PZ Dude

Cool! Thanks!

So I got this in the email and was like wow, that cool! If you have images on your cache page, your geocaching profile, or on any trackable pages—please consider adding alternative text to describe your image. This will help visually impaired players who rely on screen readers. So I responded and oops a non email and please come here, so I did. I am not really sure which item or cache page or trackable you are talking about, but that OK. Thank you for bringing this concept to my attention. My best friend is blind. He has been on a quick geocache with me a few times but just stayed in the car. I have often contemplated how I could include him in the hunt for a geocache. The ONLY thing I can think of is something like the Chirp. But that does not help. I would need something more along the lines of a way to trigger a sound to a cache that can be easy accessed. Then how to sign the log? No really, how? So what I am asking is, who is using these pages that need to have a visual reader for I would like to know so I can help them and they can help me include my friend. Also, my best friend might be blind, but he is a computer programer and knows his way around a network. Have you ever been in the room with a blind guy who was on the computer with the reader going at 3 times the speed as he fixes your computer? I have and it kind of cool. So if you need someone to stress test the visual reader and have a few of your pages in mind, I can sit with a real blind guy and we can compare notes of how well it worked. Thanks, PZDude

That's hilarious! I love it! Ha I like it, PZ Dude is Pizza Dude, as in "hay PZ Dude is that mine?" So bad trail mix would work. think of cold slice of pizza in that mix?

Here is my problem, I just helped my boy hide his 1st geocache under his new account. I did 75% of the work. Am I going to claim it. Yes! The next time I go out and do maintenance, I think I might put in a funny DNF, then the next time I need to just get out I think I am going to "find" it with yet another funny story. The way I see it the challenge is not only in the finding but what I put into it. I could go down a power trail and pick up numbers. But with this cache I helped place and did 75% of the work, I earned the smile with the finding it with maintenance and a good write up. "Finding" your own cache is kind of cheesy, "Finding" an adventure and then coming back to this site and logging the fun you put some effort into, well that is a smile. I do not claim a find on my own caches that I placed but have claimed taunting DNF. And well a long story but I am not even going to "find" :)or claim a smile on the 1/1 cache that is my alter ego account's cache thou. But I am going to log multi DNF's on the Gnomes hide.

Blues man you and I are thinking the same way. Trail cam all the way! i have been wanting to do something like that. Cache the cacher so to speak. Of course you would have to find a nice juicy "eco sensitive" spot to draw out the person. Then make it a real nano in the woods so a lot of digging around would have to be done. Then wait until this nut job shows up and digs before reviling there is a camera. Of course full permission at the sight would be given and the nut job would not bother to check that out. I have a reclaimed rock quarry out here in Ohio that would be perfect if this ego cacher was around here.

Moving right along..Kermit the Frog Ralph the Dog

Just remembered my "nothing is here cop. So I pull the geomobile over and into a small gravel parking lot. There is a small field, a few trees and a geocache that has been there for at least a year. across the street you can see the park. No sooner had I pulled into the lot a lady officer pulls in behind me. Why? "Because there is nothing here." After I did a geo 101, and she was satisfied that I might have a reason I ask some questions. Is this not a small parking lot? "yes" Is this not part of the park, I can see it is here on my map. "Yes" Then why?? "because there is nothing here" and that is the only answer I could get from this lady.

I posted this http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...d0-23a87b7c14d3 after a seasoned geocacher posted this dnf http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...54-94104a32f2ce

When you ask to help your sister move by driving stuff to your sisters in laws 2 1/2 hours away. Plus, the family just asks where the cache is you are after. and is not fooled by your kind help. Or how about you turn down a 2 hour drive to cousins wedding. Of course your drive to the wedding takes 5 hours and hits 4 extra counties.

Their is a guy out there that has "don't tell my wife I am geocaching, she thinks I am getting drunk at the bar." I co-wrote a sang "The 12 days of Cachemas" for another forum last year.

1st off I do not know this guy. I just run goecaching thru googles daily search thing and get a email a day. That is how i stumbled onto his blog But this guy has written a very good insightful look on Geocaching and Augmenting Reality for Enhanced Serendipity. It was so cool I just had to share. http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/02...comment-1904341 And the guy only has less then 30 caches. But he gets it. I hope I am posting this in the right place?

Well the worst I have done is that I knew that a local FTF hound was not a paid memeber. I had two caches in the same park I was going to release. One very tough 4/3.5 the other a simple 1.5/1 but I made both a members only so you would not get to the ftf. Then I was like oops, only the hard one was to be mebers only. As for the voices, right now I have a squirrel in my Nuvi

Definitely let us know how it works out with the eee. I was thinking the MSI Wind may be cool to. Now I love my little 900 eee but... I have not yet worked out how to get the eluminater working on it. The builder works just fine but I believe I only have to do a few tweeks and such and the player thing should work but I have other things on my list. Bottom line I think the ee is a better buy, more stable and more rugged then the wind.

SWEET! Theses sub notebooks are the next thing. You just made my day! Hi, We're looking into this. Basically, we have to enable the emulator to work in 2 modes. One would be position input from the google map on the left side of the screen, the other would be from gps input. This is on the list of things to do. David.

I have been looking for awhile. This thread http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=187391 is the closest I have come. I tried but I am no programmer. Iso and VM ware confuse me. The other option I have found is to the Emulator in the builder and have Google earth in the cache or hooked up to the net and just move you on the screen and not use a GPS while on the scene of the cartridge which kind of defeats the purpose. I know Google earth can be used with a GPS I just do not know how to make the Google earth in the builder see a GPS. Which seems to me, a non programmer, to be the easiest solution. I understand where the Wherigo build team is going, who wants to lug a laptop around. But the laptop I will be getting this summer is a Sub notebook 2ld Asus eee. I can see myself lugging that around. Good luck finding a better Windows solution.

