fratermus
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known to have stalked him The key, however, might turn on their probe of "geocaching," a high-tech treasure-hunt game that could yield vital clues As the media and public mourn the man's tragic loss, the police want to take another look at some of his acting buddies, especially one who never lets go of his Palm Pilot Jamey Sheridan and Courtney B Vance also star.
Ahhh, and paperless caching no less. :-)
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If I didn't find the cache, whether my fault or not, I log it accurately as a DID NOT FIND. There is no other way to log a cache when you didn't find it. Doesn't matter why.
Well, shoot.
We could have just gotten that doctrinal info first and saved ourselves a lot of thoughtful discussion.
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I found the following a very good reference and the software is all free;
This is all fine and dandy, but plucker is a pain in the a**... my method..
PocketQuery from GC.com;
load up in GSAK;
Filter, delete, format, whatever..
GSAK export to Cachmate PDB file;
Get PDB file Hotsync'd to Palm;
Cachmate on Palm reads it.
Simple as a pimple.
{shrug}
I export from GSAK and Plucker picks it up automatically at night (scheduled task) and pushes it to my PDA on the next synch.
Once plucker is set up it can be a "hands off" operation.
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Thread ressurection.
I just recieved my Palm in the brown truck.. anyways. Charged and playing with it..looks like this may be a great caching tool. Beats printing and writing the stuff down, or what not.
CacheMate, awesome. Such a nifty tool. and only like 100K!
GSAK: nag screens by now. Still works great, used it to export to pdb file for CM.
Same here. Got a m500 and a clie s320 (both expandable 8mb units) and am using plucker to make the content for the PDA.
Did my first paperless cache; it was great to have all the info right there.
And while I have plucker set up, I used it to load news/opinion/geeks sites so I always have something to read...
I'm starting to log my thoughts on the PDA thing here.
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anyone know where i can buy a plain bamboo stick about 60" tall that i can turn into a walking stick
I pulled one up on the side of the road a few years back; it's my favorite walking stick.
I put one of those rubber crutches "feet" (round rubber end) on it; makes for sure footing and keeps the bottom from splitting.
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I bid on some PDAs on eBay, and snagged a couple (one for me, one for wife). Got the 8mb expandable Clie s320 for $28 shipped. :-)
Had to pay a bit more for the Palm m500, but that's ok ($41). I'm making the move to paperless caching.
Since the PDAs haven't gotten here yet, I downloaded the the PalmOS emulator off the Palm developer's site (registration required).
Works great. I'm toying with the FS emulator to mount an imaginary SD card and moving plucker/pdb to it to save memory. Pretty neat software. Does graffiti and everything using the mouse. And since it's a dev environment it spots memory leaks and other bad behaviour in software.
If you're half-techie and want to try out Palm paperless caching software without buying a Palm then go grab the emulator...
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Is it possible, or should it be possible, to ignore particular posters on the forums?
Not on this forum. Although it is possible to do, many forums are not set up that way.
I greatly prefer newsgroups to fora, for this and other reasons.
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>Whatever turns your crank.
That was my point.
>Do you buy second-hand clothes too? (they are cheap).
Yes.
Now I'm going to go figure out if this site has a user filter.
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The PDA's this guy at eBay is selling are all Palm units and OLDER models with less memory/functions than today's models. Even though they are cheaper you wouldn't be happy with it.
I would not be comfortable predicting what the poster would and would not be happy with.
BTW, this thread is full of people who appear to be happy with older Palm hardware.
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I use powersave when driving around, and normal when hunting a cache. I'd love to see a shortcut to toggle the two, or a setting to "go to normal mode when within 1/10th mile of destination".
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Hi,
I have a Garmin ETrex Legend and I would like to upload maps from both MapSource and some of my own custom made maps. The problem is, when I use sendmap to upload the custom map, it erases the mapsource maps, and when I use mapsource to upload the commercial maps, it erases the custom maps. Anyone know a way around this so I can have both worlds and be happy? TIA.
Yes, upload them together.
The trick is figuring out which Garmin map goes with what. I used a grep utility to rip through the .img files looking for the city name you see in Mapsource.
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I have been trying to download cache locations to EasyGps, but have been unable to open the file after it is downloaded to the computer. I get a message that the "file format not supported" or the file you have selected cannot be opened with EasyGPS.
I got file-loading errors on files exported from MapSource until I snagged the latest version of EasyGPS, if that helps at all.
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Sorry to respond to my own post, but I got a couple of backchannel responses that appear to fit the bill (one is the online parser and one is the .xls parser). Thanks!
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I saw many threads about trying to define PQs that contain all locationless caches. That's not what I'm trying to do.
I am wondering if there is a mechanism I am overlooking that collects all the posted coords from a particular cache (say the one on lighthouses
or something) and makes them available as loc/gpx.
I mean, there you have over 700 collected waypoints in the database associated with a particular cache and I don't see a way to download those points.
I suppose it could be screen-scraped but judging from other threads/TOS that is not kosher.
Suggestions for this newbie? Dope-slaps for overlooking the obvious?
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You could go to the webcam site and watch fellow geocachers during the hunt. I wonder if anyone has something like this already. If not I think it would be a great one to do and post it on a website for all to see.
I was doing the "find a parking spot" thing a few weeks back and spotted another team approaching the general area (they were more gung-ho than I was and jumped the curb to park in the grass!). I watched them go in for the kill and then come back out 20mins later.
It was pretty interesting to watch, although I felt like I was GeoStalking or something. :-)
I think it's fairly common for people to hide caches where they can see them from home/work. Maybe it's the same voyeuristic angle.
