UK 'states'

[gazooks]

GC.com have introduced UK 'states' or regions now.

You can amend your caches (and profile) to appear in the apporpriate region.

Its a bit on the flaky side though as searches are not working for the new regions properly yet.

https://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/in...owtopic=199060

[Brenin Tegeingl]

I'm guessing that a raft of coding updates is being applied. So a little bit of patience is needed [again ]

Deci

[Lord Darcy]

Yes, still very poorly at the moment

Not updating mine, would rather archive them first. A feature without any value to me at all.

[keehotee]

Not updating mine, would rather archive them first. A feature without any value to me at all.

Got to agree....

Why, in a country the size of ours (small, that is) would anybody need or want to search by county?

[uktim]

Got to agree....

Why, in a country the size of ours (small, that is) would anybody need or want to search by county?

If folks can't identify local caches without this feature it beats me how they ever manage to find the "on" button on their GPS

[fraggle69]

fair comments but if we can PQ all the regions, it'd be piece of cake to keep up to date gsak DB.

[gazooks]

If folks can't identify local caches without this feature it beats me how they ever manage to find the "on" button on their GPS

Maybe when the change was requested it may have been of use. There weren't as many caches a few years ago and a entire regions caches would have fitted in a PQ

[Mrs Blorenge]

Got to agree....

Why, in a country the size of ours (small, that is) would anybody need or want to search by county?

Well, I don't know... something to stop people in south Wales getting caches on the coast of Somerset and Devon and vice versa etc etc apparently.
From my point of view, I don't understand why this minor change is such a big problem to some folks. It took me about 30 minutes last night to update all our 30+ caches and drop them into their appropriate "states". Job done. It's an extra feature that I'll probably never use myself but, if it's a help to some other cachers who will use it, then I'm happy to do that small service for them.

Lucilla

[Maple Leaf]

Well, I don't know... something to stop people in south Wales getting caches on the coast of Somerset and Devon and vice versa etc etc apparently.
From my point of view, I don't understand why this minor change is such a big problem to some folks. It took me about 30 minutes last night to update all our 30+ caches and drop them into their appropriate "states". Job done. It's an extra feature that I'll probably never use myself but, if it's a help to some other cachers who will use it, then I'm happy to do that small service for them.

Lucilla

Snap ... I used to (when there weren't so many caches) pick up Cardiff caches as my closest to home!

I have just updated my cache pages. It is a shame that they couldn't have been done automatically by co ord - and then amended by the cache owner if they didn't agree. As until each cache page is updated, I can't see it being that useful as a lot of caches will be missed with regional searches.

Well, I don't know... something to stop people in south Wales getting caches on the coast of Somerset and Devon and vice versa etc etc apparently.
From my point of view, I don't understand why this minor change is such a big problem to some folks. It took me about 30 minutes last night to update all our 30+ caches and drop them into their appropriate "states". Job done. It's an extra feature that I'll probably never use myself but, if it's a help to some other cachers who will use it, then I'm happy to do that small service for them.

Lucilla

Would you like the nearest parking co ords compulsory then as well?

Bus stops, little glitter trail to the cache perhaps, cache owner sat there with a tray with tea and biscuits just in case it takes more than five minutes to find the cache perhaps?