Just a follow up, good news, the eee , the little mini 2lb laptop, might get a GPS update in the new models. Bad new is it might cost more $ instead of the cheep $300 it is now. http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20080325PD226.html "Asustek's 8.9-inch second-generation Eee PC lineup will include touchscreen panels and possible GPS support," Now that they are putting xp on the new units and they might be adding a GPS unit. I am just wondering. how hard would in be to take the emulator that is in the builder and have Google earth feed off of maps in the cache and the GPS unit instead of the mouse? Or another idea is Microsoft is courting ASUS with MS Live stuff for the eee. So maybe they can slip the Wherigo Player into the mix using MS maps? Groundspeek could pull off a something big if they got together with ASUS and figure out a way to put geocaching and Wherigo on the new gps mini laptops. Think about it Garmin is willing to make a new unit that runs Wherigo. Just think what one could do with a very small laptop with everything you need on it for both geocaching and the Wherigo. Just an idea

Well I tried your steps but I confess I have no idea what I am doing. But I have been digging and thinking. Has anyone thought about using Franson GPS gate with the Google earth plug in with the builder? Think that would work? I might be able to follow two or three steps instead of installing a whole new framework. So what I guess i am asking is will this work with the builder? http://franson.com/gpsgate/guide.asp?secti...;platform=winxp And if it does how about posting a two or three step for us that are not programmers. I will have some time this weekend to try to make work. If by some divine intervention I do make it work I will post. But I will let someone else take the credit if they beat me there.

Alright! Now we are talking. I have been trying to work out how to do this on a eee. You are using a hand held GPS but I think a blue tooth GPS would work just as well. Now all I have to work out is if I am going to get the 700 now or hold out for the new 900 with xp already installed? First things first I am going to try your what you have outlined on my big chunky compax. Thank you! I am only technical enough to get myself stuck or crashed but I believe I can follow this., maybe, give me a week and wish me luck! If I succeed then I might post how well I did, if not well, I might be flooding your in box looking for help.

I had the same problem. Here is what happens. You save with the button on the side so you thnk it is saved. What you do not see is the close button on the bottom because your window is open past the bottom. You think you have saved it but you have not till you hit that close button on the bottem. I was getting frustaed because I had done it right before but for some reason that window did not open all the way so I could see the bottom. The close button is under the windows bar at the bottom. That is my guess as to what happen.

Why are you teasing me If everything works out I will not be getting the eee until this spring, summer at the latest. Now I know a gps tooth can be put on it with mapping software. My hope and guess is this new Wherigo will not be to far behind. I know very little about Linux and plan on learning allot when I get the eee. But from what I gather it tries to do anything windows does. So by my logic it should be able to do anything a mini or pockets window does? That is what my goal is I guess? I would settle for the for at least the Wherigo player! Thanks for the screen shot I now have something really to look forward to.

Can't speak to Wherigo, but I can verify that you can put a blue tooth GPS on it and mapping software is not a problem if you're technically minded. I'm using a BT-359 and GpsDrive and it's doing much of what I want (and after making a few code changes in GpsDrive to make it more geocaching friendly, it's going to do everything that I want, including uploading all my logs to geocaching.com, heh heh heh). Thank you! I have a feeling I will be getting back to you after I get the eee this summer! Geocaching is why I am getting it. From what I have found, just having the net, a smallish not miniature keyboard and I believe the swiss army knife program will be all I need for Geocaching The eee will do it in a very light and small package. Hooking a GPS up to it is the 2nd stage for fun and the Wherigo game will be the icing on the cake! If i can make it work. I am only technically minded enough to get myself stuck but I have two friends who love when I come to them with my computer problems because it is always something they have never seen or thought of and they love the challenge. So when I get the eee I will have some Linux support, I am just trying to see if I want to get the blue tooth gps now or later. Can I get it to work with the Wherigo? Thanks for posting I had a feeling I would be one of the 1st to post about a eee and everyone would be like what kind of pda is that? I have a feeling I will be asking you for a point in the right direction once I get the it this summer.

I understand what you are saying. I would not be dragging my Compac laptop around for this game. It just would not work. I am not trying to be coy but the Eee PC is a mini PC that measures 8.9 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches, and it weighs 32 ounces. I could see myself lugging around, getting to a site and using it. After that site, close the lid and off to about where I think the next site would be located. But that is me and I see were this laptop might be the exception and I understand why Groundspeak is not looking into laptops. My question deals more with Linux I guess. What kind of work around is there available that would allow me to play the player on a Linux system with a blue tooth GPS? I placed this in the hardware section because I found all the other hardware was not like the eee and ran something else. But the eee is special because it is as strong as an older laptop but small as a big PDA, plus it is all flash drive and runs Linux, so I figured this is where I should start. Thanks

I am about to get the mini eee 700 from asus. If you know what that is great, if not look it up it is a cool little cheep all flash drive laptop. It runs Linux. From what I have think I have found out putting a blue tooth gps unit on it should not be a problem. mapping software is a bit of a problem. But i am not worried about that. My question is the best way to get the Wherigo player to run on either a Linux machine or a Linux Machine running VMWare. I have also read that the eee can run xp so that may be an option. But I do not want to go there. I guess my question is to anyone out there. is a pocket pc or the new Garmin GPS the only way? Or can you get Linux to think it is a pocket pc or get Wherigo to think it is on a pocket pc and not a laptop?