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    Geocaching KML in GMM

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted · Edited by TFTC

    Were you using Gecaching.com's kml or did you create your own? I tried putting the geocaching.com KML on fileden, but when I tried to "search" it in GMM, it says "No results found for: ..." I can't tell if it is bringing in the file or not.

    I made my own in Google Earth. Just create a waypoint and then right-click on it in the Places and Save As... .kml (not kmz). I'll try it with a bunch of geocaches and let you know what I find out.
    Ok, it worked, but it only shows the 1st 9 waypoints so that looks like the limit. Also, it only shows the waypoint name and not any of the other info (as far as I can tell). Here's my basic procedure: I have all my caches in GSAK so I set a filter to limit them to 5 miles then export to Google Earth. Then in Google Earth, I right click on the cache folder and save as .kml. I upload that (with the extension .txt) to a web site and then search for that URL from GMM and I see the 1st 9 caches.

    Geocaching KML in GMM

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted · Edited by TFTC

    Were you using Gecaching.com's kml or did you create your own? I tried putting the geocaching.com KML on fileden, but when I tried to "search" it in GMM, it says "No results found for: ..." I can't tell if it is bringing in the file or not.

    I made my own in Google Earth. Just create a waypoint and then right-click on it in the Places and Save As... .kml (not kmz). I'll try it with a bunch of geocaches and let you know what I find out.

    Geocaching KML in GMM

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    Has anyone been able to use the geocaching KML with GMM?

     

    I am anxiously awaiting my Freedom Keyring GPS for my Blackberry Curve (I love my gadgets) and I would like to use Google Mobile Maps in getting from cache to cache. Or better yet a backup handheld. But I have not found any answer on how to load the KML on google maps. Is it even possible at this time? I have heard GMM only supports a limited amount of KML.

     

    Or is there a different method where I could use data from a PQ?

    In GMM on WM6, I can type in a URL to a KML file in the search field and the waypoint shows up on the map. I've only tried this with one waypoint so far and the KML file has to be online (not on the device) and, of course, you have to type it in. Also, the web server needs to know what to do with a KML file - in my case, it works just fine with a .txt extension - GMM knows it's a KML file. If the file name doesn't change and you use it often, it should always show up in your last search list.

    Garin Nuvi Phone...

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    One of their press releases made reference to geocaching, although that doesn't mean it will be good at it. It has a built-in camera with geo-tagging though too.

     

    Cool! Could you provide a link to that press release? The nuvifone page doesn't have anything about it, and neither does the Garmin Press Release page.

     

    I don't see anything about geocaching.

    http://www8.garmin.com/pressroom/mobile/013008.html

     

    If they used the same development team that made Garmin Mobile XT (and possibly the Colorado?), then geocaching functionality seems to have fallen off the back of the stove. At least Garmin isn't making any claims about their geocache-ability. However, if the developers who worked on the 60 series manage to sneak back in, maybe all their devices will have a usable geocaching mode once again! I'm hopeful (since I use Mobile XT for a PPC with built-in GPSr and it's crying out for a geocaching mode).

    Has anybody used AT&T Tilt (Kaiser) pda for Geocaching?

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    At Handango there are lots of titles for the Tilt. I was hoping someone would be posting about them, and I will continue to search.

     

    So Far I like TackyPro and BackCountry the best, but I don't have full running versions yet. Still in the eval mode.

     

    Thanks for the info, MrOvation. I haven't checked out Handango, but I like how you can specify your device and see what's supposed to work with it. I'll try out TackyPro and let you know. My geocaching wish list is very short - see caches on a map, route to them onroad and offroad (with an arrow), and ideally show some cache info, but even just launching the online page would be fine. If Garmin would just realize that someone might want to geocache with their PDA phone and added the rudimentary geocaching features of their handhelds (ok, their OLD handhelds, like the 60cs(x) - it looks like their newest Colorados have the same geocaching features as GMXT!).

    HOW-TO: Garmin Alerts & TourGuides

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    With the palm version of GMXT I still get an alert (some beeps) instead of my custom sound for proximity waypoints. The same for a tourguide point, instead of the audio portion it just beeps.
    I'm not able to get the tourguide feature to work at all with GMXT (for smartphones w/built in GPSr). I see the POI's as normal POI's but with no proximity warning. If I take the "tourguide" out of the file names, then I get proximity alerts, but of course, only when I am routing right past them. Can you tell me how you configured your GPX to get tourguide to work for you? I'm assuming you get a proximity warning even when you are in map mode and not routing right past the POI?

