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  1. 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.

  2. 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 icon_smile.gif If anyone wants m35, m36/37 when I have finished, drop me a line.

    Nick.

  3. 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 icon_smile.gif If anyone wants m35, m36/37 when I have finished, drop me a line.

    Nick.

  4. 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.

  5. quote:
    Originally posted by rediguana:

    Originally posted by BigNick:

    Stink, no Mac version icon_frown.gif


    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 icon_wink.gif )

    Nick.

  6. quote:
    Originally posted by rediguana:

    Originally posted by BigNick:

    Stink, no Mac version icon_frown.gif


    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 icon_wink.gif )

    Nick.

  7. quote:
    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. icon_smile.gif


    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.

  8. quote:
    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. icon_smile.gif


    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.

  9. quote:
    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 icon_wink.gif 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.

  10. quote:
    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 icon_wink.gif 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.

  11. quote:
    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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