CacheMania

The folks over at Garmin have not been idle.  It was announced yesterday that you can now edit your logs on opencaching.com.   Now you can delete and edit your logs.  This is a much needed improvement.  I contacted Garmin last year and asked how I could delete my logs and was told that I couldn’t.   I’m pleased to see that users have more control over their data.  Cache owners can also delete logs.  [note:  this post was updated based on comments]

The ability to edit logs is not yet available to third parties using the opencaching API.

You need to navigate to a cache you have found.  From their you will see the edit option. In the image below you can see the options available for editing.  If you have previously uploaded your my finds file you can now go back and edit your previous listings.

It’s been a while now since Geocahing.com released online souvenirs.  Now that there are more of them you can start to see the utility a little more.  Groundspeak has picked the easy ones to include first.  US states and Canadian provinces now have souvenirs.   There are a few special caches that also have souvenirs.  Those were some of the first to be added.

I hope that Ontario’s Spring Fling gets a souvenir.  It is one of the biggest or perhaps the biggest event in Ontario.

You can see the souvenir’s I’ve accumulated since Groundspeak has been doling them out.  I’m up to twelve, my frequent geocaching partner Bakers Dozen is up to 18.   Of all the people I regularly cache with none have more than res2100, he has 50.  I was surprised to see that Portugal has a souvenir.

I wonder if someone will create a challenge cache were you need to get all the souvenirs offered by Groundspeak?

TeamVoyagr's Geocaching.com Souvenirs

The Night Cache Cover

I just finished reading Andy Duncan’s, The Night Cache and I enjoyed it, you might too.  As a novella the book is not very long and I was able to read it in one sitting.  The book gave me a few ideas that I’d like to incorporate into some future caches.

Follow this link to read my longer review of The Night Cache.

Do you notice anything different about the layout of the cache page?  It looks like the Difficulty and Terrain are now listed one above the other instead of side by side.  As part of that change the Favorites feature has moved down a little.

The favorites number has also experienced an interesting change.  You now see a ration of favorites to logs (premium members logs).  A couple of weeks ago a geocaching friend mentioned that there was a thread going on in the forums that was discussing the notion of a percentage of favorites to finds.  It would appear that Groundspeak was paying attention and has updated this feature.

And lets not forget the new maps.  They have finally received an update that makes them a little more useful.  Now you can see your find and your hides as well as limiting by cache type or type groupings.  Here’s a link to the new map.

Have you ever rolled into an out of the way trail-head parking lot and found another car there?  Did you wonder if they were also geocaching?  Just last weekend we walked back to our cars from a 1km hike on a frozen lake only to find a geocacher’s car parked between our vehicles.  Brendah from our group left him a note.  Here are three ways you identify a car that belongs to a geocacher:

1. There is geocaching logo in the window
2. There is a travel bug window cling, magnet or sticker on the car (vehicle)
3. This one is frequently overlooked, the license plate frame.

I have both a vehicle travel bug window cling and license plate frame.   I am partial to the reverse image vehicle travel bugs as those are placed on the inside window.  There is less chance of them going missing.

I’ve only ever had my vehicle discovered once when I wasn’t parked.  Someone was behind me in traffic and was able to discover it.