dfx
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Anyway, there's no cost associated with using the API, so your original statement is completely false. There are lots of apps and websites using the API that are completely free.
Really? When I search the market on my Android phone, I don't see any apps that are "completely free" and provide the same functionality.
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What's wrong with it? It's free. They don't like that. They want you to pay instead.
That's just a tad over-simplified.
Is it really? What do you think the reasoning behind that clause in the TOU is? Don't say server load, because that's not it.
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What's wrong with it? It's free. They don't like that. They want you to pay instead.
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Ah, the weekend is upon us.
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That line keeps disappearing for me as well (together with my avatar). A bug that's gone unfixed for at least half a year now.
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My original Droid and now my Droid Bionic have very accurate GPS capabilities. They are actually better than my 5 or 6 year old Garmin 76cs.
I'm gonna call BS on that. Just because the phone tells you that the accuracy is +- 2 meters and the GPS only tells you +- 3 meters, it doesn't make it true. Do a proper test and you'll see that the GPS still wins.
However, it's still true that a lot of smartphones are accurate enough for geocaching. But then again, a map and a compass can also be accurate enough for geocaching...
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Just adding that GPX 1.0.1 isn't really GPX 1.0.1, but rather GPX 1.0 with the Groundspeak extensions version 1.0.1.
And no, Garmins can't handle attributes natively. There's some tricks you can pull to make them visible (convert them to text and put them into a description or a fake log entry etc).
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So why does the "a souvenir by ..." link for this thing go to a 404?
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You go to the "hide and seek a cache" page: http://www.geocachin...ek/default.aspx
and enter the GC code into the "by GC code" field.
That field will not take a GZ number. I have had this problem searching for other items like those with GW numbers.
Which is kinda what the A-team tried to tell you. All geocache numbers/codes start with "GC". All all all of them.
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You go to the "hide and seek a cache" page: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/default.aspx
and enter the GC code into the "by GC code" field.
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. . . however the way you're doing it makes the puzzle unsolvable should gs decide to clean up the image server. . .
Okay. I didn't realize how the "delete photo" process worked. So for now, you just delete the link from the page but as far as Groundspeak is concerned, you don't actually want the photos and can go through the trouble of deleting all the photos during a clean up of their servers.
After their long standing policy of never actually deleting deleted photos, I predict that such a cleanup would cause a rather large outcry from all the people who were (ab)using that "feature" for such a long time. I also predict that this wouldn't keep GS from doing it anyway.
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Didn't notice any stickiness, but did notice some large inaccuracies in adverse conditions. Typical GPS behavior really... You're in one spot, it says GZ is there, five minutes later it has you 10 meters over there, so you go to the new GZ, only to be brought back to the old spot again. Rinse repeat. Previously it would just stick to one spot, obviously. But that's just how GPS is, isn't it.
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Really? When did the calendar filing thing become official part of the game?
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"Keep me!" on the tag is just about as confusing a matter as anyone could have come up with.
Whose brainchild was that one?
Certainly not very well thought-out.
I think it's very well thought out. Groundspeak would rather like to see you buy a new tag than re-use an old one. The wording achieves exactly that.
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AFAIC the copy tags were never meant to be replacements for re-releasing a lost TB. They were meant to be kept by the owner - as physical souvenir(?) of the actual TB that's out there. Just like the military dog tags, they also always come in pairs.
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Someone suggesting "too much testosterone" as a reason makes me want to not log my DNFs just out of spite.
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I have to admit I've been away for a while. Does the current holder now get notification when a TB is marked as missing?
i don't know for sure but i'm betting....NO
I just tried it. Looks like you're right.
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That reminds me... time to go through my list of TBs and mark a bunch of them missing again...
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Wish list: Ability to set a default map type
And a different kind if scale, like your usual display of "that long" is 500 meters etc
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One of the most requested features, and has been for a long time. You can't.
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It would help to know what unit you have.
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Scuba gear
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At least ONE person figured out a solution (thank you opens source) and posted it. Others have found work-arounds but the rest of you think it's GS's responsibility? Figure out how to do this on your OWN using the WORLD WIDE WEB.
This is actually between YOU satellite junkies and Google... GS is caught in the middle because of YOUR dependency on those maps.
Wow. Seriously? Groundspeak doesn't want to give out any bulk cache data to 3rd parties, so yes, it is their responsibility to provide a high quality mapping solution to their users, so they can browse caches the way they want to. GS doesn't want anyone else to be able to offer anything like that (not with their data, anyway). Stop the Greasemonkey madness already, get Groundspeak to provide a usable site instead, or give bulk access to the cache data to 3rd parties who in turn can provide a usable site.
What is wrong with c:geo?
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I didn't say there was cost involved in using the API. I don't know where you got that from.