Log in and out geocoins. Why?

[Watford Wobble]

I have seen geocoin owners log in then out a geocoin they own. I have the UK event geocoin and it's activated but am not sure why owners log in and out geocoins.

Could someone enlighten me please?


Watford Wobble

[Tiger-Eyes]

I used to log a personal coin into every cache that I had visited so that I could see on the coin page where I had been, how many miles I had clocked up and I also pasted all the logs I wrote onto the page so all my logs were in 1 place. The coin represented me and if other cachers met me they could log the coin as discovered. I have stopped doing this now though as I have change my caching name (I used to be "The Nutters" and the coin was a nut). Also I often find several caches in 1 day and it takes ages to log the coin in and out of everyone.

[L8HNB]

I think "Messe" still does this, his mileage is clocking up nicely.....

[Watford Wobble]

Thanks Tiger-Eyes, that makes sense.

Just realised that I should have posted this question under 'Geocoins' section. Think I got away with it though, haven't had a *******ing yet

[Bill D (wwh)]

Thanks Tiger-Eyes, that makes sense.

Just realised that I should have posted this question under 'Geocoins' section. Think I got away with it though, haven't had a *******ing yet

Well, yep, it should have been in Geocoins really, but we're pretty flexible here...

[Bear and Ragged]

GSAK, and other sites, record your mileage -but tend to work on cache to cache to cache basis.
If you log a coin or TB in and out, and log it at home, or a cache close to home, when you return, you get a better idea of the mileage you have covered whilst caching. (However it will be 'as the crow flies' and not by the road!)

[Edgemaster]

I do this with my personal TB. After being given it as a gift, I restrospectively logged it into all my previous finds (it took a lot of effort!).
Now I log it through caches I visit, yes it still takes effort, but I intend to write a script to automate it a little in the future.
I also allow cachers I meet to log it, as happens with many personal TBs, although the discovered logs do get a bit hidden by my personal activity!

[Zpyder]

I recently bought a landsharkz gecko geocoin with the intention of logging it in and out of caches I find, but I found I couldn't retrospectively log it into my old finds? I don't want to create a new log on the caches pages to say I've logged it in and out, as I don't think its fair to add a log to a cache I found a few months ago if I haven't revisited the site?

Was I being daft and is there a "proper" way to retrospectively log it in and out?

Thanks!

[Bill D (wwh)]

I recently bought a landsharkz gecko geocoin with the intention of logging it in and out of caches I find, but I found I couldn't retrospectively log it into my old finds? I don't want to create a new log on the caches pages to say I've logged it in and out, as I don't think its fair to add a log to a cache I found a few months ago if I haven't revisited the site?

Was I being daft and is there a "proper" way to retrospectively log it in and out?

Thanks!

I could be wrong, but as far as I know you can't do that without posting a new log. The new log should of course be a note not a found it log. You can date the new log to match your find, so it'll appear next to your original found it log. I don't think many, if any, cache owners would have any problem with that.

[Happy Humphrey]

You can log it in and out of the cache using a note, as Bill said, but you can then delete the note if you're worried about it cluttering the cache logs up.

[Mrs Blorenge]

Just wondering... When you activated your new geocoin, did you active it with the current date, or did you 'backdate' the coin's activation? I was just thinking that if you activated it in e.g. September 2008 and then tried to log it through caches done earlier in the year then maybe it wouldn't work..?

[Zpyder]

Thanks guys and gals for that info. I ended up going through my list of finds and adding a note to each of the caches, and it did the trick! Now to wait for groundspeak to sort out the issue with travel mileage!