pppingme
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Bookmarks may sound like a fix but they are still a LOT of manual labor.
Even if I downloaded a .gpx of my bookmark, I still don't have good coordinates.
What the original poster suggested I think is close to a fix.
I personally would like the ability to add coordinates to ANY page (of course they are private to just me) so that when I do grab a .gpx, those are included.
This would be useful for solved puzzles (the OP's request) and also for any other coords that may come up, like figuring out a better place to park or trailheads, or any other useful additional coords that the cache owner didn't include.
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The problem, IMO, is that "updated" means a log was made on the cache
It used to work properly, only returning caches where the description or coords were updated, but somewhere along the lines, TPTB decided to add logs to the update criteria. It's been useless ever since.
Oh no, I prefer the current behavior and would not want a change to it.
Any change could very well mean a DNF logged against it (and thus the possibility of it missing). If it only pulled changes to the page itself, then I would miss DNF (and other) logs.
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Doesn't the date field default to the current date when you go to log your visit? I know you can manually change it to whatever date you want so you can enter the correct date when logging late.
The problem is when your logging multiple finds.
For example, think about this, you log a cache for 12/31/2008, then right after that you log one for 1/3/2009, for some reason it seems to be easy to forget to change the year.
I see this every year.
I think a better warning would be if your trying to log something more than 1 month old. If it were based on published or hidden date, it wouldn't provide warning if your logging a cache thats more than a year old.
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Seems to be working for me. Are you running any kind of ad blocking software or something like that?
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False positive.
Since about the 9th, pc-cillin has been reporting EVERY site with google ads as being infected with spyware or adware.
Many of these programs are just simply going overboard because they dislike another company.
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But if I go more than a week between PQ's I'll miss the cache was archived.
If your caching with data thats more than a week old, you are asking for problems.
I do check to make sure I don't have stale data (more than a week), as do most cachers once they learn how, but by disabling for a week (maybe it should be 10 days or two weeks, this point could be looked at) then the site is at least flagging my database for me.
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In the past I've proposed two different solutions to this.
1 - Disable caches for more than a week before archiving. At the very minimum this will flag the cache as disabled for people that only pull weekly PQ's. If people are either checking "is not active" OR aren't checking either active/not active caches in their PQ, then they are already expecting disabled caches in their results, there is no downside to this.
2 - Include archived caches for a week (again, only if users are selecting not active or aren't selecting either, because they should still be expecting disabled caches).
The first solution is a policy change only and wouldn't even require any site reprogramming (except to check to see if a cache is already disabled and check the disable date). The 2nd would require a slight modification, but should still be a very easy change.
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about ... .. .59 off
Do you have your GPS set to display coords in the DD MM.MMM format or the DD MM SS.SS or DD.DDDDD format?
It should be DD MM.MMM if you want the "display" to match whats on the pages here
This is only how the unit "displays" the coordinates.
So, all of the following are the same:
35.091283 (dd.ddddd format)
N35 05.477 (dd mm.mmm format)
N35 05 28.62 (dd mm ss.ss format)
or another example that really shows the point:
35.99999
n35 59.999
n35 59 59.96
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Is there any particular reason why past logs are limited to 5 in pocket queries? I know I can get more if I download the GPX file for a cache but it would be nice to be able to pull more with PQ's.
This is one of the key reasons that people maintain offline databases. I personally like to carry 10 logs on my PDA when I'm out caching.
The best way to accumulate logs if you want more than 5 is to use a program like GSAK, when it gets a new PQ loaded, it updates the actual cache info then just adds to the logs, then you can export that to your PDA, GPS, and everything else in a format you like.
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I dispute your ability to have accurate numbers, regardless of what the numbers are. You're the one making the claim, so the burden of proof falls on you. PUOSU.
Like it or not, I've got them, and they ARE accurate.
I guess your upset because you can't figure it out?
You're the one making the claim. The burden of proof falls on you. So far, you've failed.
Yet you've offered NO proof or claims that contradict my facts.
If you think its wrong, PROVE IT.
The facts are what they are.
I don't even get why you are arguing this, do you think its higher or lower or what? Whats your game?
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I dispute your ability to have accurate numbers, regardless of what the numbers are. You're the one making the claim, so the burden of proof falls on you. PUOSU.
Like it or not, I've got them, and they ARE accurate.
I guess your upset because you can't figure it out?
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Wow, is it all you can to to twist things out of perspective?
GC would STILL make money without these items, these just pad the pocket even more.
Still waiting to hear where you got your previously mention figures from....
Do you dispute them? The only way you could is if you know another number, so if you dispute it, offer up your number.
They are accurate, I got the number accurately, and it hasn't been seriously disputed.
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Wrong...
Subscription fee's pay 100% of the site, plus a couple more sites that really aren't getting used.
Oh, that's too much fun to resist straying off the topic...
To believe Potato Finder's statement, you must also believe the following:
It costs more than $4.00 to stamp a number on an aluminum tag, attach a keychain, and send it in the mail to someone.
It costs hundreds of dollars to designate a block of tracking numbers for geocoins.
It costs hundreds of dollars to post a custom icon to the website for a geocoin.
Those t-shirts in the Groundspeak online store really do cost $19.99 to produce.
The four Jeep Travel Bug contests were done for free as a public service because Groundspeak likes Jeeps.
