Geocaching Australia

And to make things easier for some (portability, offline use, visually challenged on a mobile device), I've created a handy dandy printer-friendly version of the challenges with an extra column so you can keep track of your points.

http://bit.ly/geosportZ2016-challenges

Pop it on the to-do list. If I get enthusiastic (or bored), I'll try and come up with some kind of categorising system that should help a little.

I sense a feeling that a full text search of the cache name and description would help. ... We can't currently turn on full text searches in our DB (too old), but the new server will solve that as we'll be on a new DB version. This was raised once before and because I knew the new gear wasn't in pl...

The organisation of locationless caches has come up before. Do you have any suggestions as how they can be organised to make their usability any better? Other than being able to search within the body of the description (as not all cache names give a clear idea of what you'd be looking for), maybe ...

I love love love them \:D/ !! And this comes after about 12 months of thinking like you do - what's the point? As C@W said, they are the thing that keeps me caching when I don't have the opportunity, or availability of physical caches, to find others. To the point where I have a backlog of just unde...

For distance (not density), you can't go past the Burke and Wills series - http://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Burke_and_wills

I didn't have a successful outing with it yesterday (phone crashed each time I tried to grab a pokemon, ipad tethered to phone was way way out), but I did get Mr14 to have a go on his ipad mini while driving and he had better results. I couldn't buy into Ingress (mostly because it required mobile da...

I've just spent three weeks working at prepoll (read as: no caching!) and now find I'm the one who's successful (and not working on Election Day ). Thanks for having me on board.

I hadn't thought about archived caches and their points as it's not been an issue for me. But with an archived cache out of the picture wouldn't this help to mix up the power balance requiring new strategies?

Rainbow Spirit wrote:I just went out and bought a 160 page A4 book of 'Nu world Tough Paper' from Officeworks.

Have you experimented with passing it through the printer?

Thanks ziggiau, I am the current NSW Senator and am happy to continue in the role if the community wants (I had also held the role a few years ago) - but it is great that NSW gets a choice. So while I will volunteer to continue I will be happy whichever of us wins as I value the input you provide t...

Last year I was still a little green but this year I think I've hung around long enough to get the feel of the place. So I'm happy to put my hand up for NSW.

SIX maps have jumped straight in and amended their LGA boundaries, so the data you need is probably not far behind.

Visited the Bankstown Test line today ( SUPER easy finds) to qualify for my dragonZone trophy. Best part was that the test line was actually in use for the purpose its intended. Met a group of surveyors who were calibrating their equipment and spent some time spruiking geocaching and keeping them fr...

I'm more than happy with the way it is - keeping to the ancient homelands of the dragons rather than bowing to the follies of men. Maybe one day in the future a newbie will ask "why are the dragonZone boundaries listed as they are" and we will have to share with them the tales of days gone by, befor...