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hardware · Geocacher Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 157

DID I MISS SOMETHING OR IS THE POST I WAS REPLYING TO NO LONGER PRESENT?

i know this has been discussed in the past, and is off topic here, so i won't ask for an explanation about the pros and cons of alternate sites.

but if there is anyone with expertise about the pros and cons of various sites and any rules for or against multi-listing caches, could you perhaps put the information into the form of an article for the front page? (it needs some new content!) i don't have a lot of hides, and don't have a lot in the planning right now -- (save for 1 that i will get to sooner or later, rickrich) but i would be willing to multi-list my existing caches.

are there many navicache users out there who do not use geocaching?

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

rickrich · Geocacher Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 673

I generally write up my caches on the gc.com site and hit submit. Immediately after that I bring up the navicache submit cache page in another browser window and cut and paste the cache info from one to the other. It only takes a couple extra minutes to do this, and if I have photos to upload they are readily available. I submit to gc.com before nc.com only because gc.com takes longer to approve. So I give them a 2 minute head start.

Without exception, nc.com has approved my caches well before gc.com has. If the caches are submitted during the day, they are approved within an hour or two. I've had caches with no issues take 3 days with gc.com, and I don't like the fact that our caches are almost always approved en-masse around 12AM, which gives unfair FTF advantage to late night birds like myself. I prefer the caches to be approved more-or-less as they come in during the day, as nc.com tends to do. But I digress.

Anyway, I dual list now as an example in the hope that someday a critical mass of caches are dual listed with no restrictions on the use of the data. This will allow me to do things with the cache information that gc.com currently prevents me from doing, at least in public.

As an example: with an unrestricted database I could provide travelers with a database of caches within a few miles of their route. Only the most persistent users of gc.com PQs and 3rd party tools can do that today, and they are prevented from sharing such information. There is no hope that Jod will ever provide that service with an easy to use web interface. But the army of unpaid professional and hobby programmers, such as we have an abundance of in the geocaching community, can easily provide these types of services and many more.

Even though it seems futile to dual list at this time, I urge all cache owners to do it anyway. With your cooperation, someday we will have a large and unfettered database.

-Rick

hardware · Geocacher Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 157

the reply i wrote was originally to a post about another web site, gpsgames.org. i only looked at the site for a few seconds. what do we know about it?

i'm beginning to think i have ADD, or something of that nature, so sitting down to cross post my caches may take me a while, but i will try to start on it, particularly since i failed to win the lottery last week.

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

sui generis · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:44 am Post subject:

OK, I finally double posted my caches to Navicache.com. Now if only everyone else would do it as well.... It would really increase the number of caches on Navicache if we could talk "The King" into doing it!
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King Boreas · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:56 pm Post subject:

King Boreas · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:35 am Post subject:

OK, so I looked at the 50 newest and a bunch of mine are on there. I didn't list them, but I don't mind if they're listed, except:

Is someone else getting credit for them?

How do you log one? The link goes to the geocaching.com page.

rickrich · Geocacher Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 673

King Boreas · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:50 am Post subject:

http://www.brillig.com/geocaching/minnesota.shtml

There's a couple more. Some got bumped off. I was looking at 10/12/04 list.

rickrich · Geocacher Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 673

Buxley's list is the union of new gc.com and nc.com submissions. Well, it used to be. Until Jod decided his servers could handle the user load that Buxley's list and maps had been handling for years, and cut Buxley off.

King Boreas · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:03 am Post subject:

Marsha and Silent Bob · Past MnGCA President Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 6261

sui generis · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:03 am Post subject:

Would those be Jod-hovas witnesses?
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