pppingme
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That would be Garmin and they don't. Neither do the other 2 GPS manufactures on the list. I just hate flipping over to my WIN partition if a new cache comes out. I can type it in manually quicker, so that is what I'll continue to do.
I was hoping maybe someone in the Linux community wrote something to do this.
There's really nothing to write. When you choose send to gps, GC sends a modified .gpx and the applet just figures out where to save it. The only big difference between the special .gpx and downloading a real .gpx off the cache page is that the special one has 10 logs, the regular one has 20 logs.
The only real thing the send to gps applet does is dummy proof the whole thing.
If you are running an older gps that doesn't use .gpx files directly, look at gpsbabel, with that, you could pick all the .gpx files you want, run gpsbabel, and it will convert the .gpx (or .loc) to almost every known format out there, if you're familiar with GSAK, its actually the glue that makes GSAK work. GPSBable will run on all common platforms (windows, all linux variants, bsd, os-x, etc.).
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1-you can edit (or create) the file \garmin\startup.txt
2-Since found caches don't come up in searches, its not really an issue, just delete the .gpx files at the end of the day. Waypoints DO act exactly the same as they do on the Legend, but you're not using waypoints, you're using caches, which the Legend didn't even support (yeah, semantics)
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4-I'm not seeing this? Maybe I'm not understanding what your asking.
5-Sounds like you need to align/sync your screen, I forget the exact procedure, but its pretty easy to do, just google screen alignment dakota and you should find it pretty easy.
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Moving a cache is usually considered more of a maintenance issue, like if your hiding spot was destroyed and you moved it 30 feet to the next tree for example.
If you are moving a cache a mile, then its clearly a new hide. Its taking you to a completely different area.
By just "moving" an existing cache to a new area, you are really cheating the people who have already found it, as they may enjoy the new area, but likely won't figure out that you've placed a cache there
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In the legal sense... a sticker is NOT considered a signature.
In the legal sense ... a STAMP is not either unless it has been authorized by a notary.
WRONG...
I routinely deposit checks that have a rubber stamp signature, and they aren't notarized, and the bank has never squirmed about the legality of those checks.
I can file a form with my brokerage firm to accept a "mark" as my signature, and that mark can be anything, including a simple "X", so even signing a full name isn't a legal requirement.
I'm sure if I thought about it for more than 15 seconds I could argue against your "rubber stamp not legal" argument too, but I'd imagine it easily falls into my second point.
This seems like a pointless question. If the log was marked, in any fashion by the finder, then its obviously been found and signed as a find and can't be disputed.
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For the past couple of days, I've noticed that my PQ's that have a hard distance set are all of a sudden returning a couple more caches right on the edge of the distance, some going out about 1/10 of a mile. Viewing the cache page, it does indeed show its at the further distance outside of the distance I set in the PQ.
Not that a tenth of a mile is a big deal, but has anyone else noticed this?
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This is directly related to the complaint that smiley's are going away on the maps too.
Several people have complained about this.
It started about two or three updates ago.
Interestingly, GS claims they can't reproduce the problem. With it being so easy to reproduce, well, I'll leave the next thought up to you.
It happens if you leave a map page open, two things seem to trip it, leaving the map page open, but don't touch it for a certain amount of time, seems to be between 10 to 30 minutes, or even if you don't leave it idle, it still seems to be a problem after a bit longer.
Reloading the page (not clicking the refresh map button, but actually using the browser reload) seems to fix the problem.
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Save and preview this:
http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/gcquery.aspx?guid=d5abdff3-0035-408a-af63-2e83eba6092f
It will list all the PMO's in your area that you haven't found yet.
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All of our souvenirs vanished, we had 20-30 and they just went poof. We went through the "contact Groundspeak" process and also put a bug report in on the feedback site for good measure, but they still haven't shown back up yet. Been gone for two weeks now. Be nice to have them back, but we lived without 'em for close to three years, so if they come back, they come back, if they don't, they don't.
Oh wow... Maybe you used too much stealth and the geo-detectors never sensed you finding the caches
Before it happened, did you email them or anything for any minor corrections or something like that? Did you have any other souvenirs besides the states and maybe a 10/10/10?
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Toyota Highlander (not the hybrid), bigger than the rav4, and (except for the rav4) gets the best mpg of all the suv's out there.
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Yes, you can (unless something has changed recently). The two lists are not mutually exclusive.
If something is on your watchlist (or a bookmark list), you will get emails on it, regardless of the fact that you've ignored it.
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Foursquare has got to be one of the most annoying things I've ever seen.
Why would anyone want to associate anything they do with Foursquare is beyond me.
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Does the iPhone app let you find premium member only caches without a a premium membership?
Who wants to find caches hidden by snobs? Also, non PM's can log pm caches just fine.
Does the iPhone app let you create premium member caches and view the audit log for these cache pages?
A pointless feature, audit logs have done nothing helpful and only cause conflict between CO's and viewers, oh, and I don't think your little audit logs show iphone users anyway.
Does the iPhone app let you create bookmark lists?
Pointless feature.
Does the iPhone app let you nominate your favorite caches?
Nominate for what? You mean give favorite points? I'm still not sure I even get the point of this feature.
Does the iPhone app let you store the PQ results on offline database and manipulate them with 3rd party tools?
