Three weeks ago, we produced Get In The Ring 2, Round 2 – our follow-up poll on Garmin’s new OpenCaching.com. Those results are now in and it seems Round 2 is a knockout to Signal and the crew at Groundspeak. More than 150 people responded to our survey, so here’s a breakdown of that match punch by punch …
A couple of days ago opencaching.com quietly posted some changes to the opencaching.com review process. If you’re not familiar with the opencaching.com peer review process you can check out my post on it. The latest changes are: 1) The weight of votes cast will vary from person to person depending on their involvement and history …
An interesting development at Opencaching.com today as they announced the introduction of a peer review system for geocache placement. Newly created caches will spend 12 hours at http://www.opencaching.com/#review before they make it to the rest of the site. On this review page, anyone with an account will be able to vote on the caches, answering …
It’s been a month since kjwx’s ‘Get in the Ring’ poll on the (then) proposed Opencaching.com website. Since that time the site has released a beta version and now boasts over 5000 caches. A number of bugs in the first few days seem to be ironed out a little and there has been much debate …
Hours after Garmin’s new listing service went live last week, Auckland geocachers Kiwifamily published the city’s – and the country’s* – first opencache. Though Super Center (Code: OX2K407) has yet to be found at S 37° 00.452 E174° 53.220, its owners say setting up their first opencache was simple. “No dramas at all.” The drive-by …
I blogged yesterday about the potential for over-saturation of caches to occur in opencaching as no reviewer meant I was able to publish two caches with the same coordinates. Now either someone has dobbed me into opencaching.com or Garmin are avid readers of It’s Not About The Numbers as both have been pushed back to …
Like many I have been having fun playing with OpenCaching.com today and seeing what it can do. There is lots to like about this site but I also have a nagging feeling that it maybe more problematic than good. I noticed a comment on the new opencaching.com forums that expressed concern over geocaching.com caches being …
Rich over at GPStracklog.com was one of the first to notice that Opencaching.com Beta has gone live this morning. When I read the post I immediately had the Imperial March theme from Star Wars pop into my head. Watch the Imperial March on youtube Garmin have blogged on the launch and the following is a …
Well, we finally heard back from Groundspeak on the Opencaching.com controversy … Their reply: “No comment.” According to marketing manager Jen Sonstelie, it’s company policy not to comment on “pending products in the marketplace”. So I guess we’ll have to wait until Garmin has properly launched its new (German-language) facility for any official word from our service …
Spotted on Cache Mania this morning and provided there courtesy of Guido at GPS INFO.NL comes this screenshot of the OpenCaching.com site. Apparently for three hours on November 8th, the site was available and Guido managed to grab this image of it during this time. UPDATED [6/12/10] : Thanks to Guido and teamvoyagr for pointing out that …
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