Doc Geo

I am a premium member. If I go to My Profile, it shows log activity for the previous 30 days. If I click on any of those geocaches (or any others), when the page for that geocache displays, it shows no logs. There is a link to "View Logbook", but when I click on the link, it still displays no logs ("No Logs Found"). This happens in IE 9 and the latest version of Chrome also so I don't think it's a browser setting. I can't find any kind of user setting preference that would change this behavior. Can anyone solve this for me?

But the problem is, you still can't look at all the "non-found", existing caches in GE! Here is my desire: I want to find large concentrations of geocaches - preferably those series that are along a road. Texas is a really big state! I want to look at the gc.com KML file in GE so I can see where those series are. But I don't want to see the ones I have found. (It would be nice if I could filter out Mystery caches also...) I sure wouldn't want to have to create the PQs to encompass all the geocaches that I haven't found for the state of Texas or any where else! So all the discussion about how to put PQ's into GE doesn't really help because if I have a PQ, I created it and already know what is in it and where the caches are (because I already opened it in MapSource to see the results of the PQ.) With GE, I can scroll back and forth until I find the right series at least... I can't create a PQ to satisfy my requirements because I don't know where those series are. Ok, I think y'all get the drift... question is, does Groundspeak? How hard can it be? I'd gladly pay $5 a month for GC.COM membership to be able to filter results in GE.... Barry aka Doc Geo

I tried to do this once. I was denied.

Just once so far. I'm taking part in an adventure race. Me and three other guys are bushwhacking up a hill trying to find a checkpoint in Pedernales Falls State Park. Within 2 feet of me is a tree stump that looks hollow with a large rock in it. I'm thinking, "That's suspicious... surely it can't be...." IT IS! An ammo can under a rock in a hollow stump! I was laughing to myself... and trying to sign the log quickly as my teammates got further away (it was a race after all)....

As a software developer in Ausitn and an avid geocacher, I sure hope Groundspeak will come to Austin to teach us how to use the builder and anything else they deem important so that we can develop great cartridges for GPS owners to use.

So is the scale of the topo maps that come loaded in the 400t 24K? If not, what is it? Barry aka Doc Geo

DOH! I knew that, but was prethinking the "C" type.... I need to work on one thought at a time I guess.... Yes, Inland Waterways....

Something I have wanted Garmin to do for quite a while now and I know we would all love is to have a "waypoint type" proximity alarm. So, instead of having a proximity alarm for a selected waypoint or geocache, you can set the alarm to go off if you come within a set distance of a waypoint "type". This would come in great if you set the type to Geocache, Fuel station, Food, etc... then you just drive and it will let you know when you have come within that distance. With the Wherigo functionality, it seems something like this should not be a problem...

It's hard? To remember three letters? T = Topographical map (from Garmin web site) I = Intercoastal (meaning not saltwater) map (from Garmin web site) C = Is the last one (saltwater) Not sure why they picked C though... If you can remember your address, phone number, birthdate, etc... I'm sure you can remember these three letters. And really you don't even need to remember them. Just decide which one you want and forget the others....

It's hard? To remember three letters? T = Topographical map (from Garmin web site) I = Intercoastal (meaning not saltwater) map (from Garmin web site) C = Is the last one (saltwater) Not sure why they picked C though... If you can remember your address, phone number, birthdate, etc... I'm sure you can remember these three letters. And really you don't even need to remember them. Just decide which one you want and forget the others....

I'd love to tinker around with this since I am a computer programmer... Just wondering... any docs for the builder anywhere? Barry aka Doc Geo Austin, TX

What a great topic! We have been using a 1999 Ford F-150 (2WD) for years... But in the market for another vehicle and I would love for it to be an "economical" 4WD that WILL go anywhere....

Especially since it has a picture viewer... "What? A picture viewer, but no camera? Sheesh!"

