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rogheff · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject: Navicaches

I posted a couple of new Navicaches up on the iron range. More to come.

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

joboo · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject:

i was wondering that same thing.

rogheff · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject:

No, because I've decided to put my best caches on other sites.

joboo · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject:

rogheff · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject:

A couple of reasons.

A - Many of my best geocaches have been stolen by a local geocacher (not in Minnesota). The really good, really well-camoed, hard to find, impossible to muggle geocaches.

B - Flexibility. I am severely limited in the creativity of caches I can place on GC.com. I have no such limits on other sites.
I can list Virtual, Task, Moving, Unknown, Temperary and Locationless caches now.

C - GC.com has saturated many parks to the point where no new caches are allowed. I don't have that problem anymore. 528' no longer means anything. If I find an incredibly interesting location, I can place a cache there without hesitation. There's a great spot with a scenic view at the site of a geocache, but the geocache is a poorly maintained mess? I can't place a GC.com cache there, but I can certainly place a virtual at that spot (or a physical cache if I want to draw attention to the junky one).

joboo · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject:

ok, i totally see your point!!!!

part A: really freaking blows!!!!! sorry to hear that someone would do that.

Thank you for your time!!

Peace,
Joboo

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

Well, it's unfortunate that the majority of geocachers won't get to see your "best" caches.
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rogheff · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:05 pm Post subject:

It's only unfortunate for them. Doesn't matter to me if only a handful find them. Besides, I wouldn't assume that only a handful will find them.

spinowner · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:02 am Post subject:

Navicache finds are not going to be included in geocaching stats. For most people that's not of life-or-death importance, but some disregard Navicache for that reason. As for me, I just never think to check it. Maybe I should.
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joboo · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:43 am Post subject:

it's unfortunate that one edited, wrecks if for the others. then again, every sport has that edited, so to speak.
i also don't ever check, and didn't even know about this navicache website until this thread.
time will tell if i use it.

Peace,
Joboo

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bflentje · Geocacher Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 3655

I've heard of it, tried it, but don't use it. For geocaching, geocaching.com is the format that won the beta war. I suppose I shouldn't have discounted it so fast..

Arcticabn · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:56 am Post subject:

For me I knew it was there but have discounted it for several reasons.

1. Only 164 caches listed for the entire state of Minnesota.
2. Only 74 caches listed for the entire metro area.
3. Only 60 caches listed within 50 miles of my house.
2. Of the first 25 listed, I know for a fact that 18 have been disabled on gc.com which doesn't necessarilly mean that they are not there but then again doesn't mean that the are. Particularly when they are listed as missing on gc.com
3. Based upon the name I'd estimate that 75% are listed on both sites.

It appears to me that the hiders who list on navicache do not maintain their listings as well as they do on gc.com.
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Pear Head · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:02 pm Post subject:

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

They respect those guidelines, they just aren't in tune with geocaching.com and expect more from the cache hiders than we are seeing here.

If you know there is another cache less than 528' away, I don't suggest hiding another on navicache just because you can. *shrug*.
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Sad state of affairs.