Weary Banker & Bookworm

Thanks for your response too NYPaddlecacher. It sounds as if you have more knowledge of the workings of the internet than I. However, the error message that I receive when trying the www.geohash.org suggests that I should contact the webmaster at the site . When I did this it was returned. I also seem to remember there was something on the bottom of the original error message to suggest other problems. Does anyone else know of a way to contact these people?

Thanks Kunarion for your response. I shall look in to that shortly.

I wonder if anyone is still monitoring this page? It is six years since the last post. Anyway, its worth a try. I have tried to access the www.geohash.org site and received a code 500 error referring me to the webmaster at the site. Unfortunately emails there are returned undeliverable. Can anyone tell me what is happening? Has Geohash finished for good?

Many thanks. That should do it.

I want to transfer ownership of one of our caches but cant find the way to do it. Can anyone give me chapter and verse please. Thanks

Fans of the show and prepared to have a go at your questions BUT, we will be abroad until Monday night 2nd Sept. If we can still help then we can complete two as Bookworm and I have very differing ideas about lots of things. But hey, isnt that just being married ? John Weary Banker

Great to receive the quick responses. From a quick read through, it looks as if there are a few different answers to my problem. Many thanks to all for taking the time.

For many years now, after I have solved a Puzzle cache, I have entered the new coordinates into my GSAK database as a separate entry with X replacing the G in the GC number. Giving it a different symbol means that it is easily spotted when it appears on my MemoryMap. One of the drawbacks to this system is that the XC (solved) entry remains in the database even if the original is archived and is automatically removed . I have decided to try and use the 'corrected coordinate' facility on the cache page but this does not seem to amend the original coordinates on my subsequent PQ. Also is it possible to change the ? symbol for something else to show that the puzzle has been solved? I know that this may seem a bit old fashioned to all of you cachers that carry the latest online gadgetry but hopefully there are still a few of us dinosaurs left to help.

Hover over their name in the forum and it'll show up in an info bar at the bottom of the screen in your browser...if they've ever posted in the forum, that is. (go to their profile and click on "see all forum posts") There was going to be a cache based on local cacher id's down your way a few years ago....I may have to reinstate it one day Thanks Tim. I shall now know what to look out for......one day ......if it doesnt turn up in one of mine first.

Somewhere among all of the posts, I have the answer. Many thanks to everyone.

I have just found our Geocaching ID number. How do I find someone else's?

Thanks for the replies. t4e ; I tried that but it only comes up with the last 12 months but Mrs B , special thanks , your suggestion produced the goods and I found what I was looking for.

Is there any way of searching the forum archive? I am trying to trace the answer to a question that I posted 3-4 years ago and the person who answered it. I see that 'my history' only seems to go back 12 months.

I need some help to prepare maps of 4 foreign cities that we hope to visit very soon. The maps have to be compatible with MemoryMap and be downloaded onto my PDA. I asked this question some 4 or 5 years ago and received an answer from someone called David who explained a system using http://mobac.dnsalias.org and then www.the-thorns.org.uk/mapping/ for the calibration. It was a wonderful system and so easy that a computeridiot like me managed it, not once then but also a year later, I remembered and produced another set of maps. I have just tried again, following the original instructions but the mobac site has changed and I can no longer download the type of files that I need in the-thorns site. ( ie I can download the .png file that I need but not the .map and I seem to remember another .dll (?) coming into it as well. Also I see that the-thorns site offers a few formats but the nearest to the geocaching one now appears to be dd.mm.secs So, is there anyone out there who knows how to achieve what I need either with these sites or any other. I could have contacted the 'David' direct but it doesnt seem as if the forums memory goes back that far and, would you believe it, I cleared out all my old emails just last month.

You are better off defining the radius you require and then splitting the PQs by dates rather than by location. That way you don't get gaps opening up if the PQ radius shrinks due to more caches being added. Rgds, Andy Andy, I totally agree with you and this was the reason for the original question. I was trying to get all of the caches within my defined area with normal 'point ' based circles of 500 caches. Using the 'date set' option does away with the problem of reducing circles and means that I am sure that I will capture them all into the database. Once they are all in the database I can start to define which , more precise area, I want to retrieve to download to my particular gadget. The area of 60 miles from my location gives me more or less the area I want. Roughly Bristol in the North East to Plymouth and Dartmoor in the South West. The fact that there are fewer caches in this area than in yours or NattyBooshka's is surely largely irrelevant, as whichever method is used to recover a higher number of caches, more PQs will be needed. I too would travel more than 50 miles to the right cache ( having just done Whitespace and Werewolf of the Yorkshire/Lancs border from home in Devon) but that is irrelevant to the discussion too because for such visits, you would pull of a seperate PQ anyway.

I am not sure if this would help you but I use GSAK. After sorting the problem that started this topic, I now have most of the South West in a database. Whenever we are planning a trip out, I use the 'polygon' method to provide a filter of the caches on our route/destination and then download this much smaller file to our GPS - Car SatNav - and PDA. Personally cant see the point of the 10K PQ. I have managed all caches within 60 miles of home with just 8 PQs. Using a GSAK database you dont need to bother about duplicating anything.

I have just downloaded the 8 x 1000 PQs. I dont have a problem with 'collecting' them from the Geocaching page. If anything it is easier. Judging from how the database looks on MemoryMap, I seem to have achieved what I set out to. Many thanks for all who helped along the way.

Please dont worry about taking over the thread. I am fascinated to hear all of your comments. The new developments sound most interesting. Just one question ;- What is an 'api' ? Disappointed to hear about the problems with the 1000 PQs as I have my 8 memos ( 5 from yesterday 3 today) waiting in my inbox this morning.

I think that I have it. Using the last idea BUT without using the 'Area' option , instead setting the distance from home coordinates. Thanks for the contributions

Thanks for taking the time to reply from Florida. I like your idea. Unfortunately, I dont think that it will work for us in UK ( if I have understood it correctly). Where am I selecting the 'areas' from? I dont know if it is different for you in the States but here I only have the choice of 'The UK' or an area ie 'England South West'on the PQ . The latter would cover much of the area that I want but not it all, however, we have only been designating 'area' for the last couple of years and therefore anything older will not show up, unless there has been an alteration to the cache page since. Any other ideas anyone?

Thanks for this advice too. But doesnt this just filter from the caches already loaded into GSAK?. I am looking for an easy way of getting a larger area of caches into GSAK in the first place.

Thanks. I hadnt realised that the size had been increased. However, this still means that I am having to cover the area with circles. I thought that I remembered reading somewhere, many moons ago, that there was a way to cover a larger area such as a couple of counties without doing it in this way.

I use GSAK and maintain a database of all caches within a fair radius of our home base. I am currently doing this with a set of about 10 Pocket Queries but I have noticed recently that gaps have started to appear between the PQ areas, as a sudden glut of new caches in a region, means that the area covered by the nearest 500 to a particular spot, shrinks. Is there a way of automatically covering all of a specified area ( say Cornwall,Devon,Dorset and Somerset) with PQs?

Thanks That covers it.

In the "Your Profile" section , I recently came across the "Your trackables Collection" link. I have no idea how long this has been in operation but it is the first time that I have taken any notice of it. It seems a good idea as I have a number of our 'activated but not issued', and our 'lost in service' bugs listed in one of our archived caches to get them off our profile page. Just one problem, I cant find a way to put bugs into it. Have I missed something?