ivss_xx
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Have they pulled the feature out? I had them showing and now I don't have them anymore. No option in filters either anymore.
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I just keep mine clipped with the carabiner attachment. To my backpack strap if I'm wearing one. Or to my belt loop on pants. Or I just keep the GPSr in my pocket.
Oh but I do have a soft silicon case around it and a screen protector on. I got those for $8 from Aliexpress
But hard cases where you have to actually open the case every time you want to look at the unit is just inconvenient. I had one ages ago when I was using a Garmin Colorado 300. Got to say, I still have that unit and the screen is in pretty good condition despite being actively used and having had no screen protector on it.
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You can rename tracks at the point of saving and even after, within the GPSr.
When you click on the floppy button to save, there is a confirmation window, containing the name (e.g. 2021-04-26 12:00:00 ) and other data. Just tap on that line and it opens the keyboard and you can write whatever you want. And then you tap the checkmark and click on the green floppy button at the bottom of the screen as normal.
TO rename them after they have been saved, go to Track Manager, find the track you want, tap on it, and then in the same manner as above, tap on the name line.
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I just noticed this the other day as well! Here is a bit better quality picture, I tried to enhance it a bit. Small print still not quite readable though.
P.S. Have been really digging Dark so far. Amazing series! Halfway through S2 at the moment.
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I have recently updated my profile cover photo, and even though I followed the proportion guideline and experimented with different resolutions, it always comes out blurry in the Android app.
I checked other users profiles - blurry for everyone. I've tried putting in a pic of recommended width - 790 and also twice that size - 1580. Both turn out equally blurry.
On the website - picture is as crisp and sharp as winter's morning.
Geocaching app 8.34.0
Android 9
Xiaomi Mi A1
P.S. Have tried clearing cache&data of app, nothing changes.
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Number of counts lagging again. It is now
Server Time: Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:19:40
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I can confirm this is happening to me as well, on a regular basis, for the last week or so.
Quite annoying really as I have a counter added to each log of mine but now it's glitching out and I have to really follow what number I put in my log to see if I'm adding the right one
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I think this has been going on for a while actually. Maybe not after every log like notes or DNFs but I remember getting repeated popups when logging caches in succession.
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I've had website issues since yesterday. Have managed to log a few caches but mostly it has been just loading veeery slowly or not at all. Not really working right now.
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On 4/13/2019 at 11:03 PM, Tealby said:
It looks like this person may have created a new account as https://www.geocaching.com/p/default.aspx?u=thedoglady ???
Yup, not long after I published my adventure, thedoglady had logged it, all the 5 points within 2 minutes.
A day later another user from Germany had logged mine (mine is in New Zeland) https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Die Lu.Tze AG
I have two genuine logs and two fake ones at the moment. 50/50 ratio...
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eTrex 10 is a modern one. The original eTrex is affected but still has the location correct. Just the date that's wrong.
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On 4/5/2019 at 9:51 AM, noncentric said:
Not to mention that people who are already complaining about not being able to do
Lab CachesAdventures because of the app requirement will then complain that they can't do a physical cache either.Each individual cacher will not do all the caches though. It would be the same as people who don't have climbing gear complaining they can't do climbing caches. That's why there are sooo many different caches out there to choose from. I like the diversity. And if you really want to log the one that is connected to an adventure but don't have the means, you can always team up with others. Another great aspect of geocaching - the social one.
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There are plenty usernames with spaces out there. But when trying to change an username to get a space somewhere in-between it, to separate two words, I get a message: "ProfileViewModel is an invalid character"
Is space in usernames 'grandfathered', so to say? Or is there a trick to getting one?
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I'm still getting newsletter with the same issue. Anyone know whay would that be?
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Sure. Attaching shots of the last newsletter. Viewing on Windows 10 desktop. Screenshots from Chrome but it's the same in IE and Firefox as well.
It's not about the results the links give but about the fact that the links are just broken for me completely.