BTW, DiscGolfer, there is a course in my city (Carrollton, Tx) that doesn't get much attention. I hid an ammocan in the woods near it to attract some outdoorsey attention to the course (even though I don't play). I called it "Disc Cache", but haven't listed it here yet. I thought you might want to hear that. :-)
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Navicache dosen't really offer anything unique. They pretty much just cross post caches that are listed on GC.com, so why bother?
I use GC and some "others".
Competition, as has been said previously, is good. It's one of the reasons I run both Windows and Linux boxes. Horses for courses.
As noted here, there are a few differences at NC:
- less cache density makes it less useful to me, but I still use it. My caches are currently listed there (and on my personal website).
- exposure of database by xml; shares with The Map Aggregator Which Must Not Be Named. :-)
- some kinds of caches easier/faster to get approved
- ability of non-subscribers to get .gpx downloads, although they are not populated for GSAK.
- less commercial in feel?
- more tolerant of other sources of information, and (arguably) less tightly wound
GC is the 500lb gorilla because of the raw numbers, the intuitive domain name, etc. The pocket queries are worth the price of admission to me.
I would also probably do the TC thing, but the "two sponsors" thing seems like to much of a secret club handshake to me. I'm all about the free flow of information.
- less cache density makes it less useful to me, but I still use it. My caches are currently listed there (and on my personal website).
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I propose that a good geocache puzzle should be solvable by at least half the general caching community. And not those cachers that get the coords by blind guessing.
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What say you one, what say you all?
I think it is encumbent on the geocache-hunter to learn who makes puzzles s/he likes and solve those, and ignore those by puzzlemakers who are too easy or too challenging.
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I know plenty of NON-Cachers with guns! Why is that dangerous?
That's what I was thinking.
Digression: the presence of law-abiding folks in "bad neighborhoods" is the first step in gentrification.
Further digression: I used to live in what was widely considered a bad neighborhood. The locals (including myself) were poor but friendly. There was a high crime rate, but it was from outsider groups swooping in to prey on the locals who were, for various reasons, afraid to get the police involved.
My wife and I walked each night in the neighborhood for exercise, legally and discreetly armed of course. "Take back our streets", etc.
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We have had geocaching on our Directv DVR wish list since September 2004. Gloria noticed yesterday that there was an upcoming broadcast scheduled to record. The following is the description of special:
DIRECTV programming
Family Outdoors
Friday March 25, 2005 11:00 pm Channel 230 DIY Duration: 0:30
“Geocaching” (2002) Orienteering: GPS and geocaching; a geocaching primer; a family geocaching adventure; stashing a geocache. Series.
TandGG
It wasn't completely worthless, but did spend a lot of the time talking about non-camoed pickle bucket caches (which I've never seen).
Worth watching and then taping for your non-caching friends to see if their interested at all.
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I am interested in maybe purchasing or making a hiking stick for the upcoming season and was wondering how one determines the ideal length? I am 5ft 10" so how do you determine where the perfect height will be? El Diablo, help!!!
About shoulder height is what I use.
I have an aluminum extendible one (which doubles as a monopod) and a bamboo one I made from a stand of bamboo I parked next to when attending the Ft Worth Stock Show a few years back. Very light.
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This is FUNNY the OP has already got his compass and thanked everyone for their advice but people keep posting. O'well
cheers
Forum posts are read by more people than the Original Poster, and can take on quite a life of their own.
IMO, continued discussion is a boon to posterity.
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Our family has been talking about getting a dog for a long while now, so now we are seriously considering it, which breed is best for caching?
I'd say a dog with a nice rough coat that would be resistant to briars.
I took our lovely ex-racer greyhound out caching one time. His skin is so thin (and so little bodyfat) that you can literally see sunlight through him in strategic places, so I was scared to take him into the rough stuff.
The upside was that he got to pee in 1000 different places.
I think one of those giant wolfhound creatures would be ideal. Would also keep muggles far, far away. :-)
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I'm new to geocaching and been reading everything I can about the sport. One suggestion someone made was to buy a compass to backup your GPS and I've been searching e-Bay for a good quality unit.
Do an eBay search for Silva and you'll get a good chunk of possibilities.
I recently bought a neat Silva off eBay, shipped, for <$10.
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I just wanted to say that I think Geocaching is a great way to teach stuff in boy scouts also I wanted to know who out there is a boy scout was a boy scout or a leader I just want to know whether a lot of geocachers are boy scouts (or a leader or something)
Eagle Scout, Troop 843 in Carrollton, Tx. 1984.
How Are You Prepared?
in General geocaching topics
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This comment probably qualifies as Too Much Information for non-intimates, so feel free to skip over the navel gazing.
I don't know if it was the Eagle Scout thing or not, but "be prepared" is an essential part of my behaviour. Mostly for neurotic reasons.
In my own strange worldview, my failure to have thought ahead is a serious error, and could have led to serious consequences in harsher circumstances. I take that experiences as a warning shot across the bow by fate: "you got away with it this time, but it could have been Bad."
I find it an embarrassing to have to borrow things or to be perceived as needy; my underpreparation is exposed.
When I do buy things, I do it with an eye as to what is small and packable so that to the ordinary eye I do not always appear to have too much gear. But I have been called on it several times: "got enough stuff on that belt"?, etc. (phone, leatherman, and some other small pouch). "Why do you carry that daypack?"
Although I rarely say it out loud, my views on the unprepared/underprepared are uncharitable and unmerciful. It is not the most attractive part of my personality.
Of course, there is an upside to this neurosis: I'm rarely caught without things I need, like a windbreaker, fully-charged cellphone, something to take notes with, etc.