LordSaw

Assuming that you have one of the later and compatible Topo versions, Save your route (creating an ANR file), Remember where Topo saved it, usually ...\Delorme\Navigation\ and the name you/it gave the file. Open GSAK, Open the Filter Dialog Box, Open the Arc/Line/Poly Dialog tab Click Load from File Find the ANR file you saved from Topo Select and import Put the offset distance in Click on Go That should do it. Cache Well

I'm not sure that this is available in GSAK, I know it will import Delorme Routes but don't think it will import Mapsource routes. Cache Well

I believe the difference is that "Retrieving" results in calculating the mileage as there are coordinates associated with the cache it is retrieved from, where "Grabbing" does not cause mileage calculations, even if it is "grabbed" from a cache. As I said, I believe vs know for sure. Cache Well

Check out this Topic on the Geocaching.com Website Forum. It discusses the same problem Cache Well

That's the way my 76C works, plus, there a setup page that allows you to set the sequence that you want to see when you page through. From any screen Menu/Menu/Setup/ Page Seq. You can add pages, remove pages and move them in the list. Hope this helps Cache Well

This sounds like an interesting idea. One way to proceed would be to create an Instruction Card (Laminated) to attach to each TB. Put the TB number of each both TBs in the instructions. Do not include the tracking number of the other bugs tag. Hope this helps. Cache Well

We had that for a good portion of the early days of geocacing. While the stats might have been imperfect, flawed, and so on, it was fun to call my friend up and rub in that I had more finds in his home town than he did. Of course he has long since rectified the situation, and the loss of stats deprives him of the pleasure of calling me up to tell me how far behind I am. As a side effect it also showed me who was logging (this site has that but not broken out by state) recently so I could call and say "Hey you were down in the city of rocks, hows Joe at the old general store doing?" You could see things that a person was in an area and hit every cache but yours. Perhaps a problem? And so on. There are stats, and things that you can do with the informatino needed to do stats that are also valuable. As for not having a place, that's an opinion, as it happens TPTB share it. You are correct to say it would take resources. All you say probably was great fun, and easy for the site to do back when the hobby was new, but now with 14263 account holders writing 68422 new logs a week, it probably just ain’t possible. I guess my main concern here is that this site cannot be everything to everyone. I think that the main purpose for this site should always be a place for cachers to list hides and finds. Anything that could detract from the ability to do that needs to be evaluated very carefully, before implementation. I know that some people just love to compare themselves to others, this is human nature. I just think that this should be voluntary and should not detract from the ability to use this site for its main purpose. Jeremy’s percentile groupings probably wouldn’t impact the site very much, if done weekly, during a slow time, but anything involving more processing just might. Cache Well

Thats the beauty of it. You can let people decide, and what's popular is what works. There will be good ideas, bad ones, and some middle of the road ones. Alas you do need some freedom to work with the data to work through some of these things. That doesn't exist as of now. It's not any one person or site that will think of everything. Jeremy had a new angle with the percentiles that people enjoyed. You asked "What does it matter" but if that was true then why ask the question? So I'll counter, "What's wrong with doing this for fun?" Back to the percentiles. It may be meaningelss but it would be cool to say, target 50 caches and hit the top 50%. Just as it can be fun to target caches that haven't been found in a long time (Skydiver's point system) etc. To answer your question, I wouldn't split out anything but some basics, and some data. Others will rise to the challenge of other ways to look at things. I like Jeremy's percentile rankings. It allows you to know where you are within the total population, but doesn't compare one person with another. This is not ranking cachers but putting them into buckets. For those that want to compare themselves to others, let them start their own comparisions off site. Individual rankings have no place here. It would take resources needed to keep the site running smoothly. Cache Well.

This is fine, but how would you split it out? How many different ranking categories? Would cachers be allowed to select their category? Would they allowed to participate in multiple categories? How would you categorize a find? Would a find fit into more than one category? Would all cachers automatically be included, even if they didn't care? Could a cacher Opt Out? Would GC.com be responsible for categorizing caches, cachers, finds? How would you manage this? Could it even be automated at all, or would it require personnel to manage the stats? And in the end, what does it all mean? I cache my way, according to the posted guidelines, when I am able to get out and hunt. If enjoy it, what difference if someone else has more or less finds than I do? Again, Cache Well.

GPXSonar uses GPX based files, as a Premium Member you can download these directly to you PC either from the cache page or using pocket queries (PQs). Once in you PC, you can download to you PDA and read them using GPXSonar. I would suggest that you try out Geocaching Swiss Army Knife (GSAK) on your PC as an interviening step, to sort, filter and select results from your PQs. You might want to check out the GSAK Topic on the GPS and Software Forum down lower on the Forum page. Hope this helps. Cache Well Edit: Be sure to select the Zipped file option on you PQ when downloading, saves space and elliminates some email problems. Again Cache Well

As a person who deals professionally with numbers and what they mean in the real world, I have ignored entering these types of discussions as much as possible, although I do enjoy reading them sometimes. Now I think it may be time to throw in my 27 cents (inflation, you know) worth. The problem with trying to establish rankings based on finds logged on caches is the extreme variation of caching methods, logging methods and attitudes of cachers in general. There is no basis for comparison. For the rankings to be meaningful, all participants should follow the same rules for participating. How can one compare a cacher who logs only is finds without logging DNFs, to one who logs a DNF when they didn’t even get out of the car to search. How can one compare teams that log all their finds under the team identity even when they search alone to a cacher who always searches alone? How can one compare finds that while logged by each participant of a team, during a team hunt, with those finds logged by each of that team found separately? It is for these reasons that the numbers are not important. One cannot compare, with any meaningful results, such widely varying subjects. As with all posts about subjective topics, this is just my humble opinion, but here it is for what it’s worth. Cache Well.