    Physical geocaches prohibited in ABDSP?

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    I'm not going to participate in the spring CITO that picks up actual litter in our their park.

     

    Sorry you feel like that, but we adopted a Highway that just happens to be in the ABDSP. and we are going to clean the highway not the Desert state Park. Cal Trans owns the highway and the rightaway for the highway, about 20 ft each side and that's what some of us will be cleaning. 0002007E.gif

    So, lets just move the trash outside 20 feet :unsure:

     

    I remember seeing cachers go out to 100 feet cleaning up trash. I take it you will remind them to stay within 20 feet of the roadway? :blink:

    Please, I hope you will consider, for the sake of all the people driving by and seeing the SD Geocacher's sign and not knowing about the ABDSP cache war, picking up all the trash visible from the roadway! :huh:

    HOW-TO: Garmin Alerts & TourGuides

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I've created a cookbook on how-to create custom alerts & TourGuides on a Garmin GPS. The TourGuide alerts are particularly interesting because they alert you to proximity to a coordinate regardless of being on the same road as you are on... true straight-line proximity.

     

    http://brillharts.com/GarminAlerts

    Thank you - I've been trying to get this to work with Garmin Mobile XT but not having much luck. Maybe something that it just can't handle yet, but your "cookbook" will help me find out! :huh:

     

    GMXT, at least the palm version doesn't support custom sound for custom POI's. It also doesn't support pictures linked to custom POI's.

    I get the feeling the PPC version doesn't either. I can load a poi file that has speed/proximity alerts (they show up in the POI description) but if I rename the files to include "TourGuide", those disappear (which might actually make sense, probably wouldn't want to see them during a "tour") - although, the POI icon does become the one from the file with the same name. But I'm not getting alerted as I approach them (neither sound nor text).

    Physical geocaches prohibited in ABDSP?

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    Sadly, right now it appears unlikely any "understanding" can be reached where people can leave officially sanctioned boxes in the park. :D Maybe this will be an opportunity to elevate Waymarking.com usage in San Diego though (which I think is going to combine with gc.com at some point anyway).

     

    I don't think we have all the info to make that call since we aren't privy to the status of the negotiations. They asked us to wait. :D

    I meant, thanks to abdspcacher making it clear that gc.com can't regulate all physical caching in the park anyway, there might not be any point in reaching such an agreement. I certainly do not have any info on the current status -- and I'll try to be more optimistic! :D

    Physical geocaches prohibited in ABDSP?

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    If the policy changes to a more reasonable one it won't be because gc.com "negotiated" it. It will be because the Jorgensen, or his superiors, realized that there is nothing they can do to stop geocaching in the Park. All they can do is agree to moderated caches if gc.com stands up to them.
    But, as abdspgeocacher makes clear, gc.com doesn't currently moderate all caches in the park. What would be the point of agreeing to anything with gc.com if freelancers will just do whatever they want anyway?

    Physical geocaches prohibited in ABDSP?

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    I can understand why someone would respond in the way abdspgeocacher did.
    Do you understand how what abdspgeocacher did could hurt all of us? I think if people don't understand this, then we will keep taking steps backward....

    I'm hoping that all those "pirate" caches are actually "virtuals" (i.e. hoaxes). If unpublished, the only people logging DNF's on them will be the rangers. Which, I'm sure, will annoy them, but would not result in non-rangers trampling sensitive areas. This should not be surprising to either the park service or gc.com when it comes to trying to control the internets. Whether or not the park service and gc.com come to some sort of "understanding" will not prevent anyone else from doing their own thing, so maybe this will make it apparent to the park service that gc.com is not and cannot be responsible for what everyone does out there.

     

     

    Sadly, right now it appears unlikely any "understanding" can be reached where people can leave officially sanctioned boxes in the park. :D Maybe this will be an opportunity to elevate Waymarking.com usage in San Diego though (which I think is going to combine with gc.com at some point anyway).

    HOW-TO: Garmin Alerts & TourGuides

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I've created a cookbook on how-to create custom alerts & TourGuides on a Garmin GPS. The TourGuide alerts are particularly interesting because they alert you to proximity to a coordinate regardless of being on the same road as you are on... true straight-line proximity.

     

    http://brillharts.com/GarminAlerts

    Thank you - I've been trying to get this to work with Garmin Mobile XT but not having much luck. Maybe something that it just can't handle yet, but your "cookbook" will help me find out! :ph34r:

    Physical geocaches prohibited in ABDSP?

