefully display. We hope that the new GGZ file generator will enable you to make be...
- 12 August 19 2:26 pm
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: What's new on Geocaching Australia
- Replies: 759
- Views: 786625
360 Degrees
Geocaching Australia is pleased so advise that we have a new dragonZone trophy to keep up your spirits and continue your engagement and enjoyment. 360 Degrees is the name of the trophy and it's worth 3600 Points Find a valid dragonZone geocache (excluding moveables) at every degree bearing from 0 to...
- 09 August 19 10:17 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: Terrain? Difficulty? What's the difference?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 33251
Terrain? Difficulty? What's the difference?
Terrain? Difficulty? What's the difference? Take our knowledge quiz and see if you can score top points. https://geocaching.com.au/quiz/qz2 There are different rules and guidelines between different listing sites. You are taking a quiz at Geocaching Australia so the Geocaching Australia listing site...
- 08 August 19 9:32 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: Have you ICEM?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 75875
Re: Have you ICEM?
Time for another update on our ICEM series of caches. We have now increased our total number of caches in the series to 108, up from 102 at the last update. With a total of 186 locations, we still have a few to go. Just a reminder, when you do publish an ICEM cache, please remember to add ‘icem’ as ...
- 09 July 19 10:45 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: What's new on Geocaching Australia
- Replies: 759
- Views: 786625
Old API
The vestiges of the old API have been removed. There is still one remaining which is the GSAK call to get your list of queries. This will remain until the macro is updated to use the new API and the apikey. This significantly cleans the code base and reduces the number of branches in common logic re...
- 03 July 19 2:36 pm
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: What's new on Geocaching Australia
- Replies: 759
- Views: 786625
Heatmap of Geocacher Finds
New to Geocaching Australia - Geocacher Heatmap of Finds A new map has been created to view a heatmap of all of a geocachers finds. A heat map (or heatmap) is a graphical representation of data where the individual values contained in a matrix are represented as colors. Hotter, more densely found ar...
- 24 June 19 11:03 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: What's new on Geocaching Australia
- Replies: 759
- Views: 786625
Use your MyQuery to map your DNFs
A facebook request was made to be able to create a list of geocaches which the user has logged a DNF so they can plot them on a map and "retry". In the MyQuery form there is now a selection for "I have logged a DNF", "I have not logged a DNF" or leave the radio button unchecked to ignore any DNF fla...
- 20 June 19 3:11 pm
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: What's new on Geocaching Australia
- Replies: 759
- Views: 786625
Centroid Over Time
Centroid Over Time - http://forum.geocaching.com.au/viewtopic.php?p=217365#p217365 Based on this request, a new maps section has been created on your cacher page that will lead to this (and in the future more) map based statistics based on a geocachers find and other log and geocache information. I...
- 19 June 19 11:38 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: What's new on Geocaching Australia
- Replies: 759
- Views: 786625
Warning Zone Checker
The "Find a Geocache Zone" page has "Warning Zone Checker" where you put in GPS co-ordinates and click 'Check'. Awesome! Simple request: can you add this "Warning Zone Checker" onto the page used to create new cache, please? A new standalone zone check page has been created and linked from the zone...
- 31 May 19 3:24 pm
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: Oh my! What has happened in NZ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5358
Oh my! What has happened in NZ?
Geocaching Australia is pleased to announce that we have published over 5,000 TrigPoints in New Zealand. A TrigPoint (also known as a Trigonometric Station) typically consists of a black disc on top of four metal legs or concrete pillar, resembling a navigation beacon. It is also accompanied by a me...
- 30 May 19 9:35 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: What's new on Geocaching Australia
- Replies: 759
- Views: 786625
Allow MyQuery to exclude tags
The request: Add ability for "NOT=Tag" in My Query function so as to ignore things like cache race entrants. The result: You may now select the Excludes Geocache With Tags on your MyQuery to exclude all geocaches that have one or more of the supplied tags. Note that using wildcard searches is slow a...
- 29 May 19 9:05 am
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: What's new on Geocaching Australia
- Replies: 759
- Views: 786625
Archived Geocaches Map by Lat and Lon
The request: Create map of archived caches by lat and lon search. The result: By entering the lat and lon of a location, you can now see archived geocaches on a map. 1,000 geocaches will be returned to the map and will not increase even though you may pan the map. Copy and paste the URL / Internet A...
- 28 May 19 12:48 pm
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: What's new on Geocaching Australia
- Replies: 759
- Views: 786625
MyQuery Zone now allows for archived geocaches
A long standing request: For My Queries when you use a ZONE ID to restrict the caches archived caches are excluded due to the function that gets caches from the zone. Include archived caches if they are wanted. The MyQuery "Is Available", "Is Unavailable" or "Is Archived" checkbox will now exclude t...
- 22 May 19 4:36 pm
- Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
- Topic: What's happening in NZ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5160
What's happening in NZ?
Do you go geocaching in New Zealand. Did you ever get there and look for Geocaching Australia geocaches only to be disappointed that there were so very few around? Would you like to be finding a few more as a visitor or a local? Then something exciting is coming your way soon.