wildlifewriter
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Well, apart from France, and Spain, and Denmark, and about half the countries in EU...
http://www.answers.com/topic/special-membe...ons-with-the-eu
<John Cleese mode>
Yes, yes, OK - but APART from Indonesia, France Spain, the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, Kashmir, Uzbekistahn, Tibet, Korea, Argentina, Sudan, Gambia, the Dominican Republic, Antarctica, AND Cyprus...
... what have the Romans ever done for US?
-Wlw
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That document clearly says the CI are not part of the UK, yet every map I've looked at in the last ten seconds shows them in the UK.
We're just going to have to get over it - and don't expect any sympathy from anywhere else in the world.
As far as I know, the UK is the only place where these blithering discussions take place. (Apart from Indonesia and Cyprus.)
All other sovereign nation states know exactly who and what they are, and which bits of them are which.
-Wlw
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A minor fault, but it's important to us...
For caches located in Ireland, the "alternative" location format on cache pages should be in Irish Grid.
Since the last raft of changes, the position is now shown in UTM. This doesn't match local Irish mapping.
Can the original functionality be restored, when convenient?
TIA
-Wlw.
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(etc) The use of the word Ireland is incorrect to begin with.
You should know better, NH.
The name* of the State is "Ireland ("Eire") - It is not "The Republic of Ireland" or the "Irish Free State" or anything else.
The use of the name entirely and unexceptionably correct.
-Wlw.
* Cited: The Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht Na hÉireann) 1937, Article 4.
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Rather short notice.
As a founder member of the Geocaching Literary Brigade, I have to ask - is there any extra money in this?
-Wlw
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It just makes one wonder about claimed accuracy and makes a nonsense out of WAAS/EGNOS, at least sa far as geocaching is concerned.
Don't get carried away, now.
Your conclusions about information displayed, while moving, don't have implications for the correct operation of the whole system.
-Wlw
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There IS a "Wlwpoint" which will pick up caches on Shetland as well..
N55º 36.700 W004º 48.780 Radius: 650 KM
-Wlw
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(Cherbourg might be just inside - hard to say).
I'm afraid there was a typo in my original waypoint (now corrected.)
Should have been: N54º42.749 W005º16.594
Apologies for any confusion caused to cachers in Cherbourg, even though they're only French.
-Wlw
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Apparently the BT338 bluetooth GPS has the facility to switch this function off but we're curious to know if the latest handhelds have switchable Static Navigation as we've not seen the term mentioned in various specs..
If you asked Garmin this question* they would tell you that their "modern" range of handhelds don't need a user-configurable mode - because they handle it automatically.
In a sense, this is true: the filtering and correction on these devices is very sophisticated these days. However, there's little doubt that compromises are made. I can see this quite clearly by comparing (walked) track logs from my iQue 3600 and (oldish) eTrex Vista, on the same route.
Filering in the Vista is obviously optimised for low-speed work, whereas the iQue leans towards operation in a vehicle.
The issue has re-surfaced because these new Sirf chipsets are so sensitive - allegedly - but in fact I believe that the different modes available are there so that OEMs can configure the chips for different applications.
-Wlw.
* In an ideal world. In the real world, it's almost impossible to get a sensible answer to such questions out of Garmin.
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I was coming to the same conclusion. I recall someone saying they included all the other countries, presumably for similar reasons.
Of course, doing this still wouldn't pick up wlw's example of a Dublin cache being in Germany.
No, but there's a ridiculously easy solution to all this: ignore "countries" completely.
A query with these parameters...
*Any Type, *Any Container, *Is active, *From origin - By coordinates: N54º42.749 W005º16.594 - Radius of: 600 KM
... will pick up every active cache in the British Isles (except Shetland) in a single PQ.
-Wlw
[EDIT: corrected coordinates.)
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So the question is: do the Irish cachers have a "policy" on what country they describe their caches as being in? Or don't you mind? In proximity searches it won't matter, but PQs based on country will return incomplete data unless both UK and Ireland are chosen.
There's no "policy" on this, because the choice of country is just a selection from a drop-down list on the submission page. Until very recently, this cache which is just south of Dublin, was marked as "Germany". (Because it was placed by a German cacher, presumably)
My own 16 caches in Northern Ireland are all listed as "Ireland", for a very good reason - the grid location format. If it was listed as "UK", the format would be shown as British Grid, which is misleading and incorrect.
The whole island of Ireland uses one single OS grid for mapping. (This factor is no longer relevant, since GC.com have now changed it to UTM co-ordinates without telling anybody.)
Technical considerations aside, the choice of country still largely depends on an individual's archaic tribal loyalties and superstitions. (As does everything else, here.)
Keeping politics out of Geocaching in Ireland has been a problem in the past, and no doubt it will be a problem for the foreseeable future.
-Wlw.
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Is this now GC.com policy? You have to use the feature for additional coords?
Nope. What I wrote was "would like to see..."
Here in the British Isles, our reviewers are extremely good guys. If they would like to see something included on a cache page, we don't like to disappoint them if it's at all avoidable.
Aside from which, first indications are that the issue with PQs is resolved, so we're good to go.
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If they're marked private, that shouldn't be a concern.
It is the usual language problem, I see.
My concern does not relate to the privacy or otherwise of the waypoints - it relates to the fact that the PQs aren't working properly.
-Wlw
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I'm becominging increasingly concerned about this, too.
