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With kind permission from LordElph, I've now converted his lovely icons to work with Anquet Maps. This is to go with my GSAK macro for exporting to Anquet, but they could be used on their own in Anquet too. For details, please see this topic on the GSAK forum - the third post gives the icon download: http://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=4698

Thanks for the public and private offers of help, and the good ideas I've already received for improving it. It should be ready to publish in a week or so, basically whenever I get the time to finish it off.

Hi I've put together a macro to export caches from GSAK v7 to Anquet v6. This included writing macro code to convert cache locations to OS grid references. If anyone wants to help with any of the following, please let me know: Testing the raw version before I tidy it up and publish on the GSAK forum. You will need GSAK v7 and Anquet v6 Adapting it to work with older versions of Anquet (that I don't have) which use a different export file format Suggesting other uses for OS grid references in GSAK. For example, putting it in a User Data field that then displays in the cache details both in GSAK and in CacheMate Suggesting any uses for this macro on the Irish Grid. It could be tweaked to support that as well, if there's any need Please note that I'm not interested in converting it to run on earlier versions of GSAK. I'm more than happy to help someone else do that, but not until I've got it finished and published.

Just type in your preferred format into the lat and long boxes. Values are converted on the fly to whatever format you have as default (in Tools - Options - View tab). For example, I can type "1 23.456W" (the space after the 1 is enough for it to deduce that I mean degrees and minutes) and it gets converted to "-1.390933°" automatically. I'm using Google Earth 3.0, don't know if that matters.

To find these TBs you can go to this page: http://www.geocaching.com/track/search.aspx and search for any town near you by name. Three of the four small towns near me all have one. I then tried to get clever and search for United Kingdom and it worked, but the list returned is limited to 100 matches so it's not a full list.

Hi there How far out are the results? My utility should be good to within 5m in the UK and Ireland. My layman's understanding is that ETRS89 and WGS84 are interchangeable at the levels of accuracy that we're using on consumer GPS units. According to the Guide to Coordinate Systems on the OS web site: A degree of latitude is about 111km, a minute about 1.85 km, and a second about 31m. Longitudes are the same at the equator, reducing down to zero as you reach the poles. There's tons of info available if you start googling for likely terms, or there are some very knowledgeable people on this forum - hopefully one of them will be along soon...

Hi there This free tool from the Ordnance Survey will do it for you: http://gps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/convert.asp Or if you use a Pocket PC my free utility OS GPS Convertor will also do it: http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/barrydavies/index.htm Hope this helps.

Three of our four TBs have been through this sort of thing in the last year. So far one has resurfaced in a different cache after 6 months where it turned out it had been in the hands of cachers who don't normally log online and so had forgotten they had it; one is still in the hands of a cacher who hasn't been able to go out caching for a few months but confirmed they have it and will drop it soon; and one has been missing in action for over a year now (no sign of it, no reply to any emails other than the last one that bounced as email address no longer valid). I think I get more annoyed about it than the kids do - all part of being a parent of young children I guess. So empathy but not much helpful advice to offer. In our case sending polite emails flushed out our two successes within a couple of weeks of first trying. In one case we just sent a message to each of the few people who had logged the cache around when it must have disappeared. Everyone replied promptly and helpfully, so there is a positive side to the experience. Hope yours does turn up - somewhere, sooner or later.

I see what you mean! It says something like: "Lies in Seefeld in the Tyrol, worth a visit, easy to reach in Summer or Winter, lovely view of Seefeld." Blimey, looks like German homework night on here - 3 replies in 10 minutes.

We log under the one account. Maybe when the kids are a bit older they'll set up their own ones. Caching has already got them walking in the countryside for its own sake. Getting them to write up what they've been doing for the fun of it has got to be a good idea too.

Maybe you could record a snippet of yourself doing a cover of part of each song and use that?

Hi There isn't a Palm version, I'm afraid, as I don't have a Palm or the knowledge to program for one. Sorry about that. I can point any volunteer who wants to take on that challenge at the underlying code for doing the conversions. If anyone's trying the other app I've done, for using various ciphers including some well known in caching, I'd be interested in any feedback.

Hi Take a look at OziExplorer, it does this and much more: http://www.oziexplorer.com

This free Pocket PC utility converts between coordinate formats and helps you to navigate to a latitude & longitude or to a map grid reference in TomTom, Destinator and OziExplorer. Version 2.2 adds/fixes a few things: Now works properly in Windows Mobile 5 - settings are saved Now supports UTM grid references worldwide (except around the poles) as well as the original British & Irish National Grid references and WGS84 latitude & longitude Better integration with TomTom 5 - if you use a custom TomTom menu you can start it from that menu, and when it exits it can make TomTom display the position on its map See here for info (apologies for scary photo of me, my young son took it and is proud of it): http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/barrydavies/index.htm Many thanks to the people who helped test it, particularly for WM5 which I don't have. Of course if you only want to navigate to latitude & longitude in TomTom, that feature will return in TomTom version 6 for Pocket PC (I believe) so you may prefer to wait for that to be released instead. Shouldn't be too much longer to wait...

