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Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« on: January 11, 2013, 07:15:58 pm »
Oh dear  :o

Premium member only caches are now visible to THE WORLD on the GEOCACHING MAP - I was scanning the map without logging in, and spotted every premium cache was shown. You could zoom right down into each, pin-pointing their location. When you click on them, however, Groundspeak ask you to become a PM member... They only keep the cache pages secret then..


WHAT  :o The only reason I made any of my caches PM only were so that muggles and land owners couldn't see where they were located - I think serval of us have done the same, after a certain night cache incident in the area  :D

I think premium member only caches are now useless - people can find them without a hint! Landowners can get their locations to contact Groundspeak (or worse)...What is this all about! They're technically no longer exclusive to us premium members, either. One of the reasons I pay for a premium membership is to access the huge amounts of PM caches - now I may as well not bother being a PM, as I rarely use the other PM features  :-\

What do you think about this!  ???
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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2013, 07:43:50 pm »
Must have been a glitch.
I've just looked. Whilst you can see the PMO caches when zoomed out (you always could) as you zoom in they disappear.
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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2013, 09:29:42 pm »
Do you use PQ's ???
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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2013, 09:50:46 pm »
Do you use PQ's ???

Don't know how to   :o I've used it ONCE to find a "Large" cache nearby.

If groundspeak should be updating anything, it should be PQ to make it more clear and user friendly - what's all that 500 cache thing and expirations  ??? - and I'm meant to be good with computers!  :D
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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2013, 10:05:58 pm »
Err, do you not download loads of caches round a centre point in one GPX download ???

I use them constantly but then again, I don't have a smart phone with constant Internet access on it :(
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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2013, 11:17:26 pm »
Couldn't cope without my PQ's.

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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2013, 09:17:44 am »
Err, do you not download loads of caches round a centre point in one GPX download ???

I use them constantly but then again, I don't have a smart phone with constant Internet access on it :(

I manually "add to GPS" for each cache be it 1 or 100  :)

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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2013, 09:57:56 am »
WOW, you need to be taught PQ's

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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2013, 10:34:40 am »
I manually "add to GPS" for each cache be it 1 or 100  :)

O my god Griff, I remember those days years ago, a right pain and there wasn't even the programs like GSAK around to help :o :o :o

WOW, you need to be taught PQ's

ASAP :D

There is a video on geocaching How to Create a PQ

Perhaps Griff you should watch this, it is only 8:26 long.
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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2013, 03:43:42 pm »
Dont know what we would do without PQ's, very suprised that you have never tried using it?!! Though would love to know more about gsac if there are any offers out there....

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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2013, 05:19:33 pm »
Though would love to know more about gsac if there are any offers out there....
GSAK
http://gsak.net/
What can't it do?
Not a lot really. Worth reading the forums.
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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2013, 06:14:10 pm »
O my god Griff, I remember those days years ago, a right pain and there wasn't even the programs like GSAK around to help :o :o :o

ASAP :D

There is a video on geocaching How to Create a PQ

Perhaps Griff you should watch this, it is only 8:26 long.

Thank you so much for taking your time to find a guide for me!  ;D

But... Have you got the link wrong! It says "Failed to Download file" when I click on it  :o ???
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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2013, 06:15:39 pm »
Works fine for me  ???

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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2013, 06:19:03 pm »
Works fine for me  ???

Were you on your iPad  ???
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Re: Uh oh... Premium member only caches now useless?
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2013, 06:22:02 pm »
There is a video on geocaching How to Create a PQ

This video doesn't appear to show that you can do a PQ of the caches you can see on the map, I consider this to be GC.com most useful feature.

 


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