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    FYI- I personally have not removed any of your caches. Out of courtesy for the cache owners, when I am notified that someone, (be that a ranger, volunteer, etc.) has removed a cache box from the park, I post it.

    If you would rather I not notify you, please let me know.

    Have a good day.

     

    Cache Logs

    January 3 by Notaranger (8 found)

    This cache has been removed per ABDSP new geocaching policy. btw...nice try.

     

    That is fine with me, the part I could live without would be the comments like................" nice try"

    or................"just out picking up trash"

     

    I suspect the "nice try" is a reference to a misunderstanding of why you archived the cache. NotARanger probably thought you did that to hide the cache listing from them, rather than to keep cachers from looking for the cache. If you had made it "members only", then that might have been appropriate but in this case, NotARanger should have thanked you for your cooperation instead. Oh, well, ugly situation all around - looks like San Diego is now ground zero for geocaching blowback. How we handle it will probably be very important to the future of geocaching in our area. :rolleyes:

    January 3, 2008 - Wherigo.com

    in Wherigo

    Posted

    Palm T|X + Bluetooth GPSr to be supported one day?

     

    The goal is to have Wherigo on every device known to man. If you add your device on this page it will give us an idea of which devices to focus on first!

    Is it supposed to work on Windows Mobile 6? I thought PocketPC and Windows Mobile were the same thing.

    Physical geocaches prohibited in ABDSP?

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    I'm not sure how much a help/hinderance the earthcaches are to allowing traditionals in the park. B)

     

    I've tried contacting the Super about the existing earthcaches I have in the park and have not had a response yet.

     

     

    How the heck will they remove an Earthcache. 0002014F.gif

    If they feel cachers are destroying an area trying to get to the earth/virtual cache, they will ask GC to archive it.

     

    I'm curious to see what an indian cairn looks like. Anyone have pics of one?

     

    Skillet, thanks for relocating Ginger!'s cache. Thmbsup.gif

    I wonder why they didn't put a little sign next to the cairn describing it and asking people not to touch it? I guess they thought that would encourage people to dismantle it? ;)

    Upoloading POI's to Garmin Mobile XT

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    Hello All,

     

    I have a Palm TX and a Garmin Mobile 10 XT and am wondering if there is a way to upload custom POI files? I am trying, (but not very successfully) to use the Garmin POILoader. POILoader will accept the GPX files but then will convert it to some GOI file (or something like that) that the hot sync chokes on.

     

    Any suggestions would be appreciated!

    Pat

    I have the current version of Garmin Mobile XT (not sure if it's 10?) for smart phones (WM6 w/built in GPSr) and the current version of POILoader sees the phone as a GPSr and copies the GPI file to the storage card on it. However, and this is really odd, it puts it in the \poi folder (at the root of the card) but I then have to copy it to \GARMIN\POI for them to show up in Garmin Mobile XT. If the GPI file is not in the \poi folder, it won't show up in Tools\Manage My Data (and when it does, it shows up twice), but if it's not in the \GARMIN\POI folder, the waypoints don't show up in the maps. Go figure!

    Has anybody used AT&T Tilt (Kaiser) pda for Geocaching?

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I have it and tried to find a few caches with it (with my 60cs as backup) - seemed to work ok using cachemate ppc. I used Microsoft Live and Google Maps for driving, but it did lose the data signal a few times (very annoying with Google Maps as a dialog pops up you have to hit OK on). I'm thinking the Garmin X software might be the solution for driving, but it doesn't look like it has a geocaching mode. The way I see it, it gives me the opportunity to try for caches if I happen not to have my 60cs. And if it makes the find a little more challenging, so be it! :rolleyes:
    I got the Garmin XT card today and so far with the minimal testing I've been able to do, it's a very pleasant change from Google/LiveSearch. Several times in the last few weeks, I've actually brought my 60cs along because routing with Google/LiveSearch has been fairly unreliable. So right now, Cachemate & BeelineGPS for caching and Garmin XT for routing. I'm going to check out "smache" mentioned earlier.
    Garmin Mobile XT has been very nice for auto routing and I've been able to load caches in as custom poi's. Unfortunately, they don't show while you drive around, only when you route to them. So, still looking for a WM6 solution that will show caches on a map while you are driving around! But at least with XT, I can list all the caches nearby and route to one, then use Cachemate or BeeLineGPS to find it. I'm surprised Garmin did not think that anyone would want to use their software for geocaching after building that functionality into their handheld units.
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