It was I, Doc Geo, and wife, looking for a cache at night (back in 2005) when I looked up after crouching under some branches and put the end of a dried-out cedar branch in my eye. I couldn't see out of it for hours. I figured it will either get better or it won't and there was nothing I could do about that then so we did some one-eyed caching, and then I got talked into going to the emergency room. They gave me a tetanus shot, antibiotics and stained the eye so they could see that I had a corneal abrasion.... Please! If you must bushwhack at night without eye protection, look up first, THEN step forward... (not the other way around) Doc Geo

Hear! Hear! I'm not sure I remember what normal is... What "will" I do now that I have a free weekend... AZCacheMeister, I like you style... If you ever get to Austin, we need to go on a geocaching tour.... Several challenging caches here and Austin is a "cache-rich environment". Just read the note saying we have until Friday to log our finds, so I guess my last post counts after all.... If I had known that, I would have stayed in Houston longer....

Well, I got home in time to log my finds from Sunday in Houston, only to find our power had gone out due to the storm I drove through to get home. At 1 am I decided it was getting late so went to bed. I guess these won't be counted, but it wasn't my fault. Either way, I'm posting them for the record. This was fun, but I don't think I'll be doing this again... way too expensive... and there aren't anymore within a couple hours drive near me anyway... (Edit): Oh, I read that we have until Friday to log our finds. Cool! AW4705, REG AW4704, REG AW5489, REG AW5490, REG AW5491, REG AW5492, REG AW5493, REG AW5494, REG AW5495, REG AW5496, REG AW5497, REG AX2545, REG AW4437, REG AW5545, REG AW6887, REG AW5544, REG AW6888, REG AW4264, REG AW4263, REG AW6880, REG AW6882, REG AW4175, REG AW4174, REG AW4172, DNF *** AW4217, REG AW4169, REG AW4166, REG AW4219, DNF *** AW5472, REG AW4231, REG AW5473, REG AW5470, DNF *** AW4721, REG AW6957, REG AW6956, REG AW5447, REG AW1830, REG

From Saturday... BL1613, REG AW1908, REG AW5444, REG AW1906, REG AW5443, DNF *** AW1905, REG AW1910, DNF *** AW1899, REG AW2180, REG AW2178, REG AW5416, REG AW4547, REG AW4550, REG AW1897, REG AW2176, REG AW2173, REG AW6980, REG AW5415, REG AW6979, REG AW2170, REG AW0134, REG AW0135, REG AW0258, REG AW0132, REG AW5500, REG AW5413, REG AW2166, REG AW5411, REG AW2161, REG AW2159, REG AW5480, REG AW4688, REG AW4690, REG AW4693, REG AW4698, REG AW4798, REG AW4768, REG AW4730, REG AW6973, REG AW6964, REG AW4733, REG AW4792, REG AW4199, REG Now, back our for some more....

To start off the weekend: BM1005, DNF BM1009, REG BM0982, REG

(This was posted on the NGS Forum as well.) Ok, I am really confused. I recently found two disks AX0798 and AX0797 (photos are included at these links). The datasheets say they were both monumented in 1966 but both disks are stamped 1943 and the culverts they were both on look old enough to be 1943. I can not find anything on the NGS site for these two disks. Can anyone help? I don't know what else to do with these to identify exactly what I found. The links to their datasheets are: AX0797 and AX0798 . Barry Watson

Ok, I am really confused. I recently found two disks AX0798 and AX0797 (photos are included at these links). The datasheets say they were both monumented in 1966 but both disks are stamped 1943 and the culverts they were both on look old enough to be 1943. I can not find anything on the NGS site for these two disks. Can anyone help? I don't know what else to do with these to identify exactly what I found. The links to their datasheets are: AX0797 and AX0798 . Barry Watson

I probably shouldn't have gone out with the thunderstorms, but decided to get one more weekend in. I had to seek out something to park under for about 4 hours but fortunately had brought my laptop with me so I was able to keep busy. As I drove around, I saw lots of flooding. Since I was doing mainly culverts today (Sunday), you will see some of the flood waters being drained off in the pictures. You might not be able to read AX1112 (seems to have been vandalized with a hammer) and a couple seem to have the wrong year in the datasheet for when the benchmark was placed (AX0798, AX0797). AX0171, REG AX0170, REG AX0183, REG AX0177, REG AX0142, REG AX0100, REG AX0103, REG AX0104, REG AX0130, REG AX2663, REG AX0212, REG AX1112, REG AX1111, REG AX1110, REG AX1109, REG AX1107, REG AX1101, REG AX1108, REG AX1106, REG AX1104, REG AX1103, REG AX1102, REG AX1096, REG AX0459, REG AX0456, REG AX0609, REG AX0799, REG AX0798, REG AX0797, REG AX2820, REG AH7395, REG AX1743, REG AB2314, REG AX2835, REG AX2836, REG AX2841, REG AX2842, REG AX2362, REG AX2829, REG AX2831, REG AX2354, REG AX2353, REG AX2351, REG AX2349, REG Are we there yet?....

