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ZeppelinDT

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  1. I think you can from the app, but not from the website. I'm not entirely sure though, as I've never tried it either. I just leave the drafts blank mostly for efficiency (and I like to save them for later so I can easily keep track of how many I've done).
  2. Awesome. Thanks for the instant response!
  3. I took 3.0 out for a spin today, and my general procedure for logging in the field is to mark a find as "Found", Leave the message field blank, save the log as a draft, then "send later" when I'm done caching for the day (adding the text of my logs by editing my pending Drafts from my laptop through geocaching.com). After caching this afternoon I had 8 pending logs, and I selected "Submit All Pending Logs", but nothing happened (except the cache titles on my list displayed as red instead of black). After playing around with it for a bit, I realized that if I went back and added some text to the "message" field, then tried submitting all pending logs again, it would send the ones with text, but would not send the ones that still had a blank message field. (However, sending drafts one at a time with a blank message field still works). Is there something I'm doing wrong here, or is there no way to bulk send drafts that have a blank "Message" field?
  4. Another vote for defaulting to current coordinates.
  5. FYI - Even though the default live search doesn't generally show Archived caches except for the random one-off Event cache archived by HQ, it could be useful in other contexts. As one example, I have a running list of caches that have been archived but that I think may still be in place, so sometimes if I'm planning to spend the day caching in a big park, I'll save an offline list or a bookmark list of all my unfound caches in that park, and then I'll manually add in any "archived caches that may still be in place" which are in that same park, and by my adding them to the offline/bookmark list, they'll now show up on the map (even though they wouldn't show up on a live search).
  6. Could be. Sure seems like an odd option though. I can't imagine why anybody would ever want their search to include archived events. I actually just came across this thread from a few months back, which seems to have been the origin of this option, and I looked up the GC code of the event in question, and sure enough, that one was also archived by Geocaching HQ rather than by a local admin or event owner. Could just be a coincidence of course, but it definitely makes me wonder if the an archiving from HQ is somehow processed differently.
  7. Huh. That's weird. I wonder why that is. Although, now that you mention it, there was a recent event that was archived near me but it still shows up on the OFFICIAL app, which is definitely not supposed to happen. So I wonder if that's an issue generated on Groundspeak's end with the way they archive certain caches. (I noticed that the one archived event near me that kept showing up was archived by HQ, rather than by a local Admin or the Event creator... I wonder if that's somehow relevant).
  8. So I'm still fairly new to this app but I've been playing around with it over the last few days and I noticed that one of the filter options in the live search is "Exclude Archived". This has me a bit confused though, as I can't quite figure out its purpose - aren't archived caches always excluded from live searching? I guess it doesn't hurt having it there, but I'm just wondering if this option serves some function that I'm just overlooking (e.g., is there a way to actually include archived caches in live search?)
  9. I'm not sure how practical that would be, primarily because in most cases with letterbox hybrids you don't actually end up with corrected coordinates. With mystery and multi caches, the final answer is usually just a set of coordinates that you plug in, but with letterboxes you're usually just following instructions, so unless you get to the final, take your own coordinate reading with your device at GZ, and then add in those coords, you're not likely to actually get corrected coordinates.
  10. What that essentially means is that you have to supply coordinates that somehow relate to finding the cache (but it does not necessarily mean that you have to provide the coordinates to the final physical container). In other words, some sort of GPS navigation must be used. So, for example, you can't just place the pin randomly and then say something like "Go to X Park and find the large oak tree, then starting from that oak tree go 100 feet north, then turn left, etc....". Instead, you'd have to actually add the coordinates to that tree and require using the GPS to navigate to that tree and go from there. One of the core rules of caching is that every cache has to include some sort of GPS navigation at some point in the process.
  11. Hmm... maybe there are different norms in different parts of the world? I know for sure that when you're hiding a letterbox you're not required to place it at the given coordinates. I've only found about 30 letterboxes myself, but I would say about 2/3 of those are structured like "traditional" caches, where the physical hide is at the given coordinates, and about 1/3 are more like pure letterboxes, where you have to follow instructions. A couple of examples of the latter: https://coord.info/GC5ZCHQ https://coord.info/GC165Z7 https://coord.info/GC2PYXV https://coord.info/GC5P6BY https://coord.info/GC1XG14
  12. Letterboxes are not necessarily at the given location. A "true" letterbox usually requires following some set of instructions to find the final cache location. A letterbox hybrid can be set up either like a traditional geocache (where its hidden at the given location) or it can be set up like a traditional letterbox (where its NOT hidden at the given location). You can't really tell which way any given letterbox is hidden without reading the description.
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