walkergeoff and wife

Does it matter what postcode? Sometimes errors come because gc.com is down. I have been using FF3 for a while now with no problems. What is the error message on the page?

I posted this on a similar thread some years ago: Yesterday, my geocaching troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay Oh, I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, I'm not half the cacher that I used to be, There's a DNF hanging over me. Oh, yesterday came suddenly. {Refrain} Why I failed to find I don't know, I couldn't say. I got the co-ords wrong, Now I long for yesterday. Yesterday, caching was such an easy game to play. Now to find this cache I need a way, Oh, I believe in yesterday. {Refrain} Yesterday, caching was such an easy game to play. Now to find this cache I need a way, Oh, I believe in yesterday Mm mm mm mm mm

Have you a link? I checked the Smittyware page and the one for the Palm is still the same version. Maybe it's only the Windows version that has been updated.

I agree entirely. Help should be privately sought, either from PAF (email AF) or from the setter himself.

Get well soon - my man flu has nearly gone now. I've had it a week! Anyhow - best get this back on topic! Is money no object but don't like running costs? Go waterproof windows PDA. Still flush with money and don't mind running costs? Buy mobile phone with GPS. Like technology, but don't like running costs and not flush with money - go cheap windows PDA. Like technology, but don't like running costs, not flush with money and don't need/want electronic mapping and like decent battery life? - go Palm PDA. That is what I see the various options are - its just what you want. Others will know as I prattle on far too much on these here forums, but I use the Palm PDA, separate GPSr and paper (laminated!!) map solution. I do exactly the same! Maps have several big advantages: You get the big picture; they don't have batteries to run down, and they never crash or need rebooting! Amazingly they're not quite flawless.

Get well soon - my man flu has nearly gone now. I've had it a week! Anyhow - best get this back on topic! Is money no object but don't like running costs? Go waterproof windows PDA. Still flush with money and don't mind running costs? Buy mobile phone with GPS. Like technology, but don't like running costs and not flush with money - go cheap windows PDA. Like technology, but don't like running costs, not flush with money and don't need/want electronic mapping and like decent battery life? - go Palm PDA. That is what I see the various options are - its just what you want. Others will know as I prattle on far too much on these here forums, but I use the Palm PDA, separate GPSr and paper (laminated!!) map solution. I do exactly the same! Maps have several big advantages: You get the big picture; they don't have batteries to run down, and they never crash or need rebooting!

On the link you provided Geoff - it's £7.99 inc P&P for the paper map or £14.99 for the laminated one... Asda at £8.73 for the laminate (active map) still seems to be better value or have I missed a trick / something obvious? No you haven't missed a trick - I am sure that it was £7.19 when I first looked, and I had missed that Asda was the laminated map. My excuse - a heavy cold! I am going crazy - I have just checked the Aqua site again, and it is £7.19 again - but for the paper map, not the laminated. But the Asda paper map is a lot cheaper too!

On the link you provided Geoff - it's £7.99 inc P&P for the paper map or £14.99 for the laminated one... Asda at £8.73 for the laminate (active map) still seems to be better value or have I missed a trick / something obvious? No you haven't missed a trick - I am sure that it was £7.19 when I first looked, and I had missed that Asda was the laminated map. My excuse - a heavy cold!

Okay - this is how I do it. I hope fellow geocachers will appreciate the advice. I go to the Ordnance Survey website on this link so I can get the EXACT OS map I want. Importantly - I get the ISBN number. For this example, I click on number 17, Snowdonia. That will bring up this page. On the right hand side you can see the correct ISBN number for the active map for that location. I copy the ISBN number and I paste it into a price searcher website. These include, but are not limited to Google Shopping, Kelkoo or Pricerunner. So, the active map of Snowdonia, OS map 17, with a RRP of £13.99 from the OS has the following results (most prices exclude P&P, but with promotions, you can often get P&P free) from the different price comparison websites (click the sites below to get the results) Google Shopping - £9.23 Kelkoo - I couldn't get it to work - their loss - not mine. Price Runner - £8.73 (inc P&P!) from Asda Tesco - £9.09 (I pasted in the ISBN number into the Tesco.com/books search. It takes 40 seconds to do it, and you save yourself a few bob into the bargain. And you now know where the footpaths are! And it was only £7.19 at Aqua Maps - post free!

As it appears that you are happy to work from normal maps, I've said it before but I'll say it again for the benefit of people with sieve like memories (me included!!) and newbies. I still think a good OS map is still relevant. I use Memory Map at home to plan my routes etc, but when out there I use the OS Active map series. The RRP for these approx £15.00 but you can get them from Tesco books direct for £9.30ish. I've only just had to replace my Snowdonia map (general wear tear depsite the Active laminate coating) after 8 years, (I used to go mountain walking a lot before geocaching) £1.20ish per year is a good return for not getting lost. So £50 - £60 you could get a large amount of your immediate home area covered in paper maps which are weatherproof and foldable (and you can sit on them, kneel on them, use them to cover sharp bits on barbed wire fences) I have had a quick look on Tesco books and cannot find the maps mentioned, or much of a range of maps of the odinary kind. Can you post a link that I may have missed? At the risk of promoting a commercial site, here is where I get mine:

If they get the location right - which they don't. I tend to agree with the other comments.

I think it's up and working. Although it's showing somewhere about 100 miles from where I'm sitting, it's spot on for the datacentre through which my employer contacts the internet. Where is it? I've had a look on some cache pages and on the search page and I can't see it. (Must be old age is getting to me ) The home page. Now I'm in a library in Shifnal, an it's showing me as being on the South Bank! Well. at least you're in a safe place. I am in Binfield, Bracknell, and they have me in the middle of the man Reading to Basingstoke railway line!

I recognised it. I did it in September last year, and thought, at the time, it was a unique hiding place. I spotted it had been archived when I was looking at my found caches listing in GSAK, so when your post came up it rang more than a bell. I don't know whether one can check for archived caches, unless, when using GSAK a database of archived caches could be built, but that is not the same as searching a Groundspeak database.

Well it is a long-term project. While my trusty 12 is still functioning, I can't justify the expense. You can get an awful lot of paper maps for the cost of a new GPSr or PDA!

I think it must be this one: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...69-c4961251a5b6 I am sure the owner will be thrilled to get it back. Details should be in the log book.

Have you considered a PDA with integrated (or Bluetooth) GPS? Then there'd be no problem running Memory Map/Fugawi/whatever, and you're not tied in to the features supplied by the GPS manufacturer. Yes - that is a possibility. Only problem - they don't survive drops as much as my trusted 12 does!

I think the moderator might as well close this thread.

You could look here: 3rd October see post 10. Thanks - I had seen that (and the post was what prompted my question, which I should have put in that thread I suppose), but I was hoping there might be a cheaper option!

I am looking into the possibility of getting a GPSr with mapping capability. Initial investigations suggest that not all of them can handle OS maps. Can anyone either tell me which can, or point me to a resource with this information? Many thanks in advance.

Interesting. When Deceangi archived it all he said was that it would be reactivated when replaced. As the setters are infrequent cachers it is entirely probable that the expected their note to be sufficient. Might a first step be to contact Deceangi for his opinion? He might be willing to unarchive it, given the posts. The you could simply log the find.

btw - how do I know whether I have the latest tools?

Well that is odd - it has just starting working here now. ??????????????????????????????????

Already tried that - no updates, but I tried again. Still no updates. Is yours working?

It seems to have happened after I upgraded to FF 3.02.

Am I the only one to experience the loss of the Greasemonkey forum tools today? They were fine last night when I closed down my PC but this morning none of them are there. Any thoughts?