Not exactly correct...portrait modes will tend to use a larger aperature, and then by nature a higher shutter speed. The larger aperature will tend to throw the background out of focus, which is pleasing in a portrait because it draws attention to your subject. However, your focus point will still be sharp. My wife has a point and shoot that I often use for benchmarking because it's easier to haul around than one of our SLRs. As piper28 previously mentioned, macro modes can work better because they are designed for closer work. On ours, it's designated by a picture of a flower. While doing close work like photographing benchmarks, the camera will often have trouble auto focusing if in one of the standard modes. Now back to our regularly scheduled thread. Yes, I put my digital SLR (Canon D20) about a foot or two above the disk but I have a zoom lens on it (comes in very handy for taking pictures of disks through chainlink fences...) so I don't have to go to macro mode. The problem I used to have is night pictures. In my auto mode, the camera will pop the flash up and send several short blasts of light to illuminate the object so it can focus on it. Works great when taking the close up pic of the disk, but when I back off and try to get a pic of it and the setting around it, the camera won't focus because there's not enough light from the mini-flashes to illuminate the scene. Solution: Shine my flashlight at the center of the scene. Now the camera has enough light to focus with and the flashlight beam is mostly washed out by the camera's flash when it goes off.... Barry aka Doc Geo

DOH! I didn't look closely enough at the NGS Vertical Control. You're right - part of it is actually covered up. Never mind on that one...

A different version of the NGS Vertical Control Mark AX0018 Not sure if you want non-disk benchmarks or not. Here is a great chiseled square in a block of stone marked, USBM AX0038 Another non-disk: Bolt surrounded by USBM BM0356 Here's a good new one from the State of Texas: Reclamation Department ! AX0991 (TX) State of Texas - Reclamation Department - Austin AX1286 (US) U.S. Geological Survey - Pipe Cap Not sure what to make of this one. The datasheet says it's an Azimuth Disk, but they used a "Triangulation Station" disk (it is so stamped). But even so, you don't appear to have this disk listed... BM0534 (US) National Geodetic Survey - Triangulation Station

Sorry to do this to 2 nice old farts.... (Edited... oh, I think I forgot to take out the ones where the disk was missing...) AX1201, DNF *** AX2792, REG AX2785, REG AX2784, REG AX0950, REG AX0956, REG AX2783, REG AX1222, REG AX1224, REG AX1228, REG AX1226, REG AX1230, REG AX0959, REG AX0963, REG AX0967, REG AX0969, REG AX0974, REG AX0580, REG AX0584, REG AX0582, REG AX0688, REG AX2760, REG AX0687, REG AX0686, REG AX0583, REG AX0753, REG AX0756, REG AX0758, REG AX0593, DNF *** AX0595, REG AX0596, REG AX0597, REG AX0598, REG AX0599, REG AX0600, REG AX0821, REG AX0820, REG AX0818, REG AX0812, REG AX0677, REG AX2761, REG AX0690, REG AX0692, REG AX0822, REG AX2612, REG AX1605, REG AX1606, REG AX1812, REG AX1601, REG AX1599, REG AX1597, REG AX1730, REG AX1300, REG AX1297, REG AX1294, REG AX2583, REG AX1293, REG AX1292, REG AX1360, REG AX1359, REG AX1358, REG AX2413, REG AX1357, REG AX1355, REG AX1354, REG AX1394, REG AX1352, REG AX1351, REG AX1349, REG AX1348, REG AX1347, REG AX1346, REG AX1342, REG AX1335, REG AX2314, REG AX2315, REG AX2312, REG AX2311, REG AX2310, REG (I had a good day/night Saturday...)