imanxman

it's back up, thanks for the support and corroboration!

I was trying to debug a problem with profile generation (that I was blaming on a .NET install) when I realized gsak.net seems to be down. at least, I can't get any response from it personally, but I can't find any other flags online that anyone else is having trouble. This is 6pm PDT, 1/2/16.

Wow, that was a good run on NM's and NA's. Still, not quite the topic of my suggestion. Back on topic, I liked Isonzo Karst's idea of an expandable 'you've got things to do' link at the top of your profile page. A good solution to keep from cluttering a page if you simply disabled a powertrail during an active fire. But I don't think any automatic archiving should be part of this, that wasn't my suggestion. Nor even a gate to creating new caches if anything had an NM. I just think that since there is already a bit of code in the system to summarize this info, it would be great to link it to the top of a profile page. Thanks!

Please no.

I came to ask, and possibly complain, but now having seen the complaints, I won't rant, I'll try to be objective: 1) GS, I don't agree with the change, but I understand *why* you made *some* change. 2) Exactly what you changed it to, though, I think needs a second look, from an HMI standpoint. If for no other reason, from a readability standpoint (including colorblindness), especially where icons are too similar. If wishes were fishes, mine would be colorful and generic, but probably only because they are comfortably familiar. If the new ones were better chosen, I'd probably grow to love them too, but I agree, they do look rather spartan and cheap. cie le vie. Thank you for caring to maintain the system though, and for giving us an outlet to provide feedback. J

I'd have to call me a "laid-back diversity goal cacher" somebody called me a diversity cacher...because I have at least 5 types of my own caches out there, and i'm working on type 6. but i cache the same way - i like goals (not challenges, goals), and do things at MY speed, which is playing the looong game. i'm working on my 366 grid now...but only after caching for 5 1/2 years: for the last two years i've taken swipes at it, and when a date gets past me, i think oops...one more year to go... i think this is the lucky year, only about 20+ left to go...mostly in December! i like to let the herd grow back...i do not want to overhunt to the point where i HAVE to go at least 10 miles to find a cache. i keep thinking about doing a 5-mile radius...but it never really happens. i am NOT into numbers, but i am into achievements. download the GenBadges macro for GSAK, it will give you LOTS of things to try for! by it's reckoning i almost qualify for a 'black belt' on the goals, except that I have less than 800 finds, and you need 3000 for a black belt. Hunh. I will finish the goals and not worry about the numbers. I did get to 50 FTFs...and then I stopped, I love watching my friends get them, even moreso love watching other cachers get their FIRST FTF...great moments! makes it worth not running out like a fireman. so i respect my friends who do streaks, but i'll probably never do one myself. i stopped at all of 13 days in a row, when it began to feel like work instead of play. play should never feel like work. I will try the 50 in a day goal at some point...but my way, I found a nice 4WD trail my jeep can help me knock that down one day. my way. so, a laid-back diversity goal cacher?

I noticed the new cache submittal wizard has a nice nag feature, it points out that you have caches that need some help when you try to create a new one. i'd like to suggest a different, i think better way to use that info, and apologize if this was already suggested. can you put this at the top of my profile (/my/default.aspx) page? the top of that page already has all the stuff on my 'workbench', my half created caches. i could stand to see my EXISTING CACHES that need work (either disabled or flagged 'needs maint' (or even 'needs archive')) ABOVE those. Right now I have to go into one of the two ways to see MY caches, and the better way is to go to my public profile (/profile) and then select the Geocaches tab, then see 'all owned geocaches', and then I also see a rundown of needs maint flags as well. Just ... a ... thought ... and since I'm asking for something (please), I shouldn't forget to say: THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT WORK!

The primary differences there is that it is a) short range and b ) always available. if yours is only broadcast once in a great while, even if the time of broadcast could be made regular, it's not going to be found often. And like others posted above, the broader the coverage range the more chance of muggle investigation...

You'll enjoy this, I think: http://coord.info/GC2K0H2

A friend just showed me a pic of one of the Ontario plates they found on vacation this past week...wow, they came out nice. Wish we had them here in California! I'd post a pic but don't want to give it away...I'm not discovering it either, since I didn't find it in person. But they are pretty...there's no pics up yet?

matejcik - I read this thread, downloaded the .jad file ( http://openwig.googlecode.com/files/OpenWIG.jad ) that HayleeBugg listed above (thanks, HB!) directly to my new BB Curve 8330 (yes, that model number is right), downloaded a simple Wherigo for a local cache in Pocket PC format, set it to internal GPS, and son of a gun if it didn't work the very first time. Despite the hour, I'm tempted to go out to the park and try it NOW! Thanks for doing this, and just a heads-up that it loaded and popped up right away the first time. Embedded pics show just fine and everything. I'll let you know if there were any problems in the park. Thanks again - J

