BigNick
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I too use an etrex basic, and just last weekend someone could not find one of my caches. I revisited with my GPS and a WinCE palmtop and recorded almost 400 points over 15min, after averaging it agreed with the posted co-ords within .001 of a minute. Like Brownmule I too also leave the GPS sitting at the cache location while I sort the cache out, and take a measurement when I am done.
Cheers
Nick.
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I must have spend 8 odd hours scanning m35 and m36/37 in sections, correcting rotation and distortion and joining them back together. Then when I had sorted out some calibration points, punched everything into MacGPS Pro I still had 17m worth of inaccuracy in the lat (1m in the long) so I am going to have to go back and revisit each section and join again. I was hoping to avoid this by obtaining some georeferenced tifs
If anyone wants m35, m36/37 when I have finished, drop me a line.Nick.
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I must have spend 8 odd hours scanning m35 and m36/37 in sections, correcting rotation and distortion and joining them back together. Then when I had sorted out some calibration points, punched everything into MacGPS Pro I still had 17m worth of inaccuracy in the lat (1m in the long) so I am going to have to go back and revisit each section and join again. I was hoping to avoid this by obtaining some georeferenced tifs
If anyone wants m35, m36/37 when I have finished, drop me a line.Nick.
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Does anyone know of a source of inexpensive geo-referenced tifs of New Zealand? I have talked to Geosystems, but 16CD's at $99 each is a bit rich for me. I have looked at both TopoMap and NZ Mapped but the images are stored in a proprietary image format and I am wanting them for use in MacGPS Pro (as I am using a Mac not a PC) - unless someone can point me in the direction of some NZ mapping software for the Mac.
Cheers, Nick.
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No you currently can't change the number, but I think it is on Jeremy's to-do list. 100 caches is only 4 pages, so it should not take you too long to do it page by page.
Nick.
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I have been meaning on taking a trip up, but it won't be for a few weeks, but I will stop in and uplift the Bunnyperson - will move it down to Chch, and hopefully someone here will be able to move him further on his trip.
Nick.
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I have been meaning on taking a trip up, but it won't be for a few weeks, but I will stop in and uplift the Bunnyperson - will move it down to Chch, and hopefully someone here will be able to move him further on his trip.
Nick.
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Wouldn't it be great for MinuteWar if you could input Lat/Long!
Nick.
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Wouldn't it be great for MinuteWar if you could input Lat/Long!
Nick.
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Oh, you can buy the colour orthos, only $3200 for a 260 sheet's worth! So that would make all of NZ $950,400.... anyone want to chip in
Nick.
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Oh, you can buy the colour orthos, only $3200 for a 260 sheet's worth! So that would make all of NZ $950,400.... anyone want to chip in
Nick.
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Have you seen Emap. It would be great to be able to punch in lat/long for use in geocaching/minutewars - or get the images (cheaply) for use in your own mapping/GIS program.
Nick.
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Have you seen Emap. It would be great to be able to punch in lat/long for use in geocaching/minutewars - or get the images (cheaply) for use in your own mapping/GIS program.
Nick.
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Originally posted by rediguana:Originally posted by BigNick:Stink, no Mac version
An Open Source GIS application is available here for OSX/Windows - I will download and have a play when I am back from holiday (then I can d/l at work and use their traffic allowance
)Nick.
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Originally posted by rediguana:Originally posted by BigNick:Stink, no Mac version
An Open Source GIS application is available here for OSX/Windows - I will download and have a play when I am back from holiday (then I can d/l at work and use their traffic allowance
)Nick.
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Stink, no Mac version
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Stink, no Mac version
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Originally posted by tgsnoopy:Hopefully others will back me up on this cause I'd hate to loose some good geocachers such as yourselves unneccessarily.
I agree with you tgsnoopy, and I am sure that if geocaching.com was ever made pay-for-play that we have enough tech savy players in NZ to setup geocaching.co.nz (Gavin/Rediguana has already registered the domain) for just us NZ players. (But domain registrations and bandwidth do cost money, so someone will have to shell out...)
Nick.
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Originally posted by tgsnoopy:Hopefully others will back me up on this cause I'd hate to loose some good geocachers such as yourselves unneccessarily.
I agree with you tgsnoopy, and I am sure that if geocaching.com was ever made pay-for-play that we have enough tech savy players in NZ to setup geocaching.co.nz (Gavin/Rediguana has already registered the domain) for just us NZ players. (But domain registrations and bandwidth do cost money, so someone will have to shell out...)
Nick.
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Originally posted by tgsnoopy:Interesting to note that there are a few relatively new caches around here that haven't been pounced on yet. Previously I would rush off to get them first if I could, but http://www.minutewar.org/ has curtailed a lot of my Geocaching time.
I must admit that MinuteWar has been eating alot of my time (go team W!) but I did take a couple of days off over easter and baged 10 caches down south (cheers Donovan and Gavin) - made a change to go somewhere and find a physical something, rather than virtual something
The loss of daylight savings has prevented finding and placing caches after work, so that may account for some of the drop off...Cheers
Nick.
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Originally posted by tgsnoopy:Interesting to note that there are a few relatively new caches around here that haven't been pounced on yet. Previously I would rush off to get them first if I could, but http://www.minutewar.org/ has curtailed a lot of my Geocaching time.
I must admit that MinuteWar has been eating alot of my time (go team W!) but I did take a couple of days off over easter and baged 10 caches down south (cheers Donovan and Gavin) - made a change to go somewhere and find a physical something, rather than virtual something
The loss of daylight savings has prevented finding and placing caches after work, so that may account for some of the drop off...Cheers
Nick.
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Regarding the replacement bulbs... I've heard some stuff about that, but the difference is that an LED does not use a reflector, that's why LED lights are not adjustable. So unless someone comes up with something pretty amazing, LED lights probably won't work in a standard flashlight.Here is someone selling LED bulbs http://www.theledlight.com/ledbulbs.html (I came across this while looking for something else)
Nick.
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...browse it with ArcExplorer hehehe.Didn't Noah have a boat called that
Nick.
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...browse it with ArcExplorer hehehe.Didn't Noah have a boat called that
Nick.
Are our Geocaches too Easy?
in New Zealand
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Have a look at Nandors "Tricky" series of caches. The first 3 were quite easy, but after 4 days of on and off code breaking I am still no closer to "Tricky4" - easy this is not!
Cheers
Nick.