(You cannot see the mouse cursor in screenshots but I'm hovering over a link in each of the instances and you can see the link data it gives for me at the bottom, the same thing for two different links, and it's the base64 code that I 've posted in my OP
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As this is happening for quite a while now and I didn't find any other posts on this, I'm well aware that the issue could have something to do with my email provider, yet even if it is so, I'm just curious to know, what could have caused it.
So, in all the email newsletters I've received since 18th April, all of the hyperlinks are broken. They look like this:
data:image/gif;base64,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
All of them are exactly the same and it is this base64 string for a gif image apparently. Since April 18 newsletter about 3 million caches.
So, it was only some time after switching to the new newsletter format.
Since switching to the new newsletter format, the links were changed from normal links as well but they worked. In fact, the links were dodgy because they seemed to send my email address to some stats company, but they still worked. This is how links looked in the first few new newsletters: https://lnk.ie/1RPH7/e=ivss_xx@inbox.lv/https://www.geocaching.com/play/search?origin=home&radius=100mi&types=6,13,453,1304,3653,3774,4738,7005&pe=1&sort=PlaceDate&asc=True
So, those, first giving my email address to the stats company, still would land me in the according geocaching page. Still, seems dodgy that they just send my email address without my consent to somewhere.
The current one just results in an error.
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OK, so Groundspeak "fixed" the field notes by bringing back the timestamp to the drafts page.
BUT there's always a BUT!
The timestamps shown are totally wrong.
I'm uploading drafts from my Garmin Oregon 700.
This is an example of one:
In the field notes file, GC570V3,2017-06-25T14:48Z,Found it,""; so, it's UTC 14:48, so it's GMT 14:48
I have my time zone set to GMT+2 (currently real time is GMT+3 because of DST)
But the new drafts showed the time as 10:48. I can't understand from where does it get this? It shows 7 hours earlier than my real time.
Previously, you could change the time zone in the settings and then the time reflected in field notes would also change according to that. No more, I changed my time zone to smth else, drafts still show the same 10:48.
GPS sets the UTC time, so where is the problem to just apply the current time zone that the user has set in his profile? What is this mysterious minus 4 or 7 hours thing?
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I started going through some of my 100+ Field Notes (Drafts) last night. Had to use the new logging experience, since there's no Opt Out option for Drafts.
Here's how it went:
-- Opened the Drafts page and right-clicked on the cache name so I could review the cache in a separate tab.
-- In the Drafts page tab, clicked on 'Compose Log' so I could see if I had any notes about that cache.
-- Opened a random cache page and click "Log Visit", so I can get the 'old logging experience' that has a preview window. Kept this open in a separate tab.
-- Typed my log in Notepad (my method for a long while) and pasted it into the preview window of random cache to see how it would look, then edited if necessary.
-- Copy-pasted log text from random cache tab to compose draft tab.
-- Clicked Post log.
-- Scrolled down the resulting cache page to find my log and make sure the date attached to the log is correct.
-- Scrolled back up to the page to click back to the Drafts page in the banner.
For the cache where I added a photo, then the last two steps changed to this:
-- Right-clicked on "View Log" to open my individual log in a separate tab. Reviewed my log to double-check the date attached to it and attached a photo (adding a caption and editing the photo's date).
-- Closed this tab and went back to the tab showing the cache page of the cache I'd just logged and clicked back to the Drafts page in the banner.
For the cache where I clicked on 'Compose Log' and the page wouldn't load after at least 20 seconds, and also for the cache where I added corrected coords - I right-clicked on the "Log Visit" button so I could use the 'old logging experience', then deleted those drafts individually from my Drafts page.
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Using both systems, old and new, made me realize that I really do prefer the 'old logging experience' - for reasons that most forum users have already posted in these various threads. But I'll mention them again for posterity's sake, and so the new profile/dashboard news doesn't distract from the logging experience hoopla.
