Geocaching Australia

We updated the locality calculator about a year or so ago to use the locations as determined by Google Maps.

Sometimes, if the older data is still in the database, you can click on the Update Locality in the navigation on the right hand side and it will get corrected. If it remains the same, then sorry, Google Maps says it's so and that what we end up using.

I so enjoy raising such petty issues to volunteer admins so...........

There is a spelling mistake when you hover over the "Silenced" emoticon.



Man I love being a prick

Minor issues like this are easily solved. Thanks for the headsup.

Some of us are seeing our Groundspeak caches flagged as archived on GCA when they're not on GC. Setting them to available seems to fix it, but only for a day.
Examples are GC3MVHJ, GC3TA8D, GC3V62G, GC3RTBP. Those are mine and Purplepeopleater's. Rinsemesock's GC3VTP1 looks affected too.

Looks like our feeds need a bit more re-jigging!

I was trying to make my GSAK find database show the positions of moving caches in the place I actually found them but on some of my FTF ones I cannot work out where the cache was actually published so think there may be a bug/problem in process of the publication of moving caches. As the bingo game relies on a move of > 1km instead of just a move this may cause a problem if the first movers do not get any distance recorded against the move.

From looking at the caches that I could find the original position of and comparing them to the ones I cannot it seems that if the 'Publish' log doesn't have a coordinate attached to the log the published position of the cache is no longer visible and the first move is where the cache seems to start from. The xml downloads seem to confirm this when I looked at them.

OK Cache:- GA3704 was placed at S31° 52.375' E115° 48.134' and the first move was to S31° 51.525' E115° 55.635' and it shows a move distance of 11.92km

One problem Cache:- GA2088 was placed somewhere in Crawley/Nedlands from memory and the first move was to S31° 57.097' E115° 54.873'. It shows no distance but should show quite a few km. The GE xml file shows the cache starting from where I placed it and not where I picked it up from in Crawley/Nedlands.

Can you see if this is a bug or not and whether the original position can be recovered on those caches that seemed to have lost them.

Publish logs include cords. Have done for a year or do. Not able to regurgitste lost cords.

Is there a way I can do a Query that will show my GCA caches that are currently in "future publish" mode? Mostly I want to see them on a map. ?

is there a problem with the site? the map is not showing any caches and rss feeds aren't working

mtrax wrote:is there a problem with the site? the map is not showing any caches and rss feeds aren't working

There was a bit of a hang, try now

blossom* wrote:Is there a way I can do a Query that will show my GCA caches that are currently in "future publish" mode? Mostly I want to see them on a map. ?

Is this possible?

blossom* wrote:

blossom* wrote:Is there a way I can do a Query that will show my GCA caches that are currently in "future publish" mode? Mostly I want to see them on a map. ?

Is this possible?

Not presently

Sounds like someone wants to preempt the bingo race

Cheesy pigs wrote:Sounds like someone wants to preempt the bingo race

No, just want to see a little map with where I put my 7 without other caches on it.

Only a small issue Google map link doesn't work when there is a brackets in the cache name
Eg http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gcad