At present, my new multi-cache is delayed in the approval queue because the Reviewer - quite reasonably - would like to see its intermediate waypoints being input using the new facility, rather than just listed on the cache page.
For my part I'm unwilling to do this, because - also quite reasonably - I don't want searchers to get the information, scrambled in a faulty PQ file.
-Wlw.
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The only way to know for sure is open the PQ in Wordpad (or equivalent) to see what is REALLY there.
This has been done, already.
It is not a GSAK problem. (See my post above in this thread.)
-Wlw
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I predict a new version of GSAK shortly
I predict a new version of PQ program, shortly - and I take back all the horrible things I said about GSAK.
GSAK is fine - but there's a problem with the PQs. See this post for more info.
I very strongly suggest that people should NOT load the "additional waypoints" GPX file into GSAK or Cachemate, until this has been investigated.
-Wlw
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A possible problem...
The whole "Extra-waypoints-in-a-PQ" thing appears to be broken. These extracts are taken from a PQ which was generated yesterday - there are multiple waypoints in the file which all have the same waypoint name. Examples...
<wpt lat="55.9313" lon="-3.25648333333333"> <time>2006-01-19T19:20:40.1230000-08:00</time> <name>HHRYKC</name> <cmt>Stenhouse Crescent/Ford’s Road</cmt>
<wpt lat="55.9140666666667" lon="-3.3986"> <time>2006-01-19T19:09:55.6530000-08:00</time> <name>HHRYKC</name> <cmt>Parking</cmt>
<wpt lat="55.9171333333333" lon="-3.39513333333333"> <time>2006-01-19T19:12:24.0130000-08:00</time> <name>HHRYKC</name> <cmt>Parking</cmt>
<wpt lat="55.946" lon="-3.15385"> <time>2006-01-19T19:29:05.3430000-08:00</time> <name>HHRYKC</name> <cmt>Parking</cmt>
The first of these applies to cache GCRYKC. The others are from a different cache - possibly GCHK62
The fault does not appear if the GPX file is downloaded from the individual cache page, so it seems to be a problem associated with PQ generation.
Jeremy: e-mail me if you need additional details of this sample.
-Wlw.
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Just seen on another forum..... wait for it.....
"Garmin Topo Great Britain will be priced at £149 for full UK Mapping and will be available towards the end of Jan/beginning Feb. " Can't believe it, but that's what it said.
Well, it's not "full UK mapping", so maybe they got the price wrong as well...
-Wlw
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I dunno how that letter 'Y' got in there! I've only just noticed it. I was going to edit it, but then changed my mind...I think its quite a good description of people who do this actually!
It certainly is - and, like SP, I fully intend to appropriate it at the earliest opportunity.
Ok, so maybe I could have phrased 'You do not need to take the cairn apart' a bit better, but you would really have to see the area firstIt wouldn't have made any difference. Stupid people will do stupid things, no matter what wording they encounter. And people (stupid or otherwise) will still attempt the cache without reading the page in full, first. There's not much that can be done about this.
-Wlw
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Anyone else noticed that background images dont work anymore ?
I think they're still there - but the new CSS makes a cache page fill the whole display area, so backgrounds aren't visible any more.
'Tis the March of Progress...
-Wlw
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The whole of Ireland missed off also, why do they do that? It's annoying that they do especially when the mapping agencies of all 3 areas work closely together.
Denmark is missed off as well.
This could be because the product is TOPO Great Britain.
When TOPO Ireland is released, it will probably have Ireland on it. (Though this is not likely to happen any time soon.)
-Wlw.
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As forecast weeks ago on the GeoX forum, Garmin have now got round to launching this long-awaited mapping product. Details can be found HERE. There's an online previewer which can be accessed from that page (Top right). The map uses OSGB terrain data (it says, here.) Looks quite reasonable, and perhaps better than Magellan's equivalent - which, to be fair, is a much older product.
The bad news...
(1) No coverage of Northern Ireland or the IOM, (But we expected that.)
(2) US listed price: an eye-watering 300 dollars. No UK pricing as yet, but it'll be the usual rip-off.
-Wlw.
[edited for correct link]
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I'm sure you do check your caches many times; I also do, but I admit mistakes/problems. One cache which I own has particular bad coordinates, due to several reasons: (etc)
I understand now.
You have an attitude to the presentation of your caches, which you assume everyone else adopts, also.
This is not always the case.
If there is a factor which adversely affects the co-ordinates, I either eliminate it or calculate a correction for it.
In the unlikely event of a mistake, I don't have to admit it - I just fix it. Once all this is done and checked, and checked again, the cache is ready to be listed.
Because of this attention to detail, I can make the claim that you originally objected to AND stand over it.
-Wlw
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As for cheek, thought he was just giving an opinion, or is it that only one persons opinions count.
He has just as much right to his opinion as I have.
His opinion was wrong - and the way he chose to express it was... ill considered.
-Wlw
Wanted...garmin Mapping Software
in United Kingdom and Ireland
Posted · Edited by wildlifewriter
I'd agree with Garmin - short of almost destroying the unit, it IS impossible.
Most people who think their basemap has gone, have only switched it off.
Go into the "Map Setup" menu, click on the <i> icon, and see if the basemap is still listed. If so, there should be a checkmark beside it. Click on this with the clicky-stick to restore the basemap.
-Wlw