Things I miss about the 'old logging experience':
-- Adding a caption to photos while adding the photo.
-- Adding text to an NM/NA log entry, without having to go through several additional steps to edit the log.
-- Adding corrected coords to the log, so it shows up prominently at the top of the log in a standard format and assists the CO and future finders.
-- Previewing log text and how to add smileys/formatting without having to open another tab and search for that info, if it's not already bookmarked in my browser.
-- Not having to remember that the big "! Needs Maintenance" at the bottom of the text window is not an alert that the cache has issues, but is actually a clickable option to "! Report a Problem" with the cache.
-- Being taken directly to my log entry after submitting my log, so I could confirm it without having to scroll down and find it after the cache description and other intervening logs.
-- Speed of page loading and lack of 'buggy behavior'.
Very well said, I salute you!
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There is a heart icon at the bottom left portion - that's the favorite icon on the new page and the new official app.
I must be going blind. Here is a screenshot of how that page looks to me.
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I am hesitant to download extensions or scripts written by people I don't know on my personal computer.
Well, being hesitant is the correct approach, of course. But rest assured, that extension is not evil
If you want you can always download the file first and extract the contents and then check them with an editor for any suspicious stuff.Or we can always sit and wait for Groundspeak to take action. Already waiting for more than 6 months now
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Meanwhile, the solution is to use this extension:
http://geo.arisoft.fi/mcwb/index.html
I've had no issues after putting that on.
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to all of the comments here.
At the moment "New Logging Experience" is just plain worse than the old one.
The only thing I like about it abit is that the trackable list gets sorted by the most recently logged so my regulars are at the top of the list.
What hasn't been mentioned - I can't add a favourite point anymore when posting log?? Another step backwards.
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I don't know the details of the methods the devs coded for determining distances. but I do know that the cache page uses a more accurate but intensive calculation than the stats page, which has to calculate many distances at once. This is why you see differences in values at extreme distances.
Interesting to know. But I wonder now if the method on the cache page would be the most accurate of the ones I mentioned? GSAK gives almost the same result, so maybe that would be the one?
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So, I found a cache very far away from my home location. It's almost antipodal, actually.
And with this find I also discovered that such a seemingly simple concept as distance between two locations is not simple at all, and that when calculating the distance between two points on Earth, the results may vary.
OK, so there's different ellipsoid models of Earth, there's different formulas to calculate the distance but which one do you think is the most 'correct' one?
And which one does the geocaching site use?
And why is it that the site uses two of them? The distance to that cache shows up different when I look at the cache page (20011.1) and when I look at my statistics (19997.632).
This is the cache I'm talking about - BASILICA SAN MARTIN DE MONDONEDO
I've also tried calculating the distance using various tools, the results vary with every one
This is the summary as I've posted it in my log:20011km from my home location - that is what the geocaching site says. I always trust GPSvizualizer for these calculations but it's Vincenty formula calculator gave an error - not suitable for antipodal calculations. Interesting that Geocaching statistics page gives a different distance from the cache page - 19997km.I tried calculating using different formulas and methods and here are the results:20033.54km according to Garmin Oregon 700 using WGS84 map datum and spheroid
20033.10km according to Project-GC
20033.10km according to Chris Michel's calc (sphere)
20011.12km according to GSAK
20011.10km according to the cache page
20010km according to Haversine formula from MT (sphere)
20002.42km according to Google Earth
20000.22km according to NGS calculator that uses the Vincenty algorithm (ellipsoid)
19998km according to US National Hurricane Center calculator
19997.63km according to Geocaching.com statistics
P.S. I also got the FTF on that cache, could this be the longest (distance-wise) FTF run ever so far?
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Hopefully, Groundspeak listens to all of what's going on in this thread.
No Adventure Lab caches in the Geocaching app as advertised in the newsletter
in Official Geocaching® apps
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Ok, I cleared the app data/cache, re-logged in, and it's there.