Groundspeak doesn't see a dime of the revenue from the GPS Adventures Maze. It all goes to the museum and the maze design company.
Garmin and DeLorme and Trimble didn't pay anything to integrate their products into Geocaching.com's features.
Wow, is it all you can to to twist things out of perspective?
GC would STILL make money without these items, these just pad the pocket even more.
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I am trying to do a PQ and I am GSAK is giving me an error saying that the zip file is corrupt. I ran my first PQ a few weeks ago and everything went ok. This is my second try and itis not working. When I click on the OK button after GSAK opens, that is when I get the error. Am I doing something wrong. The eror code says that it could be a XP problem. Thanks - CachinSpree
I've received a small handful of corrupt zip's over the years, have you tried opening it with something else?
If you have the real winzip utility there is a repair program with it as I recall.
You might also search around using google, there are a handful of zip repair utilities out there.
If GSAK reports it as corrupt, its probably corrupt, I haven't seen gsak report a bad zip in error, every time I couldn't open the zip with other utilities either.
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Is there any way to find out how many premium members paid their $30 for 2008? It would be neat to know how much of the cost of gc.com is covered. I wouln't be surprised if it only paid a fraction of the operating cost.
Wrong...
Subscription fee's pay 100% of the site, plus a couple more sites that really aren't getting used.
Look at it like this, there are about 80,000 premium users, at $30/year, thats $2.4 million/year. A quick survey of users in my area a while back indicated that a lot of them were paying $3/month and not paying yearly, that could increase revenues to over $2.8 million.
I'm not going to dispute that there is some significant hardware involved (at least two web servers, a sql server and a separate forum server for the gc.com site, more for the other sites that come out of the same subscription fee's), but not to the tune of revenues generated by the site, and bandwidth is so cheap anymore its a non-factor.
There is no question that certain people are profiting significantly from the site. This is not a "hobby" or for fun site, this is a commercial site with a clear intent to make a significant profit.
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Look for any programs that try to auto-clear cookies, even some of the "spyware" and "adware" programs out there may do that.
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I have a colorado 400t and have been using field notes happily but now all of a sudden there is an error and I can no longer get my field notes to upload. Any ideas what I have done or is it a problem with the site?
Are you getting an error or do they just not show up?
I just tried uploading one and it worked fine.
If they just aren't showing up, try unchecking that date check box, its caused issues for me before.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong! If a cache is misisng, the proper thing to do is to log DNF. You did not find it!
Yes. There are numbers people who will throw down a 'replacement' cache' after they've searched for twelve seconds, and then claim a find. Don't fall into that mindset. If you do not find a cache, log a DNF.
I completely agree with this.
I've lost track of how many times I've gone to find a cache that had a recent "DNF so I replaced" and found both the replacement with one or two log entries AND the original with log entries that date back to when the cache was placed.
One time I actually found three, the original (with logs back to placed date) and two replacements.
When I come across this, if I don't have any doubt about the original cache (usually going by log dates, placement date and comparing recent logs to my PDA), I always remove the extra's and log what I did online.
A repair (fixing a container, adding a log book, etc) without owner permission is one thing, a blind replacement without owner knowledge/permission just isn't right.
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My wife did. When we visited a cache, almost every time we wrote in the paper log with my wife, or with my kids, or with my family.
My wife later created her own account and backlogged everything she had (we had good notes in gsak), I eventually expect my kids to do the same.
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I am tweaking some unrun PQs to cover the area. I set them up with the default 100 miles. I want to set the distance to 80 so that I can have less PQs. I change it and it shows 80s when saved, but the preview shows caches to 100 miles. I have cleared the cache and also closed and reopened Firefox, but it persists.
Have you gone back in to make sure it saved correctly? That form is quite buggy sometimes.
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There is a limit of 500 characters but at first glance it seems to be arbitrary. I wrote up a case to increase the limit to match regular cache logs, but it may be that the Garmin Colorado will not allow for an increase. Offering different limits for different devices would be an even bigger job than just allowing for more chars, so that is not likely to happen.
Bottom line: It will take some investigation to find out if we can increase the limit; but if we can, we will.
Why does it matter that a particular device can only create a certain size, the size that the site allows should be that size OR BIGGER, there is no downside to having the website allow a larger field than an arbitrary device (the colorado in this case) can create.
Why does it matter if the site can accept MORE characters than the colorado can generate? It doesn't, its not a fixed field size file thats being uploaded, its a delimited file. IF the colorado (or any device) can only generate a field of "x" length, all the site needs to do is allow an upload of ">x" length.
In no way is the import or upload going to break if the colorado can only generate 500, but the site can accept something larger, say 2000.
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The cache owner or reviewer needs to fix. It shouldn't have been approved if it was like that from the beginning.
There are no caches from before 2000 unless they have bogus dates, like this one.
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Sadly this issue has come up more than once and GC has given no indication that they even care about it.
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Is your log more than about 480 characters?
If so, see this:
http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=186591
If not, you might cut/paste the contents here and see if anyone can spot a problem.
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The ultimate answer:
One of those RSA key's that change numbers every 30 seconds, most people have seen them by now.
Attatch the key to the cache, cacher finds cache, notes the time and makes note of the current number.
Each number can only be logged once, and it has to match the date/time of the log.