Hi Before clicking on Generate, you need to fill in the POI File to create box with the full path and filename of the POI file that you want to create. Remember to give it the file extension .ov2. GSAK will then create the .ov2 file and a .bmp file with the same name. In my case I have to generate the files on my PC's hard disk, then copy them across to my Pocket PC. Assume it's the same for a Go.

You can follow the process as described by Barry Hunter using the OziExplorer programs for PC and Pocket PC. You need the PC version to create and calibrate your own maps. It's an excellent and flexible program, certainly capable of more than I've seen done with Memory Map or Anquet, but obviously let down in the UK by the tight controls that the OS place on their mapping images. There are trial versions of both software products available for download: http://www.oziexplorer.com/ Funnily enough the fact I can't just buy OS map images then calibrate them myself in Ozi is why I'm now looking at buying Memory Map too. From my reading of the website, the OS version of Memory Map specifically doesn't allow for importing and calibrating your own maps - for that you would need the other version, which then doesn't come with the OS mapping, so you'd end up having to buy both I think. If I've got this wrong, I'm sure someone will be along soon to put me right...

I use a Brodit mount which is still pretty much as new after 18 months' daily use.

Hi I have no axe to grind with Mio and no experience of their kit, but having followed your link I thought it looked rather good so went looking for an impartial review of it. Instead of that I found a couple of sites discussing problems with it... There are threads on the Pocket GPS World forums you may want to read, discussing difficulties setting it up with TomTom. Use this link for the site, then Search Forums on the left menu, then search for a string such as P550: http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/ A couple of people finding it hard to set up a new device isn't necessarily anything to put you off, and obviously people having difficulties with their shiny new toy are more prone to shouting about it on support forums than a happy problem-free users out playing with theirs. A bit more worrying are the articles on the GPS Passion web site about poor GPS reception, even with the up-to-date chipset it uses, and even compared to the 350 model. http://www.gpspassion.com/fr/news.asp?id=613 I'd suggest doing a little more research before you buy. And of course if you do go ahead and it is great device, don't forget to come back and let us all know! Best wishes

Both of mine have permission. Agree with prevoius poster, I find this the only hard part of placing a cache and I would have several more out there if I didn't think it important to do it right.

Hi This site has some TomTom GO add-ons including a lat/long input one: http://www.automated.it/ttg-apps.html Note that I've never owned a GO and have never used this site's software. My OS GPS Convertor utility for Pocket PC has been mentioned above. The reason that it only creates a single POI is because I want to use it while TomTom is running, and TomTom doesn't like it much (putting it politely) if I keep adding more POIs to the same file while it is still running. Provided that I keep to the one POI then TomTom is happy - the fact that this one POI jumps around the map like a mad thing doesn't seem to bother it at all. If you do want to set up multiple waypoints, you can of course use my utility to generate an Itinerary file with them all in instead. Of course version 6 of the TomTom software (not yet out for Pocket PC) is said to have input of lat/long positions back in as a feature again, so all our problems may be solved soon anyway.

I had the same problem last night, tried to drop a geocoin with the "Found it" log and then with two "Note" logs. By this morning all three logs had appeared on the cache page, but the geocoin was still with me. I tried again this morning and it worked right first time. This left a mess on the cache page, with three notes about a TB drop, so I deleted the two failed notes logs. Question: Does anyone know if I can safely delete the last Note that did successfully drop the TB, to complete the tidy up of the cache page, or will that confuse things again?

Hi Does anyone know this team, please? Wingmaster Crew profile They picked up my son's TB last Oct, haven't logged another cache since, last visited GC.com in Jan, and haven't replied to either of my emails sent via their profile over the last 6 weeks. We're hoping it's just an out of date email address combined with loss of interest in caching, and they have had a long interlude before ... but starting to fear that Lucky Ducky TB may have lucked out this time. Thanks for any help in making contact with them.

That's great news. It's an area that I'd already been scouting around for cache locations, so will now get a move on. Many thanks to those who put in the hard work.

I'd go along with the Oxford English Dictionary: hint • noun 1 a slight or indirect indication. 2 a very small trace. 3 a small piece of practical information. • verb 1 indicate indirectly. 2 (hint at) be a slight indication of. For me a hint should be helpful, but not remove all challenge from finding the cache.

Hi My experience with OziExplorer printing is that it is spot on. I've just done a test print of part of a map at two different scales and to two different printers, and all four outputs are exactly on the line of my ruler. Are you sure your map is calibrated correctly - you say it's "quite accurate", so could it be 90% accurate like your printout?