Does someone standing in middle of the city and says, hey, I wonder what the nearest cache is, even care about this? Probably not.
Does the iPhone app provide instant notifications?
Who cares about a cache 50 miles away, the typical iphone user is an impulse user, and cares only about the nearest cache they can find.
Does the iPhone app give you access to the off-topic forum?
Again, who cares? I'm a PM and could care less about the off-topic forum, if I want conversation unrelated to geocaching, there are a ton better places to go.
Does the iPhone app let you specify your title in the forums?
Most of them probably aren't forum users anyway, so a pointless feature, even for those that are. Forum titles don't really mean a lot.
Geomate Jr. users...?
This is even worse, a list of out of date caches, with no clear indication of what caching is all about, these devices have resulted in more missing caches than any other single factor. New geomate users think its ok to take the cache, they think thats what its all about.
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Its all about money to GS.
Well, yes, it is! They are a business! Businesses are by definition in the business of making money. Businesses do not exist to spend money developing products to give away. That's why I remain amazed by Groundspeak's free membership and the enormous capability they give away to all comers.
But the one thing non-prem's have never been able to do (without scraping anyway) is bulk download of caches, essentially, thats what the iphone app is doing, with a very distinct advantage of being real time, so more current logs, etc.
How is it smart from a business perspective to piss off your more lucrative customers?
As far as being a basic member (aside from the whole iphone scam) thats a fairly smart decision, sort of like a teaser, once you get hooked, then you want to start bulk downloading instead of taking a long time to key in individual coordinates and print pages.
With the iphone app there's a whole new arena of potential customers that most likely won't pay for premium memberships, so may as well try to get 10 bucks out of them.
The sad thing (and a slap in the face to premium members) is that with the iphone app (as long as you're in cell range), you get what essentially is similar benefits as a premium membership, you can see all the caches in the area, something that used to take pq's loaded to your device to do.
You obviously don't know the full value of PQs if you compare them to seeing a few caches around you when you have cell service.
My take is that if someone won't pay for a $30 yearly membership and $10 one-time software license then they likely won't spend money to stock, hide and maintain caches either.
I very much understand the value of premium membership, its that I can bulk download caches (via pq's), load it on my gps, then go stand anywhere in town and hit nearest on my gps. As of now, so can any iphone user, and they have fresher data than me, all without paying an ongoing fee.
My take is that if someone won't pay for a $30 yearly membership and $10 one-time software license then they likely won't spend money to stock, hide and maintain caches either.
I do agree with you here, to a point, they don't not place caches, they place low quality caches. There have been a ton of new caches hidden by iphone users (no, they aren't pm's), that have horrible coordinates (I've helped some of these by giving real coordinates) very low grade containers that probably won't survive a month or two, no or low grade swag, etc.
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The Oregon supports overlaying maps on each other, with the Nuvi, I'm about 99% sure you can only have one active map. Have you gone in and selected the new maps and unselected the old ones?
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Its all about money to GS.
With the iphone app there's a whole new arena of potential customers that most likely won't pay for premium memberships, so may as well try to get 10 bucks out of them.
The sad thing (and a slap in the face to premium members) is that with the iphone app (as long as you're in cell range), you get what essentially is similar benefits as a premium membership, you can see all the caches in the area, something that used to take pq's loaded to your device to do.
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If you are loading them as normal waypoints, then they are stored in the gps's memory, not on the memory card, so changing the memory card won't affect the current waypoints.
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Two steps. Add the new one, then you can set it as primary.
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You didn't say, and I'm surprised no one has asked...
Did you see the other cacher's initials on the container?
What was the difficulty?
If the container is supposed to add to the difficulty, then the other cacher didn't complete the find. But, if the lid was just stuck, or somehow not supposed to be difficult or challenging (a maintenance issue), then its a hard call, but if his initials weren't on the container when you found it, there's no question, you got it.
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There's no separate Nevada site. It looks like you logged into the main site today and have logged a cache in the past couple of days.
Are you talking about the geocaching site? I don't think it really uses the term "guest" anywhere, you appear to be a full premium member.
Are you having problems pulling up a particular page on the gc site?
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I received four emails (CA, FL, MI and IA), but the IA is not showing up.
There seems to be an issue with IA. Several people have stated that they got the email, but it never showed. I'm in the same boat.
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Actually they automatically show up in your PQ unless you click the "Not On My Ignore List" button in the "That" section of the query.
So just do a PQ w/o checking the box and there they are.
Kind of true.
If you are only previewing the pq, a long standing bug that gc seems to want to ignore doesn't show them, same for the preview maps (even though, as you state, they are in the downloaded file).
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PQ and GPX are already planned.
I read that as saying that you can based a PQ on favorites (i.e. if >1), not that the data will actually be in the pq or gpx.
Remember last time gc tried changing something about gpx files? All the Delorme users freaked.
Although I agree that fiasco was 100% a Delorme problem, I'm betting that gs/gc is now a bit trigger shy on changing whats in a .gpx file.
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And just hope the chirp wasn't stolen.
Thats why you don't put it IN the cache.
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I like the power trail attribute, then users that want just those, can filter for them, users that don't want them, can filter against them in pq's.
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Sweet, even more direct than I was thinking. I don't know if I would have even thought about that, but nice and simple.