IBcrashen
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I am posting this for someone else on another board, they dont want to register. Thought all the great people here would have more knowledge about this.
"My mother is about to move into her RV and head off around the country. I am trying to help set up her computer system, and could really use some help. This is what I would like it to do:
(1) Navigation - maps, driving directions (on screen and audio), etc...
(2) GPS locator - I'd like to have the GPS tell her computer where it is automatically so we can maintain a website that shows, in as close to real time as possible, where she is.
My considerations are as follows
(a) laptop or stand-alone navigation unit (garmin etc...).
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setup - the navi system itself seems easy, but tying it to a website seems tough. © what navi software is best?
(d) run a gps antenna on the roof, or right at the computer?
I almost forgot - what about an internet service provider (ISP). I see some use cell phones. Is that best? She will have satellite TV - can internet be bundled with that?
What am I missing? What else is there that would make her experience (technology wise) easier and more fun?
Thanks in advance for your help."
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I`ve been getting that also. Took 45 minutes to log 5 finds. Got that error and a couple of others. Kept hitting the back button and then the link again. Finally got them.
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try using google and type this
palm site:www.geocaching.com
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Dont know why pda doesnt work but "palm" brings them up.
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the loc file is for use with easpgps/expertgps to transfer to your gps. plucker should be pointed to the index.html file that gpx2html creates.
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in easygps open up every loc file, highlight the name and drag to one window. Do that for all of them so they are all in one file and send that to your gps.
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The depth should be at least 3.
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Here is a members only cache that fits in here. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=36772
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Originally posted by Renegade Knight:
Can GPX Spinner be made into a stand alone app? QUOTE]
I also have a slow connection speed so I use gpx2html which you can use offline.
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For spinner click on the browse button and find your gpx file and let spinner do its thing. Then in Plucker add a new channel, copy and paste the url that spinner gives you. Most of the settings will be the default settings except for the limit, set that to 4. Run plucker and update the channel and it will put the file in your install on your pda desktop.
For gpx2html:
Put your gpx file in a file with the gpx2html.exe and run it, it will create a html folder. run plucker. click on file/add new channel and name it what ever you want. On the starting page click on "a local file" and browse to the index.html file in the HTML folder. Most of the rest of the settings will be the default except for the limit page, set that to 3. On the formating page you can pick the color for hyperlinks. The image page you can pick the color depth. To run it just highlight the name and click the "update selected channel" the 5 button.
If you want to be able to have caches listed from home you have to create a "reflocation" file and put it in the html folder. open up word pad and type home, and your coords.
Example
Home, 46.734352, -092.17260
[This message was edited by IBcrashen on January 25, 2003 at 04:18 AM.]
[This message was edited by IBcrashen on January 25, 2003 at 04:29 AM.]
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I use GPX2HTML utility and it gives me a hyperlink to the decrypted hints and also gives me the last couple of logs.
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What is your maximum depth set at on the limit page? mine is 4.
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Correction you can change the hyperlink color in Plucker under the format page.
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That file has 100 caches in it. Are you using the newest version of Easygps to open the gpx file?
Get 1.2.2 from http://www.easygps.com/latest.asp
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Thanks fizzymagic. I`ve been using your program for the last week or so and love it. I have a slow modem speed and spinner took a very long time to use. Now I can do it offline.
The only difference I`ve notice is the graphics which I can live without and the hyperlinks aren`t colored like spinners, which I also can live without.
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Make sure you are running the newest version of EasyGPS. 1.2.2 is the newest.
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tjcouch are you trying to open the easypgs program and then open the loc file or are you double clicking on the loc file and then getting the error? I have windows xp, I have easygps in two different folders and one folder it gives me an error message like that and the other folder it runs just fine. I also get that error in one folder when I double click on the loc file and the other folder it will open easygps just fine.
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I just copy and paste it into a new memo on palm desktop and then sync.
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when your batteries die and you dont have any spares on you that compass on the legend wont do you much good.
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get geobuddy, its on the link page. run geobuddy, open the loc file, do a save as and choose the "mapsend waypoint file" as file type. Open mapsource, go to file/import and open the .wpt file.
setup - the navi system itself seems easy, but tying it to a website seems tough.
GPX Spinner 2 released!!
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put the exe file with the gpx file in a folder with all the other files for spinner and then run it.