tb-run.com & tb-rescue.com Geocaching Travel Bug® Fun

this article is only available in german language (and actually only relevant for germany)

it speaks about the fact that tb-rescue/tb-run will not continue to support cache-contest.com

Probably the coolest rescue mission of the year: The german geocaching team “Sonntagsrudel” has hunted down a TB thief – using a self built video surveillance cache.

You can find all details of this spectacular misson on their websitehttp://sonntagsrudel.amshove.net/indexE.html.

We think this a pretty cool accomplishment that (even though it was not a activity that was initiated by tb-rescue.com) deserves honor.
In order to thank the team, we have set up all successful rescues as records on tb-rescue.com

A big THANK YOU to the Caching team “Sonntagsrudel”.

Here you find all rescues trackables of this cool mission:

Acimes 1st Coin
Letterboxing in Deutschland
Saarland Geocoin 2007
Frozboz’ Happy Caching – Black Cat Geocoin
Euro 5th Anniversary Geocoin
Birthday Geocoin 2009
Die Schwedenflagge – The Swedish Flag
Dragon Spinner Geocoin
Happy Caching – Ladybird Geocoin
Come Together – Rad
GN_worldwide!_S16_002_Germany2007
Reindeer Geocoin
Geocacher?s Star 2009 Geocoin
Screw 2007 Geocoin
Denmark Geocoin
The Lord of the Caches – Earth Geocoin
Pepper’s Love
Belted Kingfisher Geocoin
SNSpencer?s Cache Movers Geocoin #1
mahos geotaler 3
Robby Schlappohr
Das fliegende Auge
Army Geocoin
NoobNaders RoG – Harz- Geocoin
Proving Trail Geocoin
Excalibur Geocoin
Red Handed Micro
2102 on Tour
“Amaigbo, Nigeria” Unite for Diabetes Travel Bug
“Thun, Switzerland” Unite for Diabetes Travel Bug
Phoebe the Globetrotter
Helicopter Herrold
The Flying Dutchman
Goofy
Alaska Bear Paw TB
Schwitzwasserleitung
happy
The flower bug
Silferme’s WorldRoller #2
Team Die Goldbären – Tebby
Liam’s Lego Plane
Janis the Bat
Where’s My Car?!?
Go GOLEO, go !!!
Travel Bug Vista
Dalarna horse
Vans World Tour
RANGE
Travel Bug Cool Chicken
Lupus54 No.: 06
Bob
Bailey Bee
Balancing Act
Svenne Svensson
Halve a twin (Yoni)
ROBOTICA 2
UV-Men Baron von Zwick
Freizeitpark TB
Signature Item Collector

Wow – there are some interesting new features coming with todays gc.com Update:

• 13764: Quick “like it” for geocaches – Added Facebook “Like” functionality to cache pages
• 13725: Mark trackables as collectible – Added ability to virtually “collect” trackables
• 16673: Localize – Cache Details Page – Added translations for Deutsch, Français, Português, Čeština, Svenska – this is a work in progress
• 13180: Modify cache archive notification for trackables – Discontinued the posting of a note to the trackable page when a cache containing it is archived, sending email notification to trackable owner now instead
• 16352: Setting Trackable item to unknown posting a note instead of the correct log – Marking a trackable as “missing” will now post the correct drop type log instead of a note

and… not earth shattering but pretty cool

• 15925: Helpful Links Addition – Added tb-rescue.com to the User Generated Tools list at /links

Lets see how much adjustemnts we have to make tomorrow to tb-rescue.com.

• 16144: Change Trackable type to “it” on log pages – Trackables detail page more readable when referring to “it” instead of the trackable name

Current Status (19th April 22:00 CET):

We have fixed the issues. All runs should be up to date.
One exception: There is a bug on gc.com: the very last entry of a TB does not show the mileage. This last entry of each TB is currently not considered by tb-run.com. Groundspeak is already working on providing a hotfix to their site.
In case you still see issues please leave a comment and also mention the concerned TB with its TB ID (TBxxxxx).

Groundspeak is planning maintenance on Wednesday 2/24/2010 from 4 AM  – 8 PM GMT in order to update database systems.
During this time geocaching.com will not be accessible.

We will have the following restrictions during the downtime period:

• It will not be possible to join a race on tb-run.com.
• It will not be possible to submit new rescue requests on tb-rescue.com
• It will not be possible to register new users on tb-rescue.com/tb-run.com.