Geocaching Australia

Many thanks for your reply. I can now understand the reasoning behind your decisions which seem all fair and square. I guess no matter what happens there will always be some better positioned than others...as you say. I certainly appreciate the enormous work involved in setting up the game and belie...

Hi Peter, Rather glad you haven't replied to my earlier tirade...as I wouldn't either. I would like to publicly apologise profusely for my previous post as it was made in an extreme heat of the moment. I could have edited the previous post but feel that would have been a cowards way...not in my dna....

Hi Peter, Seems extremely unfair to me that the finder can gain points for caches placed by the cache owner prior to joining dz, yet the cache owner gets no reward what so ever with regards to karma points. So for all those who have supported GCA over the years by placing numerous caches get left ou...

What do the dz logos mean that appear on my cache hides list?
Why bother having them there if those hides don't contribute to dz points as they are pre joining dz.?

Hi Richary, My previous comments didn't take into account of being offline with phone. I haven't cached for quite awhile and is the first time I've used the phone apps but have been very impressed with not only ease of use but accuracy. Also logging caches through the apps has been miles faster than...

Hi Peter, Can see exactly where you're at. I haven't used the smart phone before this but I guess my only concern up to now was the phones accuracy so currently monitoring and comparing to gps. So far so good...really impressed......but no doubt under canopy etc could be different. I'm fairly new to...

With prevalent use of smart phones in latter years, most cachers would now be using cachesense for GC caches and GA Cacher for GA caches. Both log cache finds directly to the respective sites, negating any need for GSAK. Why would you bother? With the above apps, loading gpx files seem to be a thing...

If placing caches with a smartphone (or iPhone :D ), only hide large or regular caches, then everyone will be happy. Even with a large or regular container, without a proper hint a cache can still be impossible to find if the phone co-ords are out...as I found out the other day. It boils down to th...

If placing caches with a Smartphone then cachers need to be aware of their limitations. A good article comparing phones with that of a GPSr can be seen at... http://geodatapolicy.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/accuracy-of-iphone-locations-a-comparison-of-assisted-gps-wifi-and-cellular-positioning/ The 8-1...

Many thanks Yurt..I hadn't seen the previous discussion. I guess a lot of frustration would be averted if we all...AND I INCLUDE myself in that....made a point of re-hiding asap....and I guess the point is...if you can't rehide within 2 days...then log it and leave it where it was....at least then i...

These moveable frogs are starting to get bloody annoying as cachers are taking way to long to re-hide them...the result is that they still show up as hidden in the previous spot. Surely as soon as they are found they could vanish...so to speak....until rehidden again. When caching in a particular ar...

The Montana 600...which is identical to 650 minus the camera can be imported from the US and landed on your doorstep
for around $500(price I paid anyhow)....which then allows for some decent maps like Oztopo 3.

Check out this new baby....Garmin Montana 650T
4 inch screen, 4000 wpts, dual battery system, street navigation turn by turn etc.
http://sites.garmin.com/montana/
Cheers

Sorry guys...didn't see or read the previous issues etc. Obviously I was hoping it was a glitch as got so use to the old format...but if their are valid reasons which make it far easier at your end...then definitely fine by me.....certainly don't want to make things harder than they are. I guess som...

Just wondering if the current ridiculous format is a glitch or intended.