>>294180>I can't fault them for wanting to make money.I certainly can.
GC.com was making dosh hand-over-fist in the millions range back when they started selling Travel Bugs, had no annual fee, did all the moderating work themselves, and had to host all their own hardware. Now that they're pushing all the server work to ajax.google, getting volunteers to do 99% of the maintenance, charging an increasing GC tax, stopped sharing the geocaching data with most other sites, and have even more commercial sponsorships. And all those innovations like Slippy Maps, automatic waypoint uploads, etc? Ripped from the free-geocaching sites. It's just pure psychopathic greed-- they're taking maybe $100 Million a year from Scam-illiterate Affluent McGeocachers. Their 'Microsofting' things as done things to the 'sport' like
>>293817.
Wiki calls this the 'international geocaching symbol'-- no, actually it was invented for
non-GC.com geocaching sites because the first-second generation caches were appalled at GC's attitude.
