cougarox
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(reference to unauthorized application removed by Groundspeak) is the best android app by far and its free. So use it until the official one comes out
I agree about the "unauthorized application removed by Groundspeak" but you do run the risk of getting your account frozen out for "site scraping". At least that is what I have been able to glean is the reason for its being unauthorized...
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Hi There, I am interested in using my Motorola Droid as a stand alone GeoCaching tool. What is the best application out there currently (I don't mind paying, just want it to be user friendly and accurate!). Thanks in advance!
CacheMate is probably the most full-featured app for the Droid, but I have found it to be more difficult to use than the old Palm version that I had before. GeoBeagle is OK, and works pretty well, also, proving you have data coverage.
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Nevermind, I found a way to do it.
Hi John,
Mind sharing what you found? I have a droid and would love to do Wherigo while I'm out caching.
I am interested in how that was/is done as well. There doesn't seem to be much for the geocaching Droid owner out there
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It WILL go back to "normal", if you just leave it alone. The parser does not alter your descriptions. It just affects the html code that's set out to browsers. What's in the database remains untouched. Once the parser comes back on line, everything will look as it did before. If you're not seeing that, you're probably looking at a locally cached version of the page. Do a hard refresh, and that should clear it up.
Thanks, guys, for the additional information, and the exhortation to leave it alone. I will try to do that, even if people email me and say my listings are broken
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For the past several months, intermittently, my HTML on my cache listings seems to get rewritten by a server process and as a result gets all mucked up. It acts as if I hadn't clicked the 'Listing contains HTML' checkbox. In particular (the most annoying part) any external links lose their <a href=... and </a> with the result being that what once was a link now appears as "http://www.xyz.org/..." <SNIP> Is anyone else having these issues?
Yes, that is a common issue. The HTML parser sometimes goes wacky and usually the <a href> tags stop working right. Sometimes within minutes or a bit longer the problem is corrected and life is good again. It happened yesterday shortly after the site update, but was fixed quickly.
I can actually live with that, if the listings would "go back to normal". What I find disturbing is that they don't seem to, and when I go in to fix a link (i.e., by adding the <a href= and replacing > with > ) it reverts to the strippeddown/modified version as often as not. Maybe my caches just get stuck in the parser's craw and it can't cough them out
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I have a question about the HTML on my listings, so I decided to throw in with this thread. For the past several months, intermittently, my HTML on my cache listings seems to get rewritten by a server process and as a result gets all mucked up. It acts as if I hadn't clicked the 'Listing contains HTML' checkbox. In particular (the most annoying part) any external links lose their <a href=... and </a> with the result being that what once was a link now appears as "http://www.xyz.org/..." For example, the coordinate checker I use for my puzzles ends up being a really long string of gobbledygook (not really, but that's how it looks) with all of the parameters (e.g., &name="name" get rewritten to &name="name")
Most folks, even if they know enough to copy what looks like the link text and paste it into a browser's address bar, will get a 404 or other error because the server on the other end doesn't know about changing a & back to a plain old &. This is just one example, and the links seem to be the most egregious, but I have noticed it with other pretty vanilla HTML commands and formatting codes like image insertions (for images hosted on Groundspeak's own image servers, no less!). I have to admit that I am getting a little tired of having to go back in all the time to fix the code on multiple listings, just to have it get rewritten again :/ FWIW, I usually just type the HTML out manually, but on longer listings sometimes use Dreamweaver with 4.01 Transitional coding/validation... Is anyone else having these issues? -
Hmmm...no response...I wonder if this is a sign of Geocaching.com's demise? I guess I will just have to start 'TerraCaching' instead?
You might want to check out the Terracaching site, if only to see how good we have at geocaching.com. I'm registered at both, but hardly do any terracaching due to the unmitigated and unrelenting kludginess and frustration of that site. And I am at least nominally a techie!
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Not sure if this is what you're looking for.
http://gsak.net/google/polygoneditor.html
http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...p;#entry3535926
That second link turned up the exact thread I was thinking about (notice my own post a couple obove the one you sent me to.) Thanks heaps!
Props to Clyde (again)! Google Earth is lame for making a route with more than a beginning and an end, and MapSource, Streets &Maps, etc. aren't much better geocaching-wise. But Clyde's polygon doodad, that ROCKS
Thanks for posting the link!
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Is it me, or has the site started to totally randomize the order of cache find logs (and note logs...) when one goes to My Account?
