Nils-Olov

Quite easy for me at least. After I received the e-mail with the PQ i unpack the gpx file in the zip file with ark, next I connect my Garmin Oregon with an USB cable and after a while I get a message that the Oregon is connected. Next step is to copy the extracted gpx file to the GARMIN/gpx directory in the Oregon. You might need to delete some old gpx files in the oregon you have copied there before. The Oregon can only handle 2000 caches so you can actually load the gpx files from at least 4 PQs at a time. Hope this will help.

I like it very much! Please make a couple of versions, different metal and / or colour schemes. I would like to buy a set the different versions.

Unfortunately I don't have the artistic ability to draw a picture but I do have an idea: Make the icon shaped as a heart and put a paw print or foot print inside the heart. I hope someone can use the idea in order to join the "real" contest.

The way to search is already designed in order to display the overview on My Profile - Trackables(mine). What is needed is to design the actual XML format and add a new button on the PQ web page. How often I should be allowed to ask for it I will let Groundspeak decide. An other way is that Groundspeak make the map I want to see as an option on the Trackables page.

dakboy: I see your point in being worried for overloading the servers. I do think the situation today is also creating extra load on the servers. I attended an event where a person was talking about how to use GSAK and create a private database for quite a large region. That person was cooperating with several other persons to PQ requests several times a week in order to cover the area and to not miss any logs made to the individual cahes. I think that this kind of use of PQs do create a lot of unnecessary traffic on the servers. I think new services that access the Groundspeak database directly would make the local databases obsolete. There are of course no way to know for sure how new applications will replace old and what traffic / load it it will create. I do have Geocache Navigator on my mobile phone and I also ask for PQs to download to my Garmin Oregon. When I plan a trip I will make a pocket query for the areas I will visit and that will create some load on Groundspeaks server. If I use Geocache Navigator I will ask for ten caches close to where I am and do it over again when I have moved to a new spot. Wich way of using the information will create the largest load of the servers?

I would like to have a special PQ that gives me information on all my travelbugs and geocoins. The information I'm interested in is tre name, in what cache it is in or was last, if it have been retrieved who has it, the icon to represent it on the map. I will use it to show my travelbugs and geocoins on a map. I'm experimenting with that application right now and the information is updated manually. For those who are interested look at http://fson.se/geostat/travelbugmap.html. The application don't work in Internet Explorer so far, please use Firefox, Chrome or Opera.

I think the petition is good. It is not asking Groundspeak to give away anything for free or loosing control over their information, I have signed it because I think an API or web services that any premium member can use will result in a lot of new programs, not only for mobile devices, that will make it more rewarding to cache. That will of course make a lot of people to become premium members. Those of you who don't like the petition don't sign it. But how will the services proposed in the petition harm you that are so against it?

When I joined the geocaching community I accepted the ways it was set up. That includes showing the numbers of caches I and other cachers have have found. Those of you that don't want to be part of the number competition don't join it, I haven't, but I don't mind showing my finds to everyone interested. And when I see someone's finds count I realize that the cacher might have found the caches in different ways, some have found the caches on their own, some have found them in cooperation with one or more other cahers and some might have found them on the map. But I enjoy seeing the figures anyway. Saying that I'm not competing isn't completely true, I do compete, with myself. I try to be better for in some aspect every day. But I prefer to compare myself with - myself! so why shouldn't I want to show the number of finds? Is the reason that I haven't found enough? Is it because I have found to many caches and will be suspected for fraud? None of these questions are relevant. If someone don't accept me and my number of finds that's up to them to be worried. It seems to me that a lot of cachers like me want to show a lot of stastistics on their finds in their public profile. Even some of you who want to suppress the finds count have some bragging in your profile. I guess most of us want to show off a little for those who want to look. But no one is forced to look at the information. I vote for keeping the numbers available for everyone!

Hello geocachers in all countries. I think that geocaching is one way to make the world a little smaller and break down barriers between people in different countries. In order to succeed we must be able to understand each other. I think it should be possible for everyone to cache in all countries of the world and that makes it necessary to use a common language. I'm from Sweden and I always use English when I log a find or present my geocoins. The reason is that I want people that don't understand Swedish should understand me. English may not be the largest primary language but I'm sure it is the largest and most wide spread secondary language. I do think that it's a good idea to have local sites with native languages that introduces people to this hobby. And it seems to exist such sites even in German (and Swedish too). So let the people at Groundspeak.com/geocaching.com concentrate on doing their job as well as possible without the pressure of making the site multilingual. I will also ask everyone that make presentations of hidden caches, geobugs and coins, please add English to the description. I would like to read and understand you when I visit your pages and your hidden cache.

I think it would be a good idea. I have been using Linux for 10 years, different distributions but mainly SuSE. The lack of Linux software made me to write a small application to make some statistics to put in the public profile. I use the 'My Finds' pocket query as input to the program. You may try it out and give me your opinion on what to add and what to change. The application is written in Java so anyone can use it. You will find it at http://fson.se/geostat.

I agree to that the site isn't mission critical and I also agree that it would be a nice feature to have a second server at some other place then the current one. I think that because geocaching is growing it will eventually make it necessary to add capacity to the server. Then a server in some place that minimize the risk of 'single point of failure' would be great. In my opinion I think the service I get is worth the money I pay and I can accept a short downtime now and then.

There are several ways to define an area you want a Pocket Query to get caches from. When there are many caches in an area you are visiting the maximum limit of 500 may be to low and you need to create two or more Pocket Queries. When defining the center and the radius of the areas you will end up with either some caches ends up in both queries or some caches will be outside them all. It would be easier, for me at least, to define rectangular areas, defined by two latitudes and two longitudes. I suggest that this way of defining the area for a Pocket Query will be added to the creation options.

That's correct. I checked his list and the ones we both have found is marked. Thank you!

I have looked at my friends profile and when I see his caches some of them have a 'Found it mark' at the left. why don't all found caches have that mark?