Thanks to everybody for all the GSAK advice here and in similar threads - can't wait to go try entering them more efficiently than I've been doing! Audible warning range: I had mine set to audible at 1000 yards...and it went off too much...then down to 500...then 300...then 200...now it's down to 100 yards so it only goes of if I'm so close I shouldn't miss the opportunity, and not so often that it goes off just while driving about (and my wife is no longer annoyed). It WAS playing the Star Trek red alert klaxon before, but I changed it to the Moo for my kids...besides, one Moo is less annoying than the three red alerts! As for audibles going off on already hit caches...I move the caches I've found to a separate POI category 'Geocaches found' so I still have them if I want to go back to them, but I see them on the map differently and I have the audible disabled on those. (They get the skull and crossbones icon - treasure already found!) Thanks again - J

See, and I thought it was a Mystery Men reference...

I have a BlackBerry 7130e, and I admit I'm still doing this a bit low-tech for a paperless approach. I drop the text of the cache page in a note in Outlook on my PC, and synch this w/ my BB. So the ones I'm planning to hit, I have the captured info even if I don't have a signal. But I did learn (like others above) that geocaching.com is one of the few sites that works WELL on a BB web connection...fast, pretty darn near easy to read, and son-of-a-gun I can even log cache finds while I'm doing it in the field! Now THAT'S paperless...and PC-less! One time saver for getting through the web pages via your BlackBerry...stick ALL the caches in the area you might be in onto your watchlist. You can get to your watchlist easily on the PDA once you log in, and then you aren't hunting for geocaches by proximity to a coord. If you've got the GCxxxx code, great, but I think of them by name. J

Okay, great - thank you both for confirming my suspicions. Just wanted to make sure THIS one wasn't broken. It's even got the SIRFstarIII chip in it, so I couldn't understand the slow updates - the tolerance level being applied to auto-nav units to avoid jumpiness at red lights makes a lot of sense! (I've also noticed that the main display maps will always 'fudge' me onto a nearby roadway until I get at least 30' from it...I assume that is also a feature of an auto-nav unit, that it distrusts the observed GPS readings for auto purposes...but it does give TRUE GPS coords on the GPS Status screen, so no worries!) Thanks again! J

Ah, I think I see part of the answer to my question now...I see in another thread that a certain unit doesn't really register unless it's moving at at least 2 MPH...so this makes sense as a low end threshhold value for auto nav units. Should I assume that's pretty standard for GPSr meant for auto navigation, like my tomtom? Thanks, J

um...my lack of originality, really. a long, long...uh...pre-internet time ago, I had to come up w/ a username. 8 characters, at the time, NO CAPS, no d1g1ts...yeah, before AOL, before security. Always been a comic book fan, so "I'm an X-Man". Some people seem disappointed to find out it has nothing to do with a sex change ("I'm an ex-man"). Go figure. Anyway, whenever I need a username, I just pop that in, so I can actually REMEMBER it. So if you trip over another imanxman somewhere...it's probably me. Belladonna: "Remy, when you gon' come home?" Gambit: "Ah'm an X-Man, chere, an' I aihn nevah comin' home." (Yeah, the quote I was thinking of, but I'd rather it was a Wolverine quote. Grrrr...*SNIKT*!)

I'm not getting smooth/continuous updates to GPS coords in tomtom ONE...is this typical of all GPS units? I know this brand of GPSr unit is really intended for auto nav, but I've figured out how to plug in POIs for the GCs around me, and it works pretty darn well...and it's the only GPSr I've got, so I'm working it. But I noticed I rarely get a smooth/continuous coord update when on foot, unless I trick it. If I (please don't laugh TOO hard) swing it around in a big circle, it seems to sense motion (although I may be quite mad), and it updates. But the windmilling thing is fairly conspicuous around muggles ("no, no, don't mind me, just stretching..."), and sooner or later it WILL go flying out of my hand. I figured out last night that if I cycle the power on it, I can see an immediate coord update, and I get variations of up to +/- .003 of a degree without moving, so I just do it several times to take an average. Is this normal, or is the reason because I'm using an auto nav unit that is assuming that operational use doesn't not require fine adjustments? (In which case I just wait to buy a hand unit some day.) Anybody know another trick here to get continuous updates from such a unit? Any all feedback/criticism welcome. Commence firing. Thanks, J P.S. (Please forgive me if I blew some posting ettiquette here... this was my first post on this forum. I couldn't find this info in this forum no matter how I searched, although I *almost* tacked my question on the end of this thread: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...l=gps++accuracy, but figured it really was a tangent.)