I know it used to be a reverse order of when you logged them, but the other day I did five or six caches, and wrote a note log, and the actual order that they show up on the "My logs (last 30 days)" for that day is completely random, not reverse, not forward, no relation to the order I wrote those logs.<snip>
I too have been noticing all of what you mention, and I *guess I'm glad I'm not the only one. I hope that this is just a random (sic) occurrence, and that things will return to the way they were. What's the point of going for "special" caches for milestones if all the logs show up willy-nilly? ... Well, I guess we should be glad that they show up at all, otherwise we might as well join that subset of cachers that just go out and find caches without ever logging anything.
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WoW! Thanks you, thank you, thank you - these are awesome and a wonderful replacement for the map on my 60CS [
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Sadly there are very few caches in downtown Seattle that can handle a TB. One comes to mind. Although ii is a puzzle, A Criminal Education is large enough and the puzzle is not that hard. I have not done that cache, but it does come highly recommended.
Thanks, WeightMan - I will definitely try that one, and the GC HQ as well - what a cool cache!
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I've just found my 200th cache and wanted a My Finds Query of this to take a look through the stats etc before I log any further caches. However, having logged my 200th and waiting a short amount of time, the My Finds query does not include these latest finds! Now as I cannot run this query for another week I will not be able to get the query I had hoped for, which is frankly quite annoying!!
Why does this query not contain all my finds? I assume I am too quick after logging, however it would have been nice to have some kind of warning so this wouldn't have happened!
I had the exact same thing happen to me Sunday night, with the same annoyance result. It is a bummer to have to wait for another week to get "my finds" or to have to resort to a whole bunch of work in GSAK to get something that approximates the result of that query.
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I'm using some free ticket vouchers to fly to Seattle for a week at the end of June, and I'm looking for recommendations. My wife, my three kids (ages 7-14) and I will be traveling.
What caches would you recommend?
Restaurants?
Hotels?
Attractions? (I have a guide and have researched the standard stuff. Anything offbeat?)
Day trips? (I'm thinking of kayaking one day. Know any good guides/rental places?)
Is there anything you wouldn't recommend?
At this point, we're open to any suggestions. Is a car needed to get around? I'm thinking we could go car-less around the city for a couple of days, but would be necessary for day trips.
Horning in on your thread here a bit, I hope you don't mind. I'm going to be in Seattle as well, June 10-13 - but sadly on conference at the Marriott downtown, and will probably only have a couple of hours here and there, plus evenings to go caching. But I *will* go caching
So, in doing my queries on the area I'll have easy access to, it looks as if there are a slew of puzzles and micros, but hardly anything in the way of regular caches to drop the batch of TBs that want to come with me off, or to trade them out. Am I missing something? Do you all have any cache recommendations for someone who's going to be hoofing it downtown?
Thanks to everyone who has replied to CacheNCarryMA with the attraction/ restaurant recommendations, I'll look some of those up. I wish I could get further afield, and spend more time there ... *sigh
I would actually prefer it if the system would just output the raw unfiltered HTML rather than rewriting the code when it has a choking fit...
Garmin GPS 64s Preloaded Geocaches issues
in GPS technology and devices
Posted · Edited by cougarox
Agreed with Lil Devil. This procedure works.
A little background: My 64s is a (rapid) replacement/upgrade from the 62stc I got to replace my workhorse DeLorme PN-60, itself a replacement for a G-60Cs. The 64s is a big improvement over the 62stc, which was probably a lemon. It only (sort of) worked for about 10 days.
Base Camp appears to work better when deleting content from the internal drive or SD card, especially when you are dealing with GPX files; the 64s makes "current" .gpx files which can be confounding. I haven't seen this behavior while using .ggz files, which you can just delete using your choice of file explorer. The "search for" function seems like a poorly implemented afterthought. It is easier to find caches using a filter, and if they are farther away, using the map and scrolling in/out and around (setting cache sensitivity distance to a mile or so out helps here).
As for loading caches to the unit, I have had the best results using lignumaqua's GarminExport macro in GSAK, and selecting GGZ on the SD card. You can filter out caches you don't want (e.g., unsolved puzzles) and export just about as many caches as you want to the unit, avoiding the GPX 5,000 waypoint limit. I presently have all of the caches I qualify for/have solved and not found yet in my state loaded up this way; that's about 9,400 of them, ranging from a mile to about 300 miles out, in one file. Not sure how many GGZ files you can load before the unit chokes, but fewer is probably better as far as boot up/indexing times are concerned.
So far, the GSAK forum has been the most helpful with figuring out how to operate this GPSr. If it was a computer, it would be a Mac. My DeLorme is more like a *nix or Windows box. YMMV.