I suggest you create as many pocket queries as locations you want to do a quick search, without selecting a day. Then Bookmark you PQ page. When you want to get a quick check from a location, just open the bookmark, click on preview of the desired query, then you have the desired list. Does exactly what you want with a total of two mouse clicks. Hope this helps. Cache Well

The easiest way I can think of to do this would be to create a new database. Then from your merged database create two gpx files, one for the route and one for the radius around the hotel. Next select the blank database and import both files just generated. Now download all caches from this new database to you PDA and to your GPSr. You can delete the temporary database at your leasure. Hope this helps Cache Well

One thing to try is to make sure that on the Send WayPoints to GPS popup window, that the GPS Symbols (in th box on the left side) are correctly identified. Hope this helps. Cache Well

Well, you could just by HIM a 60C or maybe a 76C then just borrow it when you want to go caching. Don't know anything about the Yellow thing, but I don't think that anything you could do through the serial port that still allowed it to communicate with the laptop, would cause this problem. Was the unit warm when you took it out of the case? I get the idea that something happened to the antenna connection. Sorry I couldn't bemore helpful. Cache Well

I considered this, but it may actually cause more confusion since some folks won't know which code to put in there. As a side note, we're considering only selling 1 tag instead of a tag and a copy tag. Since we will be able to print on demand we can always print a new tag number if the first one goes missing. This will also reduce the cost since we only need to manufacture one of them. Of course, you can still have a second tag if you wish, but it will be by request (and cost more). I know folks use the copy tags as keychains and such. Thanks for considering this, I understand that it might cause temporary confusion, but given the attention this topic (improper use of access codes) gets in the TB forum, I just wondered if something could be done to help. Thanks again, I do like the new wording. Cache Well

I personally think that this is an improvement. As I said in another post somewhere, it would be nice if the Tag had both the TBXXXX and the 6 digit, or now 6 character access code on it. This might just prevent the unknowing from posting the access code in the logs. Cache Well Edited to add link.

I don't remember when I first heard that joke, but it was long before the time of GPS. I think it was when I was an aircrewman in the navy. There were a lot of times we refered to the person sitting in the NAV position as an indian, especially when he couldn't get a LORAN fix. Cache Well

Just a thought on this, but I think it would be nice if both the TB#### and the six digit access code were on the TB tag. I realize the difficulties in doing this so I don't see it as having a high probibility of being incorporated. Besides I would probably only remember to write down the wrong number. Cache Well.

Not at all. Don't do it. You gave the primary reason for not doing this. If you see someone doing this I suggest that you email them and politely explain the problem and ask that they edit their log. But please be polite. Cache Well

I think you are on to something here ... I for one would pay to go watch a bunch of drunken geocachers wandering through the woods, attempting to shoot at each other while seeking a cache ... which would preferably be hidden 30 feet up a skinny tree. LOL but please try to keep this on topic. Keep it on a paintball geocache of any type thanks. Shoobie, As stated many times in this thread, a paintball event is not a geocashing event. It doesn't meet the guidelines. While your proposal may be of interest to some cachers, it's primary purpose is not to discuss geocaching, or be anything but a temporary cache that would not be available for all cachers. If you want to try to organize something along these lines, go to a local paintball field and propose it to the owners and use your regional forum to publicize it. Just my thoughts. Cache Well

It's in the first Posting on the second PINNED topic on the TB Forum. See Here Hope this is what you want. Cache Well

I'm not sure I can agree with your statement - I'm not at home - but I know that I have about a dozen red colored cache names - this means that the cache is archived. When I go to one of these caches marked with red color I see that the cache is archived. - screen shot http://gsak.net/help410/hs2000.htm - cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...da&Submit6=Find Now, how is it that I have these marked caches for being archived if we don't get archived cached in the PQ's? Probably because it went temporarily unavailable prior to being archieved, and your PQ update caught that before it was archieved. As I understand it Archieved Caches are no longer included in PQs, but temporarily unavailable caches are. Cache Well

If you are talking about the last few logs on this TB page, the Cacher you are talking about has done a great job of helping a whole lot of TB make progress on their goals. He apparently travels quite a bit and is always moving TBs. He took the first TB I released shortly after I released it, (relatively, based on mileage) and took it on a great trip, dropping and retrieving it in several caches before dropping it in a cache for someone else to pick up. He also helped fulfill part of its goal by taking appropriate photos as requested. He did not hold it, I don't think he holds any for very long, never seen any evidence. Personally, I think he does a great service for the TBs he picks up. Did you bother to read his profile? He is dedicated to helping TBs move, which, after all is the purpose of TBs. If he drops and retrieves the TBs in multilple caches along the way, that just makes most TB owners, and Cache owners happier. Edited to add more thoughts. Cache Well.

You're welcome, It's easy to tell someone how to correct a problem, when you have already made the same mistake. Cache Well