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Adventure Lab
By: walktall Date: April 19, 2019, 4:37 am
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I see the GAGB one has been posted on FB
The GAGB London Selfie Adventure
HTML https://labs.geocaching.com/goto/gagbselfie?fbclid=IwAR0l3sLkHYBBzBPHpn_ugepNnIYoHWmAXHvV8JKTCbjd9OVPpcSMGz7M26Q
[quote]Welcome to the GAGB London Selfie Adventure cache. What
is the GAGB? The GAGB is the Geocaching Association of Great
Britain. It is a free to join association that strives to be the
heart of the Geocaching in the UK. Our main activities are :
Encourage good practice in Geocaching Media Enquiries around
Geocaching Managing land owner agreements Help and advice around
Geocaching Helping build the Geocaching community in the UK More
information is available on our website here :
HTML http://www.gagb.org.uk/what-is-the-gagb.php
or via Social Media.
This adventure will take the player through a number of
locations in the Central London area. All locations are
wheelchair accessible and are perfect for taking that London
Selfie. Each location will have a question that you have to
answer. This proves that you were doing the selfie adventure and
not sitting at home looking on Google Maps..[/quote]
BUT, going to install the app, it appears (here we go again),
the app has got a very poor rating: unstable, buggie, keeps
asking for location, people having to reinstall, forgets you are
logged in, etc :'( :'( :'(
Has anyone tried any of the adventure labs?
And how do you find out if any have been published locally?
Geocaching Adventure Lab app FAQ
HTML https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2018/12/geocaching-adventure-lab-app-faq/
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Re: Adventure Lab
By: walktall Date: April 19, 2019, 5:00 am
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Took the plunge and installed the app and as I thought, the app
shows the closest to you, which for me is two London adventure
labs or slightly further, one at Nottingham or on the south
coast at Twyneham.
So, will not be trying one out for the moment.
Do you have to keep going into the app to find out if new ones
have been published?
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Re: Adventure Lab
By: Griff Grof Date: April 19, 2019, 12:19 pm
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Yes, the GAGB one went live last night :)
I think the only way to find out if they’ve been published is to
keep checking the app. The ‘Welcome to Devon’ one looks good, as
there are physical containers as well as virtuals (most of the
ones on the app so far are just virtuals).
One problem with the virtual ones is armchair logging. I heard
the Nottingham one was completed by loads of German cachers as
some of the answers could be found on Google. They’ve since
tweaked it, and Groundspeak have retired the web player, so in
theory it should mean that it can only be completed in the field
as you need to be using the app.
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Re: Adventure Lab
By: walktall Date: April 19, 2019, 3:27 pm
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So, if you don't have a smart phone (can you use Windows
devices?), you can't participate :(
There has been many occasions while trying to do lab caches,
that with out the GPX download, you couldn't do them at site, as
a smart mobile didn't have a good enough data signal :(
I will definitely try some to see how well it works but haven't
been a fan of lab caches.
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Re: Adventure Lab
By: walktall Date: April 30, 2019, 3:17 pm
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With the new 'Back to school adventure' lab caches published at
Tewkesbury, thought I would give them a go to see what's new :)
What's new - basically nothing, they are just lab caches that
now can only be done with a connected smart mobile :(
They will vary like normal lab caches in what you have to do to
find the information you need to complete the lab cache. This
particular one used nothing locally at each 'hot' spot :( :o
Was there a time limit to get these out, as the CO said they
aren't as good as he wanted them to be and I see the GAGB London
labs are having issues ???
If these are going to be 'rolled out' more, will there be areas
of the Country they just can't be placed due to poor Internet
connection and are these to be the replacement for Virtual &
Wherigo caches :( :o ???
I was so hoping these would be a new fresh cache, to add to the
other 'main stream' cache types.
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Re: Adventure Lab
By: Griff Grof Date: May 3, 2019, 11:43 am
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Yes, there was a time limit/deadline - originally it was so, so
tight (something like 5 weeks) so a lot of people wrote in and
they extended it to April 26th.
The main problem with the London one is frustruation surrounding
the very specific questions - the cacher who set it for GAGB
also set the Nottingham one, which was logged by a lot of people
without visiting the location as the answers were easily found
on Google/Google Maps... so the questions were made more
challenging to avoid this.
Another problem I’ve seen (with the new West Mids industrial
revolution one) is cachers asking what the D/T ratings are -
these are physical containers, and obviously the Adventure Lab
app gives zero indication of D/T...
Why can’t Labs have D/T ratings? Why can’t they have cache
sizes? If you’re placing them out for months, or even
permanently, they should... they’re no longer temporary, as per
Mega’s!
Also, if Groundspeak had such a problem with Virtuals, why are
they suddenly allowing the placement of Virtuals in this form?
Don’t the same issues still exist? Worse - Virtual Labs aren’t
even reviewed! ::) :o :D
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Re: Adventure Lab
By: walktall Date: May 3, 2019, 4:17 pm
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I chatted with Will about his Labs in Tewkesbury and he said he
ran out of time, not helped by a couple of locations had dodgy
mobile signal, so had to change them.
I can understand making the Labs so they can't be done from the
arm chair but I thought a frustration with the London GAGB ones,
was that you had to do them in order which wasn't clear and
people only found out when they tried to start in the wrong
location. Has this now been turned off, as I saw there was talk
about it?
How many locations will not be able to have these Adventure Lab
caches due to poor mobile coverage or you have the wrong mobile
provider, so can't do them :(
PS I wanted to try something out, so deleted my find on one of
the Tewkesbury Labs but all you do is delete the find from your
geocaching.com list, it stays as found in the app so you can't
refind it and stays off your list of found :o :(
PPS I see Will has added another lab (security) cache since I
did them, as it is possible to do the original four from home :o
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Re: Adventure Lab
By: walktall Date: June 19, 2019, 12:20 pm
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Just got an email from GC HQ and I've been awarded an Adventure
Lab ::) ;D
I've got till the 20th August to place up to five locations and
make them Public. With the Megas in August, this means I need to
get it done by the end of July, as I'm away after that, not back
till 23rd Aug.
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Re: Adventure Lab
By: Griff Grof Date: June 19, 2019, 4:18 pm
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Congrats, looking forward to seeing what you do with it ;D
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Re: Adventure Lab
By: walktall Date: June 20, 2019, 6:31 am
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Would have much preferred a Virtual, as I already had an idea
for it :)
It's been handy to see what others have done and pit falls
they've had. I want to make this a very local series if mobile
signal allows.
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