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Maddy-OCM

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  1. Looks like Open Cache Manager is what I'm looking for. One thing am I reading the page corect and I have to also install GPSBabel or does this get installed when I install Open Cache Manager? Thanks If you install the .deb for Ubuntu, then gpsbabel will be installed automatically, although if your pn-40 is at firmware 2.8 or higher gpsbabel itself isn't needed for OCM to put caches on your Delorme (I have a PN-60 myself). There's forums for OCM here: http://ocm.dafb-o.de/index.php/board,1.0.html
  2. You can use GPSBabel directly, or use OCM (http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencachemanage/files/), which is like GSAK except for Linux
  3. Do you mind posting your question here: http://ocm.dafb-o.de/index.php? I don't follow the GC forums as much. I haven't attempted 11.04 with OCM yet (I usually wait until all the kinks in an Ubuntu release are worked out before upgrading), but I know some people have gotten it working.
  4. I bought a PN-60 last year and live in the Ottawa area. Generally I've been very happy with my purchase (especially after the latest firmware update fixed the glacially slow searching). I also own an eTrex Venture HC and a Colorodo 300. A couple of minor gripes: 1) There's some errors in the Canadian map data. In some areas streets are way off from their actual position. It's difficult (but not impossible) to use things like OpenStreetmaps to get coverage for travelling outside of Canada/USA since there's no official Delorme maps for purchase. There's zillions of free maps for Garmin units if you know where to look. 2) Doesn't project in mils, which is a problem for doing some puzzle caches around here. I have a full review and comments in this thread: http://canadascapitalcachers.ca/forum/index.php?topic=214.0 If you go for the Garmin, I'd say spend a little bit more and get the Dakota 20. The compass and stuff is useful, but the real reason is that it adds wireless which means you can get caches in the field beamed to you from another Garmin GPS (more useful then you'd think) and you'd be able to do Chirp caches.
  5. I'm in Vernon, British Columbia!! I don't know if I can handle 2 leashes lol. My dog pulls enough ha ha ha. Have you tried the British Columbia Geocaching Association? They have a forum at: http://www.bcgeocaching.com/index.php?name=Forums, with a regional section where you'll likely find many friendly cachers willing to hunt for some caches with you.
  6. Yes, that's right, PAT is "Premier à Trouver" or FTF in english. A "Grateux" is actually one of those lotto scratch tickets. Some other useful French geocaching terms are "RPRL" (Rien pris rien laissé), in english is TNLN (took nothing left nothing), and MPLC (Merci pour la cache) in english is TFTC (Thanks For The Cache).
  7. The description says: Put on your toque, the wind blows from far The cache contains An explanation for muggles A logbook (Bring your own pencil) A prize for the first to find
  8. I use a Colorado 300 and manage to get a day or more of caching from a set of NiMH batteries. I'd say that the NiMH batteries are well worth the money. I use the Duracell ones. They go on sale every so often at Shoppers or Pharma Plus (noticed you are from Nepean). When you say that your experience with rechargeables is that they have less capacity, could you be confusing NiMH with the NiCad batteries of the past? Tried alkaline batteries a few times and they drained really fast. Another thing, not sure if it makes a difference for battery but it might, I normally turn off the electronic compass since it is a feature that I don't really like. However, even with the compass enabled battery life seemed acceptable.
  9. Duly noted, I'll make sure to write it out as GPSBabel N.B. Instead of using my wife's account (maddy82), I've created my own ocm_ott
  10. Duly noted, I'll make sure to write it out as GPSBabel
  11. Have you done a firmware update (by running Garmin WebUpdate)? If you haven't you may be hitting some old bugs that Garmin fixed a while ago.
  12. As of 0.14, OCM now has GPSBabel support. There's auto configuration for eTrex/GPSMap series GPSs and GPX ones like Oregon/Dakota Are there any non-Garmin Linux users out there? At the moment, any other device needs to be configured with the right GPSBabel format under the "Other GPS" section, but I'd like to provide more auto configuration options. If you use GPS Babel, can you tell me what your usual options are? You'll need to install GPSBabel for non-GPX devices. In Ubuntu, you can do this by typing "sudo apt-get-install gpsbabel" in a terminal window. __________________________________________________________________________ Version 0.14 --------------- - Add integration with GPS Babel for full GPS support. This requires GPS Babel to be installed - Implement GPS menu - Fixed bug where some coordinates has a small error - Recently opened GPX/Databases now show up in the recent file list - Preliminary support for registering GPX and OCM files. You will need to call update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime to complete the registration - Add "Available" option to the quick filter list - Fix issue where OCM would crash on opening a GPX on startup - Grey out the cache info area if no cache selected - Update icon set after discussion with Groundspeak - Clicking on links in the description pane now opens them in a seperate window - Add Preferences dialogs to alter settings after initial setup - Fixup menu items names, add keyboard shortcuts - Fix right-click and delete in cache list - Move Reset Center to Home to the Map menu - Refresh single cache on log found/mark unfound to improve performance Version 0.13 --------------- - Major changes to map: - Replace Yahoo maps with Google maps - Add popup bubbles to display geocache/waypoint info when clicked - Introduce new "Map" menu - Add new "show nearby caches" feature to map, which displays the 50 nearest caches (that match current filter criteria) on the map. Users can use the info bubble of the nearby cache to select it - Add ability to pan to currently selected cache or predefined home point from map menu - Only enable hint area if it has content - Reduce font size of description and log areas - Fix description area so that background images don't make text unreadable - When filters change, keep currently selected cache visible in cache list pane - Replace seperate map area status bar with a progress bar on the main status bar - Adjust icon sizes - Add parking, trailhead, and final icons Version 0.12 - Fix issue with Lost and Found Event caches - Fix slow performance on GPX import - Add support to delete caches from database - Add splash screen - Add ability to filter on cache type, container, difficulty, terrain, and placed by via "Additonal Filters" in View menu - Fix database update issue causing missing updates - Fix lost actions while Map loading - Fix cancelling import - Fix cancelling export - Improve import/export dialogs - Fix wrong icon for event caches on map - Center map on home coordinates on startup - Fix display bug with cache names that start with a number and are archived - Rerrange hint and travelbug display, hints now wordwrap Version 0.11 - Delay on filtering when typing - Add Yahoo Maps (street, sattelite, and hybrid maps) support - Fix crash on opening read-only GPX - Fix status label in cache info pane so that it only takes up one line - Add licence file - Update icons to be easier to see
  13. To avoid this thread becoming a long list of OCM bugs and feature requests, please note that there's forums and bug trakkers for OCM here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencachemanage/support
  14. N.B. I'm using my wife's account to comment on this forum, so you're talking to Kyle and not Maddy82.
  15. Thanks for that - and yeah, I read the todo list too and there'll be an impressive set of features on this once finished. May even make me become a Premium Member.... Any chance of opening up some sort of svn access, so I/we can easily update? The SVN is here: svn co https://opencachemanage.svn.sourceforge.net...opencachemanage opencachemanage N.B it's a little behind, as I'm the only one adding stuff in and I've been a little sloppy on committing changes. To get write access to the SVN, you need to click on the "request to join this project" on the develop tab from the project site on soureforge.
  16. It's a bug in the actual startup script where it doesn't set the correct working directory (the .desktop file in the menu does set the right directory before calling ocm-gtk). Importing LOC files for non-premium members is on the todo list, but of course you won't get the benefits of viewing cache logs and such.
  17. Hi I'm half of team maddy82. I'm an Ubuntu user and haven't really been satisfied with what's available to geocachers on the Linux side of things, mostly a combo of command line tools and using QTLandeKarte (the Linux equivalent to Mapsource). I also played a little with Cache901, which is multi platform but not quite what I was hoping for. So being a professional software developer for a living, I've started writing my own program, which is still at an alpha stage but far enough along now that I'm announcing it here. You'll need a GPX enabled machine like a Colorado/Oregon for 0.13, 0.14 will introduce GPSBabel integration. For the Americans, you'll also have to live with metric measurements at this stage. If you have any objections to the mono framework you should probably pass on my app. Project website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencachemanage/ I've just released version 0.13, and will keep updating every Sundayish until I get my todo list done. At that point I'll move the project to a Beta and release .deb packages for Ubuntu and possibly a binary install for other Linux variants. Here's the correct steps for Ubuntu 9.04/9.10. It won't work on Ubuntu 10.04 yet (different version of Webkit, the browser used to show a map), and the steps are different for RPM based distributions like Fedora. Get Additional Dependencies This only needs to be done once 1) Open a terminal window 2) Type "sudo apt-get install mono-gmcs" 3) Type "sudo apt-get install libwebkit1.0-cil" 4) Type "sudo apt-get install libgtkhtml3.16-cil" Build and Install 1) Get the latest Source package from the project site (http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencachemanage/) 2) Extract the file to your home directory or another location 3) Open a terminal window 4) CD into the directory where you extracted the above 5) Type "./configure" 6) Type "sudo make install" Once that is complete, you should see "Open Cache Manager" in your Applications menu under "Internet" You might have issues with GPXs exported from GSAK. Upgrade GSAK to the latest version first. Here are the current still to do items: - Bookmark lists (kinda like GSAK saved filters) - Cache notes - Attributes for GPX 1.0.1 - Import LOC files - Documentation - Process Field Notes from supported devices - GPSBabel integration (coming in 0.14) - Moving caches between DBs - Print a cache listing - Extendibility support for user created tools